paizo.com Recent Posts in 101 tavern patronspaizo.com Recent Posts in 101 tavern patrons2014-12-07T17:46:43Z2014-12-07T17:46:43ZRe: Forums: Homebrew and House Rules: 101 tavern patronsedxeroxhttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2li8j&page=3?101-tavern-patrons#1472014-12-03T00:44:28Z2014-12-03T00:44:28Z<p>The tavern door bursts open and three dwarves come in, one with his back to the inside of the tavern and two shuffling sideways, carrying a large piece of rock between them. The rock is 3 foot high and 5 foot wide. They drop it in a corner with a crash, wipe their hands on their beards and head to the bar. They then stop half way, have a heated discussion, and one returns to the table where the rock is to guard it. The rest of the eve they never leave the large rock unaccompanied as they have three rounds of Hammer ale. At last orders they carry it outside and away.</p>The tavern door bursts open and three dwarves come in, one with his back to the inside of the tavern and two shuffling sideways, carrying a large piece of rock between them. The rock is 3 foot high and 5 foot wide. They drop it in a corner with a crash, wipe their hands on their beards and head to the bar. They then stop half way, have a heated discussion, and one returns to the table where the rock is to guard it. The rest of the eve they never leave the large rock unaccompanied as they have...edxerox2014-12-03T00:44:28ZRe: Forums: Homebrew and House Rules: 101 tavern patronsThanaelhttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2li8j&page=3?101-tavern-patrons#1462014-11-22T13:33:56Z2014-11-22T13:33:56Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">noretoc wrote:</div><blockquote> Hey all. Want to get your creative juices flowing in prep for RPG superstar. There used to be a program on the web, that you could enter a number and it would spit out that many tavern encounters. Short little description of people that are in a tavern. </blockquote><p><a href="http://donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/inn/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/inn/</a>noretoc wrote:Hey all. Want to get your creative juices flowing in prep for RPG superstar. There used to be a program on the web, that you could enter a number and it would spit out that many tavern encounters. Short little description of people that are in a tavern.
http://donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/inn/Thanael2014-11-22T13:33:56ZRe: Forums: Homebrew and House Rules: 101 tavern patronsSilent Saturnhttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2li8j&page=3?101-tavern-patrons#1452014-11-21T03:24:20Z2014-11-21T03:24:20Z<p>160) A commoner drags a large iron box into the tavern, chained and locked. He approaches the first reasonably tough looking patron he sees, (possibly the PCs) and offers to bet them 10g that they can't open the box, by force or guile. After an hour or so, a large man in hide armor barges in with a massive steel warhammer, points to the commoner, and demands "double or nothing!"</p>160) A commoner drags a large iron box into the tavern, chained and locked. He approaches the first reasonably tough looking patron he sees, (possibly the PCs) and offers to bet them 10g that they can't open the box, by force or guile. After an hour or so, a large man in hide armor barges in with a massive steel warhammer, points to the commoner, and demands "double or nothing!"Silent Saturn2014-11-21T03:24:20ZRe: Forums: Homebrew and House Rules: 101 tavern patronsedxeroxhttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2li8j&page=3?101-tavern-patrons#1442014-11-14T21:34:06Z2014-11-14T21:34:06Z<p>Kellum the Grippli can often be seen in the bay window of the river tavern built on stilts over the Sellen tributary. Once a week he leaves his village and heads for the bright lights of the Inn. He doesn't say much. He is happy the locals and travellers don't mind him being there. He just sits in the bay-window enjoying his pint of Hobgoblin and watching the world go by with his large frog eyes. He has struck up a sort of friendship with Romulus, the rat-folk bargemen, but Romulus is often working on the rivers far west of here.
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Normally no-one would think twice about the frog figure sat alone in the bay window, maybe give a double-take but this is the River Kingdoms and anything goes.
