A-Z Gothic Key

d100 random A Artwork

room key Significant artwork depicting a scene in church mythology, history or even ab-
stract. Includes paintings, murals staturary, relief carving, stained glass, mozaics
or caligraphic or hieroglyphic text. Many tell stories in comic book form. Magical
A 1-4 Artwork
ones may come to life gargoyles and types of golem the most obvious, some-
5-6 B Solace
times from the architectural features.
7-9 C Cell
10-12 D Scriptorium
1 Depiction of god with the first ancestors or or other important ancients
13-14 E Execution
2 Depiction of god in act of creation
15-17 F Font or fountain
3 Depiction of god or saint in judgement
18-19 G Crematorium
4 Depiction of god or saint or servants in battle, suffering or doing other mythic deeds
20-30 H Crypt
5 Depiction of pioneering churchman preaching to masses
31-35 I Library
6 Depiction of paradise for those who live prescribed life
36-41 J Cloister
7 Depiction of underworld warning to enemies
42-43 K Curse
8 Depiction of holy teacher preaching to disciples or writing book or at prayer
44-48 L Living Area
9 Depiction of a great holy leader or king showing piety and devotion to faith
49-52 M Mortician
10 Depiction of god with all insignia and symbols of divinity like a sacred beast
53-54 N Secret Entry
55-59 O Administration
60-64 P Prayer room B Solace
65-67 Q Laboratory A quiet nook often isolated from other areas with benches, possibly scenic
68-69 R Reliquary views, art or supreme minimalism. Intended for silence and prayer, perhaps
70-74 S Sarcophagi chanting even music take place here.
75-77 T Torture Dungeon
78-79 U Throne Room 1 Bare minimilism or abstract pattern to aid meditation
80-85 V Vault 2 Bust of holy person or divinity
86-90 W Workshop 3 Statue of holy person or divinity
91-92 X Treasury 4 Holy scriptures or prayer or chant written on wall
93-95 Y Temple 5 Mural or painting
96-00 Z Shrine 6 Pool or well in floor
7 Sound of quiet music or chanting
8 Pillows or prayer mats and other specialties of faith like gong
9 Multiple private prayer booths
10 Tiny shrine in small cell with line up outside

C Cell
A cell where prisoners or monks or clerics live, mostly spartan and bare except
for palette and a potty. A prison cell will have lockable bars or manacles.

1 A tiny monk cell

2 A tiny cleric cell with holy scriptures or other religious trinkets
3 A holy master cell with pillows, carpets, scriptures and holy water and other things
4 A prison cell with manacles on a chain
5 A prison cell with manacles to hang prisoner on walls
6 A prison cell with just bars and lock
7 A prison cell with bizarre restraint like iron mask or stocks
8 Dark confined box prisoner locked in
9 Cramped cage possibly wooden barely holding prisoner
10 Cell with slow torture device like weighed legs, wrack, iron maiden

D Scriptorium
A room where books are made and copied, documents are copied en mass. Of-
ten many books in process of being copied with many desks. Sometimes desks
have chains for scribes and artists. Some are using clay with stylus tool, other
use vellum or papyrus or paper.

1 Cheap knockoffs of common prayer and song books

2 Cheap knockoffs of holy books for literate middle classes and poor clergy
3 Cheap scrolls for tourists and pilgrims
4 Commercial copy of common document like apocryphal adventures of saints
5 Copies of secular documents being made for donations
6 Internal church records and requisition forms

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7 Documents detailing how to persecute and detect those deemed enemies by church
zealots
8 Copies of holy books for nobles, rich, new churches and missions
9 Artworks and marginalia being added in more elaborate version of original copies
10 An important masterwork many volume work in production from notes of bards
E Execution or punishment block
A area for executions, punishment and sometimes the courtroom. Depending on
importance and religion. Some literaly with, others with or .

1 Chopping block with sword or axe

2 Flogging post with manacles
3 Yard where monks lie prostrate or kneel for hours
4 Stocks with torture pariphialia
5 Pit with bars exposed to above at floor level
6 Tiny cage suspended of ground
7 Hangman’s gallows or guiliotine
8 Fire and stake
9 Live vivisection restraint block with manacles
10 Pit or cage possibly for creature

F Font or fountain
An ornamental fountain where holy water is made, blessing and ceremonies
performed. Some more ornamental decor and water for pilgrims where they can
receive a lesson from the artwork in the water vessel.

1 A simple well or pool in floor

2 A chalice or bowl on a plinth
3 A statue or bust with a fountain
4 A impressive artistic sculpture or relief of a scene
5 Thermally heated pool for bathing or laundry
6 A pool for a creature like fish or eels or lampreys
7 Drinking or bathing trough for horse or ritual animal
8 A grotto or cave with pool, favorite hangout for holy hermits
9 A pool for divination or communion rituals
10 A pool for healing or exorcisms or drowning witches

G Crematorium
A chamber where dead or funerary waste or sacrifices are burned. Often with
a great furnace, flaming pit or even a huge brazier. Some faiths require a water
source like a holy river or well to remove ashes. Others store urns with
remains.

1 A huge oven with metal door for whole coffins filled with fine ash
2 Large oven with plinth and ceremonial decor for public cremation
3 Bundles of wood often with a boat or bed ready to burn corpse in
4 Burning pit in the ground
5 Apparatus to desiccate body into mummy with slow cooking or sunlight or exposure
6 Acid pit, possibly 1d6, able to remove flesh in a month
7 Huge pit of ash plus roll d5 again
8 Sealed shelves in rock or wall with funerary urns inside plus roll d5 again
9 Stacks of funerary urns on shelves piled to ceiling plus roll d5 again
10 Stacks of burned bones in neat bundles or random stacks plus roll d5 again

H Crypt
A entrance to a sub level burial chamber full of sarcophagi or a single tomb. A
large one will be a mausoleum or many connected crypts a catacomb. The dead
may be in coffins, sarcophagi, burial urns or exposed and mummified. Usually
churchmen, nobles and the rich only qualify.

1 Single sarcophagi in tomb

2 6+d6 sarcophagi in tomb
3 2d6+12 sarcophagi in tomb
4 2d20 coffins on plinths
5 4d20 coffins in stacks
6 2d20 Preserved heads or other body parts in containers
7 3d100 Funeral urns of cremated dead
8 5d20 Skeletons arranged in heap or artwork or in shelves
9 1d20+10 Mummified corpses clothed standing
10 2d20 bizarre preservation, pickled, smoked, dried, magic, frozen
 I Library
A storehouse for books, often with special collections, archives, records of
goods, state documents, church history or other works. Most have shelving for
storing with a filing system. A library chamber has typically a d100 books, the
more important ones chained and locked up.

1 Church doctrine for students of religion

2 Tedious church records on tithe and accounting
3 Records of monks and clergy lives
4 Records of mythology of religion and legendary heroes
5 Church religious commentary, debates and interpretation
6 Sciences & Arts: natural history, mathematics, astronomy, geology, literature, philoso-
phy, poetry
7 History of land and all time since god was involved in creation
8 Journeys of saints, missionaries and crusaders past
9 Descriptions of blasphemy, evil and the underworld
10 Books about magic, wizardry, witchcraft, sorcery, divine magic

J Cloister
A large square area surrounded be pillars supporting a ceiling covered walk-
way around the outside. Most have grass or a garden inside ans possibly trees.
The columns may also include a wall limiting access to the central area and the
ground level might be lower than the floor level. Favorite places to meditate or
study.

1 Open room with checker board or Mosaic floor

2 Grass possible dead or overgrown if abandoned
3 Mud, filth and excrement over bare earth or cobblestones, slippery and wet
4 Refined garden with water feature, trees and statuary and possibly a tiny grotto with
a hermit
5 Hedge maze or elaborate statuary
6 Fruit trees and or berry bushes or food or medicinal garden
7 Fountain and large water feature, possibly fish
8 Sarcophagi or a tomb
9 Overgrown with trees like the wild
10 Dead and blasted trees, grass and empty ponds, possibly petrified

K Curse
This evil place is damned and usually sealed off or given warnings if clergy pres-
ent.

1 Corporeal undead trapped in here and hostile

2 Non corporeal undead haunt this place
3 Spirit posses persons in here
4 Poltergeist
5 Doppelganger
6 Hostile gargoyles
7 Cursed relic contained here
8 Guarded by supernatural other worldly being
9 Servant of god appears to curse interlopers
10 Sacred place or damned place either way it’s not for mortals and equals a curse

L Living Area
A living room for clergy or monks or householders

1 A room for senior monk or priest

2 Important guest room for a bishop
3 Guest room for noble
4 Dormitory for lay members or acolytes
5 Shared room for lesser or student priests

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6 Room for slaves, servants or newcomers seeking entry
7 Kitchens and dining area
8 Brewery or wine making facility or distillery
9 Hospital for treating ill and medical aid to churchmen
10 Recreational hall where clergy play games, sing, fight, exercise
M Morticians Morgue
An area where bodies are stored and prepared before burials

1 Embalming room with vats of flammable fluids and baths

2 A mumification room with bandage preparation and mummification apparatus
3 A room where organs are removed and placed in jars or urns
4 A morgue where bodies await burial or identification or some sacred time period
5 Anatomical laboratory where bodies (sometimes criminals) are cut up and docu-
mented
6 A parlour for intimate funerary ceremonies where family often view corpse
7 A room where slaves are killed or suicide to join master
8 A room where soliers are killed or suicide to join master
9 A room where animals and pets are killed to join master
10 A room where bodies get makeup, wigs, and dressed for public display with

N Secret Entry
Fear of live burial or escape routes or for maintenance or other purpose

1 Secret stair case to other level or surface

2 Secret hiding place for priest
3 Secret escape for condemned builders, architects and tomb workers
4 Hidden chamber of vice and depravity
5 Hidden prison or torture cell
6 Hidden treasure or relic or manuscript
7 Secret spy chamber to view other rooms
8 Secret maintenance tunnels for true believers to visit
9 Secret maintenance tunnels for corrupt builders to rob
10 Secret entry to ghoul tunnels or other monsters

O Administration
Where chapter houses or churches or state process bureaucratic paperwork

1 Counting house where money, goods or tithe information is worked on

2 Building office where architects, builders and others run constructions
3 Chapter house for religious organization
4 Where births, deaths, marriages are documented
5 Taxation or tithing office where collected goods are documented
6 Land office where records of land ownership and use recorded
7 Records of church admin, pilgrim efforts and donations
8 Meeting room for councils and committees
9 Court house for common public trials
10 Starchamber for secret trial mostly of internal matters of church

P Prayer room
Where the faithful prey is peace

1 Rows of benches in front of altar or artwork

2 Pillows or mats in rows or a circle
3 Private booths for individual private contemplation
4 Bells in high vaulted rooms with ropes to above
5 Room with cages of sacred or symbolic animals the cult use like pidgeons
6 Chamber with open area and massive gong on pedestal
7 Tiled mosaic walls and ceiling with artworks
8 Huge braziers or light shaft from window high above
9 Incense burners and long curtains
10 Mosaic maze like pattern pilgrims follow on floor
 Q Laboratory
Many labs are found depending on type of structure. Some make materials for
burial, others provide for staff.

