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 craftsman is travelling from one town to another with his wife and a couple of children. The little family will be quite happy to share camp and swap news; the roads are safer when you travel in numbers.A jolly wine merchant invites the heroes to join him and sample his wares. He’s carrying valuable goods, or perhaps smuggling stuff in his wine barrels—and certainly would love for the heroes to stay around and help him guard his cart from thieves and robbers.
Alert heroes may notice tracks along the side of the road and in turn discover the naked bodies of a small group of men. A while further down the road they are approached by what appears to be armed soldiers or guards, demanding to search their goods. These are highway robbers who stole the soldiers’ uniforms to be able to exact tolls ‘legally’.
A messenger of a noble house thunders past on a fast horse.
A wandering minstrel asks to travel with the heroes for protection. He has no money but offers to write a ballad commemorating their deeds.
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