Barkeep on the Borderlands
W. F. SmithGet the Barkeep Bundle that includes map, coasters, and drink recipe bookmark here
What if carousing in fantasy taverns were its own adventure?
Barkeep on the Borderlands is a barhopping, fantasy adventure amidst Mardi Gras-like festivities, including 20 detailed pubs and dynamic drinking rules.
Barkeep on the Borderlands flips the script on the tired trope of starting in a tavern. In this adventure, players explore the many taverns of the Keep in search of a missing antidote, getting into shenanigans along the way. The pubcrawl is like a dungeoncrawl but with bars and streets instead of rooms and corridors.
The adventure includes:
- 20 detailed taverns, with unique premises like a speakeasy run by cultists, an undead dance club, a gambling den for kobold gangsters or a cozy bar in a witch’s cottage
- 36 character backgrounds for potential pubcrawlers
- 5 intertwined factions vying for control of the Keep, including a wizard academy, a cult of chaos and an NGO run by goblins
- A timeline detailing a precarious political situation that the players can interact with and disrupt
- Over 100 full-color illustrations, with some on every page
- 100 random tables with 745 total results to facilitate endless sessions of adventures in a fantasy city
Gold ENnie Award Winner 2023 for Best Supplement
60 page, 8.5 x 5.5 inch, full color, singer sewn binding softcover
Purchase includes digital package with singe page and spread hyper-linked PDFs and printable bookmark with drinking game instructions and drink recipes!
This is such a fun RPG book! You can play the bar crawl in the book as is, or add it into an existing game you’re already running. The drinking rules alone have been a hoot at my table.