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- Make an incomprehensible political system, a la Gulliver’s Travels Lilliput & Blefuscu (added by Brandon)
- Design a pirate king’s hidden lair or fort.
- Design a morally ambiguous adventure with a witch as antagonist (added by guest Alban)
- Design an adventure for a snake.
- Design an adventure built around a time loop.
- Create the concepts for three unusual spellcasting classes.
- Create an Invisible City (like Calvino).
- Design a scenario in which you use an actual performance (singing, reading a prepared short story, etc.) to propel the story forward (added by guest Nate B)
- Design an adventure or challenge to bring a dead PC back to life.
- Design an encumbrance system that even encumbrance haters will want to use (added by listener Wulf Mungus)
Previous Challenges
- Propose a clever use for cellphones at the game table.
- Create a cult that your party would want to join.
- Design a tactile mechanic for tracking either danger or time. Think along the lines of a Jenga tower, or candles burning out.
- Design a 1-page RPG (added by Tim Saucer).
- Make the most dangerous yet survivable 10x10x10 room.
- Design an adventure for a mouse.
- Design a door that both begs to be opened and terrifies the players.
- Design a sequence of devious dungeon traps.
- Make the coolest boat.
- Design an arena boss rush. BBEG after BBEG, each more deadly than the last. (added by listener, Ryan In Korea)
- Make an interesting shop (added by Peter Dillman).
- Create a festival (added by Tim Saucer)
- Invent a love triangle that can be dropped into any town
- Design an ambush
- Useless magical items that might actually have uses.
- Pitch an underwater adventure that sounds workable
- Create three space anomalies that beg to be investigated