Side quests

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Quick question I'm looking for a good tool to make side quests quick. My players travel a lot and often look for side quests. Any tips?

[Unoriginal]

Quick question I'm looking for a good tool to make side quests quick. My players travel a lot and often look for side quests. Any tips?

You could roll on the random encounter tables in the Xanathar's Guide to Everything and rather than making the results random encounters during travel, you have a NPC tell the PCs about it.

Like "my brother the woodcutter told me there is a group of hobgoblins in the forest" or "if you go south, there is an oasis where merchants sometime stop, near the blue rock."

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I make frequent use of donjon (https://donjon.bin.sh/), with its various random generators. The Random Generator (under Fantasy) has settings for random locations, encounters, and plot hooks. It also includes settings for NPCs, and dungeons.