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