Unusual Inns

I'd burn that inn to the ground, and have a posse outside to make sure none escape.

No good can come from such beasts.

>>44685814
I don't have the SRD open, but aren't werebears like lawful good or something?

>>44685839
Yep, by default werebears are lawful good.

>>44685849
So wouldn't you want them even more near your town? I mean, they're significantly more benevolent and trustworthy than LITERALLY ANY OF THE PC RACES.

>>44685709
I pretty much always run a Beorn-like character in every game I play.

Especially since I learnt Werebears are a thing.

He was even in shadowrun. My players think he's some sort of time traveling Bear Demigod.

But they're Right

>>44685839
>>44685849
>not burning it regardless
It's like you faggots don't even DEUS VULT

>>44685866
>Deus Vult
>against a Clan of shapeshifters whose natural disposition is towards being lawful and good.

And then Billy the Paladin fell two times that day.

>>44685839
Yep. I once had a faction of Werebear Paladins. If there was ever a group that my party did not want to fuck with, it was them. Even the Chaotic Stupid member kept on the right side of the line when dealing with them.

>>44685866
Jokes on you, my paladin IS a werebear.

>>44685881

I need to steal that idea.

>>44685887
Now he's a fighter werebear

>>44685879
Doesn't matter what they are, they're filthy nonhumans and deserve to die.

>>44685895
that wasn't me. >>44685887 As if i would willingly play nonhuman scum.

This might be the monstergirlfag in me talking but the idea of being given a bed and breakfast by a stocky werebear lass sounds comfy as fuck

what do they eat?

>>44685939
Well, they're basically half bears so they would probably eat.

Things normal humans do because Bears have almost exactly the same diets.

>>44685939
The same as everyone else I'd assume. Maybe more of an emphasis on freshwater fish?

>>44685919
Save your indignation for the monstergirl wat do threads, champ.

>>44685946
Are they half bear? They're shapeshifters. Most times they're 100% fat, hairy humans. And I don't imagine they serve customers in hybrid form.

>>44685962
>Implying they don't serve you as full on bears.

Do you even bear?

>>44685962
>Fat

I seriously doubt any werebear is fat, they're probably swole as fuck not only because they're infected with a magical curse that makes them bear-like but because a bears diet is pretty fucking high in protein.

>>44685975
How do they carry the drinks without opposable thumbs?

>>44685984
They grit their teeth and bear it.

>>44685957
No.
If you play anything other than human you're a race traitor piece of shit. If DM uses nonhumans as anything other than genocide fodder, he's a piece of shit.

Only death is repentance good enough for being subhuman scum.

>>44685984
Are you going to complain to a bear who just spilled your drink?

>>44686005
They're lawful good. They'll apologize and give me a refund.

File: timehascome.jpg (34KB, 480x360px) Image search: [Google]

34KB, 480x360px

>>44686011
>WereBearmaid suttering and apologising profusely after spilling your drink

>>44686032
>>44686032
Bears are not sexy, faggot

File: tavern1.jpg (193KB, 1680x1050px) Image search: [Google]

193KB, 1680x1050px

>>44685709
The inn my party is starting off in is something of a hub, venturing back and forth and using it as their base of operations. It's massive and has grown over time with owners exchanging hands and bringing new ideas of business with them. Inn, tavern, gambling den, brothel, and even a boxing ring in one sub-level basement. The owner is a former adventurer something of a legend in her own right and a woman even the local Baron refuses to challenge thanks to her mythical stubbornness. The party's favorite serving girl is Coral, a mermaid who serves drinks around the bar by swimming in a water-filled barrel that she then shoves in her chosen direction.

>>44686075
>Implying I am not attracted to a Large bulky Werebear girl in her human form.

Are you implying moe musclegirls are not sexy?

>>44686125
Not if they hairy and stocky. Bears aren't bodybuilder muscular, they're heavyweight wrestler muscular.

>>44685939
Fish. Berries. Roots. Thrice-baked honey cakes. Fermented honey beverages. British tourists. Discarded bags of potato chips.

>>44686167
Marmalade

>thinly disguised monstergirl thread #2356435

File: disappoint.png (3KB, 209x215px) Image search: [Google]

3KB, 209x215px

>>44686975
And I wanted to discuss inns and taverns...

>>44686000
That's a falling.
And my next big villain.