1 Brewery or wine press and cellar for staff or even for dead in ritual libations
2 Morticians lab brewing acid, embalming fluid and treatments for mummification ban-
dages
3 A hospital wing with patients and an operating area
4 Alchemical laboratory with possibly some intact finished potions
5 Apothecary lab for conventional medicines and refined herbs
6 Architects lab with models and calculations
7 Natural history lab and collection of specimens
8 Collection of the nations cultural goods and curios
9 Poison or necromancy or collection of rival faiths goods and documents
10 Wizards lab

R Reliquary
Where saint body parts and relic items are stored, usually sanctified ground

1 Museum of life story with some trivial possible possessions

2 Magical saint body part in case on altar
3 Collection of objects which true pilgrims recognize the real object among them
4 Collection of saints possessions
5 Saints corpse in a glass coffin
6 Saintly relics sealed behind bars and rarely opened
7 Weapon or torture device or part thereof used to kill saint
8 Remains of shroud, coffin or tomb of ancient saint
9 Chest containing scriptures, if opened unleashes curse or monster
10 Holy weapon of faith used to slay enemies

S Sarcophagi
A stone, brick slab containing a coffin or group of them in a chamber

1 A crude clay sarcophagus with cheap wooden coffin inside

2 A brick sarcophagus with wooden coffin inside
3 A crude carved stone sarcophagus with a bandaged corpse inside
4 A simple stone sarcophagus with good wooden coffin
5 A fine carved sarcophagus with text and scenes with lead lining and good coffin
6 Quality carved and or painted sarcophagus with painted wooden coffin
7 Carved sarcophagus with engraved art of occupant with lead lining and painted coffin
8 Carved relief art of occupant with double coffin and lead lining
9 Cheap sarcophagi with fake coffin and fake treasure
10 Plundered sarcophagi

T Torture Dungeon
A room for the torture of prisoners with torture equipment. Each room special-
izes in a type of feature torture

1 A flogging post with whips and chains

2 A frame with chains and a oven and branding irons brazier of coals
3 A wrack for stretching and manacles for chaining prisoners on walls
4 Cages, many hanging from ceiling, stocks and chains
5 Iron maiden, iron boots, thumbscrews all slowly impale with spikes
6 Huge cauldron with hot oil or lead, wooden stakes with piles of wood
7 Saws to slowly cut open restrained bodies
8 Disemboweling tools, which to unravel innards
9 Wheel to break restrained prisoners limbs, foot and skull crushing devices
10 Chair with spikes, knee splitter, iron mask

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U Throne Room
A room where important lords or officials meet audiences, often on a dais and
often with escape route for leader

1 Wooden chair on dais

2 Large chair with curtains and banners
3 Large chair with fine carving and paintings
4 Large chair with metalwork and semi precious stones
5 Gilt over wooden great chair with carved figures of heroes and monsters
6 Huge stone throne chair with own steps
7 Dual thrones roll 1d6 for type
8 Group of Thrones of officials or council 2d6 roll 1d6 for type
9 Great throne with screens to prevent visitors gazing on the mighty one
10 Huge metal throne worth thousands but awkward and expensive with relief art

V Vault
A store room for goods, treasure, or other stuff

1 Preserved foodstuffs like cheese

2 Building and artisan raw materials
3 Religious paraphernalia for special occasions, costumes, palanquins, etc
4 Coffins, bodies or bones
5 Records, scrolls, ledgers, journals and other records
6 Storage of vehicles such as wagons, chariots, carts or boats
7 Wine or beer cellar and manufacturing equipment
8 Chamber filled with grain
9 Treasure of valuable grave or household luxuries
10 Treasure vault of coins and valuables

W Workshop
Room where building is maintained, artists work on decor an other craft and
trades ply their craft fir use in the complex or the next life.

1 Sculptors workshop with half finished statues and blocks of stone

2 Painters workshop with half completed works
3 Woodworkers room with tools and collection of wood and half finished work
4 Stone mason with tools and gargoyles and half finished work
5 Architects workroomm with blueprints and models and calculation
6 Barrel, urn or ceramic containers being manufactured
7 Tannery with leather, cauldrons of wax, dye and chemicals
8 Weaving looms and spinning wheels with partly finished rugs and fabric
9 Coffin makers shop with tack of coffins
10 Blacksmith and metal workers with orge, ingots, bars and half finished tool and
weapons

X Treasure
Store rooms for loot

1 Coins from commoners, thousands of coppers in coffers

2 Plates, urns and silverware from wealthy on display
3 Chests locked and trapped full of coins
4 Chests locked and trapped full of semi precocious stones
5 Illuminated manuscript with metal cover with semi precocious stones
6 Idols and statuettes on display of precious metal
7 Collection of valuable holy symbols on display with semi precocious stones
8 Chests of IOU notes from nobles possibly long gone
9 Collection of ceremonial stave’s, rods and crowns covered in gold
10 Pile of fake loot with trap or curse or monster
Y Temple miniatures of party in this room
Important holy places for ritual and prayer 30 Scale models of monsters on
display table, start to grow to full
1 Huge statue with valuable gem eyes, cursed or trapped
2 Great hall with altar and room for adherents to gather living size if touched
3 Gods statues hold up the ceiling of great chamber 31 Painting of party being killed by
4 Ceiling has amazing work of art and many statues each other or monsters
5 Temple specializes in selling church services to rich or important persons 32 Painting eyes watch party walk
6 Temple for selecting and anointing royalty or church officials around room, linked to other plane or
7 Temple dedicated to knowledge and arts ghost
8 On older temple sealed inside or under newer temple 33 Painting eyes are spy holes with
9 Temple for specific sect, order or chapter of faith, possibly with own saint secret chamber behind wall
10 Temple with collection of shrine to pantheon or saints or other planar entities
34 Painting of demons and devils
frolicking, party recognize selves
Z Shrine amongst victims
Common minor holy sights 35 Painting of paradise emitting light
and sounds of music
1 Semi precocious stones imbedded in sacred patterns on floor
36 Painting of naval battle hear
2 Semi precocious stones imbedded in statue
3 Pillar or post with relief art and writing, possibly features of a god or beast seagulls, waves, smell of sea
4 Shelf in wall with statuette 37 Painting of cruel evil man, anyone
5 Bust or portrait art with text looking at him save or cursed with
6 Sacred fountain change alignment
7 Sacred tree or stone 38 Painting is a prison for evil wizard,
8 Holy Obelisk with relief art if damaged he is released
9 Sacred Pit or well 39 Painting of hunters and beast,
10 Magical Diagrams on floor or wall gazed on for too long beast comes
from art and attacks
40 Painting of undead cavorting in
d100 Spooky & possibly graveyard, music first then undead
start coming from it

