D&D 5E Trade Road Name

[Eltab]

Chocolate Trail
Might lead you to the tropics where cocoa trees grow, or to a port which unloads crates of cocoa beans off ships. Or to Mackinac Island, where the beans are ground and turned into chocolate.

King's HighWay - put a few toll booths on it (or require a pre-paid license to build an inn / tavern) and actually spend the money on bridges, drainage, paving, &c so even more traffic will pass through.

Road to Wealth - because "everybody knows" the people in that faraway land at the other end of the road are all rich and noble.

Alexander's / Charlemagne's / Napoleon's Way - a famous historical (or legendary) conqueror extended his empire via this route.

 

[rgoodbb]

The secret with Inns is to replace them with Caravanserai's.

Caravanserai's are cooler and evoke the idea of vast distances and windswept desert. Inn's invoke jolly old England and cliched D&D locations.

Nice! I learn something new today. Thanks.

 

[rgoodbb]

Diamonds road.
Diamond are essential for Revivify, raise dead, resurrection, it can make a worthy trade road.
Unless the supply goes by teleportation circle, or even magical creation of components,

You have given me another idea why the route is long disused: Teleportation Circles and other transportation arcane magic made long merchant routes obsolete. Bit more back history of the place. Thanks!

 

[rgoodbb]

Diamonds road.
Diamond are essential for Revivify, raise dead, resurrection, it can make a worthy trade road.
Unless the supply goes by teleportation circle, or even magical creation of components,

You have given me another idea why the route is long disused: Teleportation Circles and other transportation arcane magic made long merchant routes obsolete. Bit more back history of the place. Thanks!

 

[BookTenTiger]

Road of Fallen Stars (an actual place in my campaign where a lot of meteorites fall)

Trail of Bones (for the necromantic market)

Flower Trail

Medicine Road

Wander's Way (trade route for wands???)

Ruby Highway

Adamantine Trail

Silver Road

+1 Weapon Road (okay, that one doesn't flow)

 

[Eltab]

+1 Weapon Road (okay, that one doesn't flow)

Masterwork Road?

Or -insert famous named blade here- : Path of Masamuni

 

[Tonguez]

The Trail of the Great Khan
The Kings Way
The Yellow Brick Road
The Western/Eastern Route
The A Road
The Mother Road
The Pilgrims Trail
The Path of Saints
The Salt Caravan

 

[Tonguez]

. It could be something as mundane as Salt for the Salt Road etc.

Also dont fall into the trap of thinking Salt Mundane, Salt is an amazing exotic mineral that was once more valuable than gold and was used as currency in Abyssinia and as payment (Sal ary) for Roman Soldiers

The Azalay Salt Caravan still carries salt across the Sahara from Morocco to Timbuktu and theres a Venetian folktale about a ruler who gave up half his lands after he was denied salt.

You mention the Spice Trail - interestingly enough the Venetian end of the Spice Trail was paying for those spices with African salt.

 

[Don Durito]

Also dont fall into the trap of thinking Salt Mundane, Salt is an amazing exotic mineral that was once more valuable than gold and was used as currency in Abyssinia and as payment (Sal ary) for Roman Soldiers

The Azalay Salt Caravan still carries salt across the Sahara from Morocco to Timbuktu and theres a Venetian folktale about a ruler who gave up have his lands after he was denied salt.

You mention the Spice Road - interestingly enough the Venetian end of the Silk Road was paying for those spices with African salt.

It's fantasy too, so the big salt deposits might be of magical original. Perhaps created when a legendary sorcerer turned an invading army into pillars of salt.

 

[Doug McCrae]

The Iron Way