>>44687115
>Crusader
>Falling

>>44687325
Generally speaking, if they willingly kill a lawful good creature, yes

>>44687115
>>44687325
I once played a fighter who everyone, even the DM, mistook for paladin because he was religious and chivalrous and spoke in Ye Olde English and used the word "smite".

When the DM said I fell, I pointed to FIGHTER 6 at my character sheet.

Ironically, he died of falling damage.

>>44685995
holy shit

>>44685866
>"I'll prove what a with-it /tg/-er I am by memeing a hatred towards all things that don't look grognardy!"

>>44685709
I can't remember what it was called, but the inn in my fantasy setting yet to be made is 'The Last Call'. The owner, Helvetica, is a bit sour mouthed and downcast at new adventurers wandering in her inn, but is willing to serve them and let them stay the night in the first few of the rooms upstairs and not to walk any further in the hall. Any further and you would find yourself walking forever, hearing creepy and unsettling noises as your surroundings slowly morph into something more ominous. If you linger around in the morning, she'd likely be in the bar, serving a packed room with the help of her lethargic, laz, and gorgeous servant girl Lottie. The patrons would look like they came from different parts of the world, yet each of them would understand each other and trade weird, fantastic, and horrible stories. The place is always packed until nightfall.

A small, drafty-but-not-cold tavern in the middle of Limbo.
Barkeep was a Warforged with half of its jaw missing, so it had an extreme lisp. It was happy to serve any lost souls or unfortunate living souls that ended up in Limbo.

>>44687325
>committing genocide for personal, selfish reasons against a group of Lawful Good people

You're basically aBBEG in everything but name already.

>>44685709
Can my character try to wait until they're not home then steal their porridge?

>>44687325
>Crusader
>Killing anything that actually fights back
Laughingmuslim.jpg

>>44686000
Sup Red Scorpions chapter master

>>44686000
>Goebbels plays D&D

>>44685814
>>44685866
>implying you could beat a family of werebears
THE HAVE THE STRENGTH OF A BEAR AND THE SKILLS OF A MAN.

>>44689313
Which in this case translates to being fat and knowing how to cook. A terrifying combination.

Wouldn't lawful good creatures be driven to do more than sit down and take people's money for food and shelter where there are evils to be vanquished and downtrodden to be protected?

>>44690276
Providing affordable, safe temporary habitation for travelers is a very powerful but subtle act of Lawful Goodliness, if you think about it.

>>44685866
>DEUS VULT
What decent DnD god would even be mad enough about lawful good shapeshifters for that

>>44685866
God I hate it when /pol/ comes to /tg/

Whose idea was it to make werebears lawful good?

Bears maul the shit out of people, they're vicious animals, yet when someone gets infected with the bear version of the condition that creates werewolves, they become lawful good protectors of society and nature?

All lycanthropes should be either chaotic evil or have no alignment because they're wild, uncontrollable beasts who eat people.

>>44691759
D&D werewolves were inspired by Hammer horror movies, their werebears were inspired by Beorn.

>>44691759
Agreed

My DM for Shadowrun used "Mark's Bar" as his staple place to start runs, so I made that into a pun.

The local church has an inn and a bar. When you perform a task for the church, you are able to put your mark on a plaque in the bar for posterity. If you try to put your mark on a plaque without performing a task, you get zapped (usually non-lethally).

>>44685939
Bear things

Also guests who run out on the bill or people that get fresh with the cute and curvy beardaughter and/or bearMILF

>>44685814
>owtheedge.jpg

No matter what kind of party, my group usually bee-lines for the nearest in, all of which have, by convention, alliterating animal names. But once we decided to break the habit, and visited a tea-house instead.

So, a quiet tea-house with seperate huts in a Zen garden as lodgings, the main attraction of which are its library and being known as a spot for calm contemplation?

>>44685866
Thats some dank meme-talk escaping your lips there, buddy

>>44685939

Erm, care to explain exactly what you mean by "stocky"? I always thought stocky was short and wide. Werebears would easily tower over your orc barbarian, nevermind you.

I'd imagine that werebear lass would be built like an amazon, and then covered with short fur.

And werebears, if I remember righ, don't like the suspicion and hatered that others display toward shapeshifters. They do, however, still have human senses most of the time, so they'd serve what any bed and breakfast would.