deadly artworks 41 Painting of evil man, poltergeist

1 Gargoyles actually living monster
guards
2 Miniature gargoyle features come
to life and harass trespasers
3 Columns with relief carved figures
guarding passage or door animate
and attack
4 Statue of woman or hero is a stone
golem guardian
5 Statue of archer (possibly a cherub)
is actually a trap that shoots
6 Statues of hounds, lions or others
really stone golem guardians
7 Statue of holy person curses
intruders
8 Statue of holy person cure the sick
or wounded a limited amount per day
9 Statue of wizard or monster casts
offensive spell on intruders
10 Statue can talk limited amount,
offers directions or warnings
11 Doorknocker with face, abuses
visitors threatens with non existent
magic powers
12 Doorknocker with face screams if
unwelcome visitors touch door
13 Mirror is a gate to pocket
dimensions with imprisoned beings
inside
14 Mirror is communication device to
outer planes being
15 Mirror is acts as crystal ball
showing visions of distant lands
16 Mirror is gateway to other plane,
might release a monster if intruders
look in
17 Mirror flatters viewer telling them
how wondrous they are
18 Mirror distorts features into evil
versions from alternate reality
19 Mirror gates in evil versions of
intruders from alternate reality
20 Mosaic of historic scene which
moves to tell epic story takes hours to
complete
21 Mosaic of maze if traced with
finger opens secret door, releases
minotaur if wrong
22 Fresco of erotic scenes animates
if admired, hours of viewing pleasure
23 Mural of battlefield animates if
admired with gory detail
24 Mural of battlefield animates if
admired, warriors leap out and attack
intruders
25 Relief face carved in stone sings
when visitors enter
26 Relief face carved in stone has a
breath weapon vs intruders
27 Relief face carved in stone allows
one to converse to spirit of building
28 Relief face carved in stone spits
into trough acts as limited healing
29 Scale model of building, including
in artwork slams doors and attacks
party
42 Painting scene of village life is a
gateway to pocket universe
43 Painting scene of battle is a
gateway to pocket universe
44 Painting scene of family in castle
is a gateway to pocket universe
45 Painting scene of hero fighting
monsters is a gateway to pocket
universe
46 Painting scene of treasure horde
is a gateway to pocket universe
47 Painting is a scene of a feast, food
can be taken from it and eaten
48 Painting of beautiful slaves who
will come from art and dance and
pleasure visitors
49 Painting scene of ruined castle is
a gateway to pocket universe
50 Painting of bluebeard like villain,
comes from painting to kidnap
attractive women
51 Painting of hero fighting small
draconic creature, both crawl out to
attack strangers
52 Painting of portrait home to a
ghost, spirit, phantom or shadow
53 Painting of Satyrs, centaurs and
beastmen in celebration, music
tempts to enter frame
54 Painting of witches who exit frame
to curse, charm and kill party
55 Painting of saint in torment acts
to sanctify room as holy place of
protection from evil
56 Painting of goblinoids cavorting
in wilds, gremlins then lager start to
crawl out
57 Painting of scientific illustration
of anatomy, herbalism or alchemy
explaining new ideas
58 Painting of maiden, her lonely
spirit appears as human to meet men
59 Painting of saint being tortured,
sounds of sobbing, whips, moans
heard
60 Room covered in paintings
with random sounds ans animated
sequences
61 Tapestry of life of holy person
viewers save or alignment shifted
towards good for 24hrs
62 Tapestry of blood thirsty battle
viewers get +1 hit and damage next
fight and +2 morale
63 Tapestry of hunting scene with
mythic creature which comes to life
and attacks intruders
64 Tapestry of creation myth,
creatures drop out and look puzzled
some attack
65 Tapestry of maps of the kingdom
will teleport a group to map location if
touched
66 Stained glass of saints,
unbreakable and curses any who try
67 Stained glass of saints, a glass
golem warrior step out to attack
intruders
68 Stained glass of outer planar
beings, one is summoned if intruders
enter room
69 Stained glass of crops, fields and
farms creates a meal for the hungry
once a day
70 Gilded throne for important holy
officials curses non authorized sitters
71 Fountain with holy folk statues
blessed water 1 dose per person per
day
72 Fountain with magical healing
creatures or planar being carvings d8
healing per day
73 Fountain with animated water
elemental being, hostile to intruders
74 Huge decorative cauldron
75 Collection of whips and flails
animate and punish sinners and
thieves
76 Ever burning incence block in
silver box with ventilation holes to
spread sweet odour
77 Ever burning magical brazier
78 Silver mace or rod, a magical
intelligent weapon tries to make
holder into holy champion
79 Golden crozier on rack can heal
daily with touch but cursed if removed
by unworthy
80 Gilded important holy robe and
hat on mannequin, cursed if worn by
unworthy
81 Cabinet display of saints life with
minor holy trinkets some with petty
magic effects
82 Cabinet display of samples of
creatures parts in jars or mummified
some valuable
83 Cabinet display of holy symbols of
various ages and styles
84 Cabinet display of ancient scrolls
some magical
85 Cabinet display of weapons and
armour some magical but magic
alarm if broken
86 Cabinet display of miniature
paintings and sculptures but magic
alarm if broken
87 Cabinet display of ancient pots,
tablets and other fragments, cursed if
glass broken
88 Cabinet display of mummified
bejeweled holy corpse awakes as
mummy if glass broken
89 Room gilded roll 1d100 for % or
room covered in gold sheet, thieves
are cursed
90 Room lined with semiprecious
stones or pearls or amber in mosaic,
thieves are cursed
91 Huge marble fire place with carved
with gargoyles - two come to life if
disturbed
92 Huge marble fire place with carved
with flames summons a salamander if
disturbed
93 Huge marble fire place with
carvedwith patriotic regalia, softly
plays anthem when lit
94 Huge marble fire place with carved
treefolk, satyrs and unicorns, brownie
or pixie inside
95 Huge marble fire place with carved
devils and a mouth for opening, imps
may come out
96 A magic weapon trapped in stone
or other object, only worthy or chosen
can remove
97 Suits of armoured knights with
weapons animate and attack
98 Weapons on display rack animate
to attack intruders that touch them
99 Collection of holy persons
severed heads will converse and give
personal advice
100 Huge carved statue or iron,
amber, crystal, bronze really a golem
Graveyards
Most grave sites are watched by
locals, have caretakers and visitors to
watch them. Some have walls, dedi-
cated shrines with staff and more. But
others have magical or supernatural
ones. Will do a graveyard encounter
table for unwelcome visitors later.
Small Graveyard
Typical village yard or often on a city
block
4d10 headstones
25% or 1d4 small crypts
25% chance of wall
25% chance of caretaker
10% of guardian
Medium Graveyard
Typical town yard or often over several
city block
50+1d100 headstones
75% or 3d4 small crypts
50% chance of 1d4 large crypts
10% chance of mausoleum for 50+1d100
5% chance of a monument
75% chance of wall
75% chance of caretaker
25% chance of shrine with staff
75% of 1d4 guardians
Large Graveyard
Serves a large town or small city
250+1d1000 headstones
20+2d20 small crypts
10+1d10 large crypts
mausoleum for 50+1d100
25% chance of monument
75% chance of wall
1d4 caretakers
75% chance of shrine with staff
3d4 guardians
Huge Graveyard or
Necropolis
Typical for a larger city
500+5d1000 headstones
40+1d100 small crypts
20+2d20 large crypts
1d4 mausoleums for 100+1d100
1d4 monuments75% chance of wall
3d4 caretakers
1d4 shrines with staff
50% chance of a temple with staff
10+1d20 guardians
d20 caretakers
1 Old man who dig graves and cleans up
in shack
2 Old man and 1d4 assistants who dig
graves and cleans up in shack
3 Priest who spends most of his time here
hires assistants if needed
4 Mad hermit who lives in tomb cares for
graves
5 A lone guardsman who keeps out
robbers
6 A mortician and 1d4 helpers live in
shack watching grave yard
7 1d4+1 guards who patrol yard for grave
robbers or worse
8 A priest hunting undead and evil that
might menace the rest of the dead
9 Town drunk lives on edge of yard and
alerts locals if trouble
10 Local Widows keep vigil here 1d4 at
any time
11 A watchdog barks and runs for help if
trouble unless he knows you
12 Ravens cry and circle intruders
alerting local mob
13 Local possibly homeless 1d4 kids play
here and run for help if trouble
14 A local idiot likes to sleep near his
dead kinfolk runs for help if intruders
15 Local witch lurks here waiting for
trouble she has seen signs of
16 A poet or artist comes here for
inspiration and alerts locals if a problem
17 A priest wanders the yard looking for
grave robbers since a recent indecent
18 Whippoorwill birds start singing
strangely if intruders alerting locals
19 A local thief lives here, considers this
his territory, calls law on possible rivals
20 A night vigil of 1d10 guards, 2d6 locals
and a priest roam area
d20 Monuments
1 Triumphal arch carved with religious or
battle scenes
2 A spectacular multilevel mausoleum for
the chosen few 20+2d20
3 A small pyramid tomb dedicated to
some eccentric noble
4 A bell tower to signal funerals or trouble
5 A huge ornamental tomb of finest
marble
6 A huge statue of some figure with tomb
in base
7 A collection of statues in a scene
8 A well with spectacular fountain
9 A huge obelisk carved with text and
possibly with chambers inside
10 A stone building with flames of
remembrance brazier and tomb
11 Prehistoric stone monolith like a tomb
or crude carved obelisk
12 A library documenting the dead and
goings on here with staff
13 Huge holy symbol overlooking yard
14 Spectacular shrine with barred
chamber with saints remains
15 Fine temple with important holy person
and staff
16 A fine monastery who care for the
graveyard
17 Spectacular gate house with
gatekeeper and assistant guards
18 A holy well within stone building filled
rumoured to have powers
19 A museum of strange things found in
graveyard over centuries of use
