100 Interesting Dungeon Encounters

1. Under a loose bit of cobblestone on the ground, you see what appears
to be a small tunnel. If you reach inside or stick around too long, a
living crawling hand jumps out of the hole and attacks. This living
hand has been hoarding rings and jewelry in this tunnel.

2. The group finds a long forgotten coin hoard. All is not as it seems,
some of the coins are tiny-sized mimics (maybe individuals, maybe
swarms), that adhere to and attack those that try to gather the
treasure.

3. A crumbling wall with a small tunnel bore through its base hides the
resting room for a peaceful Goblin who knows the dungeon well and will
give directions or hints in trade for an interesting item.

4. A series of really, staggeringly obvious traps. There’s a tripwire

that’s made of thick hemp rope, a wooden pressure plate set in the
middle of a cobblestone path, a dark path with a torch set right at
the beginning (the torch is crudely attached to a lever on the wall).

5. The ceiling is completely covered with horrid insects – dark, silent

and unseen except for the occasional masonry dust they knock loose.

6. Around a corner, you hear clucking. There’s a chicken in the dungeon?

You’re three levels down. Shrug: maybe it’s just random. But every
three rooms or so, there’s another one, just a chicken walking around
and pecking at the dirt. Then you get to a region where there aren’t
any chickens. That’s when shit gets real. Because the chickens are a
food source.

7. A dead end – The tunnel the party is walking down has them run
headlong into a Giant!! Well, the upper torso of the giant. He’s not
hostile and is pinned in place by the surrounding walls as he was
chasing dinner down a hole and has wiggled himself into this tunnel,
blocking any forward movement. If the party attacks him, he will yell
and cry, ‘Stop it, please!’ and be overly pathetic, but with his arms
pinned at his sides, they will likely kill him in time (suggest higher
hit points than normal so the party has to take their time). If they
chat with him, he knows a bit about the surrounding rooms as he’s seen
creatures moving through the halls and possibly former adventurers.
His name is Gordum, and he’s really hungry as he hasn’t eaten in a
very long time. Normally, adventurers take pity on him and feed him
while they make their way through the dungeon, but the real reason he
stays stuck here is a ring of sustenance that he found years ago and
pull on ’cause it was shiny.’ If he’s friendly, he offers to watch
over the party while they sleep and promises to warn them if anyone
else comes down the hallway.

8. A rune trap curses you so that you can’t refuse a request. (Requires
the word please to count as a request).
9. A dragon’s cave? – This room is 60 feet (18 Meters) across, and nearly
as high, with small pools of water that collect in natural erosions to
the west side where an underground stream has formed a small
waterfall. The water is chilled and safe, even if it tastes earthy and
heavy with minerals. As the group moves into the cave, they likely
notice coins littering the edges of the room in small piles and an
outcropping halfway up on the east wall… with a snoring, smoking
dragon’s head. If the party is quiet, they can sneak through, but any
attacks or loud noise wake and do not harm the dragon. It lets out a
massive burst of fire over the heads of the group and yells curses as
it waves around. Once it finishes, it demands tribute from the group
or it will eat them!! In reality, the head and neck are a permanent
illusion that was placed in the area to scare off adventurers by a
mage who was practicing some new defenses for his study, and a fairy
dragon has worked out how to control the illusion and get it to move
when he wants. He uses magic to project his voice and sound like a
great dragon, and can use a rune placed as part of the illusion to
fire a cone of fire 3 times a day that does damage as an ancient
dragon. The Fairy Dragon living in a small opening that’s only
accessible at the top of the dome ceiling with a meter (2.5 foot)
opening that one would need to fly to or us other means. Any tribute
that’s left is floated to his home when the adventurers move on and
kept there, or discarded around the ground to add to his greatness.
(If characters can get to his cave, he should have 2-3 magical items
of some note). The little guy has really done well duping people over
the years.

10. A dire warning – Moving through this hall, the characters torchlight
will cast light through a red ruby the size of an eye that’s been
carved to catch and cast the light around the room. If there’s no
light, the ruby isn’t found. The light through the ruby displaces
words in 5-6 directions saying ‘The Stone of Anolox.’ A group also
notices a warning on the wall, one painted with blood and another
carved with what must be someone’s finger nails saying – ‘Do not, by
any means, touch that gem!’ Anyone who picks up the gem, well, except
Anolox, is immediately disintegrated and their ash fills the tunnel.

