The Deep Dark is below most dungeons and above any mantle or core a planet might have. Debris is all the stuff that while usually broken, is also used here to mean all the stuff that does not fit in any other category. The overflow from Dungeon Clutter and Subterranean Stuff should be reproduced here so GMs can roll on all 3 lists for anyplace that hasn't been cleaned out recently.
1:Dented bucket of chalk dust. As it was made by powdering a lot of colored chalk sticks it is a revolting color.
2:Can of lumpy white paint. If a wall is cleaned, then painted with this, allowed to dry, then it might be easier to climb.
3: A cloth bag containing 8 segments of a segmented pole. You can assemble an eight foot pole. There is a small blood stain on the bag.
4: Icky Ichor. All over the floor and spattered on the walls and ceiling. Maybe a dramatically unsuccessful demon summoning?
5: A broken pocket watch, the hands are frozen at 12:01.
6:A few broken pieces of furniture.
7:A great, big, puddle of sick.
8: The 'horn' like structure that house the local goblin tribe turn out, after closer examination and some demolishing of support beams, to be a burst out colossal dog collar with the word 'Chumpy' engraved into it in ancient Giant. The goblins claim it was like that when they found it.
9: A permanent phase door makes a 'Ding' noise when used. it leads to a now vacant and dusty room that appear to have housed an Effrit or some kind of demon.
of all the clutter that lay around the most note worthy is a small vial with the label 'For when the stars fall' on it.
Since 8 will not fit in most dungeon rooms, I suggest...
8: A small vial with the label 'For when the stars fall' on it. The vial has barely detectable traces of cyanide.
8's point was that the entire dungeon was the debris...
and your fix for 8 is actually responding for my #9
Nice, could you post that in GM excuses?
11. a small dark polished stone.
if examined a dc 20 spellcraft will reveal it as a Loadstone. while a dc 25 and more will show it is somewhat malfunctioned, as it does not reduce the owner's speed.
in truth this is what a loadstone should be if it was not broken\cursed. it is in fact a 'LOAD-stone'. and can be used once per day to cast greater reversion on the owner, as a standard action (instead of 20 minutes, cl 10th, hence the dc).
The owner must posses the stone at the time he want to end the spell and activate it's effect. but that shouldn't be too hard, as like the cursed stone, this stone also return back to the user.
- my token contribution to all the final fantasy-like games out there, and those who play them.
(in a game a run where eventually the players learned they are inside a video game, each player started with one of these)
12. a dented brass oil lamp
Detects as faint Conjuration and identifies as a djinni lamp.
Unfortunately, the djinni left a long time ago, the lamp has no actual powers remaining, and a spider has since laid eggs inside. Anyone rubbing or jostling the lamp causes a horde of baby spiders to swarm out all over them,13. The broken off bow of a large ship. A winking, wooden merfolk figurehead is still affixed to the front, cupping her breasts like she were a nursing mother offering passersby a drink. A broken placard bears part of the vessel's name, 'No Way H'.
Do you mean "No way Jose" or "No Way in H".
How about "No Way Home".
14:A big rock takes up about half the room. It may have arrived in a transporter accident or they built the room around it.
18:Is potato.
19:Big, melted, metal ring. -4 to identify as once part of the portal network.
23:Cracked magnifying glass. If mended, gives the +2 circumstance bonus to appraise checks and can start fires with sunlight. Also good for reading fine print. Trying to use it while cracked requires a 20 perception check.
24. An old, threadbare floppy hat, the hatband bears the tarnished symbol of Ashava, a (likely for his locale) obscure empyreal lord (DC20 Religion check to identify.)
25. A broken jar with luminous fungus both inside and spreading out from the debris, seems to be thriving.
26. A journal of some kind, hard to tell due to dry rot via excessive dampness. Some pages had been ripped out, only one scant bit of writing is not streaked and is still intelligible, a warning written in elvish, "Waterfall = wide berth."
27. A mandala-like arranged pattern of small dessicated insect chitin, disturbing as it is soothing to ponder at.
28. A fallen pillar. Upon examination of the broken pillar sections, it appears that when the sections are placed rightfully together, the pillar depicts a dwarf in combat with a giant lizard-like creature
29. 3 broken crossbows, the crude design suggests goblin-made. It looks like the bowstrings and triggers have been already salvaged or are missing.
30. A small pile of disgusting slime. Upon closer examination, it is a single drop of gooey saliva or drool... from a very large creature.
31. Thousands upon thousands of dead spiders, each one about the size of a human thumb. Survival, Knowledge (Dungeoneering), or Knowledge (Nature) DC: 13 reveals that these creatures died from consuming something poisonous, and less than an hour ago.
32. A pair of poisonous darts sticking out from a wooden wall, and one poison dart lays on the ground with a broken dart tip. It appears this trap was sprung decades ago, maybe even a century ago, and the darts appear to be elven/drow/wild elven (whatever type of elf is nearby, or was nearby 100 years ago).
33. A gravestone, an opened casket with a dwarven corpse picked clean of anything valuable, and a small pile of dirt next to where the casket lay in the earth. It appears grave robbers were here, and judging from the pile of dirt, this scene hasn't been disturbed for years. The gravestone says "Here lies Maungorn Firebeard, dwarven historian, beloved father, brother, and son."
