Ruins

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Residential Site:

 Roll d12 on [1:Isolated rural estate of nobility; 2:Massive tenement or slum tower; 3:Compact fortified village; 4:Mazey urban residential block; 5:Ancient arcology or fragment of it; 6:Sprawling slum of shanties and huts; 7:Townhouse of minor gentry; 8:Rural grange with outbuildings; 9:Hidden shelter against calamity; 10:Rubble-wrought makeshift village; 11:Outpost of refugees or recluses; 12:Inhabited natural feature or cave]

2

Military Site:

Roll d12 on [1:Grand fortress of major significance; 2:Remote frontier keep; 3:Isolated watchtower; 4:Military training camp; 5:Half-subterranean entrenchments; 6:Battlefield littered with fortifications; 7:Hidden bunker or strongpoint; 8:Secret operations base; 9:Battered front-line fortress; 10:Gatehouse controlling a vital pass; 11:Military cache or storehouse; 12:Fortified waystation]

3

Production Site:

Roll d12 on [1:Illicit manufactory for illegal goods; 2:Sacred shrine for holy product; 3:Destroyed camp or extraction site; 4:Inexplicable ancient manufactory; 5:Outsider goods production site; 6:Magical production facility; 7:Mine or open pit for excavation; 8:Overgrown ancient plantation; 9:Managed woodland gone feral; 10:Farm for now-feral valuable beasts; 11:Repurposed ancient manufactory; 12:Fishery or salt extraction site]

4

Religious Site:

Roll d12 on [1:Lost pilgrimage destination; 2:Tomb of some mighty ancient; 3:Shrine repurposed for a newer; 4:Inexplicable sacred structure; 5:Outsider fane to an alien god; 6:Pilgrim hospital or waystation; 7:Fortified frontier monastery; 8:Prison-monastery for heretics; 9:Fragment of megastructure temple; 10:Place of some holy trial or test; 11:Prison for a sealed demonic force; 12:Holy archive or relic-fortress]

5

Cultural Site:

Roll d12 on [1:Inscrutable Outsider art structure; 2:Ancient culture’s gathering site; 3:Monument complex to lost glories; 4:Abandoned school or study center; 5:Indoctrination camp or prison; 6:Museum of a lost nation; 7:Library or ancient archive; 8:Resort for nobles at ease; 9:Enormous musical structure; 10:Massive ceremonial structure; 11:Preserved “heritage” village-resort; 12:Taboo site of dark magic]

6

Infrastructure Site:

Roll d12 on [1:Psychic or tech communications site; 2:Canal or aqueduct control center; 3:Reality-stabilizing Working ruin; 4:Massive bridge or tunnel; 5:Ancient power production center; 6:Semi-ruined teleportation node; 7:Subterranean transit tunnels; 8:Weather-control Working ruin; 9:Ancient road through an obstacle; 10:Huge ancient dam; 11:Outsider xenoforming engine; 12:Now-incomprehensible wreckage]

1

They raided us and stole our resources

2

They’re from a rival religion

3

Our kinds naturally hate each other

4

They took advantage of us in the past

5

They’re weak and ripe for plunder

6

They broke an alliance in a treacherous way

7

They caused a local disaster or problem

8

Our leader has a personal hatred for them

9

Local resources are insufficient for us both

10

They’re crowding into our territory

11

They tricked us and led us into a disaster

12

They stole a treasure or an important slave

1

Driven here by a terrible monster

2

No one remembers when they first came

3

Forced out of their old home by enemies

4

Sent out as a colony from their parent group

5

Gathered from scattered exiles and outcasts

6

Enlisted to come by a powerful leader

7

Drawn by the prospect of resources or loot

8

Making a cultural or religious pilgrimage

9

Came to fight an enemy that lairs here

10

Sent by visions, prophecy, or oracles

11

It’s a refuge from some pursuing foe

12

To guard something precious here

1

One major monstrous beast, with the other inhabitants avoiding it or supplicating it

2

One major intelligent leader with their followers, slaves, or associates

3

Roll d4 on [1:2; 2:3; 3:4; 4:5] major inhabitants, at least two of which are hostile to each other

4

A major inhabitant and the remnants of another group or pack they deposed

5

A relatively harmonious group of Roll d4 on [1:2; 2:3; 3:4; 4:5] significant figures

