Dungeon Dressing: Names

Campaign worlds need deep dungeons, lost dwarven holds, crumbling castles, ebon caverns and dusty necropolises for the characters to explore. Such locales need suitably evocative names.

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Dungeon Name

1. Ashen Fane of the Whispering Cult

2. Haunt of the Merciless Shadow Lord

3. Labyrinth of Torment

4. The Exalted Tower

5. Sunken Citadel

6. Spire of Certain Oblivion

7. Unknown Caverns

8. Ruins of Gloom

9. Catacombs of the Sundered Pillar

10. Trackless Warrens of Dol Naroth

11. Shadow Hold

12. Sepulchre of Tor Baroth

13. Maze of Bones

14. Warrens of the Forbidden Idol

15. Gates of Sorrow

16. Barrow of the Fallen

17. Drowned Catacombs of the Doomed Mistress

18. Dreaded Treasure Vault of Mor Darrel

19. Orc Delve

20. Ziggurat of Sorrow

Dungeon Level Name

1. Starless Laboratory

2. Cistern of Unknown Depths

3. Cave of Echoes

4. Ashen Realm of Soth-Amon

5. Howling Chasm

6. Slender Span

7. Lightless Vault

8. Forbidden Chasm

9. Wondrous Grotto

10. Lair of the Forsaken Ones

11. Road of the Damned

12. Chamber of Fell Conjuration

13. Crypt of Torment

14. Cells of Bone

15. Smoking Cavern of Nol-Zoth

16. Myrmidons’ Gallery

17. Cursed Necropolis

18. Vault of the Unknown One

19. Archive of Forgotten Ages

20. Catacomb of the Baleful Dark

Room/Area Name

1. Barrow of the Beguiling Spawn

2. Sinister Crypt of the Scorned Monolith

3. Phantasm Chapel of Dereg

4. The Cursed Mine

5. The Twilight Retreat

6. The Nest of Lotul

7. The Grim Domain ofArak Phask

8. Burrow of the Sorrowful Acolyte

9. The Baleful Kitchen of Amon the Wicked

10. The Forgotten Grotto

11. The Ashen Catacomb of Ilosia the Deluded

12. Catacombs of the Sundered Pillar

13. Sepulchre of Tor Baroth

14. The Vile Domain of the Cloven Skull

15. The Dour Treasury

16. Paron’s Unearthly Charnel House

17. Lor-Borlara’s Spirit Domain

18. The Cursed Oubliette

19. Treasure Vault of Aunros the Merciless

20. The Screaming Vault

Dungeon Feature Name

1. Obelisk of Shimmering Torment

2. The Portal of Hateful Darkness

3. Champion’s Gate

4. Sacred Portal of Ing Bha

5. The Splintered Lake

6. The Scabrous Bath

7. Chasm of the Bedevilled Ogre

8. Drowned Pyramid of the Diseased Pagan

9. The Sundered Pillar

10. The Gate of Sorrow

11. The Ancient Well of the Crumpled Oracle

12. The Grim Secret Sepulchre

13. Dellor’s Baleful Reliquary

14. The Slobbering Pillar

15. Tharac’s Portcullis of Cacophonous Chance

16. The Dreadful Fountain of the Baleful Pool

17. Maux’s Aberrant Stair

18. The Unhallowed Fissure

19. Gate of the Noxious Golem

20. The Occluded Bridge

Credit

This is a short system-neutral extract from GM’s Miscellany: Dungeon Dressing. The book is available in 5e, System Neutral and Pathfinder 1 editions. The OSR edition will be available in early 2023.

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