20 A ruined ancient temple rumoured to
be haunted
d50 grave guardians spells and powers or just a weapon
Most grave sites are watched by 31 A undead thief backstabs intruders
locals, have caretakers and visitors to then drags off to his burial plot
watch them. Some have walls, dedi- 32 Ashen cloud with a charred skull from
cated shrines with staff and more. But burial urn smothers wrong doers
others have magical or supernatural 33 Swarm of severed hands
ones. While some are undead made to 34 Flaming skull chases intruders spitting
defend graves others are free willed fire at them
beings of evil seeking defilers of dead 35 Screaming skull causes fear and bite
they can legitimately persecute without fleeing victims till out of grounds
good beings objecting. Rumours of 36 Lesser mummy arises to punish wrong
guardians abound. Will do a graveyard doers
encounter table for unwelcome visitors 37 Shadows arise from grounds 1d3
later. Guardians generally will leave 38 Shadow hound
you alone if you flee from burial area. 39 Animated weapons 1d4 attack
40 Headless horseman chases party
1 Holy skeletons arise from graves 2d6 41 Unclean spirit sweeps over party as
2 Zombies made from grave robbers foul wind inflicting disease
cursed to defend it 2d6 42 Angry spirit posses corpse to attack
3 Phantom rises from ground moaning intruder
causes fear 43 Winged skull flies by and curses
4 Spectral priest rises from ground to turn intruders
undead or curse living 44 Skeletal reaper pursues wicked
5 Spirit possesses intruder and attacks 45 Magical owl casts priest spells and
friends or kills self makes lots of noise
6 Spectre rises and tries to scare away or 46 Giant owl silently grabs someone and
drain lives flies off
7 Ghost rises and ages intruders 47 Giant bats attack and carry off
8 Poltergeists hurl objects and steal equipment
possessions 48 Grave goblins defend territory of
9 Spectral hounds howl causing fear underworld gods
10 Flying screaming skulls chase evil 49 Phantom rises with chains, warns
doers defilers will suffer beyond grave
11 Lesser stone golem construct 50 A petty god punishes wicked for some
disguised as a statue personal reason here
12 Greater stone golem construct
disguised as a statue
13 Pumpkin headed effigies attack
intruders 2d4
14 Gargoyle lies still here awaiting trouble
makers
15 Great hell hound or devil dog prowls
grounds
16 Hellcat here to find evil doers to send
to hell
17 Swarm of vampire bats
18 Swarm of worms and bugs rises
against intruders
19 A great serpent lurks hidden in holes
in ground
20 A stone head flies after intruders
ramming them
21 A sacrificed warrior guardian is now a
revenant guardian
22 A sacrificed warrior guardian is now a
wight guardian
23 A group of wolves attack defilers 2d4
24 A great one eyed dire wolf attacks
intruders
25 Minor demon or devil seeking wicked
to persecute
26 Gremlins menace, rob and use trap to
harass intruder
27 Swarm of rats
28 Graveyard undead knight punishes
wicked and lawbreakers
29 A robed skeletal crypt guardian
torments intruders with wizardry
30 A undead priest attacks intruders with
d20 Grave markers of
barbarians and
prehistoric peoples
1 Mound of earth
2 Mound of stones
3 Large rock
4 Boulder possibly painted or carved
5 Totem pole or ornate carved pole
6 Mini stone henge structure or megalith
7 Stone obelisk or menhir
8 Tusks, horns or beast skulls on pole
9 Mummified body supported standing or
mounted warrior
10 Stones arranged in boat shape
11 Inside or under a tree
12 Ash heap, partially buried from pyre
13 Stone pillar, possibly with nooks for
skulls and sacrifices
14 Painted or carved rock feature like cliff
15 Carving in turf
16 Cave or cliff hole blocked with boulder
17 Sheets of slate forming a rectangular
sarcophagi
18 Carved stone head
19 Carved creature or figure from rock
20 Wooden fence with spikes on top
surrounding mound
d20 Headstones of
commoners
1 Mound of dirt
2 Mound of rubble
3 Mound of stones
4 Wooden post
5 Wooden board with simple writing or
image
6 Carved or painted wooden board
7 Wooden holy symbol
8 Pillow size stone some writing
9 Intricate wood carved headstone
10 Cave or cliff hole blocked with boulder
11 Ash heap, partially buried from funeral
pyre
12 Stone pillow headstone with text
13 Mud brick slab
14 Glazed fired brick slab
15 Stone slab
16 Stone holy symbol
17 Thin stone headstone with minimal text
18 Thick stone headstone with minimal
text
19 Winged hourglass and scythe or trade
tools carved in thick headstone
20 Skeletons or skulls carved in
headstone
d20 Memorials of the
rich
1 Mound of dirt
2 Stone urn
3 Small marble slab
4 Large engraved headstone
5 Huge stone tablet with large text
6 Stone bench
7 Skeletons or skulls carved in headstone
8 Winged hourglass and scythe or trade
tools carved in headstone
9 Stone carving of tools of trade
10 Stone pedestal
11 Sphinx, gargoyle or other creature in
stone
12 Stone sarcophagi
13 Small stone pyramid marker
14 Plinth with relief art or or engravings
15 Engraved Stone Brazier or basin
16 Elegant engraved obelisk
17 Headstone and locked iron cage (to
prevent robbery?)
18 Small shrine to dead or faith
19 Monument with bust
10 Monument with statue of deceased
d12 Crypts, Tombs
and Mausoleums
Type
1-2 Sealed cave
3-5 Mound with stone and or wood
structure within
6-7 Carved into stone landscape
8 Subterranean, built or carved
9-10 Brick structure
11-12 Stone structure
d20 Crypts, Tombs
and Mausoleums Size
A building or structure dedicated to
preserving dead. Smaller ones often
private, larger ones connected to
church, noble house, guild or monas-
tery. Often one with best sarcophagi
inside for a leader (and partner) or
house founder and rest for guards
or servants or concubines. For ease
i tend to say crypts are small, tombs
medium and mausoleums large. Monu-
mental versions are even bigger
1-10 one person d2 10ft squares or less
+0 goods
11-14 small family or group 2d4, d4 10ft
squares +1 goods
15-17 large family or group 6d4, 2d4 10ft
squares +d2 goods
18-19 huge family or group 6d20, 2d4 10ft
squares +d4 goods
20 gigantic monumental mausoleum or
necropolis, multilevel dungeon complex
xd100 goods (actually this should be
generated as a Gothic zone dungeon)
d20 Crypts, Tombs
and Mausoleum
Goods
What else besides sarcophagi?
1 Basic tools
2 Livestock remains like horses or
sacrificial bull
3 Servant remains
4 Grain, flowers, wine, honey or other
food supplies
5 Boat or funeral barge
6 Chariot with weapon
7 Waggon with household goods
8 Library of books, scrolls or tablets
9 Guards long dead or some may be
living or magic
10 Collection of weapons
11 Living area with typical fittings
12 Statues of dead or religious or guards
13 Paintings of dead or religious stuff r
property or guards
14 Relief Carvings
15 Shrine to deity or the dead
16 Models of tomb or landscape or of
subjects or animals
17 Maps of land
18 Traps
19 Concubines, harem or wives with
jewellery
20 Treasure horde, bigger the tomb more
wealth
d50 Some Varied
Burial Grounds
Rolled for individual site or for style
of burial area. Could be rolled several
times depending on size 1d3 and age
1d4-1 or both together. Each religion or
era could have own style. These more
for on the road or exploring. Urban and
literate cultures more consistent.
1 Rock or clay sealed hole of ancient wild
men with stone tools
2 Rock or clay sealed hole of common
with basic personal items
3 Rock or clay sealed hole of priest or
noble with d3 goods
4 Mound covering wooden chamber with
sarcophagi d4 goods
5 Mound covering stone chamber with
sarcophagi d6 goods
6 Crude megalithic tomb structure 1d3
goods
7 Tunnel under a tree into a chamber
among roots 1d2 goods
8 Natural cave complex converted to
burial area 1d4 goods
9 Catacombs under structure or
settlement
10 Catacombs under ruined structure or
settlement
11 Catacombs under long vanished
structure or settlement
12 Crematorium and house of urns
13 Open area with dessicated corpses
exposed to elements
14 Area where type of animals are fed
ritually butchered corpses
15 Cremation area where dead ashes
thrown in holy well or river
16 Area where type of animals are fed
exposed dead
17 Built into other structure like bridge or
wall or house floor
18 Structure where corpses dissolved in
acid
19 Ritual area with feast facilities for
cannibals
20 Great pit where bodies chucked
unceremoniously
21 Great pit where bodies chucked with
rituals
22 Area with body of water where intact
bodies tossed
23 Area with body of water where bodies
placed in boats or rafts
24 Area with body of water where bodies
placed in burning boats or rafts
25 Open graveyard
26 Fenced off graveyard
27 Fenced off graveyard with shrine or
chapel and clergy
28 Fenced off graveyard with guardians
or caretaker
29 Built stone crypt
30 Carved from stone crypt
31 Marble mausoleum with multiple levels
32 Necropolis built right up against
settlement
33 Necropolis built within settlement
34 Ancient private brick burial vault
35 Buried in boat or boat shaped stone
cairn
36 Stone built underground tomb
37 Megalith tomb with stone chamber for
many persons
38 Stone sarcophagi arranged in field,
often fenced
39 Public mausoleum for masses
40 Monumental Mausoleum of great ones
41Tree hollows used, possibly wrapped in
bark tubes
42 Chariot burials with horse and driver
43 Horse burial (r other sacrificial beast)
44 Unmarked graves
45 Niches carved into cliff or huge rock
46 Volcanic vent with fire shrine
47 Tar Pit or bog where bodies are cast
48 Trapped Catacombs with guardians
49 Small built monument surrounded by a
graveyard
50 Monumental tomb built into wonder
D8 Corpse Condition
1 Fresh looking
2 Slightly decayed
3 Decayed but still recognizable,
discolored
4 Rotten, bloated and wormy
5 Mummified husk
6 Skeletal with stretched dessicated skin
7 Skeleton intact
8 Crumbled skeleton
D8 Commoners
Coffin Quality
1 Cheap woven coffin from reeds, ropes,
sheets
2 Cheap clay coffin
3 Cheap wooden box
3 Well made box
4 Well made with nails and metal fittings
5 Well made, metal fittings, painted
6 Artistic carvings with silk interior
7 Carved from crude stone
8 Artistic carvings from stone
9 Metallic or locked or with bars to protect
corpse or outside
10 Artistic metal casket with lock
D100 Strange