>>44686138
Hnnnnnng!!!

>>44685814
>Look, ma! I can sound like a Nazi on the internet!

Post some wearbear waifus, dammit!

File: get exited.png (35KB, 283x218px) Image search: [Google]

35KB, 283x218px

Werebear inn?
I'm down.

>>44686000
Virt, get off the keyboard and think about better things to advance your own life, man.

>>44685709
Stealing this.

Need good inn names.

Bear-Inn?
Grizzly Tavern and inn?

>>44685709
>myth and symbolism do associate bears with protection, hospitality and nurturing
You fucking what? Bears were so feared as solitary death-machines that several languages actually lost their original words for the creatures in taboo deformation.

>>44701200
>You fucking what? Bears were so feared as solitary death-machines that several languages actually lost their original words for the creatures in taboo deformation.
Depends on culture

I had an inn called the Slippery Scale in a town near a huge lake that served as the main adventuring hub. The entire town was protected by a pair of bronze dragons that lived in the enormous lake.
After a few centuries of pretending to be humans and building an inn they just threw off the disguise and decided they were bored of being innkeepers and went to the nearby lake to raise a clutch of eggs.
Their broken down inn was fixed up and is now run by one of their wyrmlings who goes by the name of Sparks. She's overly curious and typically gives free meals in exchange for adventurer stories. She's also naive and easily frightened considering she is literally a baby. Unfortunately she's too young to actually take human form which startles people from out of town. Luckily she's overcome the lack of hands by learning to cook and carry dishes with her tail. She also cooks free breakfast and gives out free appraisals for gems to customers. My players tell me she was one of their favorite characters.

>>44704801
Cute

Have a game coming up in about a week, players are going to meet up at a portside tavern called the Fightin' Crab. Named after a giant (Medium size category) fiddler crab that the bar owner keeps as a pet. Traveller's can challenge the crab to an arm wrestling contest. If they win, free room and board, but if they lose, they're buying everyone's drinks that night.

>>44701200
Depends on which side of the Atlantic you're on

>>44705612
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/humanoids/lycanthrope/werebear

Nope, LG. Unless that's for "Lhaotic Good".

>>44704933
That sounds like a good way to lose some fingers.

>>44705648
Sure, you could lose a finger, but you could also get free drinks!

>>44705654
And what is this "1 true edition"?

>>44705991
No, it's the one you first played in as a child.

>>44700298
Bear Bed & Breakfast

>>44700298
Grit and Bearret.
Also a good name for a gay bar.

I once had a tavern that was owned by a great wizard known as The Prophecer, who had forgotten all about it since he's bat shit insane. Basically modeled after the professor from Futurama.

But the Inn is built in several different dimensions, all in the same place. Yeah, it's just about what it sounds like. The Prophesor found a point that aligns with several different dimensions while also, twisting the fabric, connecting even more dimensions, then made a bar on the resulting spot.

The rooms all sound like they have more occupants than they actually do. Sometimes, one can get lost, as the doorways sometimes acts as a Gate spell, teleporting them to a different dimension. The ethereal plane is the closest, an almost meld with the material plane, so it's possible, although rarely for one to meet with a dead ally for some socialization. The bartender is a simulacrum of the wizard who's mind has been altered. There's one in each dimension. He's forgotten about being a wizard an mainly knows only so much magic that's needed to maintain the bar. But ye gods, the profits from operating a bar in multiple dimensions is great. I still haven't figured out where all the profits go though.

Luckily in the material realm, it's built on top of the tallest mountain in the land. You won't reach it unless you're at least escorted by someone at least level 8. But the top is enchanted to bloom with grass and be comfortable.

>>44685709
Stealing.

>>44706818
Watch for the innkeeper's sons.

>>44686111
That's awesome. May steal it, especially Coral.

I had an idea for a bar run solely by a gnome wizard and a liberal use of Unseen Servants and Mage Hand. There was a low chance that any drink bought from the bar would carry a random potion effect.

