Random Cave Encounters Generator (DND 5e)

D1 Random Cave Encounters

1. The cave floor vibrates slightly as if something large is moving far below.
   
   
2. Discovering a lost dwarven forge filled with heat and ash, players find hints of a tragic battle against local fauna. The forges, now home to 3d6 magma mephits, still hold unfinished weapons meant to save a fallen village. Completing these weapons can offer significant rewards but requires courage and cooperation.
   
   
3. An ill-tempered troll lounges in the shadows, guarding a narrow pathway. He looks surprisingly bored. You could try to bribe him with leftover rations or charm him into allowing passage—if you have enough charisma for this daunting beast.
   
   
4. Two enormous spiders are fighting over territory and will attack anyone who comes near them if they notice them.
   
   
5. Near crystalline stalagmites, ominous winds stir phantasmal warriors. 1d8 phantom knights protect an ancient portal to an elemental plane. Entering offers a wealth of arcana but risks summoning terrible elemental forces to the material world upon return.
   
   
6. The players find a small goblin playing with a small wooden toy. When they talk to him, they learn that him and his goblin family has been laying traps as one of them is lost. If the players help him find his family, they will receive a reward in the form of various items.
   
   
7. Delving deeper within abandoned and eerily silent dwarven forges, 2d6 magma mephits surface, revealing forlorn relics that breathe past glory gone cold.
   
   
8. A skeletal bard named Rattler is playing a violin made of bones, and offering ghostly serenades in exchange for any mortal items of artistic value they possess.
   
   
9. A shimmering portal opens when the adventurers touch an ancient rune-carved monolith. On the other side lies a vast cavern where illithids are negotiating an unsettling pact with surface-world politicians. The players must glean the terms of this dark deal while avoiding telepathic detection and deciding whether to sabotage or facilitate the mind flayers' dangerous bargain.
   
   
10. Glorious, fading murals recount royal longevity encrypted amongst disillusioned vassals bound eternally as guardians within cryogenic prisms. Exactly 2d8 constructs amplify tragedies of unrequited nobility during passage trials. Their lore influences continental nobility fervor lifting with perilous yet insightful navigations.