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But they would if they knew that some scouts of a local boggard tribe noticed Kellum's trips to the inn, reported it, and the tribe has sent a snatch party to get him. This very minute they are sneaking under the stilts and preparing to ambush him when he leaves. Because Kellum is the son of the grippli villages tribal leader and kidnapping him would be good leverage in the boggards ongoing dispute with the gripplis.</p>Kellum the Grippli can often be seen in the bay window of the river tavern built on stilts over the Sellen tributary. Once a week he leaves his village and heads for the bright lights of the Inn. He doesn't say much. He is happy the locals and travellers don't mind him being there. He just sits in the bay-window enjoying his pint of Hobgoblin and watching the world go by with his large frog eyes. He has struck up a sort of friendship with Romulus, the rat-folk bargemen, but Romulus is often...edxerox2014-11-14T21:34:06ZRe: Forums: Homebrew and House Rules: 101 tavern patronsDungeonmasterCalhttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2li8j&page=3?101-tavern-patrons#1432014-05-08T01:49:17Z2014-05-08T01:49:17Z<p>Mark, are you publishing this stuff? Your ideas are stellar.</p>Mark, are you publishing this stuff? Your ideas are stellar.DungeonmasterCal2014-05-08T01:49:17ZRe: Forums: Homebrew and House Rules: 101 tavern patronsMark Hooverhttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2li8j&page=3?101-tavern-patrons#1422014-05-08T00:35:15Z2014-05-08T00:35:15Z<p>158. A narrow-shouldered young human lad enters the bar dressed in meek commoner's clothes. Beneath his sandy ringlets the boy's face is youthful yet stern. For some unknown reason no one in the bar will make eye contact with the wisp of a man standing in the doorway and conversation has stopped in lieu of a collective holding of breath.</p>
<p>For the GM: the kid is a N male wizard 13.</p>158. A narrow-shouldered young human lad enters the bar dressed in meek commoner's clothes. Beneath his sandy ringlets the boy's face is youthful yet stern. For some unknown reason no one in the bar will make eye contact with the wisp of a man standing in the doorway and conversation has stopped in lieu of a collective holding of breath.
For the GM: the kid is a N male wizard 13.Mark Hoover2014-05-08T00:35:15ZRe: Forums: Homebrew and House Rules: 101 tavern patronsSilent Saturnhttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2li8j&page=3?101-tavern-patrons#1412014-05-08T00:29:38Z2014-05-08T00:29:38Z<p>157) A bugbear in ill-fitting armor barges into the tavern. Oddly, the other patrons don't seem concerned by this beyond their initial startle. The bugbear takes a stool and asks for "the usual" in broken Common.</p>157) A bugbear in ill-fitting armor barges into the tavern. Oddly, the other patrons don't seem concerned by this beyond their initial startle. The bugbear takes a stool and asks for "the usual" in broken Common.Silent Saturn2014-05-08T00:29:38ZRe: Forums: Homebrew and House Rules: 101 tavern patronsDungeonmasterCalhttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2li8j&page=3?101-tavern-patrons#1402014-11-14T21:35:48Z2014-05-07T22:41:10Z<p>A mime walks in. He doesn't come out.</p>A mime walks in. He doesn't come out.DungeonmasterCal2014-05-07T22:41:10ZRe: Forums: Homebrew and House Rules: 101 tavern patronslucky7 (alias of Elizabeth Brasell)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2li8j&page=3?101-tavern-patrons#1392014-05-07T20:44:16Z2014-05-07T20:44:16Z<p>155.) A tall man with a close-cropped beard inspecting his own wanted poster and cutting his hair.</p>155.) A tall man with a close-cropped beard inspecting his own wanted poster and cutting his hair.lucky7 (alias of Elizabeth Brasell)2014-05-07T20:44:16ZRe: Forums: Homebrew and House Rules: 101 tavern patronsCorvinohttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2li8j&page=3?101-tavern-patrons#1382014-05-07T20:23:21Z2014-05-07T20:23:21Z<p>154) In one wall of the Tavern you notice a long, narrow, straight corridor, leading off into darkness. A cold, soft breeze blows into the room along it. Out of the other windows in the wall you cannot see any part of the building leading in the direction of the corridor. Looking around outside the building reveals no corridor there. It is as if it does not exist outside the building, only inside it. The patrons and innkeeper either admit ignorance or refuse to talk about it.</p>
<p>(credit to The House of Leaves, a very unsettling book)</p>154) In one wall of the Tavern you notice a long, narrow, straight corridor, leading off into darkness. A cold, soft breeze blows into the room along it. Out of the other windows in the wall you cannot see any part of the building leading in the direction of the corridor. Looking around outside the building reveals no corridor there. It is as if it does not exist outside the building, only inside it. The patrons and innkeeper either admit ignorance or refuse to talk about it.