File: size1[1].jpg (80KB, 600x473px) Image search: [Google]

80KB, 600x473px

The Rascal Rendezvous
>a gritty wilderness inn that just happens to be exactly where t̉he adventurers need it to be on a dark, rainy night after a hard battle
>simple, unrecognizable furniture/design, and an unremarkable bartender
>party frequently finds similarly unremarkable inns in similar places with similar alliterative names, in similar places/situations
>inn of course has a spell on it similar to the room of requirement in harry potter or magic shop in howl's moving castle. party eventually realizes it's the same place every time
>side quest allows you to do a favor for the bartender and be rewarded with the "password," which can be uttered to summon the inn at will, but only at exactly 11:30 PM
>downside is untrustworthy and anonymous clientele who will kill, rape, or rob you before leaving for parts unknown in the morning

Tipsy Knight Tavern
>a huge commercial inn buried deep in the forest
>cheap beer by the gallons, charming atmosphere, gorgeous tavern girls who "serve more than a drink if they like how you wink"
>did i mention no one makes it out alive?
>once the sun comes up every guest is invited separately to the owner's office to pay up
>he is an extremely dangerous lich who will kill you and use your corpse as a prop on his sick stage
>the entire staff and most of the clientele have been dead for decades

Tabby Cat's
>looks like shit
>buried in the back of some slimy alley in the hub city
>unfriendly guests and terrible service
>is actually a hub for high-level adventurers, important local leaders, and criminals to meet without drawing attention
>basically a test of the party's investigative skills, wits, and conversational play
>most players will pass this place up or never even hear about it
>those who do take notice are rewarded with incredible questing opportunities
>ultimate hipster inn, you probably havent heard of it

>>44707237
How does he manage that?

File: hnng.jpg (129KB, 400x400px) Image search: [Google]

129KB, 400x400px

>>44686032
>>44686125
>>44686138
Hnnnnnnng!!

>>44685984
Trays.

Use 2 paws to pick up each drink and place on tray. Carry tables worth of drinks using tray. Wearbears have common sense.

>>44707751
They're dancing bears? Because bears normally move on all fours. They're clumsy as fuck bipedally.

And you don't serve customers in fucking Crinos.

>>44707823
Well, some venues with drinks and gambling will also have dancers. If the inn is in werebear territory...

>>44707924
>accidentally pay for a lapdamce from a bear

>>44707823
The advantage of not being an actual bear means they probably dont have a problem standing. Hell they probably have thumbs.

>>44707986
In hybrid form. A lycanthrope in animal form is indistinguishable from a normal animal of its type.

>>44685709
>the coziest inn in the region

>>44708015

No problem, hang out in hybrid form then.

>>44708015
Seems counter intuitive to serve people in animal form when you have two other forms with thumbs.

>>44685862
Yea. Werebears should infect everyone so the whole world is Lawful Good. Then we'll have peace.

>>44708054
Literally no downsides.

>>44708054
That would be the morally utilitarian thing to do.

What a fucked up world.

>>44708054
>the innkeeper spits in each drink

>righteous werebear party goes a pilgrimage to convert humans, elves and dwarfs to the path of LG by means of coziness and politeness

Restaurant at the end of the universe?

>>44685881
"The Goldilocks knights" or "The order of st. Goldilocks" anyhow stolen.

>>44691759
>Bears maul the shit out of people, they're vicious animals
Yeah, and wolves attack travellers. Do your research.

>>44704933
>first rule of Fight Crab: you do not talk about Fight Crab
>second rule of Fight Crab: you DO NOT talk about Fight Crab

Reminder that in the OWOD setting the story of Goldilocks is canonically used by the Gurhal as an allegorical explanation for the War of Rage.

>>44708054
Isn't the only way to infect someone with warebear shit a bite? Or just the transmission of bodily fluids? Because I can see some werebear saliva+honey mead being sold at the inn if it can be transmitted that way.

>>44708543
Only by bite. It's a magical curse, not a pathogen. It's the act of the bite that does it.

Werebears are the only lycanthrope species which virtually never "infects" anyone, at least not on purpose. The vast majority of werebears are born.

>>44708572
Okay. Might have a little bit of trouble spreading it then.

>>44708572
How would you go around "uplifting" people then? The entire world would be much better off as werebears.

>>44708681
Would they? They can't take Resources at character creation. All werebears are canonically filthy wilderness hermits. And probably Native American.

>>44708706
There used to be Japanese ones, but the werewolves went and killed them all off.

