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<div style='text-align: center;'>''"There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern of inn" - Samuel Johnson''</div>
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There are a number of Tavern generators out there that you will find with some quick Google searches. I quite like the "[https://thecoppersanctum.github.io/thecoppersanctum/taverns.html Not Another Tavern Generator]". It comes up with some great details for a tavern and is useful if you want something quick. You can then use the rest of this page to tailor it to your liking.
 
There are a number of Tavern generators out there that you will find with some quick Google searches. I quite like the "[https://thecoppersanctum.github.io/thecoppersanctum/taverns.html Not Another Tavern Generator]". It comes up with some great details for a tavern and is useful if you want something quick. You can then use the rest of this page to tailor it to your liking.
 
  
  
  
 
=Tavern Names=
 
=Tavern Names=
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<div style='text-align: center;'>''"It's all in the name" - Wendy Carroll''</div>
  
  
Ever had trouble coming up with a name? Try these tables to get something unique.
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There's only so many Ye Olde Tavern's in the Wold! Try these tables to come up with a name that's a little different...
  
  
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|1||style="width:100px"| Ale||style="width:100px"| Bat||style="width:100px"| Cougar||style="width:100px"| Dwarf||style="width:100px"| Goblin||style="width:100px"| Leech||style="width:100px"| Narwhal||style="width:100px"| Pug||style="width:100px"| Sloth||style="width:100px"| Walrus
 
|1||style="width:100px"| Ale||style="width:100px"| Bat||style="width:100px"| Cougar||style="width:100px"| Dwarf||style="width:100px"| Goblin||style="width:100px"| Leech||style="width:100px"| Narwhal||style="width:100px"| Pug||style="width:100px"| Sloth||style="width:100px"| Walrus
 
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|2||Alligator||Beetle||Cow||Eel||Halfling||Lion||Otter||Quail.||Snake||Wand
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|2||Alligator||Beetle||Cow||Eel||Halfling||Liontaur||Otter||Quail.||Snake||Wand
 
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|3||Antelope||Boot||Crab||Elephant||Hamster||Lizard||Owl||Rabbit||Spider||Weasel
 
|3||Antelope||Boot||Crab||Elephant||Hamster||Lizard||Owl||Rabbit||Spider||Weasel
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|8||Lodge
 
|8||Lodge
 
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=Tavern Features=
 
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<div style='text-align: center;'>''"A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle" - Jonathan Swift''</div>
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Expand upon the 'bar, tables and fireplace' and give your tavern some character and something else for the party to check out...
 
Expand upon the 'bar, tables and fireplace' and give your tavern some character and something else for the party to check out...
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=Tavern Drinks=
 
  
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|style="width:200px"| 2 Couples in a Shared Household||style="width:850px"| Two different types of hot tea, 2 of each, into one mug.
 
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|style="width:200px"| Beholder||style="width:850px"| A delicious drink decorated with an eye or multiple smaller ones. Feels like normal alcohol but gives the person a (false of course) feeling he/she has multiple eyes after drinking enough of it.
 
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|style="width:200px"| Black Midnight||style="width:850px"| A drink created by necromancers to honor fallen necromancers, Bitter with a touch of rum. Those who drink it have nightmares of dying and spending an eternity rotting away inside a coffin. This helps enforce necromancers to contemplate their own moralities.
 
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|style="width:200px"| Bog Grog||style="width:850px"| A mix of Rum, Orange Juice and fermented herbs
 
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|style="width:200px"| Buried Treasure||style="width:850px"| A single, very sweet, rather expensive hard candy is stuck to the bottom of a mug of very hard liqour. Once you’ve drunk it all, you get a spoon to pull it off with.
 
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|style="width:200px"| Ciderella||style="width:850px"| A sweet apple cider, considered “a girls drink”. Even the toughest bloke will begin giggling like a little girl after a few drinks.
 
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|style="width:200px"| Coala||style="width:850px"| A Dwarven invention, this black bubbly drink tastes like grinded coal with sugar, but also makes you feel reinvigorated and less tired.
 
