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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rafael Ceurdepyr" data-source="post: 1894547" data-attributes="member: 16566">Soon the 1st or 2nd level PCs in my homebrew D&D world will be traveling through a wilderness area on an escort mission.  The area does have a main road through it, but is not quite as civilized as it once was, before a war that ended about 5 years ago.  It's a temperate forest area near the foothills of a mountain range (think north-central Alabama).  About a hundred miles to the south is an area known as The Despair, a ravaged swamp destroyed by a dragon a couple hundred years before.  Their eventual goal is The Despair (full of undead, reptoid and dragonoid-y goodness), but they're not ready for it yet.I can always come up with monster encounters, but I'd like some creative suggestions on other sorts of encounters besides the standard "four kobolds lie in ambush" or whatever.  If it helps spark anything, here's a bit of background to the war: the August Empire was attempting to subjugate Calloo (the country the PCs live in).  Calloo resisted for about 30 years--they had superior magic--but were finally overwhelmed by the Empire's numbers of soldiers (mainly slaves and conscripts).Ideas?  Thanks!</blockquote>