When The Walls Fall

When The Walls Fall is a setting generator mini game where you roll and stack dice to represent a city. When the dice fall so does the city and the fallen dice determine how it fell and what remains.

The original file can be found via the link below but I’m hoping this is a more accessible format for anyone who wants or needs it.

How To Play!

Starting with a d20, roll and record the dice result, then place on the dice drop table. Do the same with each progressively smaller die, placing each atop the tower once rolled. Each die’s result will indicate something about the city.  Once the tower falls, by chance or once you have placed the d4 at the tower’s peak, the dice will indicate two last details Total up all the fallen dice, this is how the city fell. Where each dice fell on the die drop table will indicate something that survived the city’s death.

d20 - founding belief d12 - the dark secret d10 / d10 - source of prosperity d8 - prominent feature d6 / d4 - leaders reputation

(Image of a hex styled dice drop table)

Dice Drop Table Results

1. Broken roads
2. Crumbling walls
3. Abandoned homes
4. Defaced monument
5. Fallen tower
6. Desecrated Crypts
7. Slumbering monster
8. Bitter survivors
9. Roaming Bandits
10. Fanatics of the Old Ways
11. Rampaging Monster
12. A Prophecy
13. A lone Wizard
14. Looters camp
15. Caged monster
16. an unspoken religion
17. Wandering Knight
18. Peaceful Settlers
19. A Fabled Hero
20. A stubborn hermit
21. A rightful heir
22. Scatteted bones
23. Ghouls
24. Buried Treasure
25. Desolate Wasteland
26. Wild Magics
27. a dark secret
28. A wicked villian
29. A Spreading Corruption
30. uncountable wealth
31. secret order
32. a curse
33. a sacred Relic
34. A ghost of the city
35. A Legend
36. A promise to return

D20 Founding Belief & it’s Manifestation

1. Omen - a holy site 
2. Survival - lush farmlands
3. Power - a royal palace
4. Worship - A grand cathedral
5. Greed - a bustling market
6. Enlightenment - a monastery
7. Strength - a military base
8. Isolation - a hermitage
9. Wisdom - an old university
10. Tradition - a venerable mansion 
11. Study - a great library
12. Expansion - a border fort
13. Chance - a gold mine
14. Freedom - the people’s forum
15. Defence - high walls
16. Peace - an old battlefield 
17. Union - two settlements combined
18. Opportunity - a great crossroads
19. Secrecy - a secret location
20. Magic - A wizard’s tower 

D12 Dark Secret

1. The foundations of the city were built by angels 
2. The city forms the core of an unspeakable ritual
3. The waters of the city are plagued by a growing poison
4. A coven of vampires pulls the strings
5. A potent drug is created here from something obscene
6. Time is condensed for use as a currency
7. The first stone of the city was the heart of a titan
8. The city was stolen from someone who wants and deserves revenge
9. The dead do not rest within the city walls
10. Human eyes set into the brick watch the city streets below
11. There are no children within the city walls…
12. Something steals the dreams of the city’s denizens

D8 Special Features

1. Impossible ruins made of an alien material 
2. Spires that stretch to pierce the clouds
3. Crisscrossed with canals and rivers
4. Deep underground lit by a false sun
5. Carved crystalline monuments 
6. From far off, it doesn’t even look like a city.
7. A great guardian defends the city
8. Built within the bones of some impossibly vast creature

D10 / D10 Sources of Power

1	Blessed by	Long forgotten Deity
2	Enslaved by	A terrifying monster
3	Harnessed	A powerful spirit
4	Created	The Great Machine
5	Stole (from)	an ancient artifact
6	Tricked	Death itself
7	Discovered	a natural power
8	Defeated	a great evil
9	Entrusted with	an alien intelligence
10	Born from	The Divine Order

D6/D4 Leaders Reputation 

1. Tyrant - [1. warmonger, 2. harsh taxes, 3. cruel punishments, 4. religious persecution]
2. Figurehead - [1. overbearing regent, 2. foreign influences, 3. corpse King, 4. divinely appointed puppet]
3. Absent - [1. endless campaigning, 2. imprisoned far away, 3. drowning in vices, 4. disinterested in ruling]
4. Foolish - [1. squandered wealth, 2. reckless diplomat, 3. inappropriate marriage, 4. blasphemer]
5. Illegitimate - [1. usurper, 2. bastard child, 3. hated by heaven, 4. dishonourable schemer]
6. Cursed - [1. desperately unlucky, 2. withered body, 3. hollow shell, 4. sorcerous slumber]

Cause of Collapse (total rolled when tower collapses)

1. An act of God
2. Slow and inevitable decline
3. Swallowed in a sinkhole
4. Harsh winter destroyed the crops
5. High winds stripped the city to its bones
6. The ground eroded under it
7. Choked in ash and volcanic fumes
8. Flood
9. Drought
10. Water-borne disease
11. Animal-borne disease
12. Diseased crops
13. Plague of sickness
14. Plague of insects
15. Massive fire
16. Massive unpaid debts
17. Economic collapse
18. Royal treasury stolen
19. Source of prosperity fails
20. Source of prosperity corrupted
21. Value of production declines
22. Failed revolution 
23. Succession crisis
24. Civil war
25. Violent coup
26. Loss of faith
27. Ideal was corrupted
28. Extreme population decline
29. Mass migration
30. Blood thirsty cult
31. Traitors on the inside
32. Propaganda and fear tactics by enemies 
33. Invaded and destroyed by raiders
34. Trade routes attacked and destroyed
35. Started a war over ideals
36. Started a war over religion 
37. Started a war over land
38. Attacked in a war over ideas
39. Attacked in a war over religion
40. Attacked in a war over land
41. Involved in a war they had no part in
42. Leader assassinated
43. Source of prosperity destroyed
44. Source of prosperity stolen
45. Engulfed by another city
46. Relied on another city which fell
47. A smothering infestation of monsters
48. An unstoppable horde of monsters
49. A single rampaging monster
50. A volcanic eruption, lava pouring through the streets and rubble falling from the sky
51. A great tsunami, a single wave sweeping the city away
52. An earthquake crumbled the foundations and split the city in half.
53. A relentless torrent of rain that drowned the city in a week
54. Winter brought a Frost so bitter it’s said she froze the heart of every man in the city.
55. A Wizard reduced it to rubble in the blink of an eye
56. A Shadow engulfed the city in a year of darkness
57. Mother Earth reclaimed what was hers
58. A star fell and destroyed it
59. A Roc made her nest from it and fed her children its people.
60. The people sold away their souls to some ancient demon.
61. The Sun turned it to glass
62. A leviathan swallowed it whole
63. A dragon stole it for their hoard
64. A giant awoke from under it
65. It’s people Vanished one night 
66. It was banished into Hell
67. It grew legs and walks the earth
68. It was lifted to Heaven by angels
69. It crumbled under its own weight
70. An act of God