11. A door painted onto a wall with two door knobs sticking out, one
labeled ‘fame’ the other ‘fortune’. Touching fame will turn you as
blue as a smurf, only reversible by a wish. Fortune will cause 10,000
cp to fall from the ceiling at great speed causing heavy damage.

12. Bad Directions – A series of alcoves with a skeleton set to perch in

each of them. Each is placed alternating up the hallway at 20 ft (6.5
Meter) segments. The first points down the hallway, the next at the
floor, and the next straight up, and so on. Every time the party moves
past the skeletons, they point a different direction, and it changes
every time.

13. Morbid Statuary – A massive room filled with people frozen in time,
and in stone. Like creepy stalagmites, hundreds of humanoid statues
point up from the ground. One looks like a prince leaning in to kiss a
 sleeping princess, another is a goblin throwing its hands in the air
in panic, and another a cautious knight stalking in his armor. The
place looks like a repository for the victims of a gorgon, hopefully
long gone.

14. Help us Heroes! – The group comes across an small village that spreads
out in a crevace in the wall and stretches for hundreds of feet, but
where the ceiling is never more than 4 feet high. This is a village of
Myconids that have lived here peacefully ‘since the time of our first
spores’ and numbers in the thousands. They beg the party to help them
as there is a murdered in the midst. Every day, more and more of their
people go missing, and they can’t find the culprit. If they are
helped, they will give the party pearls that they collect from nearby
shellfish and have saved for years. (The murderer is a kobold with a
ring of invisibility and a strange mask to keep from falling to the
creatures spores. He REALLY loves cooked mushrooms and has been
harvesting the myconids for dinner since finding the village).

15. Welcome Matt – The group comes to a door rigged with a number of
traps. A line at the top that pulls something above the door if it’s
opened, a pressure plate that’s released from the bottom if the door
is opened, poison darts that fire from the wall behind it, the works!
All the traps are fairly easy to spot and disarm, and there are 6
total. An exceeding high perception check is needed to hear that
there’s a small click after each trap is set off or disarmed. Once all
six have been triggered, the real trap occurs. The walls 30 feet to
either side of the door slam into the ceiling (these are 10ft cubes).
At the same time, the floor drops out under the door at a steep angle
to a smooth shoot, and the walls start moving in. While it looked like
there was something behind the door, it leads no where but a series of
mirrors that look like a nearly endless hallway, and with the walls
closing in, the only way is down. Those characters that do slide down
are eventually deposited into a large cage where a robed figure
covered in bandages whips around and screams, ‘Happy Birthday Matt!’
He’s then disappointed that you and yours are not Matt. After
muttering to himself for a while, he eventually apologizes for the
‘trap’ and releases the group, showing them to a set of stairs that
head back to the tunnel. They don’t run into this encounter again.

16. Poor soul- you find a skeleton chained to the wall. When you approach,
you realize it is an undead. He is scared when you approach and
explains that he was trapped here and was brought back from death to
continue his torment. Who put him there is up to the dm. Also whether
or not he is lying is up to you.

17. The room nullifies any sounds made, players must communicate entirely
through gestures OOC.

18. The door opens up into a mirror dimension flipped horizontally, any
and all actions taken are performed by the doubles on the other side,
including stepping through the doorway. If a PC attempts to talk they
are interrupted by themselves.
19. The party walks down a hallway which and comes across an opening on
one side leading into a large open room. Stepping on a trap in the
middle of the open room causes the door to shut and the ceiling to
begin to collapse – but only as long as one member of the party is
still in the first hallway. That party member can disarm the trap,
opening the door and raising the ceiling by finding a recess on the
wall in the hallway with a switch in it. If they fail a roll on the
first attempt they only manage to stick their hand through a hole into
the room and have to search for a second recess.

