Shadowdark: Stocking A Dungeon Example

[ruemere]

Beautiful. I think you just have sold me on Shadowdark dungeon stocking generator.

Thank you.

 

[Reynard]

I want to build the next adventure site around a unique, bespoke enemy, so I am going to roll one up! (see page 190 of the SD rules)

Combat = d20 = 9 = PL (party level) = LV 3
Quality = d20 = 2 = Avian
Weakness = d20 = 10 = Silver
AC 13, +3 beak, 1d8 damage.

Now let's mutate it! (page 191)

Mutation 1 = 1d12 = 1 = Shapechanger (ooh, this goes well with the silver weakness)
Mutation 2 = 1d12 = 8 = Life Draining Touch (we will say that hit point damage it does cannot be healed naturally)
Mutation 3 = 1d12 = 10 = Blood draining bite.

Okay. I got it. Ladies and Gentlemen and Children of All Ages: the Were-Stirge!

One of the reasons I love random tables is this: i would never have decided to put a were-stirge in an adventure on my own.
What ChatGPT thinks a were-stirge looks like:

 

[Bill Zebub]

NOTE: This would have just gone in the Shadowdark General thread but the author of that thread decided to lock me out with two way ignore.

Same. I've been thinking that I should start a new Shadowdark thread. But that would lock out that other person, so maybe somebody less (apparently) offensive than either of us should start it....?

 

[Reynard]

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

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You need to wash that d20.

 

[Reynard]

You need to wash that d20.

That's the blood of all my PCs.

 

[Reynard]

Some sci-fi up in this fantasy house

 

[Retros_x]

Not only does doing it this way create some unique sites and adventure possibilities, it is just plain fun to do.

I completely agree - I love stocking dungeons with random procedures and than find a scenario/narrative based on the random outcomes. Its fun and its relatively quick. I very much liked how you just roll for monster pages instead of an encounter table. (and landed on all these greek mythology creatures!)

 

[Reynard]

I very much liked how you just roll for monster pages instead of an encounter table.

I was surprised. I though there were more robust random monster tables. The random encounter tables provided are cool, but they are very much "encounter tables" -- the include lots of stuff not necessarily good for tocking a dungeon.

i am sure someone out there has made by-level random encounter tables for SD.