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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