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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LostSoul" data-source="post: 1935876" data-attributes="member: 386">I once ran a pretty cool encounter while the PCs were travelling on a road.I foreshadowed it a bit.  There was a forest that they had travelled by boat around, and they were going to have to go back through it.  Everyone told them it was full of trolls, blah blah blah.  They also saw a wanted poster for a group of bandits.So they're going through the forest, with a cart full of apples (trolls love apples) and a jackass of a driver.  They see something in the forest banging and crashing and eating someone, and they rush out to attack it.  They make spot checks, but fail to notice that it's just a dummy until they actually hit it.  That's when the bandits attacked them, and we had a nice little battle, moving off into the woods a bit.  The PCs cleaned up, and returned to the road to find the driver trembling under the cart.  He pointed into the forest; the PCs turned to look, and saw a severed head fly their way.The troll stalked them a bit in the woods, then charged out.  In the end it died, but not before it nearly killed the fighter.  It was pretty cool.I also use road encounters to let the PCs hear rumours and such.  There was another encounter with a merchant, his daughter, his guard, and some scholar.  They didn't trust the PCs at first, nor the PCs them, but eventually they made nice.  I've always wanted to use pilgrims travelling to a holy site.  That would be cool.  Maybe a man and woman carrying their sick and lame child.</blockquote>

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