Athasian Tavern Name Generator
Produced 1999 by Tom Slattery of The Unofficial Dark Sun Pages. Feel free to copy this resource for personal use; do NOT copy it onto your own web site.
In the near future I plan to have available several complete tavern packages with floorplans, proprietors, and other notable information. For now, I have created an easy-to-use name generator so that DMs don't have to expend too much brain power every time their players need to stop for the night... "The Drunken Dwarf? Isn't that where we were LAST night??"
This is an early version of the resource which will be expanded and edited, but it should give you plenty of tavern names in the meantime! Begin by rolling a d10 on the Naming Scheme chart. After that, roll on the appropriate charts to fill in the blanks for the tavern name.
NAMING SCHEME (d10)
1 - The Material Animal (ie, The Emerald Jozhal)
2 - The Color Animal (ie, The Blue Mekillot)
3 - The Emotion Animal (ie, The Laughing Kirre)
4 - The Emotion Person (ie, The Lost Bard)
5 - The Person & Animal (ie, The Elf & Inix)
6 - The Animal's Dwelling (ie, The Tigone's Den)
7 - The Person's Dwelling (ie, The Halfling's Cage)
8 - The Thing & Thing Inn (ie, The Sun & Star Inn)
9 - The Material Item (ie, The Crystal Dagger)
10 - The ThingItem Tavern (ie, The Sunkettle Tavern)
MATERIALS (d10)
1 - obsidian
2 - ebony
3 - stone
4 - wooden
5 - alabaster
6 - turquoise
7 - glass
8 - ceramic
9 - crystal
10 - emerald
COLORS (d10)
1 - black
2 - white
3 - crimson
4 - red
5 - blue
6 - green
7 - yellow
8 - golden
9 - silver
10 - purple
EMOTIONS, ETC (d10)
1 - laughing
2 - grinning
3 - smiling
4 - happy
5 - angry
6 - jovial
7 - drunken
8 - running
9 - lost
10 - sleeping
ANIMALS (d10)
1 - kirre
2 - kank
3 - falcon
4 - mekillot
5 - inix
6 - dragon
7 - tigone
8 - spider
9 - roc
10 - jozhal
DWELLINGS (d5)
1 - den
2 - alcove
3 - cage
4 - lair
5 - cave
PEOPLE (d10)
1 - dwarