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D&D Accessories: Pick Up Your New Quest at These Taverns

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Jun 30 2024
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Let’s visit the local tavern, the best place to relax, spend your gold, and then pick up a new job so you can get more gold again.

In D&D the tavern is where you go to get a new job, rent a room for the night, or just unwind and spend your gold. They’re the Officer Jenny and Nurse Joy of your D&D game: at every town and often nearly identical. But they’re also a core part of every town your party will visit. So why not make them a core part of your physical gameplay experience, too?

1. Mini Tavern & Inn

If you’re the type of tabletop game player that likes being able to see the entire field laid out before you in miniature, this tavern will be the perfect addition to your table. Even in neutral, unpainted wood, the tavern is a nice set piece on the outside. But inside gives you a great layout of a tavern with a few inn rooms on top, giving adventurers the opportunity to experience the building inside and out.

Are there monsters inside? Is half of the party going to sleep upstairs while the rest sing drinking songs downstairs with the locals? You tell me! And Use this incredibly detailed miniature building so the party knows where all of the action is happening.


2. Tavern Furniture Set

Of course, if you’re designing an entire tavern and have the physical building to play in, you’re going to need the bar for your players to saunter up to. Including bar backs, barrels, barrel stands, bar stools, the bar, and even the bear skin rug, you likely won’t find a more complete or more immersive set of tavern minis anywhere. The bartender isn’t included, but with a set this nice I’m sure you won’t have a hard time hiring one from your collection of retired adventurer minis.


3. Tavern Rules

To turn your gaming room into the adventure plotting tavern of your dreams, you’ll need a few styled mugs, maybe a few bottles of mead, and definitely a canvas print of the tavern rules so your players and patrons know that drinking and casting are strictly forbidden. In-game, this serves no purpose, of course, but in your life, it will make your room objectively more fun. And maybe it will help keep your players and patrons in line.


4. Remarkable Inns & Their Drinks

If you’re not sure where to start your next campaign or even your group’s next adventure, Remarkable Inns & Their Drinks has you covered. At first glance, I thought this may be a recipe book for D&D-inspired food and drink.

In reality, it’s fifty-eight pages of ready-made taverns, story hooks, NPCs, rumors, random generation tables, and helpful hints for how to create a tavern space of your own. No matter what game you’re playing, or what kind of story you’re telling, there is something helpful in Remarkable Inns & Their Drinks to take your tavern and the people therein to the next level.


5. The Yawning Portal

Nestled in Waterdeep, The Yawning Portal is an inn and tavern famous for the giant hole in its floor that leads to the ancient ruins below the city. Are your players brave enough to ride the bucket down into the ground and see what lurks there? Well after you bring home the actual Yawning Portal, they had better be!

Oh hey! BoLS might make a little dolla-dolla if you decide to buy these items. We need that money to buy open up our own fantasy themed tavern.

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