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Monday, June 11, 2018

Crowd source weirdness table for Isle Of Dread

I put this up this morning:  Hey everybody I need your help with a random table for isle of dread. After reading the adventure and doing some research online, I found a few ideas however a bit more fuel would be helpful.

So basically "locations, things on the ground, possible dangers" etc:

Thanks to everyone whose contributed so far, this has given me enough to keep the fires stoked!
Goblins Henchmen, Mark Grehan, Johua De Santo, Glenn Robinson, FM Geist


1) large wooden head
2) net trap
3) stake with a emancipated human tied to it
4) rolling boulders
5) large rock with strange writing on it
6) treasure map in an old shoe
7) Small cave, empty but with a fire pit and a lingering smell of recently cooked meat.
8) A leather pouch containing only a bent iron nail.
9) Crushed lantern containing one pint of oil.
10) Belt buckle with image of local deity of healing.
11) Pages from a diary rolled up inside wooden tube the diary is of a mans last day on the island may have useful information or just be the mad ramblings of a man dying of thirst.
12) A cache of obsidian spear heads
13) A leather bottle containing what appears to be wine.
14) A small empty bottle marked with a skull.
15) A human skull which has had a hole drilled into the side of it. The inside has been etched with intricate writing in an unknown language.
16) A scrap of cloth torn from a cloak just visible is a devotional prayer to the gods.
17) Paw prints in the rock which if followed disappear after fifty metres or so.
18) A small and narrow pile of earth roughly Five feet in length. A white stone has been placed at one end.
19) A collection of soot blackened skulls hanging from a tree which clatter together in the breeze.
20) A silver ring marked with waves and set with a pale blue stone which has one use of create water left in it.
21) A rough draft copy of chapter four of Volos guide to monsters written on cheap parchment and with many sections crossed out.
22) A pile of good outdoorsman clothing on the beach just above the high water mark.
23) A structure built into a tree if checked it contains a wooden chest, a crude sleeping mat and a wooden face crudely carved in blood soaked wood, the masks teeth are real and have been hammered into it from whatever creature/monster fits.
24) A small nest of friendly Kobolds who worship someone called Krasnack Navy The bringer of items. They believe the more gifts given by someone the more powerful that person is.
25) An intricate music box carved out of wood the music played acts as a sleep spell.
26) A large pit rimmed with wooden stakes the bottom of the pit is covered by dark foul smelling water but occasionally glimpses of something shiny can be seen in the waters depths.
27) The Dungeon master sunning himself in a hammock a drink in one hand and a half completed list in the other.
28) A dead tree with shrunken heads dangling from every branch. When approached all the heads will look toward those who approach. If any of the heads are taken the taker will begin to have nightmares of being hung by a noose every night, giving them a -2 to all rolls. The dreams continue until the head is returned to the tree.
29) Stewpot, grime crusts the inside of the pitted cast iron.
30) Cyclopean hands of basalt, they beckon motionlessly
31) Entrails strung through a thorn tree; birds peck and squabble over it. Feathers litter the ground
32) A flat stone surface, gouged with the marks of tools, blackened with ash
33) A toothless muleskinner grins and waves
34) The delicate crunch of paper-thin rusted gears underfoot
35) An obsidian bowl filled with teeth, some with viscera still on

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