101 Inns You Should Probably Stay Away From…

Compiled & edited by Joel Hahn
Written by: Joel Hahn, Zimri, Jessen Yip, Etan Lord Moonstar, John W. Mangrum, Larry Mead, Daniel Quattrone, PJS, Bullethead, Aleph, Zax, Debihuman, Timothy Coyle, Lucius Chiaraviglio, Jarlwolf, James Robinson, Wildwood, The Delraich Mage, Leonardh, Gebhard Blucher, Sheitan, Tim Kutz, RGray26249, Weston Griffiths, Engel Nobbe, and BillyB

Sometimes, an inn is probably better passed by and quickly forgotten, regardless of how much you need to rest or how far it is to the next inn--for if you DO enter, you just know your characters are in for a rough time. Some of these inns can be determined just from the name alone...

1. Procrustes' Rooms For Rent
2. The Otyugh's Lair
3. At Least the Mead is Warm...
4. Notell Motel
5. Bates Motel
6. We Hate Mages
7. The Lucky Louse
8. Keep Out
9. The Amityville House o' Fun
10. Zhentil Keep
11. Bob's House of Toast
12. The Speling Flayme
13. The Tortured Adventurer
14. The Angry Munchkin
15. The Angry DM
16. The Unfortunate Stain
17. Encounter 5A
18. The Lich's Foot
19. International House of Flumphs
20. The Tomb
21. Lost Taverns of Tsojcanth
22. Puke and Go
23. Tequila Wyrm
24. The Inn Definitely Not Run by Doppelgangers
25. Green Slime-O-Rama
26. Rot Grub Pudding Restaurant
27. The Illusionary Floor Inn (a.k.a. "The Dew Drop Inn")
28. The Bowels of Vecna
29. Castration Palace
30. The Undead Eatery
31. The Grassy Gnoll
32. The Gassy Gnoll
33. The Inn Where You can Get Into Lots of Fights, and Maybe Even Get
Started on an Adventure or Two
34. Cheers: Where Eveybody Knows Yer Moniker.
35. The Inn of Last Resorts
36. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
37. The Tavern of Elemental Evil
38. Undermountain II
39. The Paranoid Bartender
40. The House of the Blue Balls
41. Strahd Slept Here
42. Hastur, Hastur, Hast__
43. The Golden Arches
44. The Secret Meeting Place
45. The Puking Palace
46. The Abyssal Gate
47. Bar-B-Aatezu and Grill
48. House of Pain
49. Red-shirts' Inn
50. Heartbreak Hotel
51. International House of Long Pork
52. Ye Olde Saving Throw
53. Microsoft(R) Inn98(R)
54. Werebeer
55. The Open Grave
56. The Scarlet Neighborhood Tap & Grill
57. Socrates' Bar & Pub
58. Inn of Horrors
59. The Tavern With a Man Shrouded In Darkness In the Back Corner
60. Hey, We Don't Like Your Kind In This Here Inn
61. Kill the Adventurers Inn
62. Inn on the Borderlands
63. Still Smoking Inn
64. Ground To A Paste Tavern
65. Hell's Kitchen
66. Acererak's Saloon
67. House of Strahd
68. Ye Olde Flophouse
69. Beshaba's Kiss
70. The Rose of Dorakaa
71. Inn Iuz We Trust
72. The Uncursed Inn
73. The Gaping Maw (big red doorway, completely dark inside...)
74. The Angry Wizards' Soda Fountain
75. The Slaughtered Lamb
76. The Thieves' Den
77. Pressgang Hostelry
78. Caveat Emptor
79. Parasite Palace
80. Hotel California
81. Kobold's Delight
82. The Closing Coffin (particularly in Ravenloft)
83. Blue Oyster Bar
84. The Scape Goat
85. The Random Encounter
86. Run For the Border
87. Elminster's Harem (gives new meaning to "The Chosen of Mystra"...)
88. The Tower of High Sorcery
89. Menzoberranz-Inn
90. The Gelded Ranger
91. Snack of the Archlich
92. The Cute Fluffy Bunny Inn
93. The Plague
94. The Towering Tavern O' Terror
95. The Retching Slattern
96. The Save or Die Inn
97. Ye Olde Plot Device
98. The Crazed Cannibal ("serving all kinds of people for over 10 years")
99. The Inn of a Thousand Whirling Sledgehammers
100. Inn of the Damned
101. Chateau d'Amberville

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