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Lost Monuments of Chult

by Mike on 19 March 2018

This article is one in a series of artices I wrote for running the D&D hardcover adventure Tomb of Annihilation. You can find links to all of the articles below:

The eternal buzz of carniverous insects fills the humid air. Each step in the swamp threatens to tear the boot from your foot or expel a blast of poisonous gas. The eyes of beasts seem always upon you as you cut through the thick vines in your path.

As you pull through another canopy of skin-tearing vines you reveal a clearing and the ancient lost monument hidden within it.

Twenty Random Lost Monuments of Chult

Here is a list of twenty randomly generated monuments. Refresh this page for a new set or bookmark it to add some texture to the random encounters and hex crawl in Tomb of Annihilation. Use these random monuments as inspiration to build fantastic monuments in your own game. Choose and customize random monuments that make sense for the characters and the story of your shared adventure. Add your own effects or tie secrets and clues to the monument based on the description to add new spice to the scene.

Keep Your Own List On Hand

The random monuments above were generated from the following list. You can print this table and use it as a bookmark in your Tomb of Annihilation book, using it whenever you think a monument might add some fun exploration to the game.

d20 roll	Condition	Effect	Type	Origin
1	Crumbling	Necrotic	Pillar	of Ubtao
2	Sunken	Fiery	Pool	of Dendar
3	Pristine	Madening	Shrine	of Ras Nsi
4	Excavated	Watery	Tree	of Myrkul
5	Ivy-covered	Radiant	Ruin	of the Aarakokra
6	Ruined	Arcane	Cairn	of the Batiri
7	Cracked	Poisonous	Statue	of the Grung
8	Shattered	Acidic	Barrow	of the Taxabi
9	Buried	Diseased	Effigy	of the Pterafolk
10	Gore-covered	Psychic	Altar	of the Yuan-ti
11	Bloody	Frosty	Skull	of I'jin the almiraj
12	Glyphed	Electrical	Fountain	of Kubazan the froghemoth
13	Runed	Antimagical	Obelisk	of Moa the jaculi
14	Obsidian	Oozing	Ship	of Nangnang the grung
15	Metallic	Charming	Tower	of Obo'laka the zorbo
16	Ornate	Fearful	Tomb	of Papazotl the eblis
17	Desecrated	Dominating	Throne	of Shagambi the kamadan
18	Ancient	Sleep-inducing	Stone Circle	of Unkh the flail snail
19	Decorated	Thunderous	Carving	of Wongo the su-monster
20	Floating	Trapped	Rock	of Acererak

The Value of Random Inspiration

Random charts and tables on their own do not build interwoven and interconnected stories. We DMs, on our own, have a bad tendency to leap to stereotypes and cliches when we need sudden inspiration for a fantastic features. A mixture of random tables that fuel the inspiration of us dungeon masters have the potential to come up with wonderully colorful and well-connected monuments within the stories we share with our group.

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