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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imperialus" data-source="post: 4328556" data-attributes="member: 893">Sometimes I enjoy having little sidequests during travel.  It can be helpful if you want to bump up the parties power level a bit or you're itching for a diversion from the main quest.  Don't use them so much in episodic style games without a metaplot though.One thing I do always try to do though is give at least a brief monologue description of something different.  If the party is traveling through mountains, it might be a fantastic waterfall, if they're on an arid plain, perhaps a mesa or canyon.  I tend to use terrain because it's meant to be descriptive, not necessarily an adventure hook.  To use the waterfall example, I might say:  "As you reach the crest of the pass on the third day the hard shale slope gives way to a river valley.  Further down the trail and towards the head of the valley you see a waterfall cascading down the rockface.  There is a small pool at the foot of it.  It looks like a good place to make camp."At that point what happens depends on the players response.  If they say they want to do a quick recon of the area before setting down for the night I'll just do a normal 1/10 chance for a random encounter.  If on the other hand they suggest that they're going to look behind the waterfall or somesuch they'll discover a small cave complex.In that case I just pop down a 'stock' mini dungeon or monster that seems native to the area, nothing terribly detailed.</blockquote>

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