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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An old man hobbles along the road leading six ducks on a piece of string.A small group of religious fanatics or pilgrims are travelling towards a holy site. They may prove helpful or a pain in the backside depending on their faith and beliefs, but they will not get out of the way, they will not be deterred, and they will not turn around.
Alert heroes may spot tracks leading towards a shrub inside of which d4 naked bodies lie hidden. Merchants or traders who have been murdered and robbed by highwaymen, the bodies are not easily identified and may be quite … ripe.
A naked person walks defiantly down the road, headed for a town or settlement. A compulsive gambler who lost big and paid it all? A victim of highwaymen and bandits? A lecherous bard who only barely made it out of the last town with an angry spouse on his or her heels?
Whimpering noises from just off the road may alert the characters to an abandoned infant. Whether poverty, scandal, or hunger forced its parents to leave it to the wolves, the child will die if left behind.
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