20. A large pit, filled at the bottom with spikes and scorpions. A sign is
just visible on one side of the pit. A successful perception check, or
a party member being dangled by their feet, can detect that the sign
is upside down and says ‘LEARN THE WORDS’.

21. The skeletal remains of a man can also bee seen at the bottom of the
pit, still wearing black pants, suspenders, a shirt with horizontal
black and white stripes, white gloves, and with a black beret perched
atop its bleached skull.

22. A gnome sorcerer with short term memory has been trying to find this
dungeons hoard for the last 10 years, but keeps forgetting which way
he came from.

23. A large banquet hall, with pewter utensils, earthenware plates, and
fine food. The walls are draped in common but warm furs, and the table
is lit with some nice candelabras (2gp each). There are 2x(Party Size)
seats at the table, and at the head is a stout, ruddy faced bearded
earl who warmly beckons to the party. ‘Welcome,’ he he says, voice
booming, ‘our other guests are almost here. Please, sit down.’ Seat
the most interesting mix of NPCs, Villains, and historical figures at
the table. The banquet quests are compelled to not make any hostile
action in the room. The non-party guests are returned to whatever
place and time they were in before the meal.

24. A merchant adventurer (CR party level+1, true neutral alignment) has
set up a table, chairs, and all manner of interesting equipment to
sell to whomever happens to wander by.

25. A wandering mycologist is looking for the weirdest mushrooms that you
can find for their latest thesis/monograph. Not only will he pay (not
much) for any mushrooms you can help him find, but you’ll get a
mention in his paper! Think of the exposure! All the biggest
mycologists in the region will be talking about this.

26. In a this room, there is a dividing wall with a doorway. On this

dividing wall are a series of colorful masks. Around the dividing wall
appears to be a large wooden table with 10 chairs, 8 of them already
filled with large creatures (a mix of monsters and/or adventurers in
any combination) playing Texas hold’em poker for coin and valuables.
No one is talking. Any players at the table who notice you will stop,
 stare, and point silently to the masks. Any two party members who wear
the masks can join the game.

27. The party walks in on a group of hostile hobgoblins in the middle of

them practicing their synchronized dance routine. After one round of
surprised embarrassment, they will attack unless the players either
start playing music or challenge them to a dance off.

28. This room contains a hole with a wooden bucket on a string suspended
over a large, clear pool of water. The bucket hangs down through a
circular hole in the ceiling, leading up to a well. As the player’s
approach, a coin falls down the hole, and a distant voice calls:
‘Magical well, I seek thy wisdom!’.

29. This room is round, with a concave floor. Three large, metal spinning
tops whirl magically around and around, bashing into each other
seemingly at random. On a balcony wrapping around the room are three
goblin shamans, engaging in their favorite pastime, BattleTop. Each
controls the tops with a small, delicate handheld contraption. The
tops will cease spinning if the contraption is broken, or if they
leave the room for more than 1d4 days.

30. This area of the dungeon appears to be under construction. Goblin work
crews and ogre haulers are lead by hobgoblin foremen, building out new
rooms and defenses according to blueprints lying unprotected on a
table off to the side momentarily forgotten.

31. Three nothics sit, pouring over old tomes and scrolls, lit by blue
crystals scattered on a pedestal. On the wall, a giant, engraved
flaming eye is engraved. Staring at the carving of the eye for any
significant length of time (DM’s discretion, but at least a few
minutes) grants advantage on wisdom checks until the player’s next
long rest. The player feels compelled to be unable to rest for the
next two days, and is exhausted on the third day.

32. Carved on the wall in code are the letters…H-A-S-T-U-R. If deciphered

and spoken aloud, then whosoever speaks the name of this horrid Elder
God, HIM WHO IS NOT TO BE NAMED must make a saving throw against magic
or a Byhakhee will be gated in and attack (or the PC may go insane?).

