Tavern Brawls are THE BOMB!

[Altalazar]

You know - I haven't had one of these in YEARS... In fact, I think I NEVER had one that I can remember - not in D&D, anyway.

I think by the time I was playing alot in school, everyone had heard of the legendary tavern brawls, and what had happened with them, and so now it was sort of a running joke (yet still true) that all taverns were owned by retired arch-mages who didn't take kindly to brawls in their places of business.

Then with 3E, well, that wasn't the case, but there just never was one.

 

[francisca]

I'm DM'ing a very old setting, "Orc's of Thar"(For those of you who know of it, we are not using the whimsical aspect of it) The party is comprised of:

A Goblin rogue
A Goblin Druid
An Orc Ranger
A Shadow Elf Ranger
An Orc Barbarian
A 1/2 Ogre/Orc Barbarian

I'm planning a bar encounter at the next Horde meeting, with 3 rival tribes all partaking in the same bar. I'll be using the drinking feats in the Trusty Taverner's guide to enhance some of the patrons, and a feat that I have modified, from the original Orcs of Thar setting, for bar fighting.(Can I get in trouble for this?)

Brawling(Feat): This skill allows you to fight crowds using anything within reach, knocking opponents off-balance, swinging tables, chairs, etc. Brawling damage is not lethal, it just knocks victims unconscious when reaching 0 hp. A successful check allows you to double damage for each +1 in Strength bonus your character has. Damage is spread among opponents in the same group, up to ten attackers.

The bar will be filled with Orcs, Goblins, Ogre's, 1/2 Ogres, the party, when they come back from their coming of age ceremony, will be members of a tribe that are lower ranked in the Horde, so there will be plenty of fodder to touch off a good brawl.

Oh man, that sounds like *real* fun campaign!

On topic, some of my players used to feel compelled to have a brawl every single session. A few game weeks in the clink fixed that. Not that I dislike them, but it seemed like we were re-hashing the same stinking thing every time we got together, and it was a problem for one of the other players.

But yeah, busting a chair over someone's head (in-game, of course ) can be fun if not beaten into the dust.

 

[Graywolf-ELM]

Oh man, that sounds like *real* fun campaign!

It started as a side Adventure, for weeks that the mainline game GM could not make it. He joined in as a player, and everyone is having a blast. I'm putting the sessions in Story hour format over in the forum of that name.

Still a couple of adventures away from springing the Horde meeting on them, and the ensueing bar encounters.