DARES!

Browsing the "I dare you include this and that in your novel" thread in the NaNoWriMo forums never gets old, especially if it's the fantasy dare thread. My favourites so far are:

Have a hero who is forced to do the opposite of heroic most of the time
1 bonus point if he has to lock a princess in a tower
2 bonus points if he has to get rid of a magical weapon of some kind
3 bonus points if he has got to allow the evil overlord to conquer the world/country/whatever
4 bonus points if he has to be killed by a dragon


Feature a wizard who is not a morning person.
Bonus Points: if he has a serious caffeine addiction.
Double Bonus Points: if magic only works/ works better early in the morning.
Tripple Bonus Points: if said wizard is the only one who can defeat your villain.
Quadrupple Bonus Points: if your villain IS a morning person.
Cookies: if the wizard and the villain are enemies because of bad incidents that happened in the morning when they used to be roommates.


Have your villain carry around a book instructing him on how to kill the hero.
Bonus Points: if it's written in a language the villain doesn't understand
Tripple Bonus Points: if the villain needs to go to the hero in order to get it translated
Quadrupple Bonus Points: if the hero doesn't understand the language as much as he thinks he does, and gives a bad translation
Cookies: if this saves his life

ROOMATES?! XD