33. You walk into the next chamber and find a stone statue of a man
reaching for a gold ring on a pedestal. The ring, when worn for at
least 1 day, gives you +1 to all saving throws for each day it has
been worn for up to a week, but if you take it off you suffer the
inverse of that bonus for as long as you had it on. You can’t sell the
ring. Putting the ring on the man’s finger will restore him from
stone, at which point he reveals this ring was the result of a
transmutation spell going horribly wrong. He gives you a level
appropriate large sum of gold for releasing him and goes off on his
merry way.
34. The ceiling of the dungeon tunnel has partially collapsed down, making
it very difficult to get past. Characters would have to strip off any
medium or heavier armor and backpacks to crawl past it. Investigating
it more reveals some furniture at the top of the rubble near the
ceiling, indicating a room above, but investigating it will probably
complete the collapse and prevent further exploration down the tunnel.

35. A several story deep library attended to by a seemingly human

librarian that doesn’t know his library is deep in an underground
dungeon. The stacks are littered with skeletons of all shapes and
sizes but it doesn’t seem to bother the attendant. Now that you
mention it, it has been a few years since he’s had anyone visit. That
is, of course, anyone besides the necromancer that comes by every so
often. – defeating the necromancer and his skeletons allows you access
to the library. It contains a bunch of spell books for the wizards in
your party, some defensive magical items, a moderate stash of gold,
and a heap of baubles and nearly insignificant magical items.

36. An undead, but coherrent, merchant runs a small item shop in the
depths of the dungeon. The shopkeep is a little mad, but seems content
to run a shop with average or slightly below average prices on basic
goods (maybe a few rarities at DM’s discretion.) The Merchant seems
disinterested in the world beyond the room their shop is located in,
and if pressed seems to think they’re getting new supplies in once a
week. Will react accordingly if the PCs attempt to cheat or steal from
them.

37. An archway has been heavily barricaded and the area around it has sign
postings in the language of the dungeon’s inhabitants with stern
warning to stay away. Skittering can be heard from within. Inside is a
wing of the dungeon containing a burrow having broken through the wall
and an infestation of subterranean creatures of the DM’s choice.
(Possibly of a high CR to make this optional wing and its loot a real
challenge to the PCs)

38. A patch of wall indiscernible from the rest of the dungeon except for
the incredibly soft quality of the stone. A small alcove containing a
slightly inhuman skeleton is on the other side.

39. A room that has no gravity.

40. A crack in the floor that constantly streams out a thin wisp of smoke.
It smells of honey.

41. A docile monster that is permanently invisible.

42. A room with a large central pool in which an elemental lives,

protecting a powerful artifact.

43. The ghost of an adventurer that became lost in the dungeon years ago.
44. Foolish forebears- Ghosts of an adventuring party that died there long
ago. They re-enact the the moments leading up to their deaths with no
notice of the players. They can help lead them through the dungeon,
and even offer information the players don’t know. Eventually though
they will lead the party into a trap or deadly encounter

45. Nuka skeletons- A room with the charred skeletons of dead adventurers.
The walls are burnt black with the only thing juxtaposing it being the
perfect white silhouettes of their final moments. When the player’s
backs are turned the silhouettes move, and begin attacking the
players. The skeletons get up, and their burnt black bones come alive
with fiery cracks not dissimilar to embers left in the bottom of a
bonfire.

46. Murder mystery spectacular-A doorway that leads into a well set dining
room has an instant kill trap thst extracts people’s souls from their
bodies. They now have to act as ghosts in a murder mystery dinner
party, and can get back in their bodies once they have helped solve
the mystery. They are unable to communicate with anyone directly, but
they can ‘haunt’ things to send messages.

47. Arachnid ally-A spider living in an old shoe offers information to

adventurers for a modest fee. She can offer shortcuts, intel, and
hidden passages

48. Pilfering party-Another adventuring party has been stealthily

following the party, and plan to jump them in the treasure room.

49. No blinking!- As soon as the players step into this room the door
locks behind them. The room is mostly normal with the exception that
one wall has the words ‘no blinking!’ Written out in huge letters. If
the players blink they see where the key is hidden, but only for a
split second.

50. A room filled with artifacts such as gems, ancient pots, weapons. Some
are on pedestals but most are scattered on the floor as if someone has
ransacked it but left everything inside. A small, golden statue of a
dragon lies smashed by an empty pedestal, and at the end is a locked
door with no keyhole. A large mirror leans against the wall on the
left of the path. Reflected in it is the room, but with everything
carefully arranged and the dragon statue unbroken on the pedestal. If
the players attempt to steal anything, the pathway they came through
liquidates and melts, across, trapping anyone inside the room and
crushing anyone in the hall, until it is placed back where it was
found. If the room is arranged like in the mirror, including mending
the dragon statue, the door at the end slides open.

