D&D Random Grassland Encounters

D1 Random Grassland Encounters

1. A rusty plow sits abandoned in a field.
   
   
2. A merchant wagon can be seen overturned on the side of the road ahead. The back door is open and there is nothing left inside it. It's been looted. The merchant is dead. The players can pick him clean for whatever he has on him, but there's nothing left in the wagon.
   
   
3. A man and a woman are in love and are about to elope, but their families don't approve of their relationship. The man's family is royalty, and the woman's family is low-class and uneducated. A group of guards are chasing after the couple to stop them from getting married. The couple asks the party to help them elope by distracting the guards. The guards are level 4 warriors, but they will stop chasing the couple if something more important comes up.
   
   
4. Players are traveling through the grassland when they come upon a small village. The village is populated by humans who worship a god of the grassland. The village elder will greet the players and invite them to stay for dinner, but he will also warn them that a monster has been terrorizing the village for the past few weeks.
   
   
5. A pair of squirrels sprint from tree to tree, in the few patches of forest.
   
   
6. Amidst the wide expanse of the grassland, the adventurers come across a large, abandoned wagon loaded with partially spoiled provisions. Investigating reveals it belongs to a nearby town besieged by marauding goblins. The locals offer a modest reward for aid in repelling the goblin threat.
   
   
7. A stone cairn stands as a marker, etched with ancient runes.
   
   
8. You notice hoofprints leading off the path, suggesting a rider nearby.
   
   
9. The faint sound of a church bell reaches your ears, though no buildings are in sight.
   
   
10. A group of travelers is walking along the road. One of them is limping. They are talking about how much further it is to the next town.