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|style="width:200px"| Cubed Spirit||style="width:850px"| This drink is served as a hollow ice cube with liquid spirit within. As the ice melts in your mouth the drink will come out. How exactly this novelty drink is produced, is a well kept secret.
 
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|style="width:200px"| Drippzt||style="width:850px"| The drops in the bottoms of emptied kegs mixed together and dyed black.
 
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|style="width:200px"| Faerie Fireball||style="width:850px"| A delicious cinnamon whiskey made with a touch of Fey magic. Causes uncontrollable hiccups for 1d4 hours. With each hiccup a small cloud of shimmering breath is released.
 
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|style="width:200px"| Frost Mead||style="width:850px"| Honey and the tear of an Ice Giant make this shot. The crackling blue sparkle and the jet of icy breath you have for rest of the day is worth the expense.
 
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|style="width:200px"| Gnome Rum||style="width:850px"| Makes your voice high, squeaky, and annoying.
 
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|style="width:200px"| Goblin Spit||style="width:850px"| Whiskey and gin mixed with the barkeep’s home-made mints. It tastes surprisingly good despite its name. As is tavern tradition, a long-distance spitting competition occurs after every round.
 
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|style="width:200px"| Golden Goat||style="width:850px"| Fermented goat milk and honey.
 
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|style="width:200px"| Good Hearth’s Brew||style="width:850px"| A hot spiced rum which is popular during long winter nights for the immediate feeling of warmth and calm that follows.
 
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|style="width:200px"| Hammer Beer||style="width:850px"| One glass will make you feel like you just hit yourself with a hammer. Minus 5 HP.
 
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|style="width:200px"| Honey Pine Dew||style="width:850px"| An imported halfling mead, served in small cups. Very pleasant taste, cheap in halfling towns, but expensive elsewhere.
 
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|style="width:200px"| Hymvaren’s Luck||style="width:850px"| A bright, golden-colored beer named after a local drunk who woke up on the beach after a night of carousing with a chest full of pirate’s treasure. He claims to have no memory of that night.
 
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|style="width:200px"| Insom’s Ale||style="width:850px"| Has same effects as a long rest, calming.
 
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|style="width:200px"| Jalapálinka||style="width:850px"| A fruit brandy spiced with hot peppers. Burns the throat, downing a pitcher leads to steam escaping ears and nostrils.
 
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|style="width:200px"| Lily in a Well||style="width:850px"| A tall mug of ale, half full with an edible flower garnish.
 
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|style="width:200px"| Mawxie||style="width:850px"| A drink all the locals cite as a local treasure. Tastes disgusting.
 
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|style="width:200px"| Milky Way Whisky||style="width:850px"| A light blue drink that tastes like very watered down, sweetened milk with a lot of alcohol. Besides giving a quick buzz, it also gives bone, and thus teeth, a blue fluorescent glow for 1d3 hours.
 
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|style="width:200px"| Ochre Stout||style="width:850px"| A cheap drink so thick you can taste chunks in it. Best to swallow and not be curious.
 
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|style="width:200px"| Old Mill Rye||style="width:850px"| Tastes alright, has a strange aftertaste in the back of your throat of an old sock. It’s cheap and gets you drink
 
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|style="width:200px"| Ouch||style="width:850px"| Two full shots worth of lemon juice put into a glass of very high proof alcohol.
 
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|style="width:200px"| Paladin’s Bane||style="width:850px"| Sweet enough to tempt the righteous and you hardly taste the alcohol, but it’ll give you a decent hangover.
 
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|style="width:200px"| Petralias Wine||style="width:850px"| A very expensive wine that is served as a single droplet. It does nothing for thirst or getting drunk, bit the flavor is said to be very concentrated and the lack of drink quantity should make the experience richer. Typically ordered by very pretentious people.
 
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|style="width:200px"| Salty Dog Ale||style="width:850px"| A dark, rich brew that reminds you of the sea. Plopping in the shell of a sea snail for good luck is customary, and adds a fitting salinity to the drink.
 
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|style="width:200px"| Star Liquid||style="width:850px"| A really black drink resembling the night sky. If you drink it you experience a wonderful journey trough the stars for 1 min.
 