Coffin Contents
This is when you find a coffin which
has been tampered with, usually found
somewhere it wasn’t actually buried.
Most of course have a corpse with sta-
tus dependent on where it was buried.
1 More than one skeleton jumbled
together
2 Mixed chopped body parts
3 Corpse covered in blood shredded
hands look of horror
4 Corpse staked in place
5 Corpse staked, teeth smashed, wearing
holy symbol
6 Corpse is partly transformed into a
monster
7 Animated skeleton
8 Zombie
9 Ghoul
10 Half eaten body gnawed by ghouls
11 Body stolen, nothing left
12 Rocks in sack fill coffin to equal corpse
weight
13 Body has had body parts or organs
stolen
14 Body drained of blood
15 Body decapitated
16 Full of angry rats swarm
17 Wicked life hating shadow forms in
open coffin
18 Wight furious at being defiled by living
19 Sacks of lowest currency copper coins
equal to mans weight
20 Filled with fungus covering corpse
21 Horrible mole snake burrowed into
corpse skull
22 Straw dummy
23 Mutated skeletal horror
24 Set of instruments
25 Abnormal deformed or Siamese or
freak skeleton
25 Body mutilated, slashed and smashed
26 Horrible mass of tree roots overgrown
corpse
27 Covered in occult sygils
28 A humanoid necromancer formed from
mass of worms or maggots
29 Charred corpse
30 Dog, pig, goat or cat in coffin
31 Frogs, snakes and lizards pour out
32 Huge aggressive spider
33 Skull only
34 Spectral phantom comes forth moans
then vanishes
35 Spectral phantom taunts opener for
1d6 days
36 Spectral phantom demands murderer/
grave defiler punished
37 Collection of cheap arms and armour
37 Narcotics packed in pound blocks with
cult seals on packs
38 Diary or book clutched in corpse
hands
39 Magical calligraphy seals on paper
attached to body
40 Living person relieved to be let out
(have a great story)
41 Two corpses locked in embrace
42 Straw
43 Eyes, ears, mouth sealed in lead, wax
or tar
44 Non human but humanoid creature
45 Empty clothes
46 Collection of rolled up paintings and
artworks
47 Sack of grave trinket jewellery
48 A large angry reptile was hibernating
inside
49 Kittens
50 Turnips
51 Explosive trap 2d6 blast, 10ft radius
52 Several corpse fed goblins ready to
leap out
53 Baby giant stingworm burrowed here
53 Corpse half preserved half horribly
decayed
54 Groundshark eggs
55 Ground squid nest with aggressive
mother
56 Has contraption to alert surface and air
pipe in case of death
57 Broken statue
58 Long lost scriptures
59 Long lost scholarly tretise
60 Collection of preserved food
61 Dirt from somewhere else
62 Spare vampire coffin, empty but used
63 Bottles of grog
64 Highly ornamental with religious
scenes inside
65 Vampire hunters kit- stakes, hammer,
66 1d6 bottles of holy water
67 Werewolf hunters kit
68 1d3 magic potions
69 Is entrance to secret tunnel
70 Smaller coffin
71 Small chest d4 1=skull 2=heart
3=brain in a jar 4=small treasure
72 Doll of somekind
73 Rotten Slurry
74 Ancient pre human mummy
75 Freshly murdered victim
76 Giant aggressive corpse beetle
77 Animated skeleton bursts into flames
attacks
78 Skeleton with staring eyeballs intact
79 Filled with bats
80 Jars of pickled cabbage
81 Imp in form of hunchback dwarf
82 Bundles of clothing
83 Digging tools, spades, picks, etc
84 Bundles of rope
85 Carpentry tools
86 Creepy idol
87 Dead emaciated toad or heart pierced
with thorns
88 Witch familiar, escapes through hole
in bottom
89 Cursed scroll as gift for grave robbers
90 Wooden leg
91 Dead ghoul
92 Animated bleeding skeleton likes to
drink blood
93 Glowing screaming skeleton causes
fear
94 Animated skeleton regenerates unless
harmed by holy water
95 Mass of writhing worms
96 Thousands of flies swarm out
97 Sleeping drunk (possibly humanoid
species)
98 Live child or infant
99 Doll or scarecrow golem
100 An immortal relieved to be free and
hungry
D100 commoner
corpse table
1 Farmer with turnip
2 Farmers wife with cabbage
3 Town man with 1d10 coins in purse
4 Town woman with cheap jeweled trinket
5 Carpenter with hammer and chisel
6 Weavers wife with ornate rug
7 Woman with bunch of key’s on belt
8 Blacksmith with apron and hammer
9 Man with bottles of wine
10 Woman with small bronze cauldron
11 Man with spear and knife
12 Woman with many beaded necklaces
13 Man with clever and hog feet
14 Woman holding silver holy symbol
15 Man with wooden holy symbol
16 Man blindfolded, gagged and tied
17 Woman with cat
18 Woman with baby
19 Baby in small ornate box
20 Child with toy
21 Man in leather armour with bow
22 Man in baliff vest with truncheon
23 Man with net and fishing rod
24 Woman with water urn
25 Man with chamber pot
25 Woman with loaf of bread
26 Man with piglet
27 Man with evidence of being hung
28 Man with sickle
29 Woman with large spoon and apron
30 Man with fancy hat and legal scrolls
31 Man in robes with book
32 Woman with bag of herbal medicine
33 Woman with dried toad in mouth
34 Man with coins on eyes
35 Woman with coin purse 1d10 coins
36 Man with knife and ear necklace
37 Man with string of sausages
37 Woman with bowl of fruit and grain
38 Woman with dried flower bunches
39 Man with shield and spear
40 Man with axe
41 Man with horse bridle
42 Man with whip
43 Woman with rolling pin
44 Woman with sewing kit and fine quilt
45 Man with gang tattoos and missing
hands
46 Woman with missing tongue
47 Man with set of brass scales with
weights
48 Man with hourglass
49 Man with commoner instrument
50 Man with walking stick
51 Woman with model of house made
from dough
52 Woman with erotic costume
53 Man in leg irons
53 Man with his genitals in bag around
his neck
54 Man in jesters outfit, possibly dwarf or
hunchback
55 Man with bundle of wheat
56 Man with dried fish
57 Woman with jar of grain
58 Man with stone axe and knife
59 Man with thieves tools
60 Woman with jars of pills
61 Woman with bag of knitting
62 Woman with hairbrush
63 Woman with mirror
64 Man with comb
65 Woman with scissors
66 Man with knife
67 Woman with knife
68 Man holding skull
69 Woman with pet bird
70 Man with spanking paddle and
textbook
71 Woman with shears and bag of wool
72 Man with smoked ham
73 Man with wig and makeup
74 Man with pumpkin and staff
75 Woman with overnight bag with spare
dress
76 Man with folk dancing costume and
club
77 Woman with instrument
78 Man with pigs head
79 Woman with cheese wheel
80 Man with pipe and fancy smokables
81 Woman with carved wooden cow
ornament
82 Man with ornate cloak and broach
83 Woman with lantern
84 Man with firewood bundle and hatchet
85 Man clutching pile of bills
86 Woman with fur stole complete with
animal head
87 Woman with animal foot medallion
88 Man with helmet and shortsword and
leather coat
89 Man with stone chisel and hammer
and stone bowl
90 Woman with dinner set
91 Woman with spear and shield
92 Man with weird robes and mask
93 Man with carnival costume
94 Woman with witch hat and false witch
nose
95 Woman with religious costume
96 Man in night shirt and ear trumpet
97 Woman with flint and steel in tinderbox
98 Man with miners lamp and hat
99 Man with missing limbs
100 Man with doctors bag
D100 rich corpse
table
1 A guilds man with fancy clothes, ledger
and 3d100gp jewelery
2 A guilds man with ritual apron and
symbolic tools 3d100gp jewelery and
secret guild books
3 City councilman with robe, wig and gold
badge of office 4d10pg
4 Town clerk with robes, spectacle and
ledger
5 Town selectman with robes and 4d10
gold chains
6 Student with night robe and favorite
book and stylus
7 Judge with robes, wig, mace or
hammer, a scales
8 Banker with abacus, ledger, robes,
purse of 1d100 silver for tips in next life
9 Merchant with fancy clothes, ledger,
scales and 1d100gp jewelery
10 Shopkeeper with common suit, and
some samples goods of trade
11 Crime or ganglord, fancy suit, pipe,
bottle, dagger, 3d10 gold chains
12 Bailiff with leather armour, truncheon,
manacles
13 Sherrif with chain shirt, sword, helmet,
and gold star 1d10gp
14 Ship captain with uniform, sea chest of
trade and survival goods
15 Officer of military, chain, sword, shield
16 Cavalryman with, chain, sword, mace,
shield, dead horse and saddle
17 Knight, plate, lance, sword, flail, mace,
helm, dead horse and saddle
18 Wizard with robes, 1d3 potions, 1d100
gold, spell book
19 Sorcerer with robes, drugs and 1d3
dead lovers,1d10o jewelery
20 Monk or nun with robes, staff, bowl,
holy symbol and book
21 Common priest with robes and holy
symbol and staff
22 Temple priest with fancy robes, holy
symbol, staff
23 Warrior priest in chain, helm, mace,
holy symbol
24 Holy Knight, plate, lance, sword, helm,
holy symbol, holy water, dead horse and
saddle
25 Innkeeper with apron, truncheon,
knife, small keg of grog and tankard
26 Druidic priest with staff, sickle, robe,
missletoe, dead pet, and large stone
27 Rakes coffin with suit, dagger, rapier,
grog bottle, sheep gut condoms, pipe and
drugs
28 Harlot with fancy clothes, fans, 1d100
jewelry, diary
29 Scholar with robes, 1d4 books,
unfinished manuscript, stylus, ink, paper,
spectacles
30 Scribe with robe, staff, 1d6 non magic
scrolls, writing set, paper
31 Witch with robe, staff, 1d3 potions,
cursed fetish, dead familiar
32 Child in rich clothing with expensive
chest of toys
33 Lady in wedding dress with dowry
goods in chest
34 Noblewoman with dress, d100
jewelry and instrument or craft tool and
handicrafts
35 Wealthy doctor with doctors bag, a
potion, fine suit, dead leeches in jar
36 Alchemist with 1d3 potions and
fragment of philosophers stone, suit, note
book
37 Land owner with nice suit, hamper with
food and cow hide
38 Mortician in funeral robes with bag of
makeup and tools
39 Cultist with robes, 3d10 gold mask,
2d10 gold ring, dagger
40 Monster hunter with chain, axe, spear
and 2d10 severed humanoid heads
41 Duelist with flashy suit, two swords or
pistols, nice hat
42 Elderly matriach with tapestry,
nightshirt, 1d100 silver coin and dead pet
43 Elderly patriarch with nightshirt, bottle
of grog and walking stick
44 Flash bard with fancy suit, instrument,
scrolls of poem, diary, 1d100 locks of
lovers hair
45 Butler or maid for high class servant
with suit, trey, hat, list of chores
46 Spy, suit, face down, head cut off, star
chamber death notice
47 Occultist with suit, star charts, book,
useless talisman, crystal ball
