My home game is tomorrow. It’s a homebrew based on classic b/x. The setting is my own sort of Arthur meets Dune political scheming mashup. Last week, my party avoided an encounter with brigands by escaping across a river. Getting back across was a problem but they managed it by befriending a similarly marooned merchant and a local with access to a small boat. The brigands are now a shiny new faction called the Scarlet Sashes but commonly referred to as Red Legs.