I've been working on a new dungeon for my players to explore that involves a lich with way too much time on his hands and I'm looking for some ideas to include in the design of it.
A few ideas I have right now:
A floor where the first party member though the door becomes the mayor of a small village.
A floor where stats/skills/classes become reversed while the party is on that floor. ex the rouges lockpick skillpoints are swapped with perform belly dance, which if he tries, he can use it to open chests on that floor (imagine a gruff dwarf belly dancing in front of a chest)
A floor where they end up on a game show like Jeopardy or Family Feud.
A floor which a stereotypically large boulder chases them
The dungeon will have regular crawler floors mixed in too, don't want too much silly. We're coming off of a more serous campaign so this dungeon is more of a fun silly romp to challenge the players in a different way. Any fun or weird ideas are welcome.
Conveniently the lich has invited about 20 low level apprentices from a local magic academy there on a field trip, who greet the party enthusiastically and attempt to help using lots of magic.
Noah Cox
tesseracts kender zombies whining about they dindu nuffin a tiefling with horns sawn off ifghting a horde of skellies
Jeremiah Wood
Footwear destroying traps/spells at the entrance. Lego blocks and 3 sides dice scattered throughout the floor.
Chase Ward
Have a room filled with giant snails just lumbering around, nothing more
James Lopez
Have a room where they need to beat the monster at boardgames.
Wyatt Nguyen
>A chest containing a happy, healthy child that cheerfully explains to the party that the greatest treasure of all is friendship. Then he explodes.
>A table of delicious looking food. There is a harmless skeleton nearby with a chalkboard and chalk and will make a mark on the board for every person that eats from the table. It's not a trap, the Lich is just curious to see the average of people that will eat strange food found in a dungeon.
>A magical pillar with a lever. Pulling the lever turns anyone into a lich as long as they are in that room. This only works once per person. Leaving the room in any way reverts them to boring normaldom and gives them the crushing depression that comes with the knowledge that they will never again be a lich
>A pack of elven adventurers that are also exploring the dungeon. The party keeps stumbling onto them in the middle of embarrassing/homoerotic shenannigans
Bentley Thomas
A stash of combustible lemons.
Oliver Edwards
>A floor where the first party member though the door becomes the mayor of a small village You've got me sold, but make all the villagers zombies/thralls who don't realize what they are, like the lich created a whole functioning town as a social experiment, and all they've ever seen is each other so they don't realize they're all undead.
Michael Moore
Make the game show a quiz on the penultimate floor that tests their recollection of inconsequential details from previous floors of the dungeon. Incorrect answers are rewarded with a comically large weight dropped on them.
