Few dungeons have completely blank, featureless walls.

Use this list to add graffiti to the walls in your dungeon.

Bloody handprints decorate the wall in a repeating pattern of “flowers.”
Hundreds of tally marks are scorched into the wall.
A date—the current date—is scratched into the wall. The markings look ancient.
A beautiful woman’s face is artfully drawn on a door.
In an unsteady, perhaps semi-literate hand, is the word “BYEBYE”.
Graffiti reveals an acquaintance of the party “was here.”
A large chalk “X” is marked on the wall.
Someone has drawn an (inaccurate) map of the dungeon on the wall.
The word “IOD” is written in black paint on an otherwise blank wall.
“Beware of the angels angles” is marked on the wall in brownish fluid.
“Take the Left” is scribbled in ink on the floor.
“R. I. P. Dongar the Unassailable” is carefully carved next to a burned and blackened wall.
The horrid image of an outstretched man partially cut open as if for an operation mars the floor.
A white circle with three dots mars the floor.
Something written on the wall has been effaced by an exceedingly crude word written in black ink.
A stencil has been used to blow powdered paint, making the outline of a crown onto the floor.
The words “Look Further” are written in elaborate cursive over a doorway.
Thousands of six-pointed stars are marked on the walls, ceiling and floor with charcoal.
The outline of a person in white chalk (bizarrely) decorates the ceiling.
A series of pictographs or hieroglyphs are precisely drawn upon the wall.

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