A spoopy kobold (event/encounter)
Here's one for you DM's that want a build up for an encounter & a funny pay off. The players are doing player stuff when a man screaming & yelling about death himself terrorizing people in the woods runs by. IF the players chose to go & investigate death they will at multiple points find people running away in terror. Once they find 'death' they find that it's just a kobold in a really crappy death costume (IE slightly off color black garb, there arms look like bones but when they walk the players can see regular kobold feet moving. His weapons are obviously fake & any sorta of 'death powers he has is either form potion effect, special effects, or cantrips)