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|style="width:200px"| Sucker Punching a Rabbit||style="width:850px"| A single teabag steeped in the biggest mug you have.
 
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|style="width:200px"| The Banshee’s Breath||style="width:850px"| White, swirling liquor made from a special translucent wild berry. Tastes sweet, has an effect similar to mint gum in that it always feels cold.
 
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|style="width:200px"| The Coup de Grace||style="width:850px"| At the end of the night, the bartop is wiped down with a rag, the contents are rung into a shot glass.
 
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|style="width:200px"| The Drunken Dwarf||style="width:850px"| A pint of dwarven stout with a teabag in it.
 
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|style="width:200px"| The Flaming Dragon||style="width:850px"| A spicy beer that causes the user to breathe fire when they burp.
 
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|style="width:200px"| The Fortnight||style="width:850px"| Very strong alcohol. If you actually drink enough to get drunk, you stay hammered for days.
 
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|style="width:200px"| The Green Kobold||style="width:850px"| The first drink to ever be served in a piece of ham, with the skin. 1 shot of herbal liquor wrapped in ham. To be eaten all at once. Probably fixed in place with at least 1 pin, make sure you pick it out before you eat it.
 
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|style="width:200px"| The Hook and Slider||style="width:850px"| A cooked goat intestine tied and filled with a heavy beer. After finishing the beer chow on the intestine
 
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|style="width:200px"| The house special||style="width:850px"| This drink doesn’t have a particular name, but it’s cheap. It doesn’t really have an effect. In fact, you’re pretty sure the bartender is simply casting prestidigitation on dishwater to make it taste like it has alcohol in it.
 
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|style="width:200px"| The Mountain’s Bounty||style="width:850px"| A fine liquor made using water from a glacial stream. Always refreshing, and always makes you feel cold no mater the weather.
 
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|style="width:200px"| The Phoenix||style="width:850px"| A peppery drink that burns on the way down, and then again on the way out. It is often used as a prank on drunk companions, who have a nasty surprise waiting for them the next time they go to relieve themselves.
 
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|style="width:200px"| The Quieker||style="width:850px"| Nasty rum that gives a high pitched voice for 1d4 hours.
 
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|style="width:200px"| The Sun’s Glory||style="width:850px"| A citrusy cider that makes your eyes glow for 3mins
 
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|style="width:200px"| The Sweet Roll||style="width:850px"| Flavors of cinnamon and sugar blend with the strong scent of rum.
 
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|style="width:200px"| The Umber Hulk||style="width:850px"| A pint of whisky, brandy and tequila in equal measures. Good luck.
 
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|style="width:200px"| Tinkerer’s Tincture||style="width:850px"| Dark and smooth, and when you drink it all the clicking, whistling, and scraping noises are more apparent to your ear.
 
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|style="width:200px"| Traffic Stop||style="width:850px"| Whenever a fight seems to be brewing, order a traffic stop. It’s a mug of 3 separate liquors that stay separated in their mug, all very strong. The color left in the bottom of the mug says what is to happen next (green=fight, red=stop, orange=drink again)
 
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|style="width:200px"| True Dwarven Stout||style="width:850px"| A strong drink, not recommended if you cannot handle your alcohol. Traditionally served on the rocks, literally. There are pieces of stone lying on the bottom of your drink. Said to give the true mining flavor. This drink will make any dwarf feel very nostalgic.
 
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|style="width:200px"| What was I Saying?||style="width:850px"| An unassuming shot of very strong alcohol, with a cherry in it, usually taken in the middle of a conversation, which is promptly ended.
 
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|style="width:200px"| Will-o-the-Whiskey||style="width:850px"| Whisky with minor hallucinatory effects, starts with a tiny tingling light in the corner of your eyes, ends with a shining orb of light dancing a few yards away from you, moving away as you try to catch it.
 
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|style="width:200px"| Witchwood Absinthe||style="width:850px"| A potent spirit the color of a moss-covered tombstone. It has mild hallucinogenic properties, and local folklore holds you can hear the voices of those you’ve lost if you drink enough. Not too much, though. You might join them.
 
