How to Break the Meme & Start D&D in a Tavern RIGHT!

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Welcome to the Twisted Pint Tavern! Come on in, hang your cloak up by the fire, and grab a pint as you watch today's video! Today we're addressing the meme of "starting in a tavern" for your D&D and other fantasy RPGs. It's a cliche, sure, but it's also a fantastic and immersive way to begin your D&D adventures! After all, what's Dungeons & Dragons without a classic tavern scene? The main things we'll be addressing are how to set the scene, how to connect the tavern to your dnd game's plot, and how to build a story from there.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Setting the Scene
01:50 Have a Path to the Plot
03:30 Figure Out Why the Players are There
05:04 Build an Immersive Setting
05:42 Let the Game Begin!
06:40 Timestamp for Tavern Doubters
07:08 Outro
07:33 D&D Podcast Teaser
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The Twisted Pint Tavern is a warm and fun place where all weary adventurers are welcome to gather for a drink and a story! Come hear fantastic stories and tidbits from various fantasy TTRPGs such as Dungeons and Dragons (D&D / DnD), Pathfinder, and more!.
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@twistedpinttavern 8 месяцев назад

So, why are YOU in the tavern?

@angelbobbitt6739 8 месяцев назад

i'm a simple man.... Alcoholism

@connor_draco_tempest2891 8 месяцев назад

I was there running away from my family and i finaly got in while the mercenary's they hired lost my trail (Which is also a possible Scenario to start with that's in my character's background)

@rons5438 8 месяцев назад

Cause my sons drive me to drink.

@solalabell9674 8 месяцев назад

i'min the tavern to hijack the pinned comment to share the clip i made of the threat section ru-vid.comUgkxety2XjgpvTKT07FX8rp6ACjYldu5DDXS?si=QS0v0dkG76J62QGp

@TheYoTaG 8 месяцев назад

It was in a tarasque.

@nabra97 8 месяцев назад

I like starting in a tavern or any home base more than forcefully starting after characters have gone on a quest to give them no opportunity to roleplay or gather details. I mean, later is reasonable on a convention or so, but I don't agree that it's inherently better, as I have heard a few times.

@twistedpinttavern 8 месяцев назад

Yeah I feel like some of the best role play can happen in the opening, and starting in a "you're all in a group hunting this thing right away" situation just restricts that too much. (Like you said, though, outside of a convention setting.)

@TheMightyBattleSquid 8 месяцев назад

I've actually never had a tavern start. Most of my games either had us meet the main quest giver where they work or in media rez with a quick allusion to how we're already active adventurers who have met up here before going into the first encounter. One had us start with us working guard duty on a train right before bandits attacked.

@twistedpinttavern 8 месяцев назад

You can definitely have a lot of fun with starting right in the plot!

@ferrousoxide7806 8 месяцев назад

For one of my tavern 'starts' I actually run a mini campaign for each player (some of them where paired up) where I gave each player a different plot hook that drew them to the tavern that specifically involved their backstories. One pair was a group of mercenaries coming in on a boat that had accepted a job, on their way their boat was attacked and sunk off the coast and involved some combat One pair where siblings and part of one of the local noble houses that run the military and had been specifically requested to join the mercenaries thanks to their knowledge of the local environment, theirs involved more RP and political stuff they where interested in. And one solo was an information broker, who I led through a scenario of them spying on other player characters and finding out that they where all going to be meeting at the tavern, and decided they wanted in on the job and so showed up.

@twistedpinttavern 8 месяцев назад

I like that, it really gets them invested in why they're at the Tavern in the first place!

@Jeromy1986 8 месяцев назад

I need to jump back into Final Fantasy 12. I loved that game for its bounty board.

@BrianAllenMW 8 месяцев назад

I like to start my games in a tavern that is owned by or affiliated with the local adventurer's guild. That way the PCs have a reason to be there and they have a convenient place to pick up jobs or meet with a quest giver.

@twistedpinttavern 8 месяцев назад

I like that a lot!

@solalabell9674 8 месяцев назад

my plan is to always start in a tavern with a twist, maybe the tavern is the target of a heist, the party orders a bloody alter which is code to enter the cultist base in the back, they're meeting a noble there, confronting the necromancer, etc just anything but the dreaded 'what do you do now'

@twistedpinttavern 8 месяцев назад

Sounds like you do a great job of injecting the plot into the tavern!

@ajerqureshi6411 23 дня назад

I think the tavern only has become something of a meme/cliche aspect of DnD not because they are used often, but because most of the time they are done poorly. I personally do still like a good start in a tavern, or inn, or bar, or whatnot. Usually for me, this is where the party (preferably a pre-established one) would get the campaign starting job. But I also remember having my party meet up at a small tavern as strangers, then get into a fight with rats followed by a zombie and that got them to sync together as a party.

@Rordrik 8 месяцев назад

This isn't one that I use much myself or been part of a lot, but it makes sense. Though of course many of those groups have so little personality they would have a hard time giving a good reason to be in a tavern in session 1, but that's another issue entirely.

@twistedpinttavern 8 месяцев назад

It is hard to get some people invested with the setting and reason, but if you can work that all out it works great

@Rordrik 8 месяцев назад

@@twistedpinttavern You would think people that agree to spend all that time on a campaign would want to do those kinds of things, but it is amazing how rare it can be.

@BoredTAK5000 8 месяцев назад

7:28 *WELCOME TO THE HOTEL CALIDORNIA*

@edwardbirdsall6580 8 месяцев назад

Begin in a temple, with a long dull sermon..... Begin in a forest, or an open field to avoid eve droppers. Or begin in an inn. Or even a tavern. Begin in a jail cell. Or a torture chamber.

@SonicSanctuary 8 месяцев назад

now this is the kind of videos i need.

@twistedpinttavern 8 месяцев назад

I wasn't sure how this video style would be received so I'm glad to hear it 😅

@angelbobbitt6739 8 месяцев назад

Tavern are a great place to gather and regroup and start. it is easy to do but also can become a terrible place to start when not done right like any start.

@twistedpinttavern 8 месяцев назад

Yeah, any start can be poor if not done right, but taverns make excellent settings!

@Daedricsoulslayer 8 месяцев назад

Brought here by last video. Awesome work

@twistedpinttavern 8 месяцев назад

Thank you!

@Daedricsoulslayer 8 месяцев назад

@@twistedpinttavern absolutely!

@Sina-dv1eg 8 месяцев назад

My DM didn't want us to just start in a tavern, so he started us out in a city. Since we had nowhere to sleep, guess what the first location we went to was?

@twistedpinttavern 8 месяцев назад

Taverns are like magnets, even if the DM doesn't start you there, you'll end up at one soon anyway lol