Random Wasteland Encounters + Generator (DND 5e)

D4 Random Wasteland Encounters

1. While wandering through the desert, the party comes across a lost caravan. The survivors beg for the party's help in recovering their stolen goods and defeating the bandits who attacked them. However, the bandits are actually undercover guards from a nearby kingdom, trying to stop smugglers from crossing their borders. The party must decide who to trust and how to handle the situation.
   
   
2. A giant lizard is eating a dead horse again the side of the road. He eats it until it is completely gone.
   
   
3. At the heart of a nightmarish stretch of desolate land, known for whispers of ghosts and shadows that move unbidden, the players encounter a solitary willow tree that seems older than time itself. Beneath it, a forlorn dryad named Lysandra weeps. She is the guardian of a hidden underground spring, the last source of pure water for miles. She tells of a long-forgotten hero whose skeletal remains rest beneath the tree, tormented by an eternal curse. If the players can lift the hero's curse – by defeating a shadowy revenant – Lysandra will open the spring to them and heal their wounds, both physical and emotional. As the waters flow, wildflowers bloom, planting a new hope in the land.
   
   
4. The party meets an eccentric yak clad in ceremonial armor who introduces himself as the Grand Vizier and claims to be cursed to roam the wasteland until he finds "The Great Relic of Undoing." This relic supposedly exists in the boiling depths of a nearby sulfur swamp, guarded by a tribe of 3d4 fire-infused frogmen who speak in riddles and require spectacular, quirky deeds to allow passage.