File: image.jpg (168KB, 1200x817px) Image search: [Google]

168KB, 1200x817px

Lawful-Good Werebear Family Inn sounds cozy and wonderful, and I may have to include them the next time I DM a setting that has a Great White North. I also have admit that the idea of a Burly, Warm-Hearted Barmaid sounds cozy and wonderful too.

My favorite inn/tavern I've encountered was a gigantic, old, ramshackle mess like the one pictured here. It was called Kings' Crossing because it was located at an important highlands crossroads between several of the setting's major kingdoms, and was built atop the ruins of an even older fort. It was a strange, strange place that had developed a reputation over the centuries of being the Semi-Official Capital of Adventuring on the continent, so much so that in many places adventurers were bemusedly referred to as Kings or Kingsmen. It was filled with artifacts and ghosts and delights and dangers, with a floorplan that was claimed to shift and change from time to time. I recall that many of its customers and staff were non-human, and included a warforged bouncer who may or may not have actually been functional, a large family of diminutive ratfolk that worked as maids, stablehands and general go-fors, a literal hulking behemoth of a barmaid who liked acting as a wingwoman and matchmaker, and the foul-tempered ghost of a king who'd been murdered there centuries ago.

My country has a very small roleplaying community. A side effect of this is that the few existing forums are known by everyone, and most players have met in real life. Many have been personally or romantically involved, and relationships grow over years. The community has powerful, unique traditions.

One of it is a play-by-post game ran about twice a year. It is GMless and has no predetermined setting, except for a pub named "The One-Eyed Weasel". Everyone comes to that pub. They can be characters from any setting, genre or world. Their only goal is to interact, over the course of the night.

It has ran for years. Many times, it ran as planned. In others, the characters left the pub. In some, they went on to go on grand, universe hopping adventures in the vein of Sliders or Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles. There's never a GM. Even when people go on adventures, the community is tight-knit and private enough that everyone knows to play fair and cooperate with others. It flows like improvised theater.

I'm proud to have been part of what is often remembered as the greatest such game that there was. It was the first time people thought to leave the pub, and we went on an epic, unforgettable, several months long adventure (with hundreds of posts per day).

Main characters included a feisty modern descendent of the goddess Athena, a philosophical Viking ghost, a 50's horror film alien conqueror, a confused Russian gangster and Citriel, the archangel of oranges (her divine powers included communication with and the spontaneous creation of oranges. Not manderines, though. That's outside her purview.)

>>44685995
Underrated post. I kekd.

>>44685919
Technically, your god is a nonhuman.

Breedbook Gurhal. Jewish holocaust werebear lady.

Never forget the stupidity that was old world of darkness

>>44687386
What did you do to cause you to not fall?

>>44709503
Look where you were going?

I wonder if my GM would let me play a wearbear.

>>44710494
Since you're almost certainly doing this for fetishistic reasons, I hope that he doesn't.

File: 1447955006400.png (356KB, 1360x1888px) Image search: [Google]

356KB, 1360x1888px

>>44691623
I feel your pain anon.

How about an inn ran entirely by ghosts?

>>44685939
People

>>44713105
Do bears eat humans? I mean, they would under certain circumstances, but I don't think it's anywhere near their normal diet. I don't think they even go for big animals all that much. Mostly it's like... rodents and fish, right? Bears aren't fast enough (nor do they hunt in a pack, meaning they can only use so many tactics) to catch stuff like deer, and they eat a lot of... berries and such otherwise.

>>44686167
>>44692960
>>44713105
>TFW you will never get vored by a qt curvy and muscular werebearMILF

>>44713378
Bears generally don't care to bother humans, but when a bear gets shit happy it gets shit happy.
A bear could just not want to be bothered one day and decide if you push it it's going to rip your throat out, eat some of you and then leave you to die.

There was a thing a little while back about a place letting the bear and wolf pens mix. For the most part the bear didn't give a shit about the wolves and just did its own thing, then one day it decided it was extra hungry and ripped a wolf's head clean off.

>>44713694
>take that, Garou

File: 1374716046778.jpg (51KB, 625x552px) Image search: [Google]

51KB, 625x552px

>>44707579
its actually a swarm of sentient mice dressed up as a Gnome Wizard, so they have enough spell slots to run said bar.

>>44708054
>world peace is achieved at the cost of making everyone literal furries
no thanks, I'll take war and conflict

File: 1423339408205.jpg (121KB, 600x600px) Image search: [Google]

121KB, 600x600px

How about water bears?

