The Hitchhikers Guide to Fantasy Travel is an unofficial supplement by Cody Smith that aims to help aid DMs in having travel be a bit more exciting. Inside, you’ll find random encounter tables, NPC stat blocks, battlemaps, and even a travelling mini game. There are a few different tables that reflect how the adventuring party is traveling (walking vs mounted vs stagecoach) which is nice. There are definitely times when I’ve been a DM and wanted to make travel more exciting but wasn’t sure how.
If you’re like me you’ve never been fully satisfied just allowing your players to travel from point A to point B without anything significant happening. These are role-playing games after all, and role-playing games are supposed to emulate real life, and in real life rarely does nothing happen when you are traveling between cities. Especially if it takes days, or even weeks, to get to where you are going. This book was written with DM’s in mind. We all know that DM’s already have enough things to keep track of when running games, coming up with interesting and engaging travel scenarios doesn’t have to be one of them. This book’s goal is to take that off of your DM’s plate
You can purchase The Hitchhikers Guide to Fantasy Travel from DMs Guild (affiliate link) for $4.99.