(credit to The...Corvino2014-05-07T20:23:21ZRe: Forums: Homebrew and House Rules: 101 tavern patronsMark Hooverhttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2li8j&page=3?101-tavern-patrons#1372017-02-06T08:48:47Z2014-05-07T14:44:03Z<p>153. a haggard young female half-elf in ragged clothing looks half starved. She has an open satchel stuffed with sheaves of crude parchment. She is selling scrolls with arcane cantrips for mere silvers instead of gold. Knowlede: Local reveals she is Bylaphine, the granddaughter of a hermit wizard who lived on the edge of town. She has no family, no skills of measurable worth to support herself with other than a few cantrips and the Scribe Scroll feat. She may easilly become either a hireling/cohort of the party or a villain of the campaign.</p>153. a haggard young female half-elf in ragged clothing looks half starved. She has an open satchel stuffed with sheaves of crude parchment. She is selling scrolls with arcane cantrips for mere silvers instead of gold. Knowlede: Local reveals she is Bylaphine, the granddaughter of a hermit wizard who lived on the edge of town. She has no family, no skills of measurable worth to support herself with other than a few cantrips and the Scribe Scroll feat. She may easilly become either a...Mark Hoover2014-05-07T14:44:03ZRe: Forums: Homebrew and House Rules: 101 tavern patronsCorvinohttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2li8j&page=3?101-tavern-patrons#1362014-05-07T14:25:54Z2014-05-07T14:25:54Z<p>151) From the back room you smell cooking food. The aromas of cooking onions, meat, tomatoes and herbs fill your nostrils. As a halfling in an apron pushes through the door to the bar you catch a glimpse of a heavy pot above the fire in the back room.
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[Perception] or [Profession (Cook)] Oregano. You knew it.</p>
<p>152) A handsome young half-elf makes his way around the bar. Whenever he approaches a woman or group of women he stops and makes conversation. Most seem both unfazed and unimpressed by him. You get the feeling he may have tried his luck too often in this Tavern, judging from some of the looks he receives.</p>151) From the back room you smell cooking food. The aromas of cooking onions, meat, tomatoes and herbs fill your nostrils. As a halfling in an apron pushes through the door to the bar you catch a glimpse of a heavy pot above the fire in the back room.
[Perception] or [Profession (Cook)] Oregano. You knew it.
152) A handsome young half-elf makes his way around the bar. Whenever he approaches a woman or group of women he stops and makes conversation. Most seem both unfazed and unimpressed by...Corvino2014-05-07T14:25:54ZRe: Forums: Homebrew and House Rules: 101 tavern patronsMark Hooverhttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2li8j&page=3?101-tavern-patrons#1352014-05-06T22:08:18Z2014-05-06T22:08:18Z<p>147. A woman with a hood up and a veil over her face sits in the corner sipping red wine. Perception reveals 2 odd things about her: she has a forked tongue which flicks out to taste the air and something is writhing beneath her hood and veil. She does not radiate evil.</p>
<p>148. a male grippili bard makes his way through the bar singing about rainbows; there is a banjo strapped to his back.</p>
<p>149. It's LADIES night! A "priest" of Cayden Cailean leaps onto the bar, works a Purify Food and Drink spell into a drawn out blessing to all the patrons, and calls out that all ladies drink free by virtue of the clergy! Knowledge: Religion reveals this is a bluff; the cleric is merely trying to quickly cover the fact that a keg of ale has gone bad. Although it's now safe to drink it is sour and skunked but many of the townsfolk don't care since half of them aren't paying.</p>
<p>150. Ozula, a female kobold is extremely comely despite her race and has curves in all the right places. She drifts through the crowd offering to dance with young men for a silver. These dances prove quite provocative and she promises more if the money is right. For the GM: Ozula is a LN female kobold expert (courtesan) 4. She is well trained in any skills necessary for her profession and is appalled if she is treated as anything other than a high-class companion. She works toward her nightly pay using her skills.</p>147. A woman with a hood up and a veil over her face sits in the corner sipping red wine. Perception reveals 2 odd things about her: she has a forked tongue which flicks out to taste the air and something is writhing beneath her hood and veil. She does not radiate evil.
148. a male grippili bard makes his way through the bar singing about rainbows; there is a banjo strapped to his back.
149. It's LADIES night! A "priest" of Cayden Cailean leaps onto the bar, works a Purify Food and Drink...Mark Hoover2014-05-06T22:08:18ZRe: Forums: Homebrew and House Rules: 101 tavern patronsShallowHammerhttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2li8j&page=3?101-tavern-patrons#1342014-05-06T17:56:19Z2014-05-06T17:56:19Z<p>A young man dressed in plain, brown, robes with a staff sitting against the table besides him keeps mumbling something and waving his hands over an empty mug. After each attempt, he curses and repeates this odd behavior...</p>
<p>GM: He's a young wizard trying to turn his mug into what he calls an Everfill Mug. It is always full of ale. He keeps failing. The tavern owner used to kick him out but realized that he's been unsuccessful for so long and is unlikely to succeed at his task. Now he's the butt of jokes at the tavern and is trying to succeed just to spite everyone.</p>A young man dressed in plain, brown, robes with a staff sitting against the table besides him keeps mumbling something and waving his hands over an empty mug. After each attempt, he curses and repeates this odd behavior...
GM: He's a young wizard trying to turn his mug into what he calls an Everfill Mug. It is always full of ale. He keeps failing. The tavern owner used to kick him out but realized that he's been unsuccessful for so long and is unlikely to succeed at his task. Now he's the...ShallowHammer2014-05-06T17:56:19ZRe: Forums: Homebrew and House Rules: 101 tavern patronsBobo Dhttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2li8j&page=3?101-tavern-patrons#1332017-02-06T08:46:39Z2014-05-06T16:25:31Z<p>145
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an old dwarf sits at a a table with an elf. They are playing chess and talking earnestly. The dwarf's armor is mauled and battered, barley holding together, and his face is covered in scars. The elf doesn't have the same level of visible damage, but looks on edge and flinches at the slightest movement around him from anyone but the dwarf. The dwarf downs ale after ale all night, but he continues to hold even with the elf in the chess game, despite being mildly drunk.</p>
<p>Perception: listening to thier conversation reveals that they are retired demon hunters now on the run from cultists.</p>145
an old dwarf sits at a a table with an elf. They are playing chess and talking earnestly. The dwarf's armor is mauled and battered, barley holding together, and his face is covered in scars. The elf doesn't have the same level of visible damage, but looks on edge and flinches at the slightest movement around him from anyone but the dwarf. The dwarf downs ale after ale all night, but he continues to hold even with the elf in the chess game, despite being mildly drunk.