48 Plague Doctor with beakmask, black
robes, spectacles, bunch of flowers
49 Possible vampire, head cut off, stuffed
with garlic, chained
50 Philanthropist, nightshirt, certificates of
thanks from charities
51 Adventuress with suit, coat, hat, rapier,
tiny flintlock pistol
52 Popular Mistress with nightshirt, d100
love letters, 1d100gp jewelery, diary
53 Dandy with suit, d100 terrible poems,
large sunflower, cane, bottle of absinthe
54 Glutton with dirty fat suit, box of candy,
jar of pickles, a ham, knife, fork, plate
55 Pig dressed up in rich suit
56 Bound in bandages with bottle of
medicine
57 Sewn into suit, concealing body
mutations, holy symbol
58 Alcoholic in soiled suit with, wine
bottles, small brandy keg, tankard
59 Black lotus addict sewn into sack with
singed resin coated pipe
60 Moralist with sensible suit, 1d10
pamphlets from causes, holy symbol
61 Assassin with black suit and cape,
dagger, garrote and pot of poison
62 Gambler with cards, dice, good suit
and 1d100 silver coins
63 Mine owner with suit, pick and ore
samples
64 Coach owner with whip, model wagon
and 1d10 lost parcels
65 Restauranteur with good suit, sliver
cutlery, spice set in 2d6 jars
66 Abattoir owner with cheap suit, bloody
apron, cleaver, knife and pig head
67 Greenhouse herbalist with cheap suit,
apron, watering can, pipe and hash
68 Navigator with suit, sextant, compass
and 1d10 charts
69 Necromancer with black robes, scythe
or sickle, often undead
70 Slave trader with cheap suit, manacles
and 1d4 dead slaves (possibly just ashes)
71 Interior decorator in fancy suit and
great shoes, brush, paint tin, 1d10gp gilt
plaque
72 Artist with suit, tools of art form like
paint set or chisels, one small artwork
73 Writer with cheap suit and 1d6 books
and a pile of manuscripts
74 Socialite with fancy suit, 4d10gp in
jewelery, collection of old invitations
75 Slum lord with shabby suit, purse with
1d100 copper coins, club or whip
76 Executioner or torturer with uniform,
hood, whip, manacles, thumbscrews
77 Corrupt merchant with multiple stab
wounds, good suit, ledger of dodgy deals
78 Lawyer with good suit, wig, book of
laws
79 Actor or actress in flashy but cheap
suit, 1d10 theatre programs, tiny dead
dog
80 Hunt master with traveling suit, cloak,
bow, horn, 1d6 dead rabbits
81 Sportsman with riding suit, riding crop,
fancy hat, favorite dead dog
82 Whaler/sealer product dealer, dirty
suit, apron, axe, club, jar of oil, hunk of
blubber
83 Horrible miser, cheap suit, monocle,
ear horn, 1d100 silver in trapped purse
84 Explorer with wilderness suit, cloak,
bow, dagger, hatchet, 1d10 maps
85 Wood merchant with worksuit, wood
axe, samples of different wood
86 Builder with work suit, hammer, chisel,
small stone gargoyle, set square
87 Con artist with cheap flashy suit, 1d10
fake deeds, forged ID papers
88 Fashion victim with fabulous suit,
makeup kit, brush, mirror 1d100 gold
jewelry
89 Sweatshop owner with cheap suit,
trunk of inferior goods and child size
manacles
90 Circus owner with fancy suit, whip, bag
of nuts, mummified monkey, jack in a box
91 Witch-hunter with plain suit, whip,
manacles, lantern, holy water
92 Prospector made good with tacky suit,
gilded pick, gilded hammer, nugget worth
1d100
93 Jeweler with fancy suit, monocle, tool
set, 1d100 gems, jewels, silver and gold
wire
94 Military leader with fancy suit,
2d10 medals, autobiography detailing
campaigns
95 Confectioner with colourful suit, cane,
funny shoes, piles of chocolate and candy
96 Falconer in hunting suit, gauntlet,
mummified falcon, 1d6 dead rabbits
97 Armourer with good suit, hammer,
trunk of armour odments and spare parts
98 Weapon smith with good suit, and
trunk of 3d6 swords and blades and other
weapons
99 Pet lover with fur covered suit, pet
food, 2d10 dead puppies, kitties, bunnies
or birds
100 Secret police with studded leather
armour, whip, dagger, manacles, garrotte
d100 Strange
Lone Graves
When in wilderness or even occasion-
ally in a urban graveyard, some graves
stand out as weird and usually trouble.
Many have treasure. Some are traps or
contain very powerful undead. In many
cases the intruders get a chance to
escape from the most deadliest breeds
who cant be bothered to chase low
level weaklings. Some graves might
be red herrings or even traps. Enemies
might offer party a map and story to a
deadly grave as a trick to kill heroes.
Similar grave often found nearby.
1 Headstone and slab, secret passage to
forgotten dungeon
2 Headstone and slab, secret passage to
occupied underground base
3 Headstone and slab, secret passage for
smugglers and criminals
4 Headstone and slab, secret passage to
non human settlement
5 Headstone and slab, secret passage to
cult complex
6 Carved statue headstone Is a shrine to
forces of the heavens
7 Monolith marker is a shrine to forces of
nature, guarded by beast
8 Mound is burial with a horde for the
afterlife, skeleton guards inside
9 Small burial cave or grotto haunted by
sinister spirit
10 Small burial cave or grotto home to a
hag or a witch
11 Unmarked grave of suicide now a
poltergeist
12 Unmarked grave of mad serial killer
attracts vile crimes and assault
13 Unmarked grave of child sobs,
phantom asks for help finding toy or pet
14 Unmarked grave of loyal pet, phantom
dog or horse or cat
15 Unmarked grave of murdered traveller,
phantom seeks home for remains
16 Unmarked grave of murdered maiden,
spirit seeks vengeance or love
17 Unmarked mass grave of massacre
from war or bandits
18 Bleak grave of murdered man,
phantom demands help with vengeance
19 Dusky worn stone pillow with angry
shadow within
20 Dark stone grave of cult leader, evil
uses as a shrine
21 A hidden stone sarcophagi home to a
lonesome vampire
22 Broken crypt with smashed coffins and
well fed ghouls
23 Grave is dug up and starving animals
feasting
24 Grave is dug up and goblins eating
human remains with gusto
25 Grave is dug up with necromancer and
servants stealing corpse
26 Grave dug up by scholars or artists for
anatomical dissection and study
27 Ancient warrior sarcophagi or barrow
mound occupied by wight
28 Black ancient slab radiates evil with
wraith inside
29 Smashed open sarcophagi with 1d4
zombies inside
30 Stone sarcophagi in broken small
tomb with mummy inside
31 Megalithic barrow with a pack of
ghouls
32 Humble grave with wooden marker
and burrowed hole to carrion crawler nest
33 Moaning chained wight inside heave
coffin just audible above ground
34 Huge fat ghoul munching on broken
open humble coffin
35 Call for help from inside stone
sarcophagus, trapped immortal awoke
inside
36 Call for help from inside stone
sarcophagus, trapped person recovered
from coma
37 Grave of known zombie former
explorer, inside holds maps to many
strange places
38 Shade of drunk calls out for libations of
wine to keep him quiet
39 Familiar sadly sitting on dead wizards
grave
40 Spooky tree over druid grave menhir
attacks any who interfere
41 Whisper in mind of travellers asking for
help, evil undead wizard trapped in grave
42 Hell hound guards grave of evil wizard
43 Hell cat awaiting new master on grave
mound of old master
44 Cracked sarcophagi releases stench if
approached from ghast inside
45 Flying skull chases those who pass
grave of mean merchant to cheap for
graveyard
46 Bleeding boned skeletons under
shallow earth guard grave of a witch
47 Grave of zombie jester killed by party,
will follow and try to entertain new friends
48 Phantom lady falls in love with
adventurer, follows and appears as mortal
lover for a night
49 Glowing skeleton emanating sickly
poison light arises from lead sarcophagi
50 Mutant zombie crawls from shallow
grave underfoot of travellers
51 Hungry ghost craves food and chases
party to wither supplies into dust 82 A necromancer and a customer
52 Ancient stone marked grave crawling summoning a spirit of the dead for
in green glowing kyuss maggots from information
inside 83 Villager attempting false resurrection
53 Strange basalt worn sarcophagi with ritual creates cannibalistic mindless
undead serpent man wizard deep in sleep zombie
54 Warrior phantom begs travellers to 84 Necromancer attempting to reanimate
take sword is actually cursed relic dead lover
55 Warrior phantom begs travellers to 85 Grave surrounded by ravens swarm
take intelligent race slaying sword is and attack defilers of druid or priest
56 Cackling undead witch lies in shallow remains
buried wooden coffin 86 Amateur adventurers trying to open
57 Ancient mound of buried giant, now ancient sarcophagi release undead horror
hungry zombie, awakens if mound walked 87 A ghoul snacking on a paralysed child
on on top of his grave
58 Burial mound with sacrificial guard 88 A angry draugr guards a ancient burial
skeletons to protect mound to protect his treasure and dead
59 Willow the wisp tries to lure intruders wives
into nearby monster lair or swamp 89 Ancient monolith grave guarded by
60 Under a sad willow tree is a stone old mighty serpent90 Ancient grave with coin
sarcophagi, inside a man hating banshee slot for sacrifice to keep draugr inside
awaits 91 Stone statue animates and attacks any
61 Flaming skeleton guards spring up who touch old grave
to defend headstone of pyromancer- 92 Gargoyle statue actually alive standing
necromancer on headstone
62 Skeleton warrior sleeps awaiting great 93 Obelisk zaps intruders with magic
mission in future will slay any who touch missile
grave 94 Obelisk zaps intruders with curse
63 A cracked old crypt is lair of a crimson 95 Obelisk zaps intruders with flame
mist, a blood sucking vaporous undead strike
64 Grave contains living brain in jar than 96 Obelisk zaps intruders with burning
mentally controls nearby zombies hands
65 Skinless zombies surround grave 97 Beastmen dancing and cavorting
guarding evil wizard remains around grave of ancient wizard master
66 An ancient grave mound guarded by 98 Inside a crypt is a dwarvern looter
blood drinking monolith angry at humans for disrespecting
67 Undead wizard hates living, hoards ancestral graves
magic items under old cracked headstone 99 Inside is a gateway to a minor kingdom
68 Plague zombies guard evil priests of elfland, ancestorors of locals
grave 100 Inside strange grave is a gateway to
69 Devil or demon attack any who some horrible dimension or underworld