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<div style='text-align: center;'>''"Here’s to alcohol, the cause of — and solution to — all life’s problems" - Homer Simpson''</div>
  
  
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The Woldipedia has a page dedicated to drinks in the Wold. The [https://www.woldiangames.com/Woldipedia/index.php/Mixology:_Drinks_of_the_Wold Wold Mixology] page includes a list of some regional varieties, as well as some brews you might wish to draw from.
  
  
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=Tavern Fights=
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Whether or not the player characters start it, an evening of drunken antics can often culminate in a chaotic brawl. The SRD includes a section on bar fights using rules published in "''Inner Sea Taverns''": "[https://www.d20pfsrd.com/gamemastering/other-rules/bar-fights/ Bar Fight Rules]"
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Alternatively, the following set of rules might inspire you:
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'''Basics'''
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* You cannot use spells, your weapons, or abilities
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* All combatants (including you) in the fight have 11 AC
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* All NPCs involved in the bar fight have 15 HP each
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* All PCs start with their current HP total
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* Your Str or Dex bonus (whichever is higher) is applied to your 1d20 attack roll
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* If you become unconscious you are 'out' until the fight is over.
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'''Actions'''
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* All attacks successfully made (by PCs or NPCs) take 5HP off their target, unless otherwise specified
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* You can melee attack (punch, kick, smash with chair etc) anyone within 5 feet of you
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* You can throw items such as bottles, tankards, chairs etc. They have a range of 1d6 x 5ft. If they do not reach their target they do not damage them. There's always something at hand to throw.
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* Instead of attacking you can hide behind tables, the bar, etc. This increases your AC to 16, but you cannot attack during the turn
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'''How Much Did I Drink?'''
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* If you have been drinking then roll against the "Drunkenness" table to determine your starting drunkenness level
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# Every 10 feet of movement you must pass a DC 11 Acrobatics check or fall prone onto your face ending your turn. You must make at least 1 of these rolls per turn before any other action.
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# You drag someone down the bar / across a table face first
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# You grab a nearby wooden broom, snap it over your knee and smash your target with it, causing it to shatter into fragments.
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# You slam someone down on top of a table causing it to buckle completely and the legs to smash off.
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* If drunkenness level 4 or above, roll to see if you faceplant onto the floor
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* Decide to either drink, hide, do nothing, or roll to attack
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A large animal such as a horse or ox, or other livestock is brought in for a Rope War with a humanoid challenger, with each trying to pull the other over a line. This is popular among half-orcs and barbarians looking to prove their great strength.
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A large animal such as a horse or ox, or other livestock is brought in for a Rope War with a humanoid challenger, with each trying to pull the other over a line. This is popular among half-orcs and barbarians.
  
 
The participant makes a strength check opposed by that of the animal. The difference between the results is how much ground is gained in ft.
 
The participant makes a strength check opposed by that of the animal. The difference between the results is how much ground is gained in ft.
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This form of entertainment is favored by young minotaurs as a way to prove their great strength. The game involves trying to break an anvil using only ones head. While taking a running start is permitted, the truly strong simply stand in front of the anvil and plough their heads downward onto it. It is a very rare occasion when someone succeeds in the task. More often than not it simply leads to a headache worse than any hangover.
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Tavern.jpg
"There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn" - Samuel Johnson


Taverns are always a popular place for adventurers to unwind. It's up to the DM to come up with some quirks and flavor to make each tavern original and to keep the players immersed in the atmosphere. Sometimes though you just hit a creative writing block and don't know where to start.

The following page is intended to give you some ideas to keep taverns as a fun place for travellers to go.


Tavern Generators

There are a number of Tavern generators out there that you will find with some quick Google searches. I quite like the "Not Another Tavern Generator". It comes up with some great details for a tavern and is useful if you want something quick. You can then use the rest of this page to tailor it to your liking.


Tavern Names

Ye Olde Tavern.JPG
"It's all in the name" - Wendy Carroll


There's only so many Ye Olde Tavern's in the Wold! Try these tables to come up with a name that's a little different...


