One hundred different social encounters for your players to experience on the road.
| d100 | Entry |
|---|---|
| 1 | A bard or minstrel, half dressed and looking over his shoulder. |
| 2 | Farmer going to/returning from market with his meager goods. |
| 3 | Farmer going to/returning from town with his/her sons. |
| 4 | Farmer going to/returning from town with his/her daughters. |
| 5 | Girl running away from home. |
| 6 | Boy running away to the city. |
| 7 | A lost child, in tears and holding a torn sack. |
| 8 | A troupe of entertainers, led by an overdressed and curious Elf. |
| 9 | Full company of mercenaries, led by a stout, dark bearded Captain. |
| 10 | A small group of mercenaries, dishevelled and sweating. |
| 11 | Minor noble travelling via horse, with servants. |
| 12 | Minor noble going to/returning from hunt, with retinue. |
| 13 | Local bailiff, sheriff or warden, with a suspicious outlook of strangers. |
| 14 | A hunter or poacher, with a huge longbow strapped to their back. |
| 15 | A pair of hunters or poachers, arguing about who is to blame for a missed shot. |
| 16 | Large trading caravan, with accompanying surly guards. |
| 17 | A lone trader/merchant on foot, leading a mule carrying their wares. |
| 18 | Lone trader/merchant riding on a horse drawn wagon. |
| 19 | Limping bailiff and his badly beaten prisoner. |
| 20 | Escaped prisoner, manacled and carrying a religious icon. |
| 21 | Sheriff and his dogs, out hunting an outlaw. |
| 22 | A boundary warden with a broken bow and empty scabbard, fuming as he walks. |
| 23 | Lone travelling priest, carrying a lit censer with an acrid smell. |
| 24 | Lone travelling cleric, with a faintly glowing mace. |
| 25 | Charismatic priest and retinue of apostles, who are mumbling to each other and won’t make eye contact. |
| 26 | A cleric and a small retinue of acolytes, full of confidence. |
| 27 | A ranger/boundary warder patrol, with a cheerful leader. |
| 28 | A patrol from the local city or town guard, nervous about being out of town. |
| 29 | A foot messenger, with a ducal ring on his hand. |
| 30 | A horse messenger wearing a royal tabard and carrying a fine leather satchel. |
| 31 | A travelling historian carrying a sack of old stone statues. |
| 32 | A starving beggar, willing to trade information for food. |
| 33 | A group of refugees, telling stories of war and oppression in their homeland. |
| 34 | A wounded soldier, limping along on crutches. |
| 35 | A deserting soldier carrying a memento of a fallen friend. |
| 36 | A wandering dog, with a silver collar and name tag. |
| 37 | A bear wearing a collar and trailing a frayed rope. |
| 38 | A riderless horse, with bulging saddlebags. |
| 39 | A thrown rider, trying to catch his horse. |
| 40 | A wandering madman, ranting about an invisible creature. |
| 41 | A pair of dwarven prospectors, arguing loudly about where they took a wrong turn. |
| 42 | Halfling cook/chef, out foraging for ingredients. |
| 43 | Overturned wagon with injured merchant. |
| 44 | A bored elderly gnome, with a curious mechanical toy. |
| 45 | Fisherman by a riverside, without any fish. |
| 46 | Druid planting rows of trees across the road. |
| 47 | A drunk from a nearby tavern, unsteady on his feet. |
| 48 | A partially smashed coffin, with a “corpse” inside which is slowly moving. |
| 49 | A dealer of “used magical artefacts”. |
| 50 | An elf picking and eating wild berries. |
| 51 | A manic Herbalist, with green smears around his mouth. |
| 52 | Group of robed monks, carrying a lit censer. |
| 53 | A squire chasing his drunken master’s horse. |
| 54 | An armoured Dragonborn sitting on a stone, sharpening a sword and sighing. |
| 55 | Farmer with an unmoving mule, laden with fruit. |
| 56 | Guarded and chained prisoners digging a ditch. |
| 57 | A pair of wagon drivers preparing to race each other. |
| 58 | A tiny Earth Elemental, shifting pebbles from one side of the road to the other. |
| 59 | A group of dancing lights, which keep just ahead of the party. |
| 60 | A drug addict, coming down from their last score. |
| 61 | A harmless ghost, sadly humming an old song. |
| 62 | A gnome riding an armoured mastiff. |
| 63 | A hawker trying to find his bird. |
| 64 | A grave robber, with mud on his shoes and a dark, wet sack on his back. |
| 65 | A friendly necromancer with several raised skeletons, who offers to share food. |
| 66 | A gang of youths from a nearby town. |
| 67 | A gnomish tinker & merchant, offering magical mending. |
| 68 | A Quickling, fleeing from the service of a warlock. |
| 69 | A drunken Hill Giant, asleep and snoring loudly. |
| 70 | A starving hermit, bearing a sword handle without a blade. |
| 71 | A migrating Treant, walking down the middle of the road. |
| 72 | A dead knight’s retinue, returning the body home. |
| 73 | Traveling reeve or magistrate, summoned to a case. |
| 74 | A group of pilgrims, one of which is carrying a small, heavily bound chest. |
| 75 | A backwoods moonshiner, offering free samples of his wares. |
| 76 | A surveyor excited about discovering a door into an artificial hillock. |
| 77 | A dripping wet fisherman, climbing up from a riverbank with an angry look. |
| 78 | A girl picking wildflowers, acting as a lookout for local bandits. |
| 79 | A boy swinging a stick like a sword, with a pet dog following. |
| 80 | Villagers cutting wood to make bows. |
| 81 | A stone golem with one leg shorter than the other, never walking in a straight line. |
| 82 | A pixie telling rude jokes and riddles. |
| 83 | Four villagers burning a pile of corpses, which are emitting a thick purple smoke. |
| 84 | A wagoner trying to fix his strangely burned cart. |
| 85 | A contented Halfling, smoking an oddly scented pipe. |
| 86 | A wild-eyed and dishevelled Alchemist, ranting about a breakthrough. |
| 87 | An imp caught in a rabbit trap, screeching loudly. |
| 88 | A lost wagon guard, with scratches on his face. |
| 89 | A seller of genuine, if minor, religious relics. |
| 90 | An old gnome in hat and tattered clothes, rapidly shuffling a deck of cards. |
| 91 | An ebullient Orc, dressed in bright fine silks. |
| 92 | A Green Hag, offering a reward for revenge on those who tricked her. |
| 93 | A wine merchant, asking for directions to the nearby town festival. |
| 94 | A fur trapper, with a live wolverine as a pet. |
| 95 | A sour old grandmother, complaining bitterly about her eldest son. |
| 96 | A Hobgoblin out to see the world. |
| 97 | A young man, with a hideous mask magically stuck to his face. |
| 98 | A band of giant hunters, paid to kill a troublesome old Hill Giant. |
| 99 | A charcoal burner, telling stories about haunted trees. |
| 100 | A potion merchant, with a backpack full of ‘alternative’ potions. |