51. A hole in the wall, about the height of human shoulders. There is
something shiny on the deep end of the hole, however to reach that,
you would have to reach inside, and it’s deep enough to swallow your
arm up he shoulder. If you reach inside, something bites you, causing
 1d4 piercing damage. If you reach inside again, nothing bites you and
you are free to take the shiny thing. It’s a single goldpiece.

52. An old gnome is sat on a barrel smoking a pipe in a corridor of the

dungeon, where the path splits into two. He gives the players a
pleasant smile, and starts chatting about the draught. If they ask
about how he came to be there at gives a vague answer about knocking
the area well and directs them down left corridor, promising it’s
worth their while. If they do they find a backpack filled with old
treasure worth 30gp and the skeleton of a gnome lying beside it. If
they go back, the old gnome is gone without a trace.

53. A large disk floats rotating, a few inches from the circular walls of
the room. Through the cracks you can see a deep chasm. At even spaces
around the walls there are open and empty tombs, each with a seal
floating above it. If the players all venture into the disk it will
activate and spin violently, using its centrifugal force to push the
players into the tombs or the entrance or exit.

54. The ghost of the now crumbling manor is not pleased that some
adventures are taking his stuff, but instead of attacking, he tries to
find some middle ground with the group so he can be left in peace.

55. In front of the party is a large stone door, possibly of gnomish

construction that is covered in thin grooves that seem to make out a
labyrinthine maze. In the middle is large ruby red gem that, when
touched, shrinks the party and puts them somewhere random inside of
it. In order to re-enlarge themselves and exit the labyrinth (thus
opening the door) they must find their way back to the gem that now
looms menacingly overhead while dodging mechanical spiders and tiny
traps.

56. A tiny telepathic spider offers to show them to a secret shortcut to

the end of the dungeon. When followed a phase spider ambushes the
party and thanks its child for bringing home dinner

57. A room with magical darkness cast upon it hides important clues, but
the only thing that can dispel the darkness is a living chandelier
over the player’s heads. The only problem is that the chandelier can
feel pain and doesn’t want to be lit on fire. The party can try to
convince the chandelier to let them light it or light it forcefully.
If the latter then it screams bloody murder attracting any nearby
enemies.

58. In a completely filled treasure room a single sentient gold coin waits
to liberate it’s brothers and sisters. As soon as the player’s backs
are turned the gold coin begins animating 2d20 gold pieces a turn and
they all make a break for it.

59. In a large empty circular room in the middle of a tower is a flower

surrounded by a ring of fur. If the flower is pulled the room shifts
downward a few feet if the fur is ripped out it goes up a few feet. As
 soon as one is taken. It regrows as fast as it was pulled until it
reaches the top or bottom level.

60. At a junction of hallways, the players notice one hallway has a slight
breeze accompanied by a slow, rhythmic wheezing. The air is slightly
warm and has an acrid smell. If they seek out the source, it leads to
an abandoned forge with an enormous billows. An enchantment keeps the
forge warm, like a magical pilot light. The late forgemaster’s bones
sit hunched at a workbench with various mechanical drawings. There are
various trinkets around the room, some magical, some mundane. If the
players take any of the items, they are attacked by a previously
dormant construct that was sitting under a cloth in the corner of the
room.

61. The players begin to smell a faint scent of baking bread. Is it

delirium, or does someone live down here? Bonus! The smell of baking
bread is soon joined by the smell of roasting meat. If the players
seek out the source of the smell, they find a crack in the wall that
leads to an ancient banquet hall, inexplicably laid out with a feast.

62. The party finds a door, barred and barricaded. If cleared, the door
appears to have been hastily welded shut by pouring molten metal
around the edges, and requires a strength check to open. (or some
industrious chiseling) When opened, the doorway opens into a void,
scattered with stars. The party may step through, and they walk on an
invisible surface even with the floor of the dungeon. Who knows what
could be found in this strange realm?

