Hypogeum Tables vol. 1

Folk Self portrait (Folkling)

These are tables that DM's can use to randomly generate things in the hypogeum. If you are hoping to play, don't read these! Well, maybe do. I can't stop you.

Part 1: Villages and Folk

Topology

1. Open and defensible Gerum¹. This is the most common, if you don't want to roll
   
2. Crevice or Ruin-gap
3. Amphitheater
4. Collection of Ruin-Stupa in an open or elevated Gerum
5. Clustered around a spire, tower, or pillar
6. Hanging from the ceiling, accessible by ceiling connection
7. One big ruin building
   
8. A vague sphere of under-rooms
9. Clinging to the wall (also the side rooms)
10. Inset into a hill or ziggurat, probably with spirally stairs.

 Physical Quirk

1. Mossy and overgrown
   
2. Giant mushrooms
3. Tombs
4. Houses shaped like their residents
5. Well built and cozy
6. Engraved
7. Exotic Stone
8. Crystals
9. Water Features
10. Supernaturally Dark

Social Quirk

1. Diverse 
2. Even more uniform than usual
3. Devout
4. Mercantile
5. Play a lot of War
6. Host their own adventuring party
7. Scattered Pre-modern or even modern tech
8. Scholarly
9. Colonized
   
10. Sorcery and or Relicseeking common

Cult

1. The Dark
2. The Flame
3. The Moss
4. The Mechanism
5. The Flood
6. The Orb
7. The Stone
8. The Cube
9. The Gate
10. The Song
11. Personality Cult
    
12. Fairies
    

Exports

1. Pottery, Cooking
2. Pottery, Decoration and Storage
   
3. Stonework
4. Metal Tools
5. Food, Staple
6. Food, Luxury
7. Textiles, Beastsilk
8. Textiles, Weavemoss
9. Medicines
10. Fuel
    

Food Source

1. Moss
2. Fruit Bush
3. Mushroom, Sour
4. Mushroom, Sweet
5. Mushroom, Savory
6. Herded Beasts
7. Hunted Beasts
8. Tubers
   

Folk Appearance

General:

1. Amphibious
2. Repitilian
3. Humanoid
4. Vague

 Eyes:

1. Small beads
2. large, wet puppydog eyes
3. Appropriate to their type
4. Inappropriate to their type
5. Eye stalks
6. Eye spots
   

Head:

1. Lumpy
2. Snout
3. Round
4. Crest, Neck-Frill, some other weird thing
   

Ears:

1. Tympanum
2. Large, Round
3. Large, pointy
4. Oh those are actually gills

Color:

1. Red
2. Red-Orange
3. Yellow
4. Brown-green
5. Bright green
6. Forest green
7. Aqua
8. Blue

Clothes:

1. None
2. Loincloth
3. Chlamys or cloak
4. Sari or Toga
   
5. Primitive Pants
   
6. Robe
7. Necklace
8. Plants

 

¹ a gerum is a room-like enclosure, with high walls but often without a ceiling, inside a maze or complex of other such enclosures. Like a cubical, but big and not necessarily quadrangular or perfectly aligned.