6

No discernible major figures, only a disorganized congery of beasts and beings

1

We have a shared enemy

2

Our leaders are personal friends

3

We intermarry or have a blood relation

4

We each have goods the other needs

5

Each has skills the other lacks

6

We give protection for a tolerable price

7

We share the defense of the territory

8

We share the same religion

9

We overcame a great peril together

10

We used to be under the same leader

11

We recognize them as our rightful masters

12

We gain a great profit by mutual cooperation

1

It’s rich in resources useful to them

2

A foe outside threatens them if they leave

3

They’re trying to find something specific here

4

It’s simply always been their home

5

An important member is immobile somehow

6

Some drug or pleasure here has caught them

7

They’ve been enslaved by a power here

8

They’re being paid to do so by someone

9

They haven’t anywhere better to go

10

They’re waiting for someone else to arrive

11

They’re trapped here by something

12

Their leader has a personal reason to stay

1

Altered human servitors of the former owner

2

Magic-forged monstrous beast

3

Adventurers searching for loot

4

Heirs of the last human inhabitants

5

Cult dedicated to a now-dead faith

6

Summoned creature that broke its fetters

7

Magical automaton servitors of the ruler

8

Decorative magic animals gone feral

9

Necromancer and their undead servitors

10

Outsider prisoners gone native here

11

Restless dead of the inhabitants

12

Zealots in service to a long-dead mage

1

Animate and lethal plant life

2

Remnants of the Outsiders who made it

3

Adventurers daring the perilous terrain

4

Human natives trapped here for generations

5

Humanoids adapted to life there

6

Blighted raiders semi-native to the place

7

Automatons built to serve or fight the arratu

8

Outsider ruler still controlling a site within

9

Undead shades of swallowed cities or lands

10

Vicious alien fauna

11

Human cultist-servitors of the Outsiders

12

Explorers searching for a route through

1

Cruelly Outsider-warped original humans

2

Outsider monster that once ruled here

3

Swarm or pack of scavenger-beasts

4

Blighted intruders that sacked the Deep

5

Outsiders descended from the local lords

6

Degenerate or crazed native humans

7

Outcast surfacers lairing in the Deep

8

Non-human sentients who now live here

9

Undead relics of former inhabitants

10

Still-sane human heirs of the original folk

11

Surfacer colonists forgotten by their kin

12

Automaton servitors now lacking their lord

1

Local bandits or highwaymen

2

Cult of some unacceptable god

3

Deposed noble and their retinue

4

Adventurers trying to plunder the place

5

Troops garrisoned there by the local ruler

6

Remnants of the original inhabitants

7

Sorcerer of detestable inclinations

8

Refugees or runaway peasants

9

Vicious local monster lairing here

10

Foreign raiders using it as a base

11

Whatever ruined the place is still here

12

Interlopers with some tie to the original place

1

Alpha predator of the area

2

Intelligent monstrous beings

3

Swarms or packs of dangerous beasts

4

Violently reclusive local natives

5

Remnant of a destroyed state

6

Survivors of a displaced ethnic group

7

Demihumans who prefer isolation

8

Bestially savage tribals, perhaps inhuman

9

Expedition from a surrounding nation

10

Prospectors or resource-hunters

11

Spirit or elemental related to the wilderness

12

Sorcerers, cultists, or other solitude-lovers

1

Residential Room (Exemple):

Roll d12 on [1:Dormitory barracks for servants; 2:The owner or ruler’s bedchamber; 3:High-ranking resident bedroom; 4:Latrine or privy; 5:Kennel or beast pen; 6:Prison or slave cages; 7:Meager room for minor servant; 8:Sickroom for patients; 9:Guest chambers for visitors; 10:Kitchen or dining hall; 11:Bathing chamber or washroom; 12:Study or private library]

2

Work Room (Exemple):

Roll d12 on [1:Smithy or forge; 2:Smokehouse or food preparation; 3:Sewing or weaving room; 4:Torture chamber; 5:Healer’s work room; 6:Arcane laboratory; 7:Alchemist’s workshop; 8:Artisan’s work area; 9:Artist’s workroom; 10:Washroom or scullery; 11:Brewery room; 12:Processing room for a raw good]

3

Cultural Room (Exemple):

Roll d12 on [1:Plaza or meeting area; 2:Amphitheater or recital room; 3:Art gallery; 4:Cultural monument; 5:Grave, cemetery, or ossuary; 6:Library or archive; 7:Garden or flowing water feature; 8:Ornately iconographic chamber; 9:Room for a particular cultural rite; 10:Drinking hall; 11:Performance stage or area; 12:Drug den or place of debauchery]

4

Martial Room (Exemple):

Roll d12 on [1:Armory or martial storage; 2:Training area; 3:Barracks for soldiers; 4:Guard post; 5:Parade ground; 6:Commemorative hall; 7:Map or planning room; 8:War machine fabrication or storage; 9:Dueling area; 10:Beast-fighting arena; 11:Strong point or fortification; 12:Gate or fortified entrance]

5

Religious Room (Exemple):

Roll d12 on [1:Private shrine; 2:Altar room; 3:Monastic prayer cell; 4:Ritual chamber; 5:Monument to a deity; 6:Ceremonial bath; 7:Room for a labor holy to the god; 8:Storage for religious equipage; 9:Secured chamber for holy relics; 10:Secret or unofficial chapel; 11:Priest’s private chambers; 12:Public area adorned with icons]

6

Utility Room (Exemple):

Roll d12 on [1:Work materials storage; 2:Pantry or food storage; 3:Storeroom for random detritus; 4:Furnace or boiler room; 5:Exotic ancient power or light room; 6:Pool or water source room; 7:Concealed servant’s passage; 8:Domestic staff head office; 9:Vault for valuables; 10:Secret or unobtrusive entrance; 11:Grand passage or ornate corridor; 12:Barn or fodder storage]