Perception:...Bobo D2014-05-06T16:25:31ZRe: Forums: Homebrew and House Rules: 101 tavern patronsMark Hooverhttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2li8j&page=3?101-tavern-patrons#1322014-05-06T14:54:33Z2014-05-06T14:39:17Z<p>144. Mildred the Temperate: a woman dressed in formal and somber attire enters the tavern and immediately kneels in the doorway. She makes an appeal to all occupants of the facility to abstain from the sin of alcohol and the wickedness that follows (drunkeness, violence addiction and sloth, etc). She then begins singing hymns and refuses to be moved. Knowledge: Local, Religion - Mildred is a member of a burgeoning Temperance Movement led by local religions and women of the region due to an increase in alcohol consumption and resulting crimes.</p>144. Mildred the Temperate: a woman dressed in formal and somber attire enters the tavern and immediately kneels in the doorway. She makes an appeal to all occupants of the facility to abstain from the sin of alcohol and the wickedness that follows (drunkeness, violence addiction and sloth, etc). She then begins singing hymns and refuses to be moved. Knowledge: Local, Religion - Mildred is a member of a burgeoning Temperance Movement led by local religions and women of the region due to an...Mark Hoover2014-05-06T14:39:17ZRe: Forums: Homebrew and House Rules: 101 tavern patronsCorvinohttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2li8j&page=3?101-tavern-patrons#1312014-05-06T14:09:09Z2014-05-06T14:09:09Z<p>143) Standing at the bar are three human men, talking and drinking. The tallest of them looks drunk and is visibly swaying. His companions look concerned, occasionally patting him on the shoulder and offering a quiet word.
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[Perception] The drunk man's eyes are red from crying.
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[Knowledge (local)] The local carpenter lost his wife recently and has been hitting the bottle pretty hard. His brother and apprentice are worried him.</p>143) Standing at the bar are three human men, talking and drinking. The tallest of them looks drunk and is visibly swaying. His companions look concerned, occasionally patting him on the shoulder and offering a quiet word.
[Perception] The drunk man's eyes are red from crying.
[Knowledge (local)] The local carpenter lost his wife recently and has been hitting the bottle pretty hard. His brother and apprentice are worried him.Corvino2014-05-06T14:09:09ZRe: Forums: Homebrew and House Rules: 101 tavern patronsSilent Saturnhttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2li8j&page=3?101-tavern-patrons#1302014-05-06T03:15:17Z2014-05-06T03:15:17Z<p>142) A middle-aged balding man in conservative dress. He's short, thin, timid, has a neatly trimmed moustache, and is in every way the most milquetoast, unimpressive man you could ever meet in a tavern... except that his right eye is missing and a large scar runs across the socket. If asked about the scar, he'll whimper and complain that he doesn't want to talk about it.</p>142) A middle-aged balding man in conservative dress. He's short, thin, timid, has a neatly trimmed moustache, and is in every way the most milquetoast, unimpressive man you could ever meet in a tavern... except that his right eye is missing and a large scar runs across the socket. If asked about the scar, he'll whimper and complain that he doesn't want to talk about it.Silent Saturn2014-05-06T03:15:17ZRe: Forums: Homebrew and House Rules: 101 tavern patronsMark Hooverhttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2li8j&page=3?101-tavern-patrons#1292014-05-05T15:59:34Z2014-05-05T12:54:30Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Corvino wrote:</div><blockquote> 139) On a small stage at one end of the Tavern a Bard sits playing a Harp. She plays well, but none of the Tavern patrons seems to be paying attention. It is a strange, sad tune that feels familiar. </blockquote><p>When running this I'd play Zeplin's Stairway to Heaven.Corvino wrote:139) On a small stage at one end of the Tavern a Bard sits playing a Harp. She plays well, but none of the Tavern patrons seems to be paying attention. It is a strange, sad tune that feels familiar.
