Having different goods or even people to transport between each leg of the journey will allow the opportunity for multiple different scenarios to naturally take shape. On one leg of the journey they could just be transporting food though a starving countryside, another could see them hauling...
Copper intensely listens to Shade-9 while nodding along. "Uh, sure, that sounds... swell. I wasn't planning on going swimming today anyway."
Once Shade-9 moves along in the plan, the goliath turns to whisper aside Darius "What did he say we were doing up here exactly?"
"I don't know much about elementals, I thought we were here for dragon cultists? Anyway. If we need stealth, I might not look it, but I'm sneaky." The goliath offered.
Effectively, they are generic fantasy settings that differ from other dnd worlds on two key points: they don't have decades worth of lore to sift through or weed out for modern sensibilities. And they have guns incorporated into them instead of being highly regulated option things.