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 sharply dressed gentleman waits at a crossroads at night. Demon looking to offer riches and fortune in return for human souls, or wealthy citizen waiting to meet with a business partner or shady contact without anyone else finding out?
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 eccentric herb collector or alchemist has gotten separated from his travelling party—or, more likely, they bailed on him because he is just that annoying.
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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