Good names for taverns/inns and other city businesses

[NewJeffCT]

As I had mentioned in my last thread, the PCs will be entering their first large city (pop. about 50,000) after spending the beginning of the campaign tooling around forests, swamps and a few small towns...

Is there a good source for decent names for medieval type inns and taverns, and also various businesses in a medieval like city?

Thanks

 

[philreed]

Is there a good source for decent names for medieval type inns and taverns, and also various businesses in a medieval like city?

Here's a free PDF that should help.

 

[webrunner]

The Verbing Animal

The Noun and Other Noun (one of which should be an animal)

The Animal's Noun

 

[Falstaff]

The DMG II (v.3.5) was a great resource for this.

 

[Templeton580]

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[weem]

We always had a running joke in our games that the inns were named based on their quality (in coinage terms) followed by "Pot Inn"...

Example...

The Golden Pot Inn
The Silver Pot Inn
The Copper Pot Inn

 

[cr0m]

Ah, the Copper Pot Inn. Don't forget to ask for our renowned Ambush Suite!

 

[carmachu]

The Blue Oyster

 

[NewJeffCT]

We always had a running joke in our games that the inns were named based on their quality (in coinage terms) followed by "Pot Inn"...

Example...

The Golden Pot Inn
The Silver Pot Inn
The Copper Pot Inn

I had a similar years back with Griffon - The Golden Griffon, the Green Gryphon, the Griffon's Nest, etc.

 

[NewJeffCT]

The Blue Oyster

sounds cultish to me.