These have probably been suggested before, but I’m too much of a lazy fabulous person to search.

Critical hits: Sometimes, some things just hit closer to home more often than others, such as a recently deceased mother. Critical hits would boost damage you get hit for.

Random events: It would be sweet if there was, say, a 1/10,000 chance every turn for the thread to get rickroll’d, or something.

Both would remove some of the grind, but would add to a luck factor.

Edit:

...Awesome I deleted the word ‘events’ by accident.