You Meet In A Tavern

[K1nkster]

I'm looking at starting a series of stories or "tavern tales" if you will, which will be a blend of DnD style adventuring with smut. I'd love to hear character concepts or story ideas from anyone that might want something written into them.

 

[Rob_Royale]

I've had an idea I started a while back based on my old D&D campaign, that I have yet to start. It's a great idea and I think you should certainly write yours.

My advice is to start small, though. Jumping into an epic tale from the get go, is tough and after a while, disheartening.

I have one story on Lit that is RPG fantasy based and the readers seem to like it.

 

[K1nkster]

I've had an idea I started a while back based on my old D&D campaign, that I have yet to start. It's a great idea and I think you should certainly write yours.

My advice is to start small, though. Jumping into an epic tale from the get go, is tough and after a while, disheartening.

I have one story on Lit that is RPG fantasy based and the readers seem to like it.

The idea is short stories that aren't connected to each other by anything other than the fact that they're all being told in the same tavern. Meaning there's some overarching connection and a sort of shared universe that grows with each telling but being able to keep it small when needed.

 

[Brandnewbuddy]

I could see a few:

“So Lyla, I heard you cleared a mine full of goblins out?”

“Yes, it was no big trouble.”

Actual story: Lyla took what she thought was a potion of giant stregth but instead ingested a potion of giant lust. She didn’t stop until all the goblins had been drained to the last drop and the goblins fled to get away from the horny warrior.

2. “I heard you solved the riddle of the sphinx, Mattimeo?”

“Oh it was easy, I merely made her change the riddle to something I could answer.”

“How did you do that?”

Actual story: As the Sphinx stated the terms of the riddle and prepared to give it. Mattimeo dropped his pants showing his enchanted schlong

The sphinx of course, instead of a riddle asked “WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING???”

“Showing you my cock. And I believe that answers the question. So, I think the terms were that you would leave the area and I can ask a favor of you before you go?”

 

[liliput1]

… and that’s why we are all here, fighti this demilich

 

[nudeblaqgirl]

A cardinal, a rabbi and an ayatollah walk into a tavern. Cardinal says, can I get a beer?

Tavern keeper says "fuck you, this is a tavern! The bar jokes are next door."

 

[Carnevil9]

There was a series of Star Trek novels collective called "Tales from the Captains' Table" about an alleged tavern where Starfleet captains would hang out and tell each other tales of their adventures. Pretty much the same idea. Canturbury Tales is also based on the same concept. Excellent way to create a loosely connected series of stories.

 

[Rob_Royale]

The idea is short stories that aren't connected to each other by anything other than the fact that they're all being told in the same tavern. Meaning there's some overarching connection and a sort of shared universe that grows with each telling but being able to keep it small when needed.

I like this. Maybethe tavern has hosted local adventurers for so long, a number of unexplainable or fantastic things are everyday. The haunted suite or the mimic that is more of a pet and acts as the garbage disposal for leftovers and the occasional body. The dresser in room 12 is enchanted and often opening a drawer you'll find all sorts of things.

Of course the staff is unusual as well. The owner is Big Barbara, a former adventurer and now owns the joint, and runs it with her three husbands. Franz, a half-orc cook from parts unknown, Danny the Dandy, the local half-elven bard and Fliberwizzle the barbarian halfling who is the scariest bouncer in all of Waterdeep.

 

[StillStunned]

I have an erotic D&D story that begins in a tavern!

The big issue with writing D&D, I found, was giving narrative descriptions of skills and abilities that read like fiction, not game rules.

 

[Brandnewbuddy]

That’s easy to fix, most players flavor their spells a unique way so just describe them.

I do more OSR so

Color spray: “The troll turned just in time to be blasted from the multicolored beams that fired from the wizard’s staff. As each bolt slammed against his eyes he began to lose his balance”

 

[Brandnewbuddy]

If you wanted a wraparound story: maybe have it so the person who is asking them for tales is acting like a drunkard and keeps spilling stuff all around.

At the end, they get him to tell a story and he tells them about a very special type of mimic. It acts as an entire house or even a tavern. It waits for the occupants to go to sleep or notice its presence and then it devours them. Once inside the mimics guts escape is quite impossible.

Then they feel the tavern rise up and and it starts smashing itself against a building

“Ah, and that will be the copious amounts of aphrodisiacs I have been spilling. Right now the dear thing is stuff thinking it’s a tavern and desperate to fuck so I imagine it’s slamming against the nearest building which is a stone barracks. It should be done in oooooh, 2 minutes.”

