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and the Skirmisher Game Development Group

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Cover Images: Front, Tavern Interior, by Adriaen van

Ostade (1680). Back, An Open-Air Restaurant, Lahore,

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Viewing This Book

iewing This Book

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user-friendly as possible from both the

perspectives of printing out for use in

hard copy and viewing on a comput-

er screen. It has been laid out like a

traditional print book with the idea

that each even-numbered page com-

plements the odd-numbered page that

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and illustrate the Bathhouse entry on

page 8).

iewing This Book

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Volume 7: Service Places and its con-

tents.

T able of Contents

able of Contents

Introduction

About This Series..............................................................................................................................................4

Using This Book................................................................................................................................................5

Barbershop

Bathhouse

Hostel

110

Inn

112

Rooming House

ooming House

115

Kitchen

116

Restaurant

118

Taver

aver

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Appendix: Random T

Appendix: Random Taver

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avern Generation

n Generation

222

Skirmisher Product List

226

Skirmisher Electronic Products.............................................................................................................................26

Skirmisher Analog Products..................................................................................................................................27

226

Introduction

A fter weeks of marching through wilderness and dank caverns, sloshing and struggling through muck,

slime, and blood, and sleeping on flagstones and rock, most adventurers find it either necessary or

enjoyable to seek the comforts of civilization. A return to a familiar and welcoming inn or eatery can

serve to remind characters and players alike that not all in the world is grim, dangerous, or unpleasant, and that

there are simple things worth fighting for.

Service places provide necessities like nourishment,

accommodations, and facilities for personal sanitation.

Such venues include inns, hostels, and rooming hous-

es, and similar places, where characters can find lodg-

ings; taverns, commercial kitchens, and restaurants,

where they can obtain various sorts of food and drink;

and barbershops and bathhouses, where they can have

their hygiene needs attended to.

Facilities that provide such services cater to those

who are away from the comforts of their own homes,

among them adventurers, travelers, and itinerants, as

well as townsfolk who wish to socialize with each oth-

er or periodically indulge in luxuries they cannot af-

ford every day. Such places are prolific in the towns

and cities of a typical ancient, medieval, or fantasy

milieu, and might also be found to some extent in com-

munities as small as villages. Settlements that have

few outside visitors are unlikely to support many plac-

es of this sort, however, so in small and isolated com-

munities occasional travelers might have to meet their

needs in other ways (e.g., stay overnight at religious

institutions or as guests with more affluent locals who

have room to spare in their houses).

In rural areas, service places might exist in areas

crossed by major transportation routes, especially at

crossroads, natural stopping points, or waypoints man-

dated by the government. In such areas, facilities of

this sort are usually established in compounds and pro-

vide accommodations, victuals, stabling, and perhaps

several other lesser services or workshops within a

building or enclosure with defensive features commen-

surate with the prevailing level of expected threat. Such

intra-city facilities are, naturally, more likely to be com-

mon in well-administered areas with good roads and a

strong government than in perilous Dark Age settings

where any sort of travel is extremely hazardous (but to

be more heavily fortified in the latter sort of milieu).

Service places of various sorts are typically run by

private businessfolk with suitable backgrounds in pro-

visioning and bookkeeping, but might also be estab-

lished by major religious institutions or the civic gov-

ernment, either at subsidized charges or as acts of char-

ity (often with the practical aims of keeping the indi-

gent from dying inconveniently in the streets or resort-

ing to crime). Former adventurers might also run such

institutions, especially in marginal areas with which

they might be familiar.

Service facilities can vary widely in size, appear-

ance, and construction, although in a traditional game

setting a great many of them are often simply roomier

versions of the sorts of structures similar to those de-

scribed under “Buildings” in City Builder Volume 1:

Communities. Service facilities with a larger clientele

— especially those that cater to the workforce of large

institutions — might require purpose-built halls or multi-

storey buildings of heavy timbers, brick, or stone or be

expanded over time to a complex of interconnected

buildings.

Most of the areas within service places are dedicat-

ed to the needs of their customers, and might include

dining areas, bedrooms, or kitchens, as appropriate. In

addition, there might also be storage areas, an office

for the proprietor, private living quarters for his family

and staff, a secure place for cash or other valuables (for

both owners and customers), or small workshops.

Security at such areas is usually limited to vigilant

staff and locks or bars on points of entry like doors and

windows. Many such places, of course, especially those

patronized by adventurers or military personnel, might

also have bodies of customers that can discourage or

foil attacks against them.

About This Series

This is the seventh volume in a series of 11 books de-

signed not just to provide Game Masters with concrete

information about how to create places essential to their

own fantasy role-playing campaigns, but also to inspire

them to develop ones that are believable, colorful, and

exciting for their players’ characters to visit.

City Builder Volume 7: Service Places describes lo-

cales that characters can visit to fulfill their needs for

things like food, drink, sleep, and personal hygiene

and include some of the most quintessential places

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