GLUMDARK - Six Establishments in Squalor

Storytelling & Worldbuilding

Bad Omens

Bad Places

Bad Places 2

Defining Life Events

Dubious Discoveries

Festivals and Holidays

Ignoble Ends

Artist: Vil

Incendiary Incidents

Artist: Lettuce

Inns and Taverns

Maritime Encounters

Odd Skills and Traits

Quest Seed Generator NEW

Reasons to Be Evil

Reasons to Leave the Shire

Travel Encounters

Travel Location Generator NEW

Wild Wild Weather NEW

Creatures & Characters

A Life in Three Acts NEW

Animal Oddities

Artist: Lettuce

Extremely Unexpected Creatures

Artist: ORB

Lost and Broken Demigods

Normal People

Artist: Vil

NPC Generator

NPC Name Generator NEW

Personal Mottos

Suspicious Strangers

Artist: Vil

TPK

Artist: Lettuce

Working Stiffs NEW

Location Generators

A Cabin in the Woods

A Mysterious Tower

A Seaside Altar

A Sinister Sepulchre

Dour Dour Docks

Six Establishments in Squalor

Powers & Effects

Curses! Curses!

Artist: Vil

Devilish Deals NEW

Diseases

Double Deformity

Artist: CTRO

Dumb Cantrips for Bad Wizards

Insanities

Artist: Strega Flora

Peculiar Potions NEW

Items & Artifacts

Abhorrent Artifacts

A Critical Armament NEW

Arcane Artifacts

Artist: New Year

Books of the Damned

Does It Have a Name?

Rods, Staffs, and Wands

Spell Components NEW

Things Found in a Dungeon

Artist: Lettuce

Things Found in a Mage's Tower

Artist: Lettuce

Things Found in an Abandoned Mine

Things Found in an Alchemist's Lab

Things Found in a Rickety Shack

Things Found in a Tree

Things Found in the Pocket of a Stranger

Weird Weapons

Six Establishments in Squalor (d6/table)

Where you see squalor, I see potential. And squalor.

What it is: ... Who's there: ... What it's hiding: ...

A low-slung tavern with a leaking roof. It smells forever of booze and piss. A urinal is built into the front of the bar and runs into a stagnant pond of filth outside. Hundreds of knives are stuck into the ceiling where they were thrown during drunken games--they occasionally fall.

An orphanage, one wing of which has burned to the ground. The walls are adorned with once-colorful paintings depicting childish versions of jesters, monsters, and royalty. It's eerily quiet, save for the occasional ghostly peel of children's laughter.

A three-story poorhouse built from large rough-cut stones and thick wooden beams. The wood and stone has been engraved by decades of multitudes in destitution, recording their lost and lonely thoughts for nobody.

An opium den, hidden beneath the cobblestone streets of a small town. Wooden bunks are built into the stone walls, and fraying tapestries drape from the smoke-stained ceilings. The acrid smell of burnt intoxicants hangs in the air.

A small jailhouse constructed of piled red stones with moss growing on both inner and outer walls. Iron restraints are built into the stone. Pillories line the front of the building, only half of which contain long-dead corpses.

A leper colony inside of an old desanctified cathedral. The stained glass windows are broken and patched over. Possessions of the sick are burned in a great pyre in the courtyard outside.

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This Table

Defended by poison traps, spike pits and violent warnings scrawled upon the walls. Within: a small family doing their best to survive. Utterly innocent and fiercely defensive.

Appears from the outside to be utilized for its original purpose. In fact, it is occupied by a group of highwaymen who are hiding out from a powerful supernatural bounty hunter. It is well defended.

Currently being utilized as intended, despite the state of squalor in which it is found. When it comes to squalor, there is no bottom.

The entire place is sentient and malevolent. What began as a haunting grew in preternatural force until it developed the ability to manipulate the space. The building is a monster.

Haunted by ghastly wraiths: the lost souls of previous occupants who died within. They wish nothing more than to inspire madness in anyone who comes near. Insanity and paranoia make them stronger.

Overrun by wild supernatural beasts. Each is an grotesque amalgam of other living forms. Previous occupants transfigured into half-animal abominations.

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A rich nobleman once hid here and buried a priceless stash beneath the floorboards. It is unclear exactly what they buried, where, or whether it has since been discovered.

Residents and visitors to this location often go missing. Suspicions are never raised, given the abject destitution present. Those missing have been sold to a local alchemist for experimentation.

Rumored to be a location of hidden and powerful magic. In fact, it is not. The rumors were started by a killer who resides nearby and preys on curious explorers seeking reward.

A powerful demigod is living in hiding within. They wish nothing more than to remain undiscovered and are willing to kill or grant favors to ensure their solitude remains undisturbed.

A series of planetary nexuses co-align at this location. As a result, magic is amplified. Unfortunately, casting rituals of any significant force can release bursts of tremendous arcane energy which is lethal to the old and infirm.

A great castle of supreme wealth and influence is nearby. The castle contains an escape tunnel, should those in power ever need to escape siege. That tunnel leads to this location. The exit is well hidden and likely undiscovered.

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