TTRPG Judge advice: Why you should restock dungeons!

 

Dungeons are fun! The cold unknown. The scrape of boots upon tiled or stone floors. The creaking cracks of supports giving way. The glint of lost gold and ruby red blood stained steel. Long forgotten tombs and ancient walkways long forgotten. 

The creatures that inhabit them can be even better though! Triple armed troglodytes, sun spinning spiders, black atom bumble bees, things that click, purr, whistle, shriek, snap crackle and pop. Awful things dredged up from the depths that shamble forth, mad eyes rolling.

Treasure is also needed to bring it all together. Sunset red rubies the size of fists, clouded jade flakes, heavy ingots of gold, daggers made of devil spines, ancient god touched artifacts. All things that glitter and glimmer.

All of these elements combine themselves to make the dungeon, they must be present. So what happens when your party of stalwart scallywags kicks the doors down and barrels through the dungeon? Leave it empty? Forget it? Pshaw! How dare you!

Restock the dungeon. With the triple armed troglodytes gone who takes over the free space? With the black atom bumble bees obliterated do the pollen men rise up? Did the adventures forget to check every nook and cranny? 

Here is a quick little table for you to restock your cleared dungeon rooms.

Roll	Content of dungeon room
1 to 2	Treasure
3 to 4	Monster
5 to 9	Empty
10 to 12	Monster with treasure