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Random & Market Tavern

Added 2024-07-10 15:09:22 +0000 UTC

Back to the shops along the intersection of Market & Random. Based on a Patreon request from Mark Clover, I’m drawing up individual floor plans for a number of shops, stores, vendors, and businesses along a single market block. As I draw these, I also have the overhead views drawn out on a map of the city block as I go, so when the series is complete you can use them on their own, or as a fully mapped out block of shops.

This is our seventh shop on the street, sitting on the southeast corner of the intersection of Market & Random Streets. With such perfect placement, it of course goes by the fairly anonymous name of “The Random & Market Tavern” but the and is usually dropped making it the “Random Market Tavern” for most guests. And of course, so many adventures seem to start here, at some random market tavern.

The tavern itself sits on the ground floor and is a traditional design without bar or stage or anything more than a kitchen and taproom, and a seating area with a small patio area out front and another (without street access) on the north side. When busy, the main room is packed, with merchants, labourers, and shoppers standing elbow-to-elbow for a drink and perhaps a bowl of whatever’s been cooking. Beneath the tavern are a set of indoor privies which are emptied by the nightsoilfolk in the early hours of the morning. There is no truth to the gossip that liquids here are recycled into the ale.

The upstairs of the building is accessed by a set of exterior stairs near the front door (so the owners don’t have to walk through the tavern on their way in and out). The upstairs is a nice set of apartments and the turret contains a study and a ladder up to a second bedroom.

The 1200 dpi versions of the map were drawn at a scale of 300 pixels per square and are 10,800 x 9,300 pixels (36 x 31 squares). To use this with a VTT you would need to resize the squares to 70 pixels (for 5′ squares) – so resizing the image to 2,520 x 2,170 pixels.

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