User blog comment:Knddnk2/A roleplay quest./@comment-4536066-20121014211149

If you want Odyssian sorts of trials, I suggest mythological sorts of enemies. You could get some roleplayers to volunteer to play the one-off villains, too. To give you ideas about what sorts of things Odysseus went through, there were these:


 * They encountered a cyclopes, it killed 6 men.


 * Stranded on an island of flesh-eating tribes, you could interpret this as cannibals or as any man-eating monsters


 * 1 man died breaking his neck because he was drunk from their on-boat partying and a storm kicked up. Getting everyone drunk before starting a conflict could be interesting.


 * They journeyed into the underworld. You could just have some kind of haunted sub-marine cavern. None of Odysseus's men died, but they got really scared.


 * They encountered a massive, hostile, 6-headed beast. It killed 6 men.


 * Whirlpool


 * Big storm


 * Also consider: taking refuge on an island with a witch who puts a spell on them


 * Also consider: sirens and mermaids

Did I get your imagination going?