 

[dirk2024]

I'm looking at starting a series of stories or "tavern tales" if you will, which will be a blend of DnD style adventuring with smut. I'd love to hear character concepts or story ideas from anyone that might want something written into them.

Nona, a waitress at McScruffy's Tavern, which is located in the seedier part of town. She works every day serving the riff raff and rabble of society. Often, wandering adventurers come into the tavern, fresh off a quest and in need of ale, food and "entertainment". Occasionally, when the rogue is just right, she provides all three. But she's still feels like she's missing out in life. Every day, toiling away within these same four walls and living in a room upstairs. She yearns for her own adventure.

That's when Rolf returns from his last quest. He's exhausted, sore and frustrated as his party failed to find their prize. He needs to be nurtured and he knows Nona is the one to provide it. Over a few days, she relieves him of his pain and suffering and he unwittingly encourages her need for exploration. Then his party receives a new mission. There is a problem though. The unit's cook and healer was lost in the last mission. They need someone to replace them.

As Nona's eyes sparkle at Rolf, he wonders, who can he find to fill the role...

 

[anthrodisiac]

Basically a tavern anthology series. Sounds fun! You'd have a couple central characters in the background: owner, servers, barkeep to tie things together, but it's the customers that are the focus. Could have running jokes, gags, someone's always getting thrown through a window at some point type of thing.

 

[NotUnperson]

You all meet in a tavern…and all wake up in a cell the next morning.

 

[Rob_Royale]

You all meet in a tavern…and all wake up in a cell the next morning.

I have actually done that as GM. Players weren't happy with starting off naked, but it sure was entertaining watching them figure out their escape.

 

[liliput1]

I have actually done that as GM. Players weren't happy with starting off naked, but it sure was entertaining watching them figure out their escape.

You started a campaign with a walk of shame?

Man you scary.

 

[Husky_Embrace]

The idea is short stories that aren't connected to each other by anything other than the fact that they're all being told in the same tavern. Meaning there's some overarching connection and a sort of shared universe that grows with each telling but being able to keep it small when needed.

Maybe the "sexless innkeeper." A term normally used for someone who at times takes people to their home, where their person of desire fall asleep before anything happens.

In the D&D setting the innkeeper really needs to get some. The innkeeper's aides get some, and they listens to the erotic adventures of their patrons, but despite some tries the innkeeper doesn't get some themselves.

They listen to a party being locked in the highest tower of a few wizards, who got their awesome powers by not having sex for 50 years. They listen to the aides sneaking off with patrons or each other, or the stories they tell each other the next day.

And maybe, eventually, the innkeeper has their own adventure. Maybe they orchestrate the biggest adventure yet, manipulating a whole troup of adventurers and the aides into an increasingly sexual scenario, until no one can keep it in their pants anymore.

 

[StillStunned]

That’s easy to fix, most players flavor their spells a unique way so just describe them.

I do more OSR so

Color spray: “The troll turned just in time to be blasted from the multicolored beams that fired from the wizard’s staff. As each bolt slammed against his eyes he began to lose his balance”

It's not just spells, though. My story has the rogue disabling traps and using Darkvision and Sneak Attack, the paladin using Detect Evil, Smite Evil and Lay On Hands, two high-Charisma characters who both have to be plausible.

Unless you actually go the LitRPG way and spell it all out, you have to find creative ways to describe these actions. And to remember that characters will use their abilities, and incorporate them in the story, without turning it into a session transcript. I'll quickly nope out of a story if I see the game mechanics spelled out without any attempt to turn them into fiction.

I'm not saying it's impossible - it added an extra layer to the writing experience, I found - but it's something to be aware of: finding the balance between "generic fantasy story" and "reading about someone else's D&D campaign".

 

[Rob_Royale]

You started a campaign with a walk of shame?
Man you scary.

And my players know it. But I've been playing off and on since '81 and I'm a pretty damn good GM. I had a player return after a pretty harrowing evening and told me straight up that I'd given him a nightmare the night after. Now tell me that's not fucking cool, to get in your players mind that hard?

Aside from your average goblins and so forth, I create my own monsters and I'll find an image on Pinterest that reflects my idea.
Some can be much scarier looking than whats in the Monsters Compendium. Add in some good descriptions and tension building and it can be wicked fun.