63. A room lined with standing alcoves. The alcoves are inhabited by a
body encased in (magical) crystal. A knowledge history check can date
the bodies to various eras of history. Near a collection of empty
alcoves is a body bearing an item of only recent styling, invention,
or popularity.

64. A barren room with a standing mirror at one end. The mirror is
cracked, it appears someone took an axe or sword to it some time ago,
but the magical runes around it’s edge still flicker faintly with
power.

65. A room that appears to be a shrine of some kind. It contains a 10 ft

wide, 3 ft deep circular pool in it’s center. In the pool, there is a
duck. The duck resists all attempts to discern it’s nature, for all
intents and purposes, it appears as an ordinary duck. The duck is
docile and is content to do regular duck things. If, at any point, a
member of the party says ‘I wish…’ within 5 feet of the duck, it
quacks, grants the wish, and disappears in a suitably appropriate and
silly display.

66. The dungeon is very cramped, smaller than usual hallways, doors just
tall enough to fit through, etc. At the bottom of the dungeon is a
large, cavernous chamber containing an enormous monster. Upon
inspection, the chamber appears to be a sort of colosseum. The monster
 may be dead, undead, or alive, and may be immediately aggressive, or
just want a friend. It has no understanding of how it got there.

67. You come across an adventurer/adventurer party that has been magically
bounded to a room so they can’t leave the area.

68. There seems to be a weird hole in the wall that is pitch black. It
doesn’t seem to have good magic or evil magic, in matter of fact,
there is no magic coming from it. If an object is thrown into it, it
shoots straight back dealing 1 damage. If a PC tries to get close, it
automatically seals and reopens when no one is within 5 feet.

69. When you enter the dungeon, after clearing the first few rooms of
traps, you realize that the homeless had already cleared out the area
and is now using it as a place to live and sleep in, they say it’s
better than sleeping in the streets.

70. The room is raining?

71. You come across a nice looking devil statue in the middle of a room,
after a DC 20 (Investigation) check, it turns out there is a button in
its mouth, when pressed, the mouth closes shut dealing 2d4 piercing
damage and you can see blood dissolving as it leaves your skin. After
10 seconds it reopens and the statue turns into an imp, this imp now
serves under the PC that put their hand in the mouth.

72. A reverse pit trap; a reverse gravity rune with the pit above instead
of below.

73. The hallway the party is currently in starts to fill with water at
about a knee deep height. Waves begin to form on the opposite end of
the hall and rush towards the party. Each character in the water must
make a DC 13 Dex saving throw or be knocked prone and pushed back 10
feet.

74. A dwarven fighter, The last survivor of her party, is trying

desperately to dig her way out of the dungeon with her war pick.
Unfortunately, just as you reach her she breaches the dungeon’s sewers
and unleashes a giant crocodile and a swarm of rats.

75. An enemy Hobgoblin wizard the party is fighting casts shatter and
collapses one of the nearby crumbling dungeon walls, revealing the
basement of a very confused and panicked Halfling couple.

76. Pipes high up on the walls in this chamber are dripping some kind of
emerald-green liquid into a wall-mounted fountain. The fountain is
nearly full. A successful miscellaneous intelligence check tells you
that it’s just liquid paint. Highly toxic paint, but just paint. The
fountain drains into an adjacent room, which is completely knee-deep
in the liquid.
77. The room contains a number of flensed livestock hanging on hooks, as
if you’ve entered a butchery. Alongside creatures appropriate for the
area, there are some animals from far away, such as penguins if in a
dungeon surrounded by desert. If the party waits long enough,
something invisible takes one animal corpse off the hooks and drags it
into an adjacent room, where it begins butchering it.

