Notes: The Smattering

I have notebooks full of disjointed half-baked game ideas and I want to put some here so I can kick'em around later.

ETERNAL OAK ACORN: Eat an acorn from the Grandfather Oak (watch out for Showattan The Owl That Lives Forever) and until next sunrise any damage you take makes you gain hit points instead of losing them. When this wears off at sunrise you will cough up fist-sized acorn. Plant that acorn and a tree will grow and in 300 years when it is fully mature a perfect copy of you will emerge from inside the trunk.

RASPUTIN'S CHALLENGE: Rasputin is a sinister mad cleric from the Northern Kingdom of the Bear. Offers PCs actual no-shit immortality if they kill the king within 3 days. If they don't they turn to ice. Rasputin is only one to have actually succeeded at his own challenge, centuries ago.

ELEMENTAL PLANE OF MACHINES: Dimension ruled by the Mekannibals (mechanical fiends). Diesel zombies roam in search of fuel for the flesh engines (unlucky dimensional travelers mostly). Would love to invade our dimension, so the inhabitants attempt deals with wizards for access. Primordial oil from this dimension is like atomic rocket fuel for wizards & alchemists, also it gets you so drunk your soul is disfigured.

GATE OF HEROES: Believed by the locals to be magic archway to Valhalla-style afterlife. Actually an ancient alien artifact, when activated it randomly generates a "hero" but its programming is getting wonky and the newly "resurrected" heroes are all glitched up and unstable.

KELBORG: Afterlife realm, all swordsmen who die in any way other than by the sword end up here. Endless gloomy grasslands dotted with alehouses. They only serve weak beer and it must be paid for by reciting the manner of your ignoble death for all to hear. The innkeepers here are all different races and creatures but are all named Frank.

GLYPH OF DOOM: Fragment of a rune in the dead language of the hated Yx. If you see the rune then it's straight up save or die in d20 real world minutes. Bleeding yourself & offering the blood to The Machine That Is God will cancel your doom, but this risks reawakening the dead spirits of the Yxians. 

ANCESTRAL TRANSMUTATION: For the price of 900 pearls or your left eye & right hand, the Artful Buddha will change your birthline to include a famous hero or legendary figure as your ancestor. This will have random but generally beneficial effects on your present self and life and always brings strange fortune.

SAINT TERMOD'S SHOVEL: The shovel +1 of the patron saint of gravediggers. Anyone buried in a grave that was dug with this shovel can never be raised as undead or resurrected.

DEATH'S DREAD STANDARD: Tattered black banner on a cold wooden pole. Stick it in the ground under a new moon and all corpses in a half-mile rise as level 1 undead and obey your commands for as long as you possess the banner. Death will want her banner back.

What is a Grandfather Oak? What is hated Yx? Who is the Artful Buddha? No idea, these are just things I wrote down that I thought sounded neat. That doesn't keep me from using this kind of stuff when I'm improvising at the table (ask my players).