>>44706761
he's crazy, so make him 'spend' the money by giving it to 'builders' (swindlers) that tell him they remodel/expand the inn so he can accommodate more guests. they actually don't

>>44716229
Too overpowered

>>44685709
I've sorta liked the idea of a bee race that runs an inn, like a small hive set up that rents out honey comb shaped rooms and sells honey based products

>>44685983
i rather imagine they'd be "fat" in the way those guys in the "worlds strongest man" contests are, thick around the middle but thats just the base for the shoulders and arms like iron

>>44723265
This is /tg/ in a poorly disguised furry thread, the definition of "fat" is "whatever the poster is into."

>>44724528
So a bit chubby but still fit?
Perfect

>>44725492
Turning /tg/ into your masturbation board isn't something you should take pride in.

>>44725519
I came to /tg/ because I visited once and realized it was a perfect maturation board

>>44725535
Still not a commendable thing

File: d1d8f620a5f116bd997303fca57fef5c[1].jpg (133KB, 600x800px) Image search: [Google]

133KB, 600x800px

I've been doing some world building, and I've been wanting to do fantasy fast food resturants ran by tanuki wizards.

Not sure what sorts of food to do.

>>44726097
Sushi?

>>44726097
Chinese

File: YFPucJi.webm (2MB, 640x640px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 640x640px

>>44726097
Sake and bar food.

Tanuki fucking love their booze.

There could also be a group that specialize in using their skills to do really obnoxiously fancy dishes with an emphasis on presentation and transformation - like webm related but more so.

File: Marmalade day is cancelled!.jpg (83KB, 472x577px) Image search: [Google]

83KB, 472x577px

>>44686212

>>44686000
This isn't 40k thread

>>44727517
Marmalade?

>>44727768
Marmalade is a fruit preserve made from the juice and peel of citrus fruits boiled with sugar and water. It can be produced from kumquats, lemons, limes, grapefruits, mandarins, sweet oranges, bergamots and other citrus fruits, or any combination thereof.

>>44726097
Soilent green

>>44727517
No! Not marmalade day!

>>44685709
/r/ing the story of the evil PC that was cursed as a Werebear, and would awake to find himself in compromising positions in the woods (usually surrounded by half-eaten salmon) in the woods, having gone back and righted his previous wrongs whenever he'd shifted.

>>44730207
>Wakes up, covered in dirt
>Looks at hands
>"No... no... What have I done!"
>Last night, he secretly brought catches of fish and berries to the doorsteps of hungry farmers
>Caught bandits who were plaguing the roads - incapacitating them nonlethally and leaving them for the authorities
>Tilled the fields of an old widow (that's where the dirt is from)
>Carried a bunch of orphans on his back across the river
>Engaged in Shakespearean comedy shenanigans in the nearby woods, scaring a pair of young lovers by making noises from the brush until they ran into each other and rekindled their relationship
>Appeared in the right time to inspire a suicidal man from jumping off a bridge

I have a goddess in my homebrew PF setting that it is literally called Great Mother Bear

>>44730419
>Last night, he secretly brought catches of fish and berries to the doorsteps of hungry farmers
Wouldn't the fish rot by morning? Wouldn't it just bring disease and ruin the berries?

Anyone here's an expert on fishing and knows how long it takes for freshly caught fish to go bad at night?

>>44690276
Not necessarily, providing a safe haven for the righteous while abiding by the law can do more for the cause of good than a hundred quests. Whose going to feed those hungry adventurers? Where do they meet and plan? Where do they receive their quests to even begin with?

The answer is a Tavern, the hub for adventurers since the days of Tolkien and the Prancing Pony.

>>44730497
From a quick search, the internet gives fish 2 hours before going bad if not preserved. Fucking harsh. How did people do that before refrigeration? Like, you're on your boat catching fish and all. Wouldn't your catch be all rotten by the time you got back to your smokehouse?

>>44730497
Depends on the conditions, mainly how warm it is. But even fish doesn't go bad THAT quickly, especially during night when it's generally fairly cool.

>>44730530
Or Rivendell, or THE HOUSE OF BEORN, which served similar purposes back in The Hobbit, except to an even larger degree. None of this "pay out your nose for a bowl of gruel and a place by the firepit". Master bedroom, medical treatment, luxurious dinner and breakfast, a full day of recovery at the least, free use of local amenities, and a new horse, supplies, advice and equipment before you leave.

