Random Wasteland Encounters + Generator (DND 5e)

D4 Random Wasteland Encounters

1. Nomadic sorcerers armed with illusions mask fleeing realms shifting beneath desolated grounds. Intervention reveals a cache of magical trinkets heralding danger posed by dragging sub-terrestrial realms closer to surface worlds vulnerable to powerful beings breaking free.
   
   
2. Travelers find a scorched, glass-like crater housing a shattered crystalline sphere emanating magical pulses. Examining it draws the attention of 2d4 crystal elementals who protect the relic from those who would misuse it. These events tie into a looming crystallomancer uprising in the horizon's shadows.
   
   
3. Q'ran the Raider is in the wilderness. He is a human with a brown cloak and a large sword, who is usually accompanied by a group of 4d10+5 orcs and 2d10 dwarfs. He will attack any party he sees unprovoked. If the party is attacked by Q'ran and his group, it will be a bloody fight if they can't get away.
   
   
4. The party is ambushed by a group of mind flayers who have been kidnapping travelers and using their brains as a source of power. However, the mind flayers are only pawns in a larger scheme orchestrated by a powerful telepathic being who plans to use the stolen brains to take over the world. The party must stop the mastermind and save the prisoners before it's too late.