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Message: <blockquote data-quote="haakon1" data-source="post: 2473513" data-attributes="member: 25619">Traditional Pub Names = Picture ItAbsolutely.  Illiteracy among the populace is the key to traditional pub names.  Traditional pub signs are not words, but a picture.For that reason, traditional pubs almost always have not necessarily the adjective -noun format, but something the can be a clear picture.Examples in of ancient or ancient-sounding pubs in Oxford:- The White Horse (which coincidentally, is named after an ancient earth carving nearby -- very cool name for that reason)- The Wheatsheaf- The Blue Boar- The Trout- The Rose & Crown (echoes of the War of the Roses, and English nationalism, as the Rose is one of their symbols)- The Eagle and Child (where Tolkien and C.S. Lewis met as a group called the Inklings, and read aloud their drafts of LOTR and the Chronciles of Narnia) -- symbol is an eagle carrying a baby by the diaper, thus it's nickname, the Bird and Babe.Some of names of pubs in London that stand out to me:- The Turk's Head.  Invokes the Crusades -- disembodied turbaned head, perhaps with blood dripping from the neck.- The Falkland Arms.  I forget what the picture is, but I imagine it's something like crossed assault rifles and oars, for the Royal Marines.In my campaign, the most important pubs are:- The Culthera's Head.  The neighboring country's elite unit is the Copper Guard, or Culthera untranslated from the Baklunish.  And, naturally, they wear turbans . . . - The Dove and Runner.  Originally created as a stop for the Greyhawk Messengers guild, it symbolizes two ways of carrying messages -- if you look closely, the dove has a note tied to its leg, and the runner is carrying a scroll.- The Green Man.  Took this from a module, but it fits.  It's in an area where Obad-Hai (a druidic god sometimes shown as a green man) is strong.The one non-traditional (not a picture) name I have is a place the PC's haven't visited yet, up in Blackmoor -- the Comeback Inn.  That's the real pub (recently closed) in Chicagoland that inspired and gave it's name to place where Dave Arneson's first ever role-playing party met for the first ever adventure in what became D&D.  The stats and description are available in the Blackmoor hard cover . . .</blockquote>

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