I was looking for some inspiration. My muse doesn't seem to be singing in my ear this week as I play for the weekend's session. My problem is the group of characters (equivalent level 11, pretty well covers areas except for ranged being their weakness) is moving through the tibetan highlands (geographical setting) away from civilization as they know it. They're going to be traveling for around 2 months.
So, what's happening along the way? Winter's coming early.
I could use some ideas, as they do have quite some time to cover in game.
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How about a small ring of vampiric stone giants? Pretty well covers either melee or ranged, and would allow you to get in social encounters with regularly neutral stone giants or an isolated clan of dwarves trying to rid themselves of the menace.
Or a chaotic neutral magma dragon. All sorts of ways to use and abuse that guy in the mountains, and it makes sense why there is no civilization there - nobody wants to live near that insanity.
Ended up going with a half fiend mountain dragon. Was rather effective... Until I didn't look up the counterspell rules I haven't used in pathfinder before. So some of those nifty spells, like a perfectly positioned blasphemy that would have effected everyone got countered when it shouldn't have.
Then the monk, who has a belt that can cast enlarge person on him for 10 rounds a day was able to grapple it enough to keep it from flying off and held it in place for a round or two. Unfortunately that perfectly positioned blasphemy now perfectly positioned him to get ganged up on and the rest was history.
So now they're going to investigate an area made unholy by the dragon and maybe go to a supposed dragon's graveyard. The place where dragons from near and far go to die of old age.
Definite stuff to mine from that.
I was going to go with hillbilly dwarves who don't like interlopers on their claim . . . those encounters are a tad more uber.