approach ancient monolith over evil hero
grave
70 Cursed undead leaves coins into crypt
entrance to tempt robbers
71 Succubus sleeps with dead lover in
sarcophagus attacks any who threaten
her darling
72 Incubus stands watch over grave of
dead sorceress awaiting allies to raise her
73 Stone sarcophagi with paladin
engraved, inside is a death knight in deep
sleep
74 Strange stone slab over grave of
wizard, guarded by elemental
75 Black stone menhir grave of ice-necro-
mancer guarded by skeletons with cold
powers
76 Headless horseman menaces any
who find graves of his decapitated victims
graves
77 Swarm of bugs, rats or birds guard
ancient grave of a druid
78 Undead children in sarcophagi attack
bad adults who hurt them
79 Undead revenant if freed seeks
enemies who killed him or descendants
80 Strange grave marker, inside a metal
and glass coffin is a sleeping woman
81 Cannibals opening grave and feasting
on interior hope to become immortal
ghouls
Funery Urns
Smash=loot? In every good mauso-
leum or crypt and even many graves,
ceramic and other vessels are com-
mon features. Ornaments, sacrifices
or supplies for the dead and even
cremation remains might be found.
Some contain weird stuff. Old multicul-
tural areas will have greatest diversity.
Wealth is another factor. Local religion
may dictate what such vessels contain
and they could be uniform.
d10 Container Type
Probably find most of similar type in
same area but you may wish to roll for
different sections or historical layers.
Perhaps a d3 or d6 types depending on
size, age, cultural diversity or wealth.
1 Woven basket from plant or animal fibre
2 Wood or bark
3 Crude ceramic
3 Painted earthenware
5 Finest glazed ceramic
6 Ceramic or stone figurine or face on lid
of jar
7 Copper, brass or bronze
8 Carved stone, possibly semi precious
9 Silver possibly just plated
10 Gold, electrum or platinum possibly
just plated
d10 Basic Contents
1-4 Human remains, ash or dust
5-6 Humble foodstuff, probably (90%)
spoiled
7 Water, wine, beer, milk, blood or some
liquid
8 Some high quality preserved goods like
honey or salt or oil
9 Coins d4 1=1d100 copper 2=2d20 silver
3= 2d6 gold 4=all previous results mixed
10 roll on unusual contents table
d100 Unusual Grave
Urns and Funery
Vases
1 Skeleton, animates and attacked if
smashed or opened
2 Skeleton, animates and serves if
smashed or opened
3 1d10 Skeletons, animates and attacked
if smashed or opened
4 Animated flying skull attacks
5 Phantom spirit or haunt is enraged if
smashed or opened
6 Shadow attacks if freed when smashed
or opened
7 Swarm of hostile grubs, flies or bugs
attacks area 2d6 rounds 1ptdam/ round
8 An angry spirit moans at your sacrilege
and haunts for 1d6 days
9 Dust devil of grave ash attacks if
smashed or opened
10 A beastman guardian appears in
smoke if smashed or opened
11 A map to possible treasure
12 Religious scriptures advising the
departed
13 Mummified organs
14 Holy symbol and a extra roll on basic
content
15 Commemorative poem or speech
dedicated to dead
16 A painting depicting underworld
17 A charm protecting grave from undead
18 A charm cursing grave robbers
19 A charm summons a guardian other
planar being 1HD+
20 Tiny Idols
21 Jackpot 1d100 gp in various coins
22 Cheap trinkets worth 1d20 copper
23 Flashy trinkets worth 1d10 silver
24 Impressive trinkets 1d6 gold
25 Ceremonial coins of clay 3d100
stamped with underworld symbols
26 Dried human or animal heart stuffed
with thorns or nails
27 Severed and preserved shrunken
human head
28 Toy or model house, chariot or animal
29 Creepy doll 1in6 animate follow and try
to kill you in sleep
30 A surprised goblin or kobold with no
memories
31 Explosives, very unstable from 2d6
damage and 1d4 yards radius
32 Live snake
33 Live scorpion
34 Live Rats
35 Cloud of darkness floods area for 1d10
rounds
36 Cloud of fear gas floods area for 1d10
rounds
37 Cloud of poison gas floods area for
1d10 rounds
38 Cloud of sleep or paralyzing gas floods
area for 1d10 rounds
39 Cloud of fear hallucinating gas floods
area for 1d10 rounds40 Cloud of cold gas
floods area for 1d10 rounds, 1hp dam per
round
41 A big fat croaking toad
42 Delicious wine, mead or beer
magically preserved till seal broken
43 Fresh blood or milk magically
preserved till seal broken
44 Flammable if exposed to air 1d3x10
radius effect, 2d6 damage and sets stuff
alight
45 Small corroded 1d4 weapons like
darts, dagger, knife
46 Clay deathmask from a corpse with
remains
47 Ceremonial robes from religion or cult
48 Skull with clay reconstruction of
features
49 Mummified animal
50 Dice, knuckle bones or cards
51 Ammunition for missile weapon like
sling stones or arrows
52 Fake treasure made from past or glass
looks 1d4x100gp value at first
53 Ceremonial or festive mask from
religion or cult
54 Collection of ceremonial cups
55 Stash of narcotics
56 A potion in a vial, might be smashed if
urn broken open
57 Comb, razor, soap
58 Cloud of stinking gas floods area for
1d10 rounds, save or helpless vomiting
59 Invisible imp released which stalks and
plays nasty tricks on any who release him
60 Huge foot wide spider jumps out at
you
61 Crawling with juicy bugs
62 Pigments for painting or makeup
63 Instrument like a small drum or flute or
rattle
64 Puzzlebox, roll again for contents
65 Tablets dedicating grave site
66 Dried flowers or herbs
67 Fungus growing on something gross
68 Something used as a chamber pot
69 Perfume or scented oil
70 Holy water vial, may break if urn
smashed
71 Monster teeth, horn or tusk, carved
72 Incense
73 A letter damning a dead person to
excommunication and eternal torment
74 Plans of a crypt
75 Silver knuckle duster
76 Tools of commoners trade
77 A collection of love letter
78 A journal of a doomed person
79 Ledgers of accounts, debts or
gambling records
80 A creepy worm or bug that tries to
escape, larval monster
81 A severed hand 1in6 animated and
attacks by surprise
82 Gremlins that scatter if opened to later
menace who found them
83 Strange eggs of a monster
84 An illusion to scare away thieves such
as a monster
85 An illusion to portray the life of a dead
person
86 An illusion to portray the afterlife
87 A magical scroll
88 A petty item like a cantrip wand with
zero level spells
89 A glowing gem with permanent light
cast on it
90 A batch of ointment that causes
lycanthropy
91 Releases a miasma of disease over
area if opened
92 A poltergeist haunts opener for 1d6
days
93 A spirit tries to posses who opens it to
complete some ancient mission
94 A weird slimy elder relic possibly living
with strange powers and curse
95 A ghoul appears in a puff of smoke
1in6 calls 2d4 ghouls instead
96 Skull with magic symbols, who posses
it has dreams of elder magicians
97 Living medium animal leaps out if
opened or smashed
98 Smoke released forms into long
trapped possibly bad magician of some
type
99 Mass of imprisoned worms is collective
mind of dead wicked sorcerer
100 Human remains slowly reanimate
unto undead over 1d6 hours of release
d100 Strange
Encounters in the
Graveyard
1 Followed by hooded phantom who
fades if approached
2 Followed by a phantom weeping
maiden who fades if approached
3 Followed by a phantom creepy child
with doll who fades if approached
4 Followed by a phantom hound who
fades if approached
5 Followed by a phantom hunchback who
fades if approached
6 Noisy ghost breaker with whip claims to
be taming invisible spirits
7 Students sneaking around trying to
steal corpse (artists, sages or necroman-
cers)
8 Professional grave robbers trying to loot
a crypt or grave
9 Young priest looking for undead he can
test himself with
10 Theif looking for executed corpses a
witch will pay him well for
11 Sounds of chains rattling and moaning
12 Sounds of Scream of terror
13 Sounds of Sobbing and weeping
14 Sounds of Creaking sounds of coffin
lids moving
15 Sounds of Laughter
16 Dog sitting on grave of master
17 Rat follows party with cunning gleam
in eye
18 Owl follows party looking for edible
critters they scare from hiding
19 Huge croaking toads in a circle, stop
when party see them till move on
20 Cat follows party for a pat or snack
21 Dancing goblins singing and drinking
22 Kobolds stealing headstones for
building with teeny wheel barrows
23 Drunk teen hobgoblins smashing
headstones in revenge for humans killing
kin
24 Bugbear came to dig up worms for
fishing but loves a good scare while here
25 Orcs digging up corpses for evil wizard
to animate
26 Carrion crawler looking for tasty grave
to burrow into
27 Swarm of rats looking desperately for
food
28 Giant rats pour from burrows in graves
29 Bear sized rat tired of eating the dead
30 Wolves looking for snacks
31 Witches having a forbidden ritual
32 Cultists chanting over a grave
33 Evil acolytes looking for interesting
corpses to raise back in hidden temple
34 Student necromancers practicing new
cantrips
35 Senior necromancer with zombies and
cart stealing dozens of bodies
36 Gang of thieves searching for hidden
stash
37 Gang of thieves brought victim here to
intimidate and blackmail
38 Gang of thieves fighting with another
gang
39 Gang of thieves preparing to kill gang
squealer in cruel ritual
40 Gang of thieves looking for east
tombs, crypts or sarcophagi
41 Gang of thieves fighting undead
42 Phantom dog follows and barks at
party attracting more trouble
43 Phantom dog attacks and chases
party till they leave graveyard
44 One eyed demon dire dog attacks
45 Hellhound howls, stalks then attacks
46 Werewolf attacks
47 Undead wolves attack as pack
48 Glowing mutant horror hound attacks
49 Skeletons with wagon collecting other
skeletons to dance of the dead
50 Skeletons cleaning and maintaining
graveyard attack if disturbed
51 Skeleton guardsmen try to chase
intruders from graveyard
52 Zombies moving graveyard boundary
stones to expand
53 Zombies eating a screaming bound
prisoner
54 Ghouls gangs meeting to divide up turf
55 Ghouls playing catch with human skull
56 Ghoul approaches party to see if they
want to become ghouls
57 Foul stench of a ghast wafts over area
58 Ghast beating member of ghoul gang
while others watch in fear
59 Ghouls in monk robes silently
marching in line, could mistake for living
60 Ghoul fallen into muddy open grave
cant climb out