Name Format

# Name Order
1 Adjective Noun Title
2 The Adjective Noun
3 The Adjective Noun Title
4 Noun & Noun
5 Noun & Noun Title
6 The Noun & Noun
7 The Noun & Noun Title
9 The Adjective Title


Nouns

# 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 51-60 61-70 71-80 81-90 91-100
1 Ale Bat Cougar Dwarf Goblin Leech Narwhal Pug Sloth Walrus
2 Alligator Beetle Cow Eel Halfling Liontaur Otter Quail. Snake Wand
3 Antelope Boot Crab Elephant Hamster Lizard Owl Rabbit Spider Weasel
4 Armadillo Bow Crocodile Elf Hat Llama Ox Rat Sword Wench
5 Arrow Bull Crow Ferret Hawk Lobster Panther Raven Tiger Wine
6 Axe Camel Dagger Flamingo Horse Lord Peacock Rogue Toad Wizard
7 Baboon Cat Dog Fox Jackal Meerkat Pelican Scorpion Tortoise Wolf
8 Badger Clam Donkey Frog Jester Mole Penguin Shark Tower Worm
9 Bard Cobra Dragon Gnome Lady Monkey Pig Sheep Turkey Wyvern
10 Basilisk Cockroach Duck Goat Lamb Moose Pony Shield Vutture Yak



Adjectives

# 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 51-60 61-70 71-80 81-90 91-100
1 Adorable Brown Dead Flatulent Heroic Loud Orange Red Singing Undead
2 Ancient Burning Delightful Gentle Hiding Lucky Peach Repulsive Skinny Unlucky
3 Angry Calm Discrete Giant Holy Magical Pink Roaring Sleeping Wealthy
4 Big Chubby Drowning Glorious Hungry Moist Pompous Rusty Slimy Wet
5 Black Clever Drunken Gold Itchy Naked Powerful Sacred Slow White
6 Bloody Clumsy Eager Gray Jolly Navy Prickly Salty Smiling Witty
7 Blue Colossal Elegant Greasy Laughing Nervous Proud Scrawny Sticky Yawning
8 Brass Confused Famous Green Lazy New Purple Silent Stubborn Yellow
9 Brave Copper Fancy Grumpy Lively Noisy Quiet Silly Tiny Young
10 Bronze Crying Fat Happy Lost Oily Rainbow Silver Ugly Yummy


Title

# 1-10
1 Bar
2 Tavern
3 Pub
4 Club
5 Inn
6 Lounge
7 Den
8 Lodge



Tavern Features

Tavern features.jpg
"A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle" - Jonathan Swift


Expand upon the 'bar, tables and fireplace' and give your tavern some character and something else for the party to check out...


# Legal Illegal Special Feature
1 Baths Gang Hangout No booze
2 Casino Cult Base Large Deep Pit/Well in Centre
3 Library Death Fights Dungeon Entrance
4 Theatre Drug Lounge Labyrinth Entrance
5 Dancers Blackmarket Undead Waiters
6 Healing Beast Fights Imp Waiters
7 Minstrels Stave Trading Unseen Servant Waiters
8 Exotic Food Soul Eating Ghost Patrons
9 Cheap Food Cannibal Food Dragon Bartender
10 Fighting Ring Body Swapping Magic Doesn't Work
11 Private Booths Demon Worship Self Playing Instrument
12 Drinking Contest Monster Trade Self Filling Mugs
13 Sentient Furniture
14 In a Pocket Dimension
15 1-Way Portal
16 Reversed/No Gravity
17 Icy Cavern Interior
18 Forest/Jungle Interior
19 Race Changes While Inside
20 Invisible Clothing & Equipment



Tavern Food and drinks

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"Here’s to alcohol, the cause of — and solution to — all life’s problems" - Homer Simpson


The Woldipedia has a page dedicated to drinks in the Wold. The Wold Mixology page includes a list of some regional varieties, as well as some brews you might wish to draw from.


The following tables might give you some ideas for meals that could be found based on the quality of food available.


