"On the Road you meet..." JW

The Plot

1. Bandits. Obviously.
2. A group of travellers who have been attacked by bandits
3. A rag-tag rebel army led by a displeased noble or a dispossessed bastard offspring of the local monarch, on their way to usurp the throne
4. A monk on a pilgrimage
5. Lots of monks on a pilgrimage
6. Ordinary folk on a pilgrimage
7. Lots of monks on a crusade
8. Gypsies, travellers, tinkers etc.
9. Other adventurers
10. Rich people fleeing an outbreak of plague in one of the cities 11. A runaway child
11. An eloping couple
12. Irate family members pursuing the runaway child/eloping couple 14. The other family pursuing the other half of the eloping couple
13. A hobbit inside a locked wardrobe. Well, we left him out there on the road sometime in 1987, and someone's going to have to let him out eventually
14. Snake-oil sellers
15. Religious revivalists
16. Tollgates, official or otherwise
17. Low-flying dog fighting magic carpets. Or a magic carpet dog fighting a dragon
18. Packs of wild animals
19. Spirits of the departed, doomed to walk the road for eternity until someone breaks the curse that holds them there.