"On the Road you meet..." JW
The Plot
- Bandits. Obviously.
- A group of travellers who have been attacked by bandits
- 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
- A monk on a pilgrimage
- Lots of monks on a pilgrimage
- Ordinary folk on a pilgrimage
- Lots of monks on a crusade
- Gypsies, travellers, tinkers etc.
- Other adventurers
- Rich people fleeing an outbreak of plague in one of the cities 11. A runaway
child
- An eloping couple
- Irate family members pursuing the runaway child/eloping couple 14. The other
family pursuing the other half of the eloping couple
- 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
- Snake-oil sellers
- Religious revivalists
- Tollgates, official or otherwise
- Low-flying dog fighting magic carpets. Or a magic carpet dog fighting a
dragon
- Packs of wild animals
- Spirits of the departed, doomed to walk the road for eternity until someone
breaks the curse that holds them there.
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