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 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.
Miserable weather makes everyone on the road miserable; expect cart drivers to yell at each other, men-at-arms to brush past roughly, and mules to get stubborn.
Soldiers in large numbers march or ride down the road, forcing everyone else to get out of their way. Drummers play their tattoos, buglers bugle, pipers pipe, and sergeants bark—whatever is going on, it’s going to be bloody.
Colourful travellers set camp by the side of the road, drinking and dancing and playing on their musical instruments. Assuming that the heroes don’t look like bandits or soldiers they are invited to join in and sing a few songs of their own.
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