What happens while the characters are plodding along the king’s roads connecting towns and cities in fairly populated lands? These encounters are intended for roads where the heroes are more likely to meet other travellers than wildlife or monsters.
This table is designed for a European inspired fantasy set in a technological and cultural age equivalent to the Middle Ages up to the Early Modern Period (ca. 1100-1750 AD.).
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A travelling merchant is happy to see the heroes, both because they may be potential customers but also because sticking to them may provide protection against brigands and highwaymen— but with the twist that she’s a fraud and a snake oil peddler.One or two travelling craftsmen, merchants, or other folk of the road try to attach themselves to the party for protection. At least one of them is a pain in the backside—whether he's overly paranoid and neurotic, a drunk prone to singing loudly all night, or some other trait of character that upsets regular travel routines.
A troupe of thespians and their colourful van may share the characters' campsite for the evening. Friendly folks, but oh so eccentric, and prone to bursting into dramatic soliloquies at the drop of a hat.
An elderly, aggrieved couple make their way past; their donkey cart contains the casket of their only child, killed in the king’s service. What’s going to become of them now?
A runaway dog remembers a better, kinder time when it had a master and tries to attach itself to travellers.
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