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By: Ravenous Role Playing » Blog Archive » Friday Five: 2010-06-18

Ravenous Role Playing » Blog Archive » Friday Five: 2010-06-18 — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 05:52:45 +0000

[...] â€œInnsâ€ and Outs Ahh… The inns of a town seem to be the refuge of all adventuring parties. Since they spend so much time in them, liven them up and make them a place worth remembering. You need more than just a slick name and a menu to set the atmosphere, though. // [...]

By: David Devine

David Devine — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 04:38:21 +0000

I think my favourite Inn was the “Comeback Inn” from the Blackmoor setting … I remember us being stuck in there, being terrified that we couldn’t leave, didn’t want to explore the gate in the basement … my DM at the time made the place a centre of our action, not just as a tool for us to get from our original world to the Blackmoor setting … in fact he tied the whole ‘timeless’ aspect of it, as a central tenant in the game, where it became the anchor for past, present, and future events.

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By: Triptych

Triptych — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:24:52 +0000

That teleportation bar is an awesome idea. I think it will suit the paragon tier in my campaign very nicely.

I’m thinking of ways to my make the inn’s my characters visit stand out from each other and one idea I came up with was the food and drink available.

When you travel in the real world theres lots of regional dishes and drinks that really help you remember a place. Even describing them helps add some “flavor” (ugh pun!) to the inn.

By: Noumenon

Noumenon — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:39:41 +0000

That teleport-only inn is a great way to make your players’ teleport skill sexy and to use up one of their teleports/day!

By: Tavernas

Tavernas — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:50:23 +0000

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By: Jonathan Drain

Jonathan Drain — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:45:57 +0000

One of the coolest inns I heard of was deep underground in a very secret location. The only way to get there is by teleporting, thus limiting membership to high-level characters who had been there before, and their guests.

Another was an inn in an epic demiplane city. It had a portal to the Demiplane of Beer.

Eberron has an inn frequented entirely by warforged. It’s handy as they don’t drink.

By: Bruce Russell

Bruce Russell — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:21:47 +0000

I participated in a TSR-run adventure in the late 80′s at the International Superman Exposition in Cleveland, OH, which focused ona an adventure at the aptly named “Withered Wizard Inn.” Standard D&D inn, but with a lich in the closet. Since then, I’ve used multiple version of the Withered Wizard Inn for my own campaigns, at one point establishing the place as a trans-dimensional nexus with shifting characteristics.

By: Tetsubo

Tetsubo — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:31:08 +0000

In every campaign I have ever run, regardless of genre, there has been a Dancing Ferret Inn.

By: Sian

Sian — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:45:37 +0000

one campaign world I was in, every major town seemed to have a Doomed Adventurer, a chain of inns, with signage that featured a chromatic dragon of locally appropriate color breathing on a small party of figures. They had consistent prices and layout across all chain locations, and every manager/bartender was a retired Fighter who packed a repeating arbalest behind the counter, just in case anyone thought to cause trouble. Folks rarely did. The Doomed Adventurer chain of inns then started spreading to other worlds…