Editing Tavern (section)

===Otherworld Taverns===
A popular spin on the old cliche is making taverns a bridge between worlds/planes, and writers/homebrewers use it to genre-bend. For example, the [[World Serpent Inn|World Serpent Inn]] , which is both a tavern, and a transitive demiplane that connects to all of the campaign settings. Often combined with other tropes, like in the [[DC Comics|Sandman]] comics: A bunch of people from different worlds and eras inadvertently take shelter from a [[Adventure hook|passing storm]] in an inn called the [[End Times|World's End]] and tell a bunch of stories to pass the time. It doesn't even have to be a tavern, either, it can be any sort of dimension-hopping establishment appropriate to the setting, like a Restaurant (''Hitchiker's Guide'''s Restaurant at the End of the Universe, [[Isekai|Restaurant to Another World]]), Brothel, [[GURPS|a bar where the bathrooms lead to other settings]], and even a [[Sigil|fucking city]].

If you really want to fuck with your players, make the place into purgatory, where they must wait until the party can save them, as seen in... a lot of places, really. Alan Moore wrote a comic anthology where movie stars of the golden age of cinema are tortured with reminders of their past crimes while watching movies about not!pokemon and US soldiers riding giant ants.

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