Here is a d100 encounter table tailored for a Sword & Sorcery Lovecraftian setting—a world of pulp action, ancient decadent empires, strange magic, cosmic horror, and bronze/iron-age brutality.
Note that this blog entry picks right up from
A Deeper D100 Random Sword & Sorcery Lovecraftian Encounter Table - a d100 random works, encounters, and artifacts table of the Lovecraftian God Shub Niggurath
D100 Sword & Sorcery Lovecraftian Encounters
01–20: Cosmic Weirdness & Anomalies
01: A column of pale, cold, violet light pierces the sky from an unmapped crater. Standing in its beam turns skin translucently clear, revealing black liquid pulsing through veins.
02: A floating, geometrically impossible polyhedral monolith carved from non-terrestrial stone. Characters who stare into its faces experience vivid memories of a dying star's collapse.
03: An abandoned obsidian war-galley grounded in the middle of an arid desert, miles from any water. Its deck is littered with salt-cured skeletons still gripping iron cutlasses.
04: A rain of warm, viscous black oil falls from a cloudless sky over a 2-mile radius, filling footprints with bubbling pitch that whispers in an dead dialect.
05: A petrified forest where the trees are composed of solid green jade. Striking them causes them to bleed a corrosive sap that burns through bronze.
06: A localized pocket of warped gravity where ruined marble pillars float lazily 30 feet off the earth, surrounded by the dried husks of giant bats.
07: An ancient sun-dial in an overgrown courtyard. Its shadow points directly toward the nearest PC, moving as they move regardless of where the sun sits.
08: A mirror-still lake in an ancient swamp. Anyone looking into the water sees their reflection replaced by a rotting, ancient king wearing an iron crown.
09: A field of crystalline flowers that hum in harmony with the lunar cycle. Plucking one causes surrounding creatures to suffer temporary psychogenic blindness.
10: A massive, dead leviathan cast ashore on a red-sand riverbank. Scavengers have carved a small tent village inside its rotting ribcage.
11: A sudden dimensional tear reveals an alien cityscape under twin blue suns for 30 seconds before snapping shut with an ear-splitting thunderclap.
12: A square miles of soil turned into a squirming, carpeted mass of fleshy, pale maggots that feed entirely on sunlight.
13: A massive iron meteor crashed into a temple, fusing with the altar. The air within 100 yards smells overpoweringly of ozone and rotten honey.
14: An oasis where the water tastes like copper blood. Drinking it cures all physical ailments but grants terrifying, apocalyptic dreams during sleep.
15: A circle of six standing stones. Standing in the center causes time outside the ring to speed up by a factor of sixty (1 minute inside = 1 hour outside).
16: A fog rolls over the steppe, turning all metal objects bright orange with an inexplicable, rapid rust that wipes away iron edge and temper in minutes.
17: A cavern entrance shaped like a open, toothless maw. Entering it causes all torches to burn with a sickly green, heatless flame.
18: A ridge of mountains where the echoes of footsteps or voices return three seconds before they are actually spoken.
19: An ancient stone bridge over a dry canyon. Crossing it makes travelers feel as though they are walking beneath an crushing weight of deep sea water.
20: A field of petrified warriors frozen in mid-combat, their faces twisted in absolute terror rather than battle fury.
21–40: Cultists, Sorcerers & Heretical Sects
21: A procession of flagellating cultists in saffron robes, chanting litanies to the Black Goat of the Woods while leading a massive, six-legged bull to sacrifice.
22: An exiled sorcerer-king resting in a gilded litter borne by blind, mutated slaves, seeking a rare star-metal dagger to slay his rival.
23: A cabal of serpent-headed cultists performing a ritual inside a hollowed-out baobab tree, attempting to awaken a sleeping dragon-god.
24: A troupe of itinerant performers whose masks are permanently fused to their skin; their performance subtly hypnotizes audiences into a trance.
25: A rogue alchemist selling elixirs brewed from the bile of deep-sea abomination tissue; it grants temporary darkvision at the cost of scaly skin patches.
26: A squad of city guards searching for a fugitive noble who fled after being exposed as a worshiper of the Crawler in the Shadow.
27: An ancient sorceress bound inside an iron cage hanging from a cliff, offering secrets of forgotten empires in exchange for fresh blood.
28: A religious schism breaking into a bloody melee in a dusty marketplace over which elder god will consume the world first.
29: A lone warlord who replaced his lost left hand with an organic, squirming tentacle spliced from an aquatic spawn.
30: A sect of silent, veiled monks who cut out their own tongues to prevent themselves from ever speaking the forbidden true names of the stars.
31: A coven of swamp-witches harvesting hallucinogenic moss from the shell of an ancient, sleeping cosmic monstrosity.
32: A band of nomadic mercenaries who wear armor fashioned from the chitinous plates of giant arthropoid horrors.
33: An insane prophet standing on a stone pedestal, screaming predictions of cosmic alignment that match the PCs' exact quest goals.
34: A high priest offering 500 gold pieces for a pristine sample of "flying polyp blood" to complete an ancient warding glyph.
35: A dead cultist's corpse hanging from a tree, holding a leather journal containing star charts that don't match any known night sky.
36: A subterranean slave trader auctioning off captured deep-one hybrids who hiss threats of coastal vengeance.
37: A blind astrologer who uses live squids in a bowl of black water to divine future battles and deaths.
38: A renegade priest of Cthulhu seeking protection from his former cult after stealing a fragment of the R'lyeh Text.
39: A group of tomb-robbers who unknowingly breached a sealed vault dedicated to Tsathoggua and are now mutating into toad-like forms.
40: A sorcerer riding a chariot pulled by two skeletal monstrosities bound together by dark sorcery and glowing runes.
41–60: Eldritch Horror & Abominations
41: Shoggoth Spawn: A writhing, tar-like mass of shifting eyes and pseudopods bursts from a sewer entrance, hungry for organic material.
42: Deep One Hybrid Squad: A raiding party of amphibious humanoids with bulging eyes and webbed hands, armed with coral spears and bone knives.
43: Mi-Go Forager: A pinkish, crustacean-like flying horror harvesting specimens of local flora (and fauna) with clicking, surgical instruments.
44: Dimensional Shambler: A ape-like monstrosity with matted fur and elongated claws steps out of thin air to snatch a prey item before vanishing.
45: Serpent-Folk Assassin: A sleek, scaled reptilian humanoid using illusion magic to blend into human crowds before striking with venomous blades.
46: Night-Gaunt Swarm: Faceless, horned, leather-winged beasts swooping down from mountain crags to snatch travelers and drop them into abyssal chasms.
47: Ghoul Pack: A tribe of rubbery, dog-like humanoids emerging from ancient burial mounds to feast on recent battle casualties.
48: Star-Spawn Avatar: A towering, tentacled monstrosity encased in petrified resin, slowly breaking free as the stars align.
49: Formless Spawn: A black, fluid mass that can take any shape, slithering down from a stone ceiling to engulf sleeping prey.
50: Flying Polyp: A sickly, amorphous entity generating localized gales and whistling shrieks as it lifts rocks and trees into the air.
51: Byakhee Patrol: A pair of bird-visaged, insectoid beasts carrying a cult leader through the upper atmosphere on a secret mission.
52: Ghatanothoa's Sight: An ancient, hideously deformed statue whose gaze threatens to turn viewers into mummified stone from the inside out.
53: Chaugnar Faugn Cultist-Beast: A hulking, elephantine monstrosity with a webbed trunk searching for blood to feed its slumbering master.
54: Hunting Horror: A serpentine dragon-like entity with a single vast wing, burning in direct sunlight but hunting in deep shadows.
55: Hound of Tindalos: A angular, skeletal nightmare emerging from a sharp 90-degree corner in a stone corridor to hunt a time-traveling PC.
56: Dhole Worm Lingering: A massive, subterranean worm burrowing through rock, leaving collapse-prone tunnels and toxic slime behind.
57: Insect from Shaggai: A tiny, parasitic metallic insect attempting to burrow into a character's brain to control their body.
58: Great Race of Yith (Mind-Swapped): A human scholar acting completely alien, taking strange notes on local biology with an unblinking, methodical stare.
59: Yithian Conical Construct: A towering, rugose cone of spongy tissue equipped with mechanical appendages exploring ancient ruins.
60: Color Out of Space: A shimmering, unnamable hue infecting a farmstead's well, causing local wildlife and crops to glow, mutate, and wither.
61–80: Sword & Sorcery Tropes with a Lovecraft Twist
61: A battle-hardened barbarian chieftain whose tribe worships a gigantic, blind albino ape living in a deep ravine.
62: A decadent city state ruled by a dynasty of incestuous sorcerers who maintain their youth by consuming powdered meteorites.
63: A gladiatorial arena where slaves are pitted against captured monstrosities dredged from the ocean's twilight zone.
64: A ruined jungle temple where the stone idols are wrapped in living, venomous vines that react to blood sacrifice.
65: A band of desert nomads who ride giant, six-legged reptilian mounts and hunt down warlords who breach ancient taboos.
66: An ancient library guarded by a blind, iron-armored automaton that attacks anyone who reads aloud from certain dark scrolls.
67: A pleasure-barge floating down a muddy river, hosted by an immortal noble who hosts grotesque, alien-themed masquerades.
68: A coastal fortress built entirely out of black, non-porous basalt stone that repels barnacles, sea-life, and siege weapons alike.
69: A famed sword master who claims his blade was forged from the bone of a fallen cosmic titan and drinks his opponents' shadows.
70: A subterranean city of thieves built in the ribcage of an ancient, dead sea monster, flooded with black water at high tide.
71: A pirate captain who uses a bound Deep One as an underwater navigator to navigate treacherous, mist-shrouded reefs.
72: A mountain pass choked with the rusted armor and skeletons of an army that died overnight without a single mark on their bodies.
73: An ancient ziggurat where the top platform features a telescope made of ground crystal that views other dimensions instead of planets.
74: A slave rebellion led by a charismatic warrior who secretly carries a parasitic alien spore in his chest.
75: A lost valley populated by primitive humans who have evolved extra limbs and eyes from drinking runoff from a fallen star.
76: A sunken temple that rises from the sea once every 100 years, revealing treasure vaults lined with eldritch warding runes.
77: A witch-doctor using a polished obsidian mirror to steal the strength and vitality of rival warriors while they sleep.
78: An ancient arena where the dirt floor is alive—a single, sprawling, dormant fungal organism that drinks spilled blood.
79: A warlord's siege engine made from the petrified wood of an alien forest, capable of launching balls of burning green fire.
80: A mountain monastery where monks guard a sealed iron door, claiming that opening it will unmake the sun.
81–100: Artifacts, Ruins & Eldritch Discoveries
81: An ancient stone chest containing three vials of glowing blue liquid; drinking one grants superhuman strength but rots the teeth and gums within hours.
82: A carved jade idol of Cthulhu that feels freezing cold to the touch and causes nearby milk, wine, and water to spoil instantly.
83: A bronze broadsword inscribed with alien runes that hums when within 100 feet of extradimensional entities.
84: A scroll written in human blood on dried skin, detailing a ritual to summon a minor entity that requires the caster's own memories as payment.
85: A ring made of unearthly star-metal that allows the wearer to walk through solid stone once per day, but leaves behind a trail of black slime.
86: A massive iron key with three teeth, found inside the stomach of a giant shark; it fits no known door in the local kingdom.
87: A cracked obsidian orb that displays a live, real-time view of a distant, dying alien world when held under moonlight.
88: A suit of ancient bronze plate armor lined with unknown silver wire that renders the wearer immune to mind-affecting magic, but induces permanent paranoia.
89: A set of heavy copper lockets containing dried, powdery dust; inhaling it causes vivid visions of the world before humanity evolved.
90: A horn carved from a sea monster's tusk that, when blown, causes all fires within a quarter-mile to instantly extinguish.
91: A stone tablet inscribed with mathematical formulas that, if solved, allow a sorcerer to fold space and teleport short distances.
92: A preserved, dried alien heart in an alabaster jar; it still beats once every three hours with a heavy, reverberating thud.
93: A crown made of twisted, blackened iron that forces anyone who wears it to speak only in the dead language of Aklo.
94: A golden compass whose needle does not point north, but toward the nearest living creature with non-human blood.
95: A book bound in green leather containing accurate maps of the coastline as it will exist 10,000 years in the future.
96: A pair of silver lenses that allow the user to see ethereal, invisible parasites clinging to the backs of local nobles and leaders.
97: A ceremonial dagger made of volcanic glass that heals the target instead of harming them, but drains the user's maximum health permanently.
98: A strange, mechanical device resembling a bronze brass beetle; winding it causes it to scuttle toward the nearest source of star-metal or meteorites.
99: A sealed stone sarcophagus containing no body, only a sphere of black liquid that floats in zero gravity when released.
100: The Ultimate Ruin: An entire buried city made of non-Euclidean geometry, floating over an abyss that whispers the true name of the current world.
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