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Encounter: Knigh-Deth the Luck-Slayer; all in-game luck-based checks automatically fail when within fifty feet, and so long as it is poised atop its giant 8-ball all dice rolled must be accompanied by a coin flip: heads, accept the dice roll as usual; tails, crit fail. Fortunately its only attack is hucking its giant 8-ball at people and it can otherwise be treated as a standard ghoul wearing a polka-dot muumuu.

Also I hope y’all like Volfoss, because that is going to be where the next dozen or so things come from, it’s crazy

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Encounter: item shop owner from the Outer Planes that got tired of constant Star-Devouring Squid attacks and figuring out exchange rates for souls and individual memories, so they’ve set up a nice little shop on the Prime Material Plane. Loves to chat with customers about how rough life was back on the Blasted Heath of Ktraaaanghzk, and loves Prime Material snacks.

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Item: big old hunk of Casu Marzu, a traditional cheese from Sardinia that contains live maggots.

Casu marzu is created by leaving whole pecorino cheeses outside with part of the rind removed to allow the eggs of the cheese fly Piophila casei to be laid in the cheese. … The eggs hatch and the larvae begin to eat through the cheese. The acid from the maggots’ digestive system breaks down the cheese’s fats,
making the texture of the cheese very soft; by the time it is ready for
consumption, a typical casu marzu will contain thousands of these
maggots. … Those
who do not wish to eat them place the cheese in a sealed paper bag. The
maggots, starved for oxygen, writhe and jump in the bag, creating a
“pitter-patter” sound. When the sounds subside, the maggots are dead and
the cheese can be eaten. … Because the larvae in the cheese can launch themselves for distances up to 15 centimetres (6 in) when disturbed,
diners hold their hands above the sandwich to prevent the maggots from
leaping.