D&D 5E Trade Road Name

[Steampunkette]

Ivory Path
Marble Way
Gold Route
Silver Trail
Steel Highway
Iron Ride

Lots of good options, really.

 

[rgoodbb]

So the PC's will have just finished a Non-Barovian Death House. And MILD SPOILERS AHEAD instead of the deeds to a certain other interesting building in Barovia, they will have found the deeds to an old roadhouse situated right in the middle of a long disused Trade route.

The movie New Dragon Gate Inn is a great setting for D&D shenanigans and that is what I am trying to go for a little.

I am trying to work out the name of this route to help give me an idea of the Inn Name. It will be situated on a five way cross roads.

So I am looking at the XXXXXX XXXXXXX Inn/'s Rest at Spice Road Junction

 

[MattW]

Pubs and Inns tend to have simple names that are easy to remember - and are often named after a local landmark.

How about "The Five Corners " as a name for the Roadhouse?

The full address might be "The Five Corners Inn at Five Corners Junction on the old Amber Highway" - but that's a long name. Everybody just calls it "The Five Corners"

The Inn sign would be a pentagon, or a five-pointed star. But that's another story....

 

[Laurefindel]

The Iron Trail (or pig-iron trail) where iron ingots made their way to big city/estate/port of call
The Golden Way (so much gold has travelled on it that people say you can find some in the mud.
Bone Alley (historically, many battle were held there and farmers along the road keep plowing-up skeleton bones)

 

[DemoMonkey]

You could name it metaphorically. Presumably a trading route would be lucrative to traders both ways.

"Riches Road". It's simple, easy to remember and it doesn't actually tie you to a particular product.

Plus you can have an NPC or PC named Rich who claims it's named after them.

 

[Krachek]

Diamonds road.
Diamond are essential for Revivify, raise dead, resurrection, it can make a worthy trade road.
Unless the supply goes by teleportation circle, or even magical creation of components,

 

[Bayushi_seikuro]

Pubs and Inns tend to have simple names that are easy to remember - and are often named after a local landmark.

How about "The Five Corners " as a name for the Roadhouse?

The full address might be "The Five Corners Inn at Five Corners Junction on the old Amber Highway" - but that's a long name. Everybody just calls it "The Five Corners"

The Inn sign would be a pentagon, or a five-pointed star. But that's another story....

This also fits with the story I'd heard before about the Library in a college town. It was a bar, and it was so people would just say 'Oh, I have to stay late at the Library tonight. Don't wait up'... or The Office.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I'm a favor of mundane names, as very few of the people who use the roads regularly are going to go for something over the top or fancy.

My campaign has King's Road, the Dark Road, the Deep Road, the Baron's Road, the Forest Road, etc.

 

[Steampunkette]

Also popular are pun names for Inns.

Nobody's Inn
The Inn Hospitable
Inn Sideout
The Flag Inn
Bargewright Inn
The Cave Inn
The Way Inn
Halfway Inn
Rest of the Way Inn
All the Way Inn

 

[Don Durito]

The secret with Inns is to replace them with Caravanserai's.

Caravanserai's are cooler and evoke the idea of vast distances and windswept desert. Inn's invoke jolly old England and cliched D&D locations.