| Random
Encounter Table |
Roll 1x per day within the
ice stronghold, roll for any room with no listing, or that is indicated
as empty on the maps presented here. Once an encounter is used, mark it
off the list and treat the subsequent roll as "No Encounter". |
| 2d12
Die Roll |
The
Abandoned Stronghold |
| 2 |
Snowcat,
AC:4 HD:6 Htk:28 Mve:20 Dmge / attk: 1d6 / 1d6 claws, 1d8 bite Int:11.
This snowcat is an wildcat that has been sleeping right up until the time
the players approach. The snowcat is wearing an amulet of protection from
were-creatures, but does not know the amulet is enchanted. |
| 3 |
An
Anvil. The Anvil is heavy, 120 lbs, but is in excellent condition. The
Anvil has been booby trapped by the goblins with a contact poison, and
if it is moved, and the person moving it is not wearing gloves, a saving
throw must be made versus a contact poison that causes sleep. The effects
of the sleep poison will wear off in 2d6 hours. |
| 4 |
Partially
collapsed ceiling, may give way with any additional weight, or if a storm
brings more snow while the players are in the room. There is also an Ice
Spider in the room. Ice Spiders are a mildly poisonous hunter. The spider
achieves surprise on a d6 roll of 1-5, is white, tiny, and will attack
any living warm creature. AC:5 HD:1/2 Htk:1 dmge/attack: 1 + poison. The
poison causing minor swelling and uncontrollable itching for 1d3 days resulting
in discomfort, and the player bitten needing to make a saving throw when
they attempt to do something that requires concentration. Against
tiny creatures, the ice spider poison is lethal. A stone tablet can be
found in the room as well. The tablet documents the successful story of
a Wizard who was on a quest to save a woman believed to be the last shapechanger. |
5
 |
A
successful search will reveal a loose stone in the floor. A small pocket
under the stone will reveal a cloth bag with a gold inlaid ivory pipe carved
in the likeness of a wizard. The pipe has a large round shiny blue-green
spinel gem embedded in it worth 492 gold pieces. The pipe is otherwise
a normal pipe with no enchanted properties. |
| 6 |
The
room has been altered by the Goblins, and they have dug numerous pits for
waste disposal. One of the pits is over a weak spot in the floor and stepping
on it, or near it (within 5') may cause it to give give way resulting
in the floor collapsing. If there is no level under the room, the collapsed
floor will give way to a narrow crack, 8' deep in the Ice underneath the
building that will trap an unwary player for 1d4 rounds. The room is otherwise
empty. |
| 7 |
No
Encounter |
| 8 |
No
Encounter |
| 9 |
Ice
Roaches infest this room. They are living on goblin refuse and ice. In
addition to the harmless (but distracting) goblin pets here, the room is
trapped with a blade of ice, that will fall on the first person entering
the room doing the same damage as a dagger. |
| 10 |
The
room is empty of anything of value, The walls are cracked open here where
the stronghold has shifted on the ice. |
| 11 |
No
Encounter |
| 12 |
No
Encounter |
| 13 |
No
Encounter |
| 14 |
No
Encounter |
| 15 |
The
floor in this room has been disfigured, 6d6 random blocks have been pulled
up in no apparent (or actual) pattern, some blocks have been fractured
and all are scattered over the floor of the room. Also, a careful search
will reveal a single golden bee figurine worth 10 gold. It is not enchanted. |
| 16 |
Here
the walls are cracked, stress fractures are evident where the building
is starting to buckle. Concealed in plain sight on top of one of the support
beams that crisscross the ceiling near the roof is a rolled up scroll,
nailed to the top of the beam. The cold temperature has preserved the scroll
perfectly, and it is non-magical, however, contains instructions on how
to add the spell Monster Summoning V to a wizard's spellbook. |
| 17 |
There
are three good shovels, and five snow shovels scattered about the room.
