“Master! Look what I’ve found in the dungeon.”

“Ah, my old adventurer’s tent. How much I miss the days of my youth when I’d gad about the countryside, chasing this purple temple or that magenta stronghold. How my young limbs used to love a stop in the dangerous wilderness and break my fast with spring water and berries.”

“Whereas now your regal buttocks become inflamed unless they are warm and cozy on your mighty mattress.”

“True, slug-mother, true. Now get my warming pan ready and boil me some frothy milk for my supper or I’ll have you lashed.”

The overnight stop in the wilderness, the night’s rest of some band of orcs being chased across the hills, the odd curiosity by the trailside. Sometimes these places can be nothing more than a brief mention on the journey, but sometimes a group’s stopping point can be a staging point for an encounter, and then, the choice of a place with walls and cover becomes more crucial.

The tables below offer a little more meat to the overnight stop. The first list is the shelter found with a successful Survival check (DC 10), the other is for fails. Characters can push on if they find a camp not to their liking, but these tables provide stops at random when the player characters have almost concluded a day walking. If they push on into the dark, might they get lost, might their torches bring foes, or might the next place be even worse?

Check Succeeds

1. A tumbled-down chapel, one wall remains standing and a weathered angel stands guard
2. A collapsed hay barn with enough space inside for camping
3. An old pigpen
4. A sheepfold with intact walls
5. An abandoned cottage
6. An old carriage turned upside down
7. A stout barn
8. A roadside chapel with room inside for plenty to sleep and a big fireplace stocked with wood
9. A ruined manse with one wing still standing
10. The shell of a windmill with a makeshift roof of cloth from previous visitors
11. A ruined keep
12.  A recently abandoned inn
13. A stout, dry cave with carvings of a saint
14. A trio of recently felled trees that form a perfect grove
15. An old boathouse whose walls, though falling, are stout and weatherproof
16. An old ruined mill
17. A mouldering gypsy caravan
18. A landlocked bridge whose arches offer shelter
19. A sheep pen
20. A ruin made of huge stones
21. An old church surrounded by weathered graves
22. A small hill commanding fine views and with a dozen rabbit holes
23. A hilltop with a small hermit’s cave cut in
24. A hillock with three huge trees
25. A south-facing grove by a stream that is a favorite for local game
26. A boarded-shut woodcutter’s hut
27. An abandoned walled garden
28. A tumbled-down cottage with a garden brimming with seasonal vegetables
29. A ruined cottage with a functional well
30. A lean-to made of stout trees
31. A ruined church tower with a rusty bell inside
32. A fine tor of large stones that commands excellent views of the surroundings
33. An old quarry with caves
34. A ruined farm with wild mushrooms and berries
35. A hunter’s wood shelter by a loch brimming with pike
36. A lochan teeming with eels
37. A small abandoned dungeon complex
38. A large abandoned dungeon complex
39. A huge hay barn
40. A small bothy
41. A roadside temple with a wooden shed
42. A natural rock bowl with a fire pit in its center
43. A hillside with good cover and plenty of hares
44. A small cave by a natural pond
45. A very high wall with a trough
46. A sheltered cairn
47. A small lochan with an island in the middle that can easily be waded to
48. A chapel on a small island in a loch
49. An abandoned tower
50. A wattle and daub hut

Check Fails

1. A small glade that overnight begins to run with spring water
2. A ruined cottage infested with ants
3. A gatepost on a hillock
4. A wet valley
5. A moldering gypsy caravan that falls to pieces when entered
6. A damp grove in a damper copse
7. A frequently used trail with giant footprints
8. A stone circle on a hill covered in gorse
9. A cairn on a windy hillock
10. A very damp shallow cave
11.  A heathery hillock infested with vermin
12. A small grassed area filled with thistles at the side of a stream
13. A completely collapsed old inn on a very windy hillside
14. An old quarry with half a dozen hornet’s nests
15. A low bowl of grass by a stream that is infamous for midges
16. A sheltered hill infamous for midges
17. A shelter by a small loch infamous for midges
18. A ruined village infested with brambles
19. A foul spot for flies
20. A pleasant ruined farmhouse overrun with mice
21. A pleasant ruined cottage overrun with rats
22. A ruined barn that is a favorite hangout for skunks
23. An old hay barn infested with spiders
24. A mile post on a moist grassy knoll
25. A horribly exposed hillside
26. A toadstool-infested glade
27. A ruined house with numerous stinkhorns and other foul-smelling fungi in its damp rooms
28. A spot uncannily visible for many miles
29. A ruined castle in danger of imminent collapse
30. A barn in danger of imminent collapse
31. A foul-smelling hovel
32. A damp spot infested with big slugs
33. A cave occupied by something aggressive
34. A ruin occupied with something aggressive
35. A ruin containing several poisonous snakes
36. A terrible spot for poisonous ivy
37. A very damp spot beneath some trees
38. A ruin with an untraceable foul-smelling object buried somewhere in it
39. A tree that makes an unsettling groaning and creaking noise at night
40. A barn that has been used by some large creature that has recently died
41. A windy cave
42. An old graveyard
43. A barrow on a windy spot
44. A nettle-infested field
45. A well with bad water
46. A weed-choked mill with rotten floors
47. A pool overrun with noisy frogs
48. An abandoned plague village
49. A remote farmstead with the dead owner still in bed upstairs
50. A cottage with the last occupant hanging from a rafter