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 charming and roguish character attempts to attach him- or herself to the heroes as they travel towards the next town. He is in fact a spy of an enemy country or faction, seeking safe passage into town and hoping to blend in unnoticed.A travelling artisan and his or her family may ask to share camp with the heroes overnight for their own safety. If the heroes are particularly unsavoury or scary looking they’ll hurry on instead, clearly frightened of them.
Two carters are having a row in the middle of the road, each arguing that the other needs to get himself and his lazy oxen out of the way of honest, hard working folks.
A trader or farmer is heading home with a cart half full of unsold wares. Good time to make a deal if you’re short on turnips, cauliflowers, or whatever it is he didn’t manage to sell.
A self-proclaimed inventor and astronomer sits atop his cart shouting at his hired men and the mules. It is a matter of utmost importance that he gets to a specific hill at a specific time to make his observations—and his gear is heavy, cumbersome, and entirely too fragile.
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