The goblins looted the store room and use the shovels for snow removal
and for excavation, but more often than not, they are uninterested in that
type of work. Here they left the shovels when they were finished with their
last job, hoping perhaps that Gorb would also forget about digging and
excavating. |
| 18 |
Snowcats
NA:2 AC:4 HD:6 Htk:34, 34 Mve:20 Dmge / attk: 1d6 / 1d6 claws, 1d8 bite
Int:9,5
An untamed
hunting pair has turned this room into a Den. They enjoy feasting on meat
and fish the goblins occassionally bring them. The goblins give these two
free passage, and becauase they get meat from the goblins the white snow
panthers will not attack them. If hungry, or cornered, this pair may attack
the players though! |
| 19 |
The
floor is cracked in places, showing through even to the floor below, or
if this is the lowest floor, to the ice foundation the stronghold rests
on. Nothing else of value or interest in the room. |
| 20 |
Giant
Ice Constrictors NA: 2 AC:7 HD: 8 Htk: 40, 41 Mve: 18 Dmge / Attk 3-12
crushing damage. Once a successful attack is made, these snakes will continue
crushing stopping only when the victim is dead. These reptiles are the
result of a mad wizards' experiment gone awry. They thrive in cold temperatures,
the colder it gets the faster they move, and the warmer it gets, the slower
they move. In the summertime, they find a cold hole to crawl into to and
hibernate until the snow begins to fall. They are highly resistant to cold
receiving only 1/4 damage from cold based attacks, and they are vulnerable
to fire taking double damage from any fire based attack. On the floor in
the room is the remains of what was once a goblin. All that remains are
bones, and the undigestable portions of the goblin The goblins' chainmail
armor is in a heap on the floor and missing all digestible parts, leather
straps, etc.. In another part of the room, in a small sealed decanter on
the floor, a Valir heirloom, water of the Skalje River.
The Skalje is
said to flow through Valhalla, and as such, the river is reputed to have
unusual powers. In this case, it will imbue the drinker with the power
to summon a Frost Giant. The Frost Giant will appear 1d4 days after the
imbiber consumes the water, will fight for the imbiber until dead, until
the imbiber is dead, until ordered to return to Valhalla, or for one year
and a day. The bottle is clearly marked with the family runes of the Ulgart
clan. (For those that read Valir runes), but is otherwise unremarkable.
Detect Magic will reveal that the bottle is enchanted. Only a sage, or
a senior member of the Ulgart family will know of the Legends of the Skalje.
The water will taste fresh and pure and clean, and the whole bottle must
be consumed for the frost giant to appear. If there is more than one drinker
from the bottle, the Frost Giant will serve the drinker that emptied the
decanter. |
| 21 |
The
walls is beginning to fracture here under the shifting weight of the stronghold.
The floor of the room is littered with small white crab shells. Leather
scraps, now frozen can be found as well, and the tattered remains of several
shredded deerskins. |
| 22 |
Straw
covers the floor in this room. Two mules are alive, well, and tied to a
ring in the wall. A crude trough filled with water provides for them. The
mules are used by the goblins whenever they need to sneak into town on
an errand. AC:7 HD1 Htk 9,8 Dmge/attk 1d4, 1d4 kick. The mules are ill
tempered and uncooperative. In a pile on the floor are several saddleblankets,
along with two pack frames for the mules to carry heavy loads. There is
also a set of saddlebags. In the saddlebags is a map of Snowshade along
with two silver candlesticks, and two broadswords (not enchanted). |
| 23 |
The floor is cracked in several places. There
is a 14' frost worm here. AC: 4 HD 6 Mve 10 Htk: 29
Dmge / attk: 1d4 (bite) Special attack: 4d6 icebolt.
The Frostworm is a nuetral, unintelligent giant worm covered with a reptilian
like leather carapace. They typically hunt small mammals devouring them,
and can up to 3x a day spit an icebolt. Enough ice is generated with each
attack to seal a normal human sized doorway. The ice worms may block or
slow attackers by spitting ice, and then burrow into the snow, or ground
to make their escape. They create tunnels 1-3' in diameter when burrowing. |
| 24 |
Wolves' Den NA: 5 AC: 7 HD4,2,1,1,1 Htk: 29,
14, 8, 6, 6 Mve: 16 Dmge / Attk: 1d4+1 bite. The wolves are kept locked
in this room by the Goblins and are used to hunt game. They are aggressive,
hostile, and hungry. |
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