Squalid (3cp) Poor (6cp) Modest (3sp)
Humble pie (filled with tripe or cow heel) Porridge Grilled wild boar chops
Acorn soup Mushroom stew with corn bread Broiled salmon and potatoes
Rice and peas Leg of mutton and goose eggs Roast chicken and potatoes
Green chili stew Beef stew and sourdough Smoked sausage, goose eggs and dates
Grilled snake and macadamia Squash and fish soup Cheese pie and onion soup
Frogs on skewers Mutton meatloaf Baked boar and greens
Onion soup Rabbit and baked pumpkin Minted pea soup
Lizard gruel with nutbread Bread-bowl stew Baked goat flank
Crisped worm skewers and potatoes Hot beet soup and fresh bread Rabbit stew and willow crackers
Bog-beetle dumplings Lemming and berry soup
Wayfarers' cake
Cooked wolf steak
Wren pot pie and cattail soup
Thistle salad with roasted grubs
Barbecued gopher legs on a stick


Comfortable (8sp) Wealthy (2gp) Artistocratic (4gp)
Honey braised boar ribs Baked pheasant with leeks Roast stag in antler sauce
Venison and bean stew Smoked salmon and wild berries Poached and peppered quail eggs
Buffaloaf and honeyed corn Chocolate covered ants and roast pelican Spiced monkey tail and cashews
Rack of lamb platter Barbecued tiger fish and papaya Roast heron and chopped sundew
Pork chop & curds Roast chicken with thyme Lobster in tomato cream sauce
Elven bread Stuffed trout, cabbage, succotash and plum pudding Crab-stuffed lobster tail
Baked loin of pork with gravy Braised beef and pears with ginger Roast pheasant in oyster sauce
Roasted cod and mashed potatoes Meerkat dumplings with sage Poached duck with farro
Beef steak and kidney pie Fried ostrich and egg omelet
Clams and garlic
Toasted delfarnbread with spiced snail-butter
Grayling prawns poached with plovers’ eggs in garlic butter


Monster Underdark
Crunchy critters and grub pudding Fluorescent fungus salad with cave grubs
Smashed guts and cabbage Diced blind eel and deep salts
Not-so-old rice in sour goat’s milk Amber lichen and softrock bread
Fried chunks and lard bread Translucent crayfish stew
Salted eyes and carrot ends Crimson moss cakes and cave jelly
Bone and blood mix stew Crustacean broth with ironloaf
Lettuce, liver, and lung pie Roasted deep beetles with algae dip
Toasted salamander in mineral pepper
Arachnidumplings and fried fungus
Toadstool steak tainted with myconid essence
Lobe of grell
Deep rothe steak


Tavern Fights

Whether or not the player characters start it, an evening of drunken antics can often culminate in a chaotic brawl. The SRD includes a section on bar fights using rules published in "Inner Sea Taverns": "Bar Fight Rules"


Alternatively, the following set of rules might inspire you:


Basics

  • You cannot use spells, your weapons, or abilities
  • All combatants (including you) in the fight have 11 AC
  • All NPCs involved in the bar fight have 15 HP each
  • All PCs start with their current HP total
  • Your Str or Dex bonus (whichever is higher) is applied to your 1d20 attack roll
  • If you become unconscious you are 'out' until the fight is over.


Actions

  • All attacks successfully made (by PCs or NPCs) take 5HP off their target, unless otherwise specified
  • You can melee attack (punch, kick, smash with chair etc) anyone within 5 feet of you
  • You can throw items such as bottles, tankards, chairs etc. They have a range of 1d6 x 5ft. If they do not reach their target they do not damage them. There's always something at hand to throw.
  • Instead of attacking you can hide behind tables, the bar, etc. This increases your AC to 16, but you cannot attack during the turn
  • You can always grab another drink and swig from it as your action which will add +1 to your drunkenness level
  • You don't have to attack at all if you don't want, you can just sit back and watch what happens.
  • If you end up out of a window, you must pass a DC 15 Acrobatics check to get back in through it (or you could just walk around to the entrance)


How Much Did I Drink?

  • If you have been drinking then roll against the "Drunkenness" table to determine your starting drunkenness level
  • All lower numbers also apply to you, as well as the number you rolled.
  • At the end of each turn roll 1d20. On a 17 or above, remove one level of drunkenness unless you are at drunkenness zero.


