ToME WikiRavenRed: Just another 2cworth to the eternal Lostsword / Princess Quest Alternatives debate... after the first couple of levels, getting offered a weapon or a piece of armour is useless. YES there's a chance that it might be Ringil, but if you're playing a hafted master, that's a fat lot of use... 
My alternative is to add different treasure options to the Princess Drop. You can then have an alternate plan to drop:
- "A scroll case" - (3d2 scrolls 10-15 levels OOD)
- "A potion bag" - (2d4 10-15 level OOD potions)
- "Some old books" - (1d3 random spellbooks)
- "My favourite pet!" - Levelled Animal Pet (yes, this one won't do you a world of good unless you can turn 'em into a companion, unless you've left a lot of unfinished business on the level before doing the princess quest.
- "A queen's ransom" - A drop of cold, hard cash. Lots of it.
Whilst there's certainly a risk you could get a Slime Mold Juice or Scroll of Light with these options, a Potion of Experience or Scroll of Artifact Creation could also result.
BsVeteran: And maybe some nice rings, wands, staves, ... *** drool ***
ItsyBitsy: This has been brought up over on the main ToME/TomeNET site, but some other randomquest ideas, since Evil Princess Sara isn't as popular as she once was...
1. Broken Altar of foo: There is an altar on the level of god "foo" (any of the worshippables will do). If you find it you can either "Bash" it and finish it off or "Talk" to it and find out what "foo" wants.
"Bash"ing an altar of Tulkas, for example, might please the other muckety-mucks and give you a random blessing. Manwe might give you a permanent +1 speed, Eru a permanent +1% mp, Morgoth a permanent +1 to melee damage, etc... If you were a follower of Tulkas, he might smack down your piety (or abandon you?). You'd have to spend a bit of time bashing it to succeed.
Each time you bash the altar, however, you either:
a. Take physical damage based on dungeon level. b. Lose sanity based on dungeon level. c. Aggravate nearby monsters. d. Summon a (not friendly) deep monster appropriate to the god (i.e. T-lords for Manwe). e. Summon a horde of (not friendly) deep monsters.
On the other hand, an Altar of Melkor might want 10 skeletons, and if you satisfy it and you're a follower or an unbeliever the Altar is restored and functions as any other Altar. If you are a follower or if you convert at that Altar you get a big Piety boost, a bonus to learning the Prayer skill (say 0.2), and if you convert you would get +5 skill points to your Prayer skill.
Anyone with the Antimagic skill that bashes an altar down (regardless of Deity) gets a bonus to their Antimagic skill.
2. Sphinx's Challenge: Scattered throughout the level are various "talking pillars" (monsters like Farmer Maggot). Each one tells you a letter of an item name, and when you give any of the pillars an item of that generic type (the item would be depth-appropriate, so no blades of chaos on Level 1), the pillars all disappear and the quest gives you one extra skill point to spend as you please.
For example, the pillars could spell Mushroom and you could give it a Mushroom of Paralysis or a Mushroom of Restore Constitution for the same effect.
3. Tomb of the Questing Hero: A monster of the same name (leveled appropriate to depth and with depth-appropriate bodyguards) is guarding a vault-like area on this level. The monster is of a type appropriate to the character's highest skill (i.e. Mages will fight magic types, warriors will fight warrior types, etc...).
The monster is guarding a randart of an appropriate type (i.e. warriors will drop heavy armor, mages will drop staves, etc...).
4. Artisan's Prison: Functions much like an EPS quest, but instead of an item drop the reward is chosen from the following list (like EPS, choose one of three options):
a. Scribe's Touch: Creates a spellbook similar to the library quest, except that it includes all the spells from a book already in inventory plus one spell from the library quest list. b. Sharpened Edge: Adds a substantial bonus to a weapon's +damage modifier (+5 or so) that can increase the weapon's total +damage higher than scrolls. c. Mirror Finish: Adds the Reflect capability to a chosen shield. d. Ringmaker's Gift: Turns a generic ring/amulet into a randart of the same type. e. Heart of Aule: Adds +1 to a chosen item's pval. f. (whatever else seems appropriate).
Kn: It doesn't make sense for the other good gods to appreciate it when you bash Tulkas's altar since they are all allied.