Discussing everyone's favorite stomping ground, tabletop roleplaying game taverns. We cover a lot of ground ranging from tips and advice on how to keep your players on their toes, to how we think adding extra flavor to a tavern setting can prevent this part of gaming from becoming just another uninteresting place to take a long rest. NPC generation tips, keeping continuity in questing, listener feedback, TTRPG news, and much more.

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Show Breakdown:

• 0:00: Intro
• 1:00: @bddc_pod "On TTRPG Lore"
• 10:56: Tabletop Roleplaying Games as film
• 22:39: TTRPG News
• 25:24: Main Topic
• 25:25: Why we think how we have been playing taverns needs an overhaul
• 40:53: Taking your players' cues
• 45:55: Give your TTRPG tavern proprietor genuine life
• 51:11: Subvert your players' expectations to keep things interesting
• 57:20: Continuity in questing and making it relevant in your taverns/waypoints
• 1:02:59: Home bases vs oases
• 1:08:13: Outro