78. You come across a group of kobold engineers repairing some traps that
jammed or are otherwise damaged.

79. This room contains an 8ftx12ft pool of opaque white liquid, framed by
four columns with taut chains leading up to a recess directly above
the pool. If any creature is fully submerged into the pool (which is
10ft deep), a large metal mold begins descending from the ceiling
recess. It will stop shortly before contacting the liquid if whatever
creature entered the pool didn’t get out in time, but will plunge
fully into the pool when everything leaves. When the mold returns out
of the pool in four(?) minutes, a solid white mannequin in the shape
of the submerged creature is atop it. The mannequin animates when
there are no witnesses directly observing it, and will stalk the
creature it’s modeled after. Perhaps the dungeon denizens are aware of
the room’s properties, and have managed to take control of the
mannequins to make reinforcements.

80. A bright lamp hanging on the wall in an otherwise dim hallway, next to
a wooden door with thick hinges. The door is locked, but it has a
small counter at about elbow height, and a panel above that will open
up if anyone tries to open the door or knocks on it. A flickering,
jittering undead asks ‘I’m afraid the library is currently closed to
visitors, but may I help you find a book?’ It will bring one book of
choice for each person within the next few minutes who asks for one,
but will not give multiple books to the same person. Books can be
requested by very specific parameters (author, edition, hardcover or
softcover, title), or by saying something as vague as ‘I’d like a book
on cows’, though vagueness is probably less rewarding. The books are
deposited on the door counter. Once every person it sees has received
a book, or after a few minutes, the undead, door, and lamp vanish,
leaving behind an ordinary patch of wall.

81. A broken down wall of the dungeon leads to a decently sized cave where
five cow like animals with purple spots and luminescent horns are
grinding their teeth against the stone walls to get the lichen growing
inside this crumbling tunnel. If approached slowly they will ignore
the PCs, but if the PCs get too close the biggest one will turn
towards you and snort while the others run back into the tunnels. If
the PCs continue to approach it will attempt to gore one of the PCs
with its poisonous horns and will then gallop after its compatriots.

82. A ghost and a corpse. The ghost is desperately trying to get back into
its body so it can rescue its beloved, only it doesn’t realize that
hundreds of years have passed and its beloved has likely died, if only
from old age.
83. A sentient chest, not a mimic and not enchanted. Somehow, in some way,
the chest has become self aware. It cannot speak or see or hear or
taste or feel, but it can ‘sense’ its surroundings somehow. With great
effort it can open and close its lid, and with even greater effort it
can move slightly across the floor. How the party learns to
communicate with it is up to them.

84. There is a helmet in the corner of this room/chamber. In the next

room, there is an identical helmet. This continues for every single
room afterwards. Any rooms visited before the first time the party
noticed these helmets also have an identical helmet. If someone dons
the helmet, they see all of the rooms of the dungeon at once, taking
2d12 psychic damage with a WIS save to halve the damage. This psychic
damage occurs every time someone dons the helmet, but if they stick
through with it rather than removing it, it can be used to get a brief
glimpse of whatever an identical helmet would see in another room once
every ten turns by passing a perception check. While someone wears a
helmet, the other helmets seemingly vanish. Any damage or
modifications inflicted to one helmet is performed on all the others.

85. The party comes across a glittering egg about the size of an adult
halfling in kaleidoscopic colors. If they break it open, there are…
more eggs inside, about the size of a normal chicken egg but made of
the same material and in the same colors. Each of these can be cooked
like an egg, or the party could wait for one to hatch by keeping it
heated; a nature check tells you these are basilisk eggs, but luckily
newly hatched basilisks don’t have their petrification abilities. A
nature check, even if successful, fails to explain why the eggs were
inside a larger egg.

86. There is a pile of gold coins, about 4500gp total. Whenever the DM so
chooses (but within a day), they sublimate into thin air- it was all
Prankster’s gold. If players return to the same spot, they’ll see
empty vials that probably contained the liquid where the pile
originally was, complete with labels detailing what the liquid does.

87. As the party rounds a corner or passes through a chokepoint, a small

glinting ball bounces on the ground towards them before exploding into
a massive cloud of whitish smoke. The party’s been ambushed by some
kind of clever, intelligent pack of hunters, hopefully appropriate to
their level. The exits to the room are so small that attempts to blow
the smoke away can only siphon away so much at a time.

