Magic is a good one. You can make a "Regenerating Tower" with a kill/create trigger, and say that you have to kill the magician before you can get through where the tower's guarding.
Also, if ur doing an rpg, you can have "level ups" instead of blacksmith upgrade purchases. Just use an accumulate attribute-kills and a research tech.
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