#loot tables

[dev-the-dm]

Resource: 1d100 Random Mysterious Objects

Have you ever wanted to give your players something weird but not powerful, just to leave them scratching their heads? Or maybe your campaign starts with a rat-infested cellar, where the players find something strange that kickstarts their adventure to become legendary heroes. Want to introduce a mystery, plot hook, original loot, or a clue for a puzzle? These rolling tables should help!

This resource provides a d100 rolling table of random mundane or magical objects that leave your players wondering. Where did it come from? What's its purpose? Who made it? The other two tables provide you with options for the object's original purpose, and its current or original owner or creator! Maybe the BBEG demilich uses that portrait of a lost companion to draw power from, or that strange copper cube is actually a complicated key that opens the tomb of a long-dead legendary hero. The possibilities are endless!

For better, full-page high quality imagery, take a look at “1d100 Random Mysterious Objects” at the Homebrewery here!

[dungeonmalcontent]

First upload (officially) with the updated cover and style. The blue sci-fi mechanical style just wasn't doing it for me, even though it was quite nice out of context.

Encounter With: The Venomous Plesiodrake

So, I saw the art for this creature in a DMsGuild folder of art and I just… I couldn't not. I saw it and I knew exactly what it had to be. It's like if a red dragon and a plesiosaurus had a child and it was the devil. Just, the crazed look in its eyes in the art spoke to me.

Anyway, the venomous plesiodrake is a maritime sadist of a monster that attacks small vessels. Think dragon turtle, but scaled down to be more like a wyvern is to a dragon. It sprays acid over the deck of the ship, knocks into the hull, and then watches anyone that falls overboard drown in poisoned waters. It's a brutal fight on the open ocean, but if you hunt it down to its lair there's probably some decent treasure waiting for you… you just have to kill the beast first.

[dungeonmalcontent]

Just one new encounter doc today. But it's a good one.

Encounter With: The Sunken Effigy

Older editions had these things called Kapoacinth, which was a very simple subtype of a gargoyle. It was just an "aquatic environment" gargoyle. Not much changed, and in most compendiums it is just an additional feature you can tack on to a gargoyle to let it swing really good. But it gave me an idea.

Deep in the oceans, there are horrible and dark things. I thought of the eldritch city of R'lyeh in the Cthulhu mythos. Planar rifts run amok and arcane energies at the sea floor often go untapped. And for civilizations lost to the depths, the people die but the architecture remains. It sits there, tainted by the strange magics of the deep and the touch of elemental water. And so statues, monstrous figures carved from stone, and man-made gargoyles can become something more. A sunken effigy waiting for some hapless adventurer or ocean beast to explore its ruins.

I'm also thinking of adjusting my visual style for these docs. Maybe a new cover theme. For now I'm still using the same old one, which I realize I haven't shown on here. So here.

[dungeonmalcontent]

Week three (holy hell, still going)! Two encounter docs today. We'll see if we can't get back to the two docs a day schedule now that I'm back in my office. I've got some fun things planned if so.

+Encounter With: Archchancellor Ensiid +Encounter With: The Lifeblood Magus

Archchancellor Ensiid is a half-elven soldier and envoy to the City of Brass. The daughter of a prominent elven politician and a titled efreeti, Velys Ensiid is a skilled fighter and negotiator. Her demeanor is a terrifying mix of elven grace and patience with the ruthlessness and cunning required to survive in the City of Brass. She was fun to write and makes for a good NPC when doing a planar campaign.

The Lifeblood Magus is a generic monster stat block for a blood mage. They don't fall within the realm of warlock, cleric, cultist, or wizard, and it is largely based off of my Sacrifant class. It's a good introduction to blood magic if you're playing a campaign which includes that.

[dev-the-dm]

Collection: "I Search the Haversack!"

This chapter is a second part to a previous set of rolling tables ("I Search the Bookcase!"), expanding on the rolling tables provided on this blog to help you decide what to put into your world when your players get investigating. "I Search the Haversack!" contains 18 separate rolling tables with many different options to decide what that bandit chief carries on his person, what sort of bags the drow priestess takes with her, and where that death slaad keeps its valuables. Roll on these tables to determine what their bags or carried objects look like, how they have been packed, what is in the bags and whether the players will have any use for it. Accidentally put a merchant caravan in your game, and now the players have a cart full of objects, but you're not sure what they were transporting? Take a look at the "Merchandise" table, and you'll find what you're looking for to give your players a push into the right direction. Enjoy!

See the first part, "I Search the Bookcase!", here!

For better, full-page high quality imagery, take a look at “I Search the Haversack!” at the Homebrewery here!

[dungeonmalcontent]

Week two, day two, finally sitting down to work after a two hour drive. This might be a slow week.

Encounter With: The Drow Paleweaver

Encounter With: The Beholdra

So. These are some interesting ones.

The drow paleweaver is a CR 10 drow spellcaster assassin. I had written up a basic (and horribly balanced) stat block for this one a few years ago, but now it's balanced and has hazards and loot and extra info.

And then… there's the beholdra. CR 18. I hope you're sitting down for this. It's a beholder—cross mutated with a hydra. It's a horrible monster. It has hydra heads and eye stalks. Both behave like hydra heads. They regrow and can multiply, and it gets as many eye ray attacks or bite attacks as it has heads or eyes. It also has an acid breath… which half of its hydra heads use at the same time. Like I said. Horrible monster. Basically built to kill things. Like your players.

Both docs are availabe for 75 cents each. They have monster infomration, lair/territory information, traps and hazards themed to the monsters and their typical environments, and loot tables for the monsters and their hazards and lairs in general.

[dungeonmalcontent]

Okay, start of week two and two more encounter docs. This time, both originals. Conversions from previous editions have taken a little bit of a back burner as I try to source better art for covers.

Encounter With: The Soliptic Nightmare

Encounter With: The Silkscale Coiler

The soliptic nightmare is the third and final monster from my perception series. It's a monster that you can't help but stare at, deep into it's eyes, and then it kills you. Probably scoops your eyes out with a rusty melonballer too.

The silkscale coiler is a personal favorite of mine, I've run it in home games before. Previously it had been called a "silkscale viper" but then a player pointed out to me that vipers are venomous and this guy was a constrictor. Anyway, it's a big 'ol snek that can quickly shed off a sticky silk skin to create difficult terrain and ensnare those it has grappled. It's also able to recover from various conditions by shedding its skin. The sticky silk sheds are incredibly valuable, so it might be a fun little material farming encounter.

[bwabbitv3s]

Working on some loot tables for my players. I have mostly been improving them for quite a bit and while I enjoyed it wanted to free up my improving for other things. As I have been having them roll for interesting things they find during the days and night as they travel I am going to do this for loot. It is more me finally putting it all done in one place. I will try to remember to post them here later once I finish them