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29 - Random Monuments

Filling the various chambers and locations in your game with interesting features is always a challenge — and can be even more difficult to improvise. The following four "Monuments" lists can help you generate fantastic features with a number of potential effects. You don't need to roll on every table each time you want to generate a feature. Sometimes, just establishing the condition and the type of a feature is enough to give you a starting point. Then you can let the story or even the background of one of the characters guide the feature's additional elements.

1d20 Origins

  1. Draconic
  2. Dwarven
  3. Elven
  4. Primeval
  5. Divine
  6. Unholy
  7. Abyssal
  8. Otherworldly
  9. Orcish
  10. Undead
  11. Goblinoid
  12. Ghoulish
  13. Vampiric
  14. Dark elven
  15. Astral
  16. Ethereal
  17. Hellish
  18. Demonic
  19. Elemental
  20. Gnomish

1d20 Conditions

  1. Crumbling
  2. Sunken
  3. Pristine
  4. Excavated
  5. Vine-covered
  6. Ruined
  7. Cracked
  8. Shattered
  9. Buried
  10. Gore-covered
  11. Bloody
  12. Glyph-marked
  13. Rune-scribed
  14. Obsidian
  15. Metallic
  16. Ornate
  17. Desecrated
  18. Ancient
  19. Decorated
  20. Floating

1d20 Unusual Effects

  1. Undeath
  2. Fire
  3. Madness
  4. Water
  5. Radiance
  6. Arcane
  7. Poison
  8. Acid
  9. Disease
  10. Psionics
  11. Frost
  12. Lightning
  13. Antimagic
  14. Ooze
  15. Charming
  16. Fear
  17. Domination
  18. Sleep
  19. Thunder
  20. Tentacles

100 Monument Structures

  1. Aerie
  2. Altar
  3. Aqueduct
  4. Arcane circle
  5. Archway
  6. Aviary
  7. Barrow
  8. Battlefield
  9. Bell
  10. Bone pile
  11. Boneyard
  12. Bonfire
  13. Brazier
  14. Bridge
  15. Cage
  16. Cairn
  17. Campsite
  18. Canal
  19. Carcass
  20. Carriage
  21. Cauldron
  22. Cave
  23. Cenotaph
  24. Cesspit
  25. Charnel pit
  26. Columns
  27. Crater
  28. Crossroads
  29. Crystal
  30. Dome
  31. Doorway
  32. Earthmote
  33. Effigy
  34. Fighting pit
  35. Firepit
  36. Fossil
  37. Fountain
  38. Gallows
  39. Gateway
  40. Geode
  41. Geyser
  42. Graveyard
  43. Gravestone
  44. Grotto
  45. Grove
  46. Hollow
  47. Huge skull
  48. Idol
  49. Illusion
  50. Keep
  51. Lantern
  52. Machine
  53. Mausoleum
  54. Megalith
  55. Meteorite
  56. Midden
  57. Mill
  58. Mine
  59. Mirror
  60. Monolith
  61. Monument
  62. Mosaic
  63. Nest
  64. Obelisk
  65. Orb
  66. Orrery
  67. Oubliette
  68. Petrified creature
  69. Pillar
  70. Pit
  71. Planar rift
  72. Platform
  73. Podium
  74. Pool
  75. Rock
  76. Ruin
  77. Sacred circle
  78. Sarcophagus
  79. Shipwreck
  80. Shrine
  81. Sigil
  82. Sinkhole
  83. Slab
  84. Spell effect
  85. Sphere
  86. Spire
  87. Statue
  88. Stone circle
  89. Stone tablets
  90. Sundial
  91. Throne
  92. Tomb
  93. Totem
  94. Tower
  95. Trash heap
  96. Tree
  97. Wall
  98. Waymarker
  99. Well
  100. Windmill