100 random encounters

1. A bard or minstrel, half dressed and looking over his shoulder
2. Farmer going to/returning from market with his meager goods
3. Farmer going to/returning from town with his/her sons
4. Farmer going to/returning from town with his/her daughters
5. Girl running away from home
6. Boy running away to the city
7. A lost child, in tears and holding a torn sack
8. A troupe of entertainers, led by an overdressed and curious Elf
9. Full company of mercenaries, led by a stout, dark bearded Captain
10. A small group of mercenaries, dishevelled and sweating
11. Minor noble travelling via horse, with servants
12. Minor noble going to/returning from hunt, with retinue
13. Local bailiff, sheriff or warden, with a suspicious outlook of strangers
14. A hunter or poacher, with a huge longbow strapped to their back
15. A pair of hunters or poachers, arguing about who is to blame for a missed shot
16. Large trading caravan, with accompanying surly guards
17. A lone trader/merchant on foot, leading a mule carrying their wares
18. Lone trader/merchant riding on a horse drawn wagon
19. Limping bailiff and his badly beaten prisoner
20. Escaped prisoner, manacled and carrying a religious icon
21. Sheriff and his dogs, out hunting an outlaw
22. A boundary warden with a broken bow and empty scabbard, fuming as he walks
23. Lone travelling priest, carrying a lit censer with an acrid smell
24. Lone travelling cleric, with a faintly glowing mace
25. Charismatic priest and retinue of apostles, who are mumbling to each other and won't make eye contact
26. A cleric and a small retinue of acolytes, full of confidence
27. A ranger/boundary warder patrol, with a cheerful leader
28. A patrol from the local city or town guard, nervous about being out of town
29. A foot messenger, with a ducal ring on his hand
30. A horse messenger wearing a royal tabard and carrying a fine leather satchel
31. A travelling historian carrying a sack of old stone statues
32. A starving beggar, willing to trade information for food
33. A group of refugees, telling stories of war and oppression in their homeland
34. A wounded soldier, limping along on crutches
35. A deserting soldier carrying a memento of a fallen friend
36. A wandering dog, with a silver collar and name tag
37. A bear wearing a collar and trailing a frayed rope
38. A riderless horse, with bulging saddlebags
39. A thrown rider, trying to catch his horse
40. A wandering madman, ranting about an invisible creature
41. A pair of dwarven prospectors, arguing loudly about where they took a wrong turn
42. Halfling cook/chef, out foraging for ingredients
43. Overturned wagon with injured merchant
44. A bored elderly gnome, with a curious mechanical toy
45. Fisherman by a riverside, without any fish
46. Druid planting rows of trees across the road
47. A drunk from a nearby tavern, unsteady on his feet
48. A partially smashed coffin, with a “corpse” inside which is slowly moving
49. A dealer of “used magical artefacts”
50. An elf picking and eating wild berries
51. A manic Herbalist, with green smears around his mouth
52. Group of robed monks, carrying a lit censer
53. A squire chasing his drunken master’s horse
54. An armoured Dragonborn sitting on a stone, sharpening a sword and sighing
55. Farmer with an unmoving mule, laden with fruit
56. Guarded and chained prisoners digging a ditch
57. A pair of wagon drivers preparing to race each other
58. A tiny Earth Elemental, shifting pebbles from one side of the road to the other
59. A group of dancing lights, which keep just ahead of the party
60. A drug addict, coming down from their last score
61. A harmless ghost, sadly humming an old song
62. A gnome riding an armoured mastiff
63. A hawker trying to find his bird
64. A grave robber, with mud on his shoes and a dark, wet sack on his back
65. A friendly necromancer with several raised skeletons, who offers to share food
66. A gang of youths from a nearby town
67. A gnomish tinker & merchant, offering magical mending
68. A Quickling, fleeing from the service of a warlock
69. A drunken Hill Giant, asleep and snoring loudly
70. A starving hermit, bearing a sword handle without a blade
71. A migrating Treant, walking down the middle of the road
72. A dead knight’s retinue, returning the body home
73. Traveling reeve or magistrate, summoned to a case
74. A group of pilgrims, one of which is carrying a small, heavily bound chest
75. A backwoods moonshiner, offering free samples of his wares
76. A surveyor excited about discovering a door into an artificial hillock
77. A dripping wet fisherman, climbing up from a riverbank with an angry look
78. A girl picking wildflowers, acting as a lookout for local bandits
79. A boy swinging a stick like a sword, with a pet dog following
80. Villagers cutting wood to make bows
81. A stone golem with one leg shorter than the other, never walking in a straight line
82. A pixie telling rude jokes and riddles
83. Four villagers burning a pile of corpses, which are emitting a thick purple smoke
84. A wagoner trying to fix his strangely burned cart
85. A contented Halfling, smoking an oddly scented pipe
86. A wild-eyed and dishevelled Alchemist, ranting about a breakthrough
87. An imp caught in a rabbit trap, screeching loudly
88. A lost wagon guard, with scratches on his face
89. A seller of genuine, if minor, religious relics
90. An old gnome in hat and tattered clothes, rapidly shuffling a deck of cards
91. An ebullient Orc, dressed in bright fine silks
92. A Green Hag, offering a reward for revenge on those who tricked her
93. A wine merchant, asking for directions to the nearby town festival
94. A fur trapper, with a live wolverine as a pet
95. A sour old grandmother, complaining bitterly about her eldest son
96. A Hobgoblin out to see the world
97. A young man, with a hideous mask magically stuck to his face
98. A band of giant hunters, paid to kill a troublesome old Hill Giant
99. A charcoal burner, telling stories about haunted trees
100. A potion merchant, with a backpack full of ‘alternative’ potions