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Message: <blockquote data-quote="howandwhy99" data-source="post: 5904920" data-attributes="member: 3192">Location & History are the big ones.If you're mapping and notice that should be a space in that tower level not yet accounted for, then PCs start checking the walls around it. This rewards good mapping and can be rewarded with treasure (or a monster and treasure if you want<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> )Location also matters in terms of what is in the area. If there is all this furniture and other paraphernalia for living, then someone might have a hidden cache (like a secret safe/locked chest). If you know the dwarves built these empty rooms as living quarters, you might want to check for secret compartments too - even though it's all empty and abandoned now and no one's been their for centuries.Doors might swing out too, so odd open spaces on the floor in a room layout can spell potential secret exits. Large furniture, like wardrobes, can nicely conceal a door (so not secret), which changes the boring, expected concealed door by a tapestry. Try pictures too a la "Shawshank Redemption".So History I kind of touched on already, but that's a big one too. If you know that somebody hid something in a specific location, then you're going to go searching. That might meaning the beginning of the movie "Holes" or it could be living in that haunted mansion to find the treasure. Either way, sometimes other people just looking for treasure or mucking about unsaid can be a clue. Treasures maps are treasure too (when not wild goose chases). These include me simply telling you stuff as well. And some "digging" is normally required where X marks the spot.</blockquote>

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