34. A pair of tattered gnomish lederhosen-style shorts with suspenders that have two sewn pockets.
35. A broken kite with a design drawn on it depicting a succubus attempting to kiss a grappled female druid.
36. A left boot of elvish make. It looks in perfect condition, and isn't even dirty!
37. A bag of old, stale walnuts.
38. An intact drinking horn created from a dire boar tusk with a long, high-quality leather sling to make it easier to carry when not in use. It can hold approximately 3 gallons of liquid, so this presumably was created for a huge-sized being, or maybe a large-sized being that has a drinking problem.
39. A map of a local forest that has been scribbled and drawn upon. It looks like someone was notating commonly-used game trails for deer and elk, as well as the locations of various deer and elk droppings.
40. A blue hair ribbon for a female child, the stitching pattern appears human-crafted.
41. A broken chamber pot, covered in maggots feasting on the feces. The feces are less than a week old.
42. A whalebone spearhead tip in good condition, although the spear shaft is missing.
43. A leather cord with 23 different bugbear teeth affixed to it like trophies.
44. A carved wooden children's toy in the shape of a centaur wielding a bow and arrow.
45. A once-luxurious scarf created from the fur of a dire wolf. Now, it's covered in mud, wagon axle grease, and one of the scarf's ends has been slightly singed by fire.
46. A cracked sapphire that looks like it might've been worth 200g before it was cracked.
47. A lute with brand new strings but all of its strings are loose. It appears this lute was either dropped or discarded in the middle of being re-stringed.
48. A thoroughly soaked book entitled "The Art of Forging Metal Silverware for Fun and Profit". The pages are so wet that they tear at the slightest handling or attempt to turn any pages.
49. An assortment of clay goblets in a picnic basket. The goblets are poor quality, and are probably owned by a peasant or commoner.
50. An emblem or a guild crest of some kind. The crest is embroidered with the words "D&D: Dickbags and Dice Jokes" while an icosahedron is in the background depicting a natural 20.
51. A trumpet clogged with ash, soot, and coal.
52. An outrageously-large and frilly captain's tricorn hat with gold and silver lacing and Hippogryph feathers protruding from its brim. Judging from the size of the head, it seems this tricorn is meant to be worn by a small-sized creature.
53. A sack of coins from a kingdom that is over a continent away from here.
54. A large centipede impaled by a throwing dagger and stuck to the ground. The centipede corpse seems fresh, maybe killed within the last hour or so.
55. A collection of long bags, and in each bag are feathers belonging to various exotic birds and animals, such as giant eagles, hippogryphs, gryphons, peacocks, hawks, and falcons.
56. A dressmaker's mannequin that has been thoroughly soiled with dirt and grime.
57. A glass jar filled with different colors of sand. This appears to have been meant to be sand art, but the jar has been jostled and shook so the sand art is splotchy and almost impossible to tell what it once was.
58. An old bucket that looks like it was meant to be used to carry water from a well and is sized for a huge-sized creature.
59. A collection of 4 pairs of drum sticks, each pair have different size heads that are meant to produce a different or deeper sound when striking a drum.
60. A corked bottle of high-quality homemade moonshine, approximately 180-190 proof. It is highly flammable.
61. A collection of bear traps, rabbit traps, and traps for other various game animals.
62. 5 long loaves of moldy bread.
63. A tattered alchemist's apron and protective gloves that have been sealed with tar and pitch in order to be water-proof and resistant to corrosive chemicals.
64. A cauldron that has been tipped over. A funnel-shaped spider's web has been spun inside.
65. A water-tight scroll case, still in working order.
66. An iron coffee pot, 3 carved wooden peasant's cups, and a small traveler's box filled with poor-quality spoons, knives, and forks.
67. A common wooden chest with a lock that looks like it has been blown to smithereens by a firearm and the chest is empty.
68. An empty wine bottle.
74. A table that's unstable. One leg is less than an inch short.
75.1 Lense of Darkvision. Normally you need 2 to use. If you walk around in the dark with one eye open, your face might get stuck like that.
76. Other Lense of Darkvision.
77. A copy of Physical Geology and other books of interest.
78. D% graffiti, written all over the walls here. The first one is "Archeology is for losers" written in ancient Goblin. The rest are chosen however the GM likes.
The Tabards, Posters, and handbills topic is just one option.
79: Large, dented, helmet. Fits snugly on M sized humanoids. If dents are pounded out, will fit an L sized humanoid.
80: Fossilized Eohippus leg bone. It can be used as a club, is of interest to archeologists, and pony finder characters.
84: A wooden checker. White. Concentric circles carved on one side, with a crown carved on the other.
85: Like 84, but a white checker.
90. What was once a human sized, perfectly smooth, rhomboid stone floating in the exact center of the room. However, the magic sustaining it has since failed, and it lies in identical tiny rhomboid splinters in the middle of the floor.
93: A wooden whistle(abandoned because it wouldn't whistle.)
94: A steel whistle(abandoned because it still wouldn't whistle.)
95: A tin whistle. Now you tin whistle.
96: Anvil. It's tarnished and worn but still useable. Probably around 400 lbs. If you drop it on someone or something it will do about 2D20. These are guestimations so I'm open to polite correction.
102. Fool's Encounter.
The floor of this room is covered in complete, decent condition human skeletons. It also radiates strong necromancy and evil. Every sign points to the skeletons animating and initiating combat, but that doesn't happen. The auras are from the Vampire King in the next room, ready to ambush the party now that their guard is down.