D100 Fun Downtime Activities for Adventurers

Brew your own ale

Carve wooden animal figures

Write memoirs of your last dungeon

Train a stray animal

Practice throwing knives at fruit

Research a rival adventuring party

Gamble at the local tavern

Build a better trap detection tool

Learn a new language

Invent a fake noble title

Write a dramatic death scene for yourself

Host a feast in your honor

Commission a bard to sing your tales

Paint a heroic self-portrait

Map your journeys with exaggerated flair

Attempt stand-up comedy at the tavern

Enter an arm-wrestling competition

Take up pottery or sculpting

Start a gossip newsletter

Learn a local dance

Meditate under a waterfall

Collect odd rocks and name them

Practice disguise and mimicry

Train with a retired soldier

Start a rumor about a fake monster

Create a coded journal

Tend to a rooftop herb garden

Try on ridiculous outfits

Take painting lessons from a goblin

Join a book club (you're the only member)

Teach a village kid how to swordfight

Investigate a possibly haunted inn

Hunt mushrooms in the woods

Learn basic blacksmithing

Build a kite and fly it from a watchtower

Play chess against yourself

Enter a local cooking contest

Design a personal crest or sigil

Compete in a pie-eating challenge

Practice storytelling with increasingly absurd lies

Rehearse dramatic one-liners for battle

Get a tattoo to commemorate a monster kill

Organize your loot and catalog it

Start a minor religion about yourself

Teach others basic combat drills

Bet on sewer rat races

Take candle-making classes

Try meditation with a monk (fail repeatedly)

Set up a fake dungeon as a prank

Forge a royal decree (for fun)

Learn a musical instrument

Train your familiar to do tricks

Host a mock duel

Tail a suspicious noble for fun

Write fake prophecies and leave them in temples

Create a perfume from monster glands

Commission armor with unnecessary flair

Pose dramatically around town

Adopt an unusual fashion trend

Stage a one-person play

Take cooking lessons from a sentient ooze

Try to invent a new spell (with weird results)

Go fishing with no bait—just vibes

Attempt to tame a wild animal (fail gloriously)

Learn to juggle daggers

Write angry letters to dungeon designers

Prank a rival adventuring party

Dig a random hole looking for “treasure”

Attempt to build a flying contraption

Translate ancient runes incorrectly on purpose

Open a one-day “museum of oddities”

Spy on your party members for fun

Build a scarecrow that looks like your nemesis

Try every dish in the tavern menu

Perform magic tricks for children

Hunt down rare tea ingredients

Attend a noble's party undercover

Help a farmer (accidentally destroy crops)

Sit in absolute silence for a day

Learn calligraphy for fancy spell scrolls

Paint faces on your rations

Throw a retirement party for your sword

Practice giving epic speeches

Stare at clouds until inspired

Write fanfiction about famous heroes

Collect rumors from shady inns

Open a pop-up adventuring advice booth

Build your own “training dungeon”

Hold auditions for a squire

Memorize obscure laws to annoy guards

Compose a theme song for your party

Train birds to deliver messages

Try to brew the strongest coffee ever

Sneak around town for no reason

Practice elaborate fake deaths

Write a cookbook of dungeon meals

Trade riddles with a local wizard

Mediate a dispute between two squirrels

Learn sleight of hand (badly)

Do absolutely nothing, and love it