Heck of a deal.

>>44730497
Doesn't an old dane proberb say that hosts, like fish, start smelling after three days?

>>44685709
>
We ran an inn once. it didn't end well. We burned the place down and attacked the city watch while trying to avoid two drunkards to break a table. Then we decided to open a store to sell goods. Well, we caused it to sunk into the ground on the first week trying to prevent a robbery. I guess we are too god damn overpowered to try to be simple townspeople. Jokes on the DM I guess.

>>44730497
Fish depends on the climate. During winter the meat freezes over, preserving it. If you can hang it in a dry spot it'll dry out but that works best if you've salted it. During the summer we're talking a few hours but in dry and windy conditions it may turn to jerky. Traditionally you smoke fish and that should keep for a few months. If it's raining it'll probably be unsafe by morning but if you hang it from the door during either a drought or a cold winter it should keep for atleast a day if not longer.

Berries, on the other hand, should keep for at least a week as long as the skin isn't broken. Even if they are beginning to go bad you can cook out the rot and make them into a preserve like jam.

Then again, this depends on what your food standards are. Scandinavia enjoys fermented fish as a staple food. If people have to eat partially rotten food on a regular basis they tend to build up an immunity so a pre-industrial village with good fishing spots might eat day old fish on a regular basis.

Then again, I'm basing this on food preservation tricks rather than first hand experience dealing with rotten fish. Some places keep the fish alive until sale for a reason.

>>44730571
Well, you do have to run a business but there's no reason you can't extend tabs or let people pay for meals with chores. Push comes to shove you can consider tabs paid in exchange for quests completed. "Go run off those goblins and I'll forget about the 30 silver you owe me".

Not the most profitable way to run a business but most of the adventurer population would vouch for you.

>>44730538
You keep it in a tank of water Alive until you are ready to process it.
You know exactly like we do now.

>>44685919
Correct me if Im wrong but I cant remember any D&D God that declared all races bar theirs need to be destroyed that was a Human God.

I think Gruumsh had a similar deal. Orcus sorta.

>>44730976
There isn't always that much work that needs done. More likely the creditor would want some of the deatbeat tenants' adventuring gear as barter.

Or, if you're in a setting with more of an ancient or dark age vibe, you could just say that people have a tradition of guest right and will let you stay in their houses for a little while because you might be a god in disguise.

>>44731126
Come on, that's Zarus' whole deal, and he's the only specifically human god.

>>44731162
Really? Huh.

Is Zarus setting specific or general?

>>44685709
>What unusual, cool ideas for inns, pubs, taverns and other drinking/eating/gambling/housing establishments have you seen in your games?
For context: The game takes place in alternate-world modern day China. One of the PC's little sister works in a so-called Remington Saloon which is a hilariously inaccurate and cheesy rendition of a 50s-style cafe crossed with a wild west chic saloon.

It's probably every single american cliché you can imagine, except they still serve rice alongside their hamburgers.

>>44731212
He was in Races of Destiny. That was back when Greyhawk was the default setting, but those splatbooks were generally made to be setting-neutral

>>44731230
Fair enough, I evidently stand corrected.

Carry on then.

>>44685709
I once had an inn that turned out to be a front for a cult.

Named it Hotel Kali because Im an unimaginative motherfucker.

You could stay the night, check out but you could never leave. You were either recruited or kidnapped as a sacrifice.

>>44731126
IIRC, Wastri is a big time human supremacist, although he believes that amphibious races such as bullywugs are fit to serve humans as slaves. All other races need to be destroyed, especially gnomes.

I don't know if I could bear the thought

>>44708054
>World of perfectly polite and law-abiding people
>And Bears

The twist was you were playing in prehistoric Canada the whole time.

>>44732366
So, Inuits?

>>44732366
10/10 post

>>44732651
Technically, though I'm pretty sure the tribes have different names.

>>44709044
I simply love this idea, I think I'll use it myself. A centuries old, enormous tavern simply known as "The Inn at the Crossroads". With all kinds of quest hooks and downtime activities. A sanctuary for all adventurer's with some sort of neutrality pact made generations ago, stopping violent encounters, but allowing sparring and bar-fights.