RPGaDay 2025 #3 Tavern

I remember a time in my gaming career when I kept trying to redeem the old "You all meet in a tavern" gaming trope. The easiest way to do that is to place the campaign's inciting incident in the tavern. In one case, this inciting incident was the tavern blowing up, with the campaign proceeding from there.

One thing I haven't really done is used the tavern as a home base. In my CivCrawl "blank map" campaign that I ran for a few sessions during COVID, I did make an attempt at this. There was a tavern at the center of the world that was a home base and provided essential services, but the campaign fell apart and I was dissatisfied with a number of things in the setup. I might go back to the concept, but I might try to simply learn the lessons from that game and apply them to the next OSR campaign that I run.

I don't think using the tavern as a home base was one of the problems, so it's definitely something that I can come back to.