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Barrow Builders Themes
Roll 1d12 to determine the tone of a barrow, ruin, or Barrow Builders NPC. Results range from Revolution and societal collapse to sorcerer-kings, refugees, conquest, intrigue, and...
Roll one or two themes when prepping a barrow, ruin, or NPC tied to the Barrow Builders era. Themes set the tone of the bloody centuries after the Makers fell.
Roll 1d12 · Family Faction Themes · p. 35
| d | Result | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Revolution | Hunting down the Stone Lords, upending the status quo. |
| 2 | The works of the Makers, undone | Torn down, vandalized, repurposed, lost. |
| 3 | Societal collapse | Famine, shortage, hoarding, violence. |
| 4 | Sorcerers and necromancers | Recklessly wielding power they can't control. |
| 5 | Human sacrifice and blood magic | The courting and open worship of The Things Below. |
| 6 | The horrors of war | Pillaging, looting, slaughter, dislocation. |
| 7 | Refugees | Desperate and afraid, seeking safety, settling for survival. |
| 8 | Sorcerer-kings and petty warlords | With their grand, bloody ambitions. |
| 9 | Conquest, oppression, enslavement | |
| 10 | Intrigue, betrayal, civil war | |
| 11 | Rulers clinging to power, even from the grave | |
| 12 | Heroism and hope and perseverance | The casting off of tyrants, the slaying of monsters, the forging of a new age. |
This work includes material from Stonetop by Jeremy Strandberg, published by Lampblack & Brimstone, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.