61 Adorable child ghoul threatens party
62 Wights dueling, have done so yearly
for many years
63 Wight highwayman demands party
give him loot for his barrow mound
64 Wight nailed down with silver spikes
wailing
65 Shadows silently dancing
66 Shadow hound silently stalks attacks
at worst moment
67 Shadow family with shadow children
having midnight picknick
68 Wraith trapped in small fenced area
of own clans graves howls for victims to
approach
69 Lich recruiting for servants,
unconcerned by living unless bothered
70 Noble mummy sitting on stone throne
surrounded by zombie courtiers
71 Wight hound hunting for victims to
make slaves for master
72 Boring phantom wants to talk about
horses, muscles and women
73 Artist or poet phantom wants to
seduce living hottie
74 Evil goatmen dancing and playing
roughly with bones, headstones and
statues
75 Warlock with goatmen hanging a
servant who failed gang
76 Screaming wight in gibbet hung from
tree
77 Corpses laying on path spring to life
and attack
78 Severed head on pole tries to talk to
party, very bored
79 Severed hands of thieves scuttle about
picking pockets
80 Severed undead leg hopping about on
own
81 Poltergeist flinging rocks at skeletons
82 Ghouls gambling over who gets best
bits of paralyzed prisoner
83 Various undead, leaders dressed in
finery meeting about graveyard conditions
84 Skeleton children pelt rocks at party
and flee if attacked back
85 Zombie child playing with pet zombie
puppy
86 Storm breaks out with lightening then
rain
87 Fog rolls over the graveyard making
visibility poor
88 Icy wind chills and numbs everybody
89 Sudden flash of lightning, dozens of
spirits visable for a moment
90 Imps dancing with familiar spirits
91 Graveyard albino serpent with sting
burrowing into coffins feasting on dead
92 Student on a dare to spend night,
struck mad by visions, hair white
93 Outer planar being battling another
opposite alignment being
94 Outer planar being battling undead
95 Charmed person thinks is with lover,
really a rotting undead corpse
96 Hero or leader with necromancer
questioning the dead
97 Undead knight wooing undead lady
98 Undead bard entertaining group of
mixed undead
99 Lesser death playing chess with knight
so he may live longer to complete quest
100 Undead feast with many mixed
undead celebrating underworld holy day
d100 Strange Things
in the Graveyard
This can be rolled for any graveyards
from necropolis to country church.
A few rolls will make any graveyard
more memorable or interesting.
Some things revealed by locals and
might be just local gossip.
01 A statue of a crying angel, tears of
blood may be seen some nights when evil
afoot
02 Sounds of rattling bones are heard
from underground at night
03 Occasionally graves are found opened
and defiled with corpses half eaten
04 Occasionally graves are found burst
open from the inside
05 Robbers come here to steal corpses
and grave goods leaving a horrid mess
06 Locals remark someone leaves fresh
flowers every night but are never seen
07 The ground is filled with chunks of old
bone fragments making the soil partly
white
08 Ravens gather around visitors cawing,
sometimes they seem to say your name
09 When it rains or is damp or before
dawn, thousands of worms crawl to
surface
10 Something in graveyard howls at full
moon, locals lock their doors and stay in
11 Hear scratching and scuttling noises
from underground
12 Strange lights seen at night dancing
around graveyard
13 Ever since hidden treasure stash
found in yard, looters have been drawn
here
14 Dead half eaten corpses of robbers
have been found here
15 Older graves with strange ancient
markings have been found when digging
new ones
16 An ancient monolith in the yard from
some lost civilization
17 A huge oak tree in the yard bleeds if
cut and locals leave alone
18 A dog sits on the grave of it’s master
wasting away
19 A ghost dog is seen occasionally on a
old grave at night
20 Sobbing is heard in the yard but no
source is ever seen
21 A necromancer and his students come
here to steal bodies but nobody sees
them
22 If you pour blood on the right grave a
devil appears to trade your soul for gold
23 Some of the small animals seen by
night are witch familiars
24 If you leave a coin on crypt of miser
Kelly by night, a bony hand reaches out to
snatch it
25 A black goat is seen in yard at night,
those who chase it are wounded in nasty
falls
26 Long ago a necromancer came and
took the dead, his footprints can still be
seen
27 A rich man buried was taken by a
devil, a hoof print is on his sarcophagi lid
28 Youths coming to fool around in yard
are attacked by angry hungry dead
29 Many graves encased in iron bars to
prevent robbers or necromancers
30 Unmarked graves outside of sanctified
yard have been disturbed of late
31 Graffiti in lost script of the
necromancer kings of old appears on
walls and gates
32 Someone has stolen heads off many
statues and a reward is on offer
33 A toothless old crone sells flowers by
the gate as long as anyone remembers
34 A witch flies in from south to steal
corpses for stews since yard founded
35 A cannibal sect in area defile graves
on monthly basis
36 Locals suspicious of strangers
interests in the yard and spy on them
constantly
37 A huge cat roams the yard chasing
children away who play near walls
38 A silent monk spectre stands by the
the gate some evenings as if awaiting
someone
39 Some force in the yard blows out
candles, lanterns and other light sources
40 Once a statue came to life and killed
four grave robbers
41 Strange fluid bubbles up from one of
the graves
42 A revenant dwells in the yard who
seeks his murderer, but any in yard at
night will do
43 Some say there are coded scripts on
the headstones leading to a lost treasure
44 A vampire was once active in the area
but it sleeps mostly now
45 Witches scour the soil for bits of bone
to cast spells and make charms
46 A coven meet near the yard to call out
spirits by night
47 A strange visitor at local inn at night is
seen shouting and cracking a whip
48 A strange visitor at local inn at night
comes to call spirits in his search for
treasure
49 If you slip a coin in the charity box by
the gate evil in the yard by night will avoid
you
50 A warrior ghost in the yard appears to
challenge any who draw their sword on
his grave
51 Mandrake grows outside the yard on
the graves of executed, magicians come
to gather it
52 A man ate odd mushrooms in the yard
and could hear and see angry dread
spirits
53 A tomb was opened once for repairs
and hundreds of bugs and lizards
swarmed out
54 A family keep trying to move their dead
kinsman executed for crimes into the yard
55 If you sleep on grave of widow Zatara,
you will have forbidden erotic dreams
56 Strange gurgling noises are head day
and night by many witnesses
57 Pools of water in the yard sometimes
are seen dimly glowing in dark
58 Some say a holy saint relic was
interred here to protect it from a tyrant
59 Ghastly smelling holes are sometimes
found in the yard and are promptly buried
60 If you hear a ghastly scream in the
night run as fast as you can
61 A jackal has been seen in the yard and
watches visitors curiously
62 A group of owls meet here hooting to
another as if debating something
63 Half chewed rats are found around the
yard and cats never enter at night
64 If you bring a dog here it will not enter
and will howl in terror
65 Some graves have unnatural deposits
of frost in the morning
66 If you cook bacon near graveyard
some of the dead will cry out for some
67 Death head moths are common in
yard, sometimes swarming around a
grave
68 Patches of dead grass like footprints
are found some mornings
69 Eggs brought into yard all go off, birds
never nest here
70 Snakes are common in the yard, some
seen dozens pour from crack in a crypt
71 Some of the rats in the yard are
actually undead, several have been badly
bitten
72 Speaking ill of the dead here attracts a
plague spirit 100 One of the crypts is a gate to the
73 Somewhere in the yard is a secret
keyhole which opens a door to hidden
tunnels
74 Attractive men in the yard sometimes
feel as though being touched by spectral
hands
75 A spirit in the yard sometimes blows
wind up skirts of ladies but never at
funerals
76 A skeleton arises and collects all the
dead flowers and burns them once a
month
77 A gore covered weasel has been seen
crawling through cracks in crypts
78 A rat has been seen carrying copper
pieces, he must have quire a stash by
now
79 A few months ago a drunk saw a grave
burst open and a giant moth crawl from a
corpse
80 Maggots have been seen swarming
with purpose and a strange robed man
with them
81 Ghostly monks chanting are seen
whenever a new king crowned and other
occasions
82 Ghostly candles appear on some
family crypts when a family member is
about to die
83 If you give a coin to toad in the
yard you will have wonderful night of
lovemaking
84 Any child conceived in the yard is pale,
cold and quiet and will be a necromancer
85 Anyone who climbs the walls at night
will be struck sterile by guardian spirit
86 The walls were built to keep dead in
not living out
87 Walls predate modern yard, an ancient
ruin was said to lie here, stones were
re-used
88 A grave robber was found dead at the
gates with his skull crushed by a stone
89 If a girl dances on the grave of Sedraz
Manrad, his ghost will give her a copper
90 Women entering the yard must cover
their hair or the dead will be tempted by
them
91 A man who tried to use yard as a toilet
had a skeletal hand tear off his manhood
92 Local children enjoyed company of a
strange friend near here, now they are
forbidden
93 An ancient rock or hill is said to be
doorway to elfland where ancient dead
live as elves
94 A local gypsy woman may speak with
dead for gold but priest does not approve
95 An old grave keeper used to whittle
wooden toys and sometimes children find
new ones
96 A great poet buried here attracts
pilgrims but his angry ghost chased bad
poets away
97 A section of the yard is older than
the village and headstones in a strange
language
98 An artist came here to take rubbings
of historic graves and died yet people still
see him
99 A creepy old man offers strangers a
drink but he is the ghost of a poisoner
underworld and dancing dead are seen
emerging