When running this I'd play Zeplin's Stairway to Heaven.Mark Hoover2014-05-05T12:54:30ZRe: Forums: Homebrew and House Rules: 101 tavern patronsGidiahttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2li8j&page=3?101-tavern-patrons#1282017-02-06T08:45:14Z2014-05-04T20:06:07Z<p>Boram Huscarl - Halfling Fighter</p>
<p>A halfling with a grizzly beard sits on a stool at the counter, a pile of furs beneath him keep high enough so his arms can rest comfortably on the counter. He wears some worn old half-plate, a large sword (for him) over his back, and an eye patch over his eye. Perception check to spot the symbol of a god of battle carved into the handle of his sword.</p>Boram Huscarl - Halfling Fighter
A halfling with a grizzly beard sits on a stool at the counter, a pile of furs beneath him keep high enough so his arms can rest comfortably on the counter. He wears some worn old half-plate, a large sword (for him) over his back, and an eye patch over his eye. Perception check to spot the symbol of a god of battle carved into the handle of his sword.Gidia2014-05-04T20:06:07ZRe: Forums: Homebrew and House Rules: 101 tavern patronsFarmerGileshttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2li8j&page=3?101-tavern-patrons#1272014-05-04T18:45:55Z2014-05-04T12:11:54Z<p>Argoyle the Bargoyle
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Drunken old crone who enjoys making the younger patrons of the tavern uncomfortable with inappropriate advances.</p>Argoyle the Bargoyle
Drunken old crone who enjoys making the younger patrons of the tavern uncomfortable with inappropriate advances.FarmerGiles2014-05-04T12:11:54ZRe: Forums: Homebrew and House Rules: 101 tavern patronsCorvinohttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2li8j&page=3?101-tavern-patrons#1262014-05-04T09:32:27Z2014-05-04T09:32:27Z<p>139) On a small stage at one end of the Tavern a Bard sits playing a Harp. She plays well, but none of the Tavern patrons seems to be paying attention. It is a strange, sad tune that feels familiar.</p>139) On a small stage at one end of the Tavern a Bard sits playing a Harp. She plays well, but none of the Tavern patrons seems to be paying attention. It is a strange, sad tune that feels familiar.Corvino2014-05-04T09:32:27ZRe: Forums: Homebrew and House Rules: 101 tavern patronsDungeonmasterCalhttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2li8j&page=3?101-tavern-patrons#1252014-05-03T19:23:54Z2014-05-03T19:23:54Z<p>A well known and feared bounty hunter walks in and begins looking around the common room intently as the place falls silent.</p>A well known and feared bounty hunter walks in and begins looking around the common room intently as the place falls silent.DungeonmasterCal2014-05-03T19:23:54ZRe: Forums: Homebrew and House Rules: 101 tavern patronsMunchwolfhttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2li8j&page=3?101-tavern-patrons#1242014-11-14T21:54:55Z2014-05-03T17:29:52Z<p>137) An old, completely naked man is sitting in the middle of the tavern. He has feathers in his hair, and he is chatting away with a cricket that is sitting on a plate at his table. No one seems to notice him.</p>137) An old, completely naked man is sitting in the middle of the tavern. He has feathers in his hair, and he is chatting away with a cricket that is sitting on a plate at his table. No one seems to notice him.Munchwolf2014-05-03T17:29:52ZRe: Forums: Homebrew and House Rules: 101 tavern patronsCorvinohttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2li8j&page=3?101-tavern-patrons#1232014-04-30T15:58:01Z2014-04-30T15:58:01Z<p>134) An emaciated man in the corner gulps down a bowl of stew, barely chewing. Finishing, he tears ravenously at a chunk of bread and drains his mug before looking around for more.
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[Perception] There is a stack of eight or so empty bowls beside him. </p>
<p>135) A sad-eyed half-elf girl wanders from table to table with a basket of flowers. She tries to sell you a Carnation for a silver piece. </p>
<p>136) Above the bar is a banner announcing a beer festival today! There are a dozen guest ales from around the region, and the Tavern is buzzing with curious locals in various states of inebriation. The Landlord appears happy but distracted by the extra custom. He recommends a golden, hoppy ale from a village to the North.</p>134) An emaciated man in the corner gulps down a bowl of stew, barely chewing. Finishing, he tears ravenously at a chunk of bread and drains his mug before looking around for more.
[Perception] There is a stack of eight or so empty bowls beside him.
135) A sad-eyed half-elf girl wanders from table to table with a basket of flowers. She tries to sell you a Carnation for a silver piece.
136) Above the bar is a banner announcing a beer festival today! There are a dozen guest ales from around...Corvino2014-04-30T15:58:01Z