88. The party walks into a room to be met only by a button and next to it
are scribbles seeming to make out “DO NOT TOUCH.” As the final party
member enters the room, the door slams shut and the 4 walls of the
room flip, revealing walls lined with spikes that slowly encroach on
the party. The walls are indestructible and unstoppable, and every
time the button in the center of the room is pressed, the walls recede
back to their starting position only to crawl towards the party once
more. The only way out if the situation is to heed the advice of the
 sign. Right as the walls are pressing the party members together,
about to impale them all, the walls will reset, for good, and the door
will reappear, letting the party escape. The trap can only be reset by
having every member of the party leave and then reenter. A funny,
harmless trap that will either starve a mistrusting group to death or
make them panic.

89. The walls of this room are lined with intricate carvings that appear
to be dwarven in nature. They depict grand battles between dwarves and
orcs that lead to a large set of stone double doors at the opposite
end of the room. The doors depict a dwarf holding up a hammer that
sparks with lightning. In the center of the room are 3 small pedestals
and one larger pedestal in the middle. Each small pedestal has a stone
tablet on it. Each tablet has a different word written on it: Others,
Yourself, and Justice. To get the stone doors on the opposite side of
the room to open, the party must put the tablets on the large center
pedestal, placing Yourself on the bottom, Others atop it, and Justice
at the very top. Once this is completed, the letters JOY will light up
and the stone double doors swing open.

90. Dave – An 78-year old human commoner who has no idea who was captured
for slavery by the owner(s) of the dungeon – has a curse on him that
activates after 1d4 days, and casts Fireball on him. The curse was
applied by his ex, a vengeful witch who he had abandoned after
learning of her true nature.

91. A ghost bard of no fame who never got the chance to perform at the big
show. He has come back from the great beyond to find that he can no
long play his trumpet.

92. A room which disguises itself as the childhood room of the first to
enter. When enough people enter, the room locks. There is a
significant difference that the one who first entered can spot with a
DC 14 Intelligence saving throw to escape. Each time they fail, a
nightmarish creature based on one of their childhood fears appears and
the party must fight it.

93. An eternal campfire burns in this room. The adventurers shadows appear
on the dungeon wall, which turn into Shadows from the Monster Manual.
The taller the adventurer, the more powerful the Shadow will be. The
fire can only be put out by dousing it with holy water or some other
curse removal.

94. Party enters a smallish, circular room, with a simple wooden door.
There is a wooden door on the far side of the room, locked. The room
has nothing but a simple wooden table, upon which is a single vase,
containing a large, dark purple flower. If the party investigates, the
flower is nightshade, and the vase is of unknown origin. Everything
here is ordinary, other than the table, which is a mimic. Let it lie
still until after the party investigates the flower/vase (if at all),
just for the extra surprise factor.
95. The party finds a scared Gazer whimpering in a corner of a room. It
will cry and whimper if the party approaches. If the party can earn
its trust, it will hang around and give playful licks. What will
happen when the party finds the Beholder searching for his pet?

96. You come across a large furnace in a dead end of the cave. It’s a
fancy, built-in brick oven. If you open its cast iron door you hear
faint moans and echoes. Inside it is pitch black, even with darkvision
you cannot see the bottom. If you drop a lit torch you see hundreds
upon hundreds of zombies and other shambling undead monsters
converging on the light until it is extinguished.

97. A goblin named Sam smorkle who is just looking for rusty things. If
given a rusty thing he’ll help you until the next rusty things is
found, where he’ll quickly work himself up into a frenzy and accuse
you of wanting the rusty item. Roll initiative.

98. A labyrinth eventually leads to a center room. The room appears to be

a study with a table in the middle featuring an exact scale model of
the labyrinth, including miniatures of the PCs themselves. Another
miniature can be seen, of some hideous monstrosity, and its heading
for the center room…

99. The party finds a tiny portal to the Far Realm. An impossibly huge eye
is looking at them… then after a few seconds the portal snaps shut
leaving behind an strange small polyhedral made of a hard unknown
material that somehow inspires awe and fear.

100. The party finds a gold vein that has been roughly ‘mined out’. If they
follow it, they find a hive of rust monsters eating the ore. If
disturbed the RMs with spill out into the dungeon and eventually the
surface (maybe destroying a nearby village).