Wells and other Dark Holes in the Ground – A Scenery Drop In for the Busy DM by Steven Chabotte is a generic role playing game supplement published by Lucky Dice Games.
The supplement is available as an 11 page Pay What You Want PDF from DriveThruRPG. One page is the front cover, one the front matter and three pages are ads.
The opening page explains that the supplement is to add holes in the ground anywhere they could be added, from abandoned wells to sewer systems to shafts in a dungeon. It says that the items on the table can be combined to make the wells more interesting, with thousands of potential combinations.
External Look is the first, d10, table, describing what the well or other hole looks like from the top. Some of these are only suitable for aboveground use, but most could be adapted to different locations with ease; just because the well is a village well doesn’t mean the village is above the surface.
Water Quality is a simple d10 table of what the water is like, from clean and normal to potentially poisoned.
Inside the Well/Pit/Hole is the final table and this one has 50 results (it might have been easier to have this as a d100 table with each result taking up two numbers). These are used for interior dressing of the hole.
Wells and other Dark Holes in the Ground – A Scenery Drop In for the Busy DM in Review
The PDF lacks bookmarks and with the amount of content they are not needed. Navigation is fine. The text maintains a single column format and appeared to be free of errors. There are no illustrations. Presentation is adequate.
This supplement is what it sets out to be; a way of making wells and similar holes more interesting through a series of random tables. Perhaps more results could have been included, but this is a Pay What You Want supplement and the amount of content is fine for something you can pick up for free if desired. Wells and other Dark Holes in the Ground – A Scenery Drop In for the Busy DM is a decent little supplement and it can be found by clicking here.
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