Experimental Complex Generator

The idea is that you roll 4d50, write down each sentance at the top of your map page and use the rules as the PC's transit through the system, hopefully giving each underground 'Area' its own different feel. Even if the players are not formally told they have entered that area.

"The" "Of" 1 Boiling Surge No Return 2 Torrenting Torment The Snakemen 3 Seeping Sink Blinded Eyes 4 Curving River Forgotten Hopes 5 White Water River Last Chances 6 Sinkholes Slipped Grips 7 Parched River The King Who Ate Saints 8 Murder Rapids Strangled Songs 9 Screaming Surge The Last Chance 10 Plunging Falls Abandoned Friends 11 Spiralling Beck Bloody Betrayal 12 Crawling Waters Forgotten Friends 13 Burning Rapids Those Despised 14 Seasonal River He Who Seeks 15 Weeping Cracks The Monsters Maw 16 Springs The Poisoned Fool 17 Fountains Choking Slime 18 Majestic Waves Quivering Fear 19 Endless Falls Silence and Time 20 Black Depthless Flow Mutation 21 Faults A Long-Gone Race 22 Tornado-Tubes Nightmares and Dreams 23 Inexplicable Whorls A Long-Forgotten God 24 Sulphuric Blooms The Silicon Crown 25 Tendrils The Beast of The Abyss 26 Tubes Endless Descent 27 Bloodsplatter Windings The Titancorpse 28 Pools The Conquored Worm 29 Warrens The Tasters Of The Air 30 Wormcasts No Escape 31 Burrows The Consumor 32 Tombs Eaten Hours 33 Myconid Farms (Dead) Mocking Imperial Ghosts 34 Ruined Mine Those Who Wait Still 35 Ghost Mine Eyes That Blink Not 36 Ruins The Lawgiver 37 Battleground Those From Below 38 Lost Colony The Sun-Eaters 39 Inverse Tower The Cryptic Witch 40 Strange Delve The Fingerless mage 41 Counter-Mines Dead Dwarves 42 Gold-Greed The Elf-Eaters 43 Mines Chained Children 44 Folley The Eyeslicers 45 War Mines The Slave Lords 46 Gasping Mines Sky Wind Scent 47 Failed Escape False Lights 48 Last Hope Starved Slaves 49 Fall Sleepless Dead 50 Threads Burning Words
"Always" 1 Curves like question marks at unexpected times 2 Has vertical letterbox vents in the roof 3 Dives out of sight like upturned letter 'J's 4 Connects through passages, curved like arrow flight 5 Cuts through banded sandstone staind with metallic leaks 6 Seems carved by thoughtless fools, organically, to no plan 7 Has blocked primary routes (or so it seems) 8 Requres traverses to pass impossible falls 9 Has one walking passage exit, accessable by overhang 10 Narrows to a squeeze but then expands 11 Has exits just out of reach 12 Descends and ascends interminably, pointlessly 13 Has smooth vertical routes with hacked handholds 14 Has falling phantom climbers warning of false routes 15 Tries to take one life on every passage 16 Curves back on itself if possible 17 Has cracks running in every direction, making every hold unstable 18 Snags your clothes if it can 19 Stains your skin the colour of its rock 20 Holds many darknesses, each different 21 Wants you on your knees 22 Eats sound between caves 23 Collects pockets of bad air 24 Guides you falsely 25 Wants to see you fall 26 Hs boulders balanced precariously 27 Hides exits in the floor 28 Is full of strange chiming, and movement from the next cave on 29 Builds caves to maximum size 30 Gives you an easy escape route, heading down 31 Grabs your feet in cracks while you fight 32 Puts swings in your ropes and abrades them 33 Changes scale unpredictably 34 Wants to see you chimney 35 Wants to tast blood and drinks any that is spilt 36 Cradles life if it can 37 Corrodes any metal left outside its sheath 38 Covers each path with smears of still mud 39 Drops random strategies on loud noises 40 Drips endlessly, soaking you 41 Funnels a freezing wind 42 Tips the axis of your walk, making you scrabble 43 Projects the fossilised bones of ancient beasts as unexpected grips 44 Has stalactites and stalagmites that sharpen like spears 45 Exposes the tracks of those who passed last 46 Keeps its roofs curved low 47 Hold still, stagnant pools wherever it can 48 Disguises the depth of any drop, pool or flow 49 Cuts across its own track without meeting 50 Encrusts itself in flowstone, inches thick
"but never" 1 Breaks a lantern if it falls 2 Lets sane people sleep without nightmares 3 Traps you in a squeeze with no way out 4 Ends a passage the way it began 5 Leaves you hanging without a hold 6 Has dead passages, leading nowhere 7 Makes secret paths worth the while 8 Has cave entries at ground level 9 Has sloped cave walls, vertical or concave only 10 Forces your head under water 11 Goes up, only down from where you are 12 Lets you damage a speleothem without an encounter roll 13 Holds bolt anchors for long 14 Lets you go without an encounter 15 Releases you in the direction you expect 16 Kills people while they sing 17 Drops you if you hold rock in both hands 18 Shows clear tracks of those who pass 19 Wakes you in the middle of a dream 20 holds bolt anchors for long 21 Lets you stand comfortably 22 stops moaning an howling 23 Holds steady reflections anywhere 24 Hides its threats 25 Reveals the depth of its pitches at first sight 26 Crushes you with falls if it can trap a limb instead 27 Hides evidence of your passage 28 Lets you guess direction from transmitted sound 29 Makes it easy to go back the way you came 30 Lets the strong escape the weak 31 Breaks legs when you take falling damage (just arms, ribs and necks) 32 Lets anyone cut a rope without suffering whiplash 33 Scales its threats predictably 34 Drops monsters from above 35 Hears magic words wtihout screaming and tremors 36 makes a sound except for whispers 37 Stops tempting you with false gold and gems 38 Lets you sleep 39 Lets go a corpse without a fight 40 Lets a light burn long without incident 41 Lets a ghost escape 42 Lays out its caves in regular flow, but clusters and piles them together 43 Lets water run long without gulping it down 44 Lets prayers be heard without alteration as they echo through 45 Lets you walk anywhere, but crawl, crouch, climb and leap. 46 Lets a river pass through without waterfalls 47 Lets anyone spring an ambush without giving some clue 48 Hides the innocent or lets the guilty flee 49 Leads where you want it to go 50 Lets a man die without testing his sanity (Women die fine)