Happy New Year! I've been meaning to start making some dungeons for a while now, so what better time to start than now. Whether I actually do or not, I've thrown together this spark table for inspiration; please do feel free to use it:
| 1 | Ancient | Childhood |
| 2 | Death | City |
| 3 | Sunken | Factory |
| 4 | Love | Touch |
| 5 | Empire | Fall |
| 6 | Heavy | Pit |
| 7 | Rural | Library |
| 8 | Darkness | Ocean |
| 9 | Bloom | Song |
| 10 | Rust | Roots |
| 11 | Noise | Bones |
| 12 | Time | Gardens |
| 13 | Excess | Portal |
| 14 | Decay | Idol |
| 15 | Flood | Door |
| 16 | Sleep | Light |
| 17 | Cold | Bridge |
| 18 | Ash | Mask |
| 19 | Meat | Rise |
| 20 | Solitude | Galleries |
| 21 | Growth | Cliffs |
| 22 | Greed | Road |
| 23 | Luck | Badlands |
| 24 | Chaos | Trench |
| 25 | Laugher | Labyrinth |
| 26 | Smoke | Passages |
| 27 | Forgotten | Junction |
| 28 | Song | Causeway |
| 29 | Roots | Caverns |
| 30 | Bones | Mines |
| 31 | Hangman | Riverbed |
| 32 | Blood | Crypt |
| 33 | Prophet | Vents |
| 34 | Stars | Warrens |
| 35 | Cut | Meadows |
| 36 | Sacrifice | Shafts |
| 37 | Incense | Jumble |
| 38 | Gold | Crawlways |
| 39 | Obsidian | Wasteland |
| 40 | Winding | Halls |
| 41 | Fractured | Canyons |
| 42 | Deep | Shore |
| 43 | Flooded | Chasms |
| 44 | Dripping | Maze |
| 45 | Sulfur | Worm-casts |
| 46 | Ice | Edge |
| 47 | Misty | Darkness |
| 48 | Artificial | Refuge |
| 49 | Crystal | Wonderland |
| 50 | Gem | Jungle |
| 51 | Endless | Arches |
| 52 | Fungal | Pillars |
| 53 | Lava | Geysers |
| 54 | Noxious | Dunes |
| 55 | Giant's | Burrows |
| 56 | Jagged | Battlefield |
| 57 | Ashen | Railroad |
| 58 | Steaming | Ossuary |
| 59 | Haunted | Nest |
| 60 | Ooze | Hunting Grounds |
| 61 | Twisted | Society |
| 62 | Enchanted | Factory |
| 63 | Antimagic | Tonic |
| 64 | Pastry | Heap |
| 65 | Highrise | Chimney |
| 66 | Loud | Debt |
| 67 | Overgrown | Crowd |
| 68 | Burnt | Museum |
| 69 | Disputed | University |
| 70 | Repurposed | Office |
| 71 | Dirty | Distillery |
| 72 | Glass | Art |
| 73 | Electric | Canal |
| 74 | Murder | Tourism |
| 75 | Paper | Lizard |
| 76 | Smoked | Graveyard |
| 77 | Bombed | Council |
| 78 | Fat | Slum |
| 79 | Luxury | Music |
| 80 | Wild | Ruins |
| 81 | Broken | Fort |
| 82 | Prototype | Market |
| 83 | Artisan | Rookery |
| 84 | Antigravity | Holy Site |
| 85 | Biomechanical | Lair |
| 86 | Cosmic | Homesteads |
| 87 | Floating | Boomtown |
| 88 | Folding | Harbour |
| 89 | Hallucinogenic | Prison |
| 90 | Hypnotic | Vaults |
| 91 | Living | Town |
| 92 | Orbital | Paradise |
| 93 | Regenerating | Rain |
| 94 | Slippery | Sea |
| 95 | Silken | Belt |
| 96 | Soul | Fleet |
| 97 | Space | Cloud |
| 98 | Truth | Titan |
| 99 | Vanishing | Worldtree |
| 100 | Wizard | Wheel |
This is using the words from Sean McCoy's original expanded post, plus some borrowed or stolen from the excellent Downcrawl / Skycrawl and from spark tables I have bookmarked at both Bastionland and Prismatic Wasteland. Plus a few words I sprinkled in as the mood or inspiration took me, or when I realised I had duplicates and needed to replace them!
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| Image credit: midgptjourney |
This is so intimidating that this might just be it for today for me. If you're looking for more then you may like my 5 room dungeon generator and this dungeon-related RPG Blog Carnival round-up post - good luck.
Comments are always welcome. If you use this I'd love to know what you rolled, and see the results...
Starting the project with a spark table seems like a really great foundation. I guess as you zero in on the focus of your dungeon concept you'll curate the table a bit? Or will you keep it broad?
ReplyDeleteMost likely I'll curate the table, these things always evolve, although I maybe like the idea of having different themes for levels/areas in theory. In the sprit of the thing I thought it was most important to just start, and then see what happens! Seems you have a theme planned, I like it, I had literally no ideas. Good luck!
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