101 Ways To Stir Up Chaos in a Fantasy Town or City

[imurphy943]

1. Poison the mayor
2. Blow up the mayor
3. Feed the mayor to a rabid owlbear
4. Stab, shoot, or bludgeon the mayor
5. Set fire to the mayor's residence
6. Slip Rot Grubs into the mayor's gumbo
7. Send the mayor back to his people by several carrier pigeons
8. Dress up like a dragon and demand the mayor's youngest daughter
9. Paint a birthmark on yourself and announce that you are the mayor's bastard eldest son
10. Just before a hanging, spirit away the prisoners to be hanged and leave them tied up in the mayor's closet
11. Have an affair with the mayor's engaged daughter
12. Poison the mayor's daughter's wedding cake
13. Blow up the mayor's daughter's fiance

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[imurphy943]

14. Put ergot in all the oatmeal
15. Put spiny fish in the fountains
16. Go to the graveyard and start digging them up
17. Start a hostage situation in a pub
18. Dig tunnels under the mayor's house and fill them with barrels of gunpowder, then make the entrance extremely conspicuous
19. Pay some beggars a large amount of money to masturbate conspicuously while the mayor gives a speech
20. Release several large and ravenous animals
21. Start a revolt
22. Start leaving siege engines outside the walls

 

[Ed_Laprade]

23. The classic: Poison the wells (or other water supply).
24. Spread rumors of a Goblin/Orc/Etc. invasion.
25. Dig a deep tunnel in secret, then 'find' the Entrance To The Underdark/Hells.

 

[imurphy943]

26. Tell the GM that instead of visiting the dungeon on the outskirts of town, you want to try your hand at prostitution. You will probably get syphilis. Sleep with the mayor.
27. Start a drug war.
28. Make prized pieces of artwork into cigars, and sell them to peasants.
29. Kill The Batman.
30. Do nice things to old ladies until the DM asks what you're doing. Tell him you're waiting for one of them to bestow a boon upon you, specifically, diamonds falling from your mouth.
31. Combine one paladin, one roofie, one prostitute. Repeat until there are no more paladins who still have their powers.

 

[Croesus]

Can't do better than Mark Twain's The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg.

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Harlock]

32. Secretly replace the mayor's regular coffee with Folger's instant decaf.

 

[Super Pony]

33. Teach the peasants how to read.
34. Adopt all the orphans, and then get a banquet table at the nicest inn/club/restaurant in town..."kids, please sit down!" *chaos*
35. Organize the Otyughs in the sewers into a union
36. Use magic to engage in a smear campaign against the pillars of the community with illusions, fabrications, sabotage.
37. Set loose a Bulette in the market square

 

[rgard]

Taking my cue from Dean Wormer...

38. Drop a whole cartlload of fizzies into the local church's baptism pond.
39. Deliver cadavers to the Mayor's annual town dinner.
40. Fill the trees with underwear every Halloween.
41. Blow up the toilets every spring.

 

[imurphy943]

42. Give clear proof that the mayor is not only a witch, but also a woman
43. Build a church twice the size of the largest local church, and dedicate it to the mayor. Claim the whole thing was his idea.
44. Open a store in one of the poorer districts. Have a special opening day sale... 97% off knives, crossbows, swords, and petards!
45. Kill all of the Freemasons
46. Put ergot in the Eucharist
47. Geld every stallion in town, and any that may be brought into the town
48. Put all the stallion balls you have laying around in the mayor's bed
49. Train a troop of small insects to kill the mayor by over-salting his oatmeal a grain at a time
50. Geld the mayor and all his legitimate male successors
51. Put all the upper-class balls you have laying around into the archbishop's bed

 

[Stormonu]

42. Put out a call for adventurers, especially if you tell 'em the mayor will pay them big.