A ferryman offers the party a crossing if they help him hide his wounded brother. Then a patrol horn sounds up the road. Do they hide him, hear him out, or walk away?

That’s the opening of The Last Ferry, one of three encounters in Roadside Trouble. The other two involve a road that keeps looping past the same milestone and a runaway wagon headed for a crowded market.

Each encounter fits on one page and gives the GM an opening to read aloud, NPC motives, and consequences for the party’s choices. It’s a four-page, system-neutral PDF for $4.99.

I used generative AI to draft the encounter text and create the cover, and reviewed and edited the encounters before release.

https://bossman9727.itch.io/roadside-trouble

Having the patrol horn go off right as the ferryman offers to help puts a tough choice on the table immediately. On a one-page format, do you still give the GM outcomes for when players try to investigate both sides first? That's always the exact moment someone refuses to pick from the given options haha.