This post is a response to an old thread on Monsters & Manuals . One of Noism's dangling post ideas (“The players stumble across another NPC Party in the dungeon”) prompted an earlier version of this, which then morphed into an expanded Gygaxian table set. It's mostly d12 based because I couldn't come up with 20 or 30 possibilities that didn't seem to be variations of the same thing. For spur of the moment use, I'd trim down the “Desired Item”, “Person of note in the Community”, and “Local Villain” tables to d10s, so that I could throw a d12, d10, and 2 d6s at once to match things up as quickly as possible. What is their story? They are starving and attempting to make their way to the surface. They are searching for the relative of a randomly determined member. Use the “Personal Relationship” table below. One of the other members is secretly romantically engaged with the missing person as well. They are arguing over whether they actual...