This is a working document. At the time of publication, no magic items have yet been written for A Dungeon Game. Magic items will be added to the game in due course alongside a generator for magic weapons.

When creating your own magic items for the game, remember that all magic weapons should be intelligent. These items are very rare.

Coinage

Likewise, the coinage found in dungeons is more often than not ancient currency. In most cases this is simple to exchange or melt down into its constituent metals, and GMs should generally allow players to bank coins recovered as though they were normal currency. Use your best judgement as to whether coin hoards of particular antiquity might be worth more than the face value of their contents, and whether making the players hunt for a buyer before they can convert their coin to cash is actually interesting or enjoyable.

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Distributing Treasure

Treasure found in dungeons comes from two sources. Individual treasures are the personal wealth of the people and creatures who live in the dungeon, carried on their person as they go about their business. These are usually small amounts; handfuls of coins, pieces of jewellery, small gemstones, etc. Use the Pocket Treasures table to generate them.

The second type of treasure is found in hoards. These are large deposits of valuables located in dungeons, often guarded by traps or some sort of creature but just as often left forgotten and undiscovered. These form the bulk of the wealth that player characters will have access to.

As part of designing a dungeon the GM generates an amount of treasure using the tables below and distributes it either by placing it by hand or else with the aid of the dungeon stocking procedure.

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Dungeon Size

For the purposes of using these generation tools and distributing treasure, dungeons comes in three sizes:

• Small. 4 to 15 rooms. Can be explored in around 4 hours of play. Parties may explore this dungeon in one delve, only returning to the surface when they have achieved their goals.
• Medium. 16 to 24 rooms. Can be explored in around 8 hours of play. Parties might camp just outside the dungeon, or set up a safe place to rest for the night inside. Food and resources might be tested.
• Large. 25+ rooms. Will take many sessions to explore. Parties may leave and return multiple times, and resource management will be important. ¹

Dungeons smaller than 4 rooms will tend not to contain large treasure hoards, and instead should be stocked with individual treasure appropriate to their occupants and purpose. As with everything, use your best judgement and build something that fits your game. If you want to place a large hoard at the end of a 3 room dungeon, that is entirely your prerogative.

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Generating Treasure

The tables that follow will help you generate the both the value and composition of the treasures that are contained in your dungeon.

To generate a hoard, find the row that matches the Dungeon Size and Dungeon Level you picked when creating your dungeon. Each row contains several columns, and each column contains two values. The first, Frequency, is a number that represents the chance of that column’s treasure appearing in the dungeon. The second value gives the size of that treasure as some combination of d6 rolls. Treasures with no chance listed are always present, though you should still roll to determine the quantities in which they appear.

To check for the presence of treasure where a frequency above 0 is listed, roll 1d20. If the result is equal to or lower than the number given, the treasure type appears in the hoard.

Where the size range is expressed as d3 rather than d6, roll a six sided dice and half the result, rounding up. A roll of 1-2 becomes 1, 3-4 becomes 2, and 5-6 is a result of 3.

Where the Magic Items column gives a result of “Any X”, roll X times on the Magic Item Type table below. Where the Magic Items column says “Any X except Weapons”, re-roll results that produce magic weapons.

As an example, the Frequency of Silver Pieces in a Level 1 dungeon of any size is is 10. If the d20 result for silver when generating a hoard of this type is 10 or less, the hoard contains silver pieces. The row beneath it tells us that there are 3d6x100 silver pieces present regardless of the dungeon’s size, so we roll three six sided dicee and multiply the result by 100 to determine how many silver pieces are found.

Further information about specific types of treasure other than coinage is given after the tables.

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The Treasure Tables

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Average Value

The average value of each treasure hoard in silver pieces is given in the Average Value column at the end of each row. For quick reference it is also provided here. The values represent the amount of silver a typical horde of treasure is worth if all coins and items are present in the hoard and all rolls are average, which equates to how much XP adventurers who successfully extract the entire hoard will split between them. These averages don’t include the value of magical items that might be in the treasures, and assume that gems don’t vary from their base value.

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Gems

When gems are found, use this table to determine the value of each gem. This table gives the base value for each gem and the general type of each stone.

To add some variety to your hoards and the values of loot being acquired you may wish to allow values of individual stones to vary. You can roll on the Gem Variations table to modify the stones adventurers find.

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Gems By Type

Players may not be interested in exactly what sort of gemstones they have discovered, but the following table is provided to aid GMs who find themselves in need of a description.

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Art Objects

Art objects are valuables beyond jewellery and gemstones. Ornate cups and glasses, paintings, rugs, carvings, and the other small trinkets and goods that people surround themselves with.

After generating the value of an art object the GM should describe each item, since these things are more notable than simple gemstones. If you are struggling to think of something, roll on the following list.

1. Carved bone or ivory statuette
2. Finely wrought gold bracelet
3. Silk vestments stitched with gold thread
4. Black velvet masks studded with crystals
5. Large tapestry
6. Silver-plated longsword with rubies set in the hilt
7. Beautifully carved wooden harp
8. Solid silver idol
9. Gem-encrusted velvet eye patch
10. Silver tiara
11. Finely made thick fur coat
12. Set of silver stacking dolls
13. Oil painting in a gold-plated frame
14. A set of leather-bound encyclopedias with gilt edges
15. Silver chalice studded with lapis lazuli
16. Silver calligraphy pen and bottled inks
17. Exquisite taxidermy
18. Crystal decanters
19. Finely carved redwood coffin
20. Bone statuette inlaid with mother of pearl

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Magic Item Type

None of these items have yet been written. Convert items from other games, write your own, or else replace them with Scrolls and Rituals carved as Sigils in the dungeon.

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Magic Weapons

Magic weapons are rare. Some are created intentionally, the end result of rituals that force the soul from the body and trap it inside the weapon. Others are created via more mundane means, the by-product of acts of extreme violence and betrayal.

All of these weapons retain their intelligence and their personalities. Many have been left alone in the dark for hundreds if not thousands of years, with nobody but themselves and the rats to speak to. Others have been dragged across the earth in endless cycles of violence. All of these post-death experiences leave a mark on the psyche of the weapon.

Magic weapons may be indistinguishable from mundane weapons when first discovered, and the intelligences trapped within them may not reveal themselves to new wielders immediately.

Each magic weapon should have a unique power. There is no such thing as a +1 longsword in A Dungeon Game.

This version of A Dungeon Game provides statistics for one such weapon as an example. The sword Hadratha is found in The Moss Mother’s Maze.

Hadratha

Weapon Type: Longsword (medium melee weapon)
Aliases: Twin-Edge
Location: The Moss Mother’s Maze

Hadratha was betrayed by her companion Alarath, who slaughtered her inside the Moss Mother’s Maze and left her for dead alongside the sword he used to cut her down. As her blood pooled around the blade she vowed vengeance.

Ability

When you roll damage you can Exert 1 point of Cunning to add an additional damage die. You can do this as many times as you like on each attack, provided you have the Cunning to pay.

Sacrificing Cunning to the blade in this way strengthens Hadratha, with the following effects.

Hadratha Given Flesh
HD 6 AC 7
Deals damage directly to Cunning.
Can choose for her attacks to hit without making an attack roll. She can do this up to 12 times, after which point she loses this ability.

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Pocket Treasures

Individuals who live in the dungeon may carry their wealth with them. Roll on the following table once per creature HD to generate pocket treasures.

Magic weapons are not distributed using the table below but should be manually placed by the GM. Dungeon denizens in possession of magic weapons are incredibly rare and should be significant figures in your campaign.

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Supplementary Tables

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