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I love throwing my players a good ol’ Goblin Tollbooth. It’s an idea I found on Reddit some time back; alas I lost the link. 

You approach a big city, preferably one that’s walled with limited entry points. As you draw near the gate, you see three goblins. Two are holding a plank of wood across the path, and one is standing on the side with a sign: “Pay Toll.”

Your players, of course, are free to attack the goblins or just go around them. But that’s no fun. 

“How much is the toll?”

The goblins nervously look at each other, whispering frantically. “Five,” the one holding the sign concludes. 

“Five what?”

“Five.”

If your players pay (mine paid with pebbles), the goblins will attempt to extort more out of them. Keep it going for as long as you can. After they first raised the price, I had them poorly calculate their current sum (“five…six…four… One! One!”) and simply get lost in their celebrating as the party walked by.