Random Wasteland Encounters + Generator (DND 5e)

D4 Random Wasteland Encounters

1. An exhausted ex-pirate airship captain offers his services in navigating perilous sand currents for a price, threading tales of hidden sky-islands rich with untouched treasure, if the party can endure his terrible yarns.
   
   
2. While traveling through a canyon, the party hears the distant sound of drums and chanting. As they get closer, they realize it is a group of goblins performing a ritual to summon an ancient earth elemental. The party must choose whether to stop the ritual and save the canyon, or let the elementals wreak havoc and take their chances on finding loot among the goblin tribe.
   
   
3. A company of 1d4+2 soldiers and their mounts marching along the road.
   
   
4. A caravan of 3d8 mechanical ostriches stumbles upon the party, each carrying half-mad alchemists trying to find the perfect formula for "Liquid Luck." Their most recent batch has caused all the ostriches to grow preposterously large ears, giving them the ability to eavesdrop from miles away, and now rival guilds are closing in. The alchemists need help to escape or negotiate a truce, offering some experimental elixirs for assistance.