Speaking of Inns, how abut some fun names for them?

[Buttercup]

I love making up interesting names for Inns & Taverns. If you do to, share some of your best with us, please! Here are some of mine:

Singed Goblin--The sign features a goblin with its backside on fire.
Ass & Apple--A donkey eating an apple. This tavern features apple dishes.
One Eyed Minotaur--Minotaur with an eye patch on the sign
Fire Mountain Inn--an inn near the foothills of an extinct volcano.

 

[LufiaLillystorm]

oo fun

I love thinking up names hehe however, I don't have a lot of taverns in my adventures :/ but I can think of some I am sure...


Where the Cliff meets the Clouds: This wasn't as much a tavern as it was an Inn. I used it because the adventure had a skeem of having important events happen around the idea of Clouds...it was bizzare but very fun.

Prancing Pony: hehe it is a classic no?

Pincies Pub: Pincies pub was a wierd place :/ I origianally created it to be a place for the PC's to rest...but it took on a life of its own and ended up being an entire adventure :/

That is all I can think of hehe

Hope it helps someone

 

[hong]

"One Eyed anything" is a BAD NAME for a pub. Trust me on this.

The Rose and Crown would be a great name for an inn, but for some reason, I've never seen one with that name.

The Old Inn, and its upstart competitor, the New Inn.

Also, a lot of rock-n-roll band names would make good names for inns. Just change plural to singular where necessary. Like "The Fiendish Dire Weasel", for instance.

 

[madriel]

The Rose and Crown would be a great name for an inn, but for some reason, I've never seen one with that name.

That's because you haven't visited London, Ontario, Canada.

We also have pubs called the Black Pint and Waltzing Weasel.

 

[CrazyMage]

--Bear Biter's Pub (drunken dwarf got into fight with bear outside and bit it several times before killing it--man bites dog?)

--Roc's Roost

--Fat Garrick's Pubhouse

--Happy Stoats

--The Drum and Trout

 

[hong]

That's because you haven't visited London, Ontario, Canada.

We also have pubs called the Black Pint and Waltzing Weasel.

Well, I meant I've never seen one in a _fantasy_ world. They're all over the place in the real world, of course.

 

[BlackJaw]

In Planescape I used one called the Streaker's Roost. The upper level was exposed and full of "wild" astral streakers (a homing bird that could travel astraly and was often demesticated for sending messages across the planes... from one of the Sigil related books)
One of the bar patrons was a were-raven that could have the streakers send messages across the planes.

The bar was owned by a silver dragon and his elf wife. (he was always in humanoid form) His son was an adventurer that would send letters home from time to time. The corner across the street was also the primary hangout for "light boys" (the blue gang).

I also had a place that was actualy one of the Lady's Mazes (I forget what I called it, I think it was "The Lady's Recourse") but the minataur that was stuck in it found a way out, and set the place up as a bar and grill (larva stakes served by salt memphits, and big wall of hooked chains where you can pick your own still living larva) It was used as a hangout by the kind of low lifes that like to have a bar where there are no random portals, and it's impossible to use or be viewed by magical scrying (feature of one of the lady's mazes) Of course getting drunk and wandering off was always a bad thing... it is a maze afterall.

 

[The Flying Walrus]

The Tipsy Cow - The sign bears a picture of a cow dancing on a table with a mug of ale

The Yellowish-Ochre Unicorn - A play on such names as "Blue Dragon Inn"

The Flying Walrus!

 

[hong]

The Flying Walrus!

On that note...

The Fool on the Hill
The Octopus's Garden
The Long and Winding Road
The Hard Day's Knight

 

[CrazyMage]

Why, the advertising jingles for these fine establishments practically write themselves

The Fool on the Hill