Drunkenness

d6 Effect

  1. You have half movement, rounded up to the nearest 5 feet.
  2. You take a -2 on attack rolls.
  3. On a successful attack you instead hit a random character within attack range.
  4. Every 10 feet of movement you must pass a DC 11 Acrobatics check or fall prone onto your face ending your turn. You must make at least 1 of these rolls per turn before any other action.
  5. Wait... Didn't you once read on a parchment about "Zui Quan" (The art of drunken fighting)? Yeah, that seems like something you'd have done *hic*. You now get +5 to your attack rolls.
  6. You are asleep in the corner


Legendary Attacks

On a natural 20 attack roll you do a legendary attack that will do double damage (like it would in normal combat) but you may also roll against the "Legendary Attacks" table to see what attack you make.

d6 Effect

  1. You throw someone out a window
  2. You drag someone down the bar / across a table face first
  3. You throw the target into the bottles / serving area behind the bar.
  4. You grab a nearby wooden broom, snap it over your knee and smash your target with it, causing it to shatter into fragments.
  5. You slam someone down on top of a table causing it to buckle completely and the legs to smash off.
  6. You jump up and swing off a chandelier to kick your target in the face as you land.


A Typical Turn

  • If drunkenness level 4 or above, roll to see if you faceplant onto the floor
  • Move if you want (Rolling every 10 feet to see if you stumble on drunkenness 4 or above)
  • Decide to either drink, hide, do nothing, or roll to attack
  • If attacking describe how you want to do the attack
  • Finally, depending on your roll and drunkenness level you can then determine who you're attacking
  • If you roll a Legendary Attack, describe it!
  • Always roll to reduce your drunkenness level unless it is zero


Tavern Games

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When people have partaken of too many drinks, games will surely ensue. The following games have different flavors and mechanics, providing options for you to choose from.


Last Man Standing

Each player rolls a Fort save to resist the effects of the alcohol

If you fail 5 times you pass out

Each time you fail your character will become increasingly intoxicated

  • 1 fail = no effect
  • 2 fails = tipsy
  • 3 fails = drunk
  • 4 fails = wasted
  • 5 fails = pass out and lose

Last man standing wins

The DC will increase by 2 each round, starting from 10 and capping at 20.


The Long Embrace

Two participants cup their hands with one another with a live scorpion inside. The first to remove their hand is the loser. If the winner still holds the scorpion after the opponent pulls away, he doubles his winnings.

Scorpion sting does 1d2 non-lethal damage per round. A person who sustains 8pts damage has their hand go numb and lets go of the scorpion.


Boss Toss

Two participants stand 6 ft. apart and at the same time each tosses a double-headed axe to the other. The player who drops the axe or bleeds first is the loser.

Reflex Saves start at DC10 and increase by +2 each round. The first person to fail the save loses.


Strong as an Ox

A large animal such as a horse or ox, or other livestock is brought in for a Rope War with a humanoid challenger, with each trying to pull the other over a line. This is popular among half-orcs and barbarians.

The participant makes a strength check opposed by that of the animal. The difference between the results is how much ground is gained in ft.

The larger of the two gains a +4 bonus on the check for every 500lbs difference in weight.

Each tavern has their own rules on how far apart the competitors start"


Ready for Winter

Players fill their mouths with as many walnuts as possible and must pronounce ""Ready for Winter"" the best they can. Variations of this game have included the use of cherries, grapes, acorns, or even coins, in the place of walnuts.

Checks are made vs Charisma. Players may start with as many objects as they choose. Each object adds add +2 to the DC (eg: 5 objects is DC10).

Passing the check allows you to continue adding more.

Failing a check eliminates you from the contest.


Players get a cumulative +2 bonus for each size category they are over medium

Players get a cumulative -2 penalty for each size category they are under medium


The Anvil Crack

This form of entertainment is favored by young minotaurs as a way to prove their great strength. The game involves trying to break an anvil using only ones head. While taking a running start is permitted, the truly strong simply stand in front of the anvil and plough their heads downward onto it. It is a very rare occasion when someone succeeds in the task. More often than not it simply leads to a headache worse than any hangover.

Treat an anvil as hardness 10 with anywhere upwards of 360HP