“ Have the PCs rping Orcs or Goblins or some other race that normally exists only as things to cut up with swords.”
“ Thrown enchanted skulls make great necromantic 'grenades' releasing blasts of negative energy, incorporeal undead, swarms of flesh-eating worms, etc.”
“ A dragon who demands to be told stories, if the person cannot comply, he or she becomes a meal for the dragon.”