20 Dungeon Tapestries
Few dungeons have completely blank, featureless walls.
Use this list to add tapestries to the walls in your dungeon.
Gore-coloured smears and bloodied handprints soil the tapestry.
Hung reverently behind the tapestry, an ancient shield is in pristine condition.
A heady and exotic mix of incense and oil emanates from the tapestry.
Lazily hung between two pillars this large tapestry is being used as a hammock.
The tapestry has been removed from the wall and neatly rolled up.
An improvised poncho made from a large tapestry lies torn and discarded on the floor.
Embedded in the weave of the silk tapestry are splinters of bleached bone.
Having spent so long on the ground this tapestry is scuffed and its original image is indiscernible.
An adventurer stands transfixed in front of the tapestry from which gleam a set of large, glowering red eyes.
Hanging over a small archway the heavy and thickly weaved tapestry serves as a curtain.
Thick, sooty fingerprints mar the tapestry’s weave.
The tapestry has been vandalised with a knife.
Slick and glistening the tapestry has been soaked in lamp oil (and burns fiercely, if lit).
Badly torn and ripped, the tapestry has been roughly repaired with thick off-coloured twine.
A small jagged strip of tapestry is missing from its bottom edge.
A map to the nearest secret door is pinned to the back of the tapestry.
This ornate and finely woven tapestry has been draped over a fallen adventurer’s bloody corpse.
Buried beneath the stones and mortar of a collapsed wall this tapestry is torn and ripped.
Hanging distorted and stretched, the tapestry appears to have been tugged violently in different directions at the same time.
The tapestry depicts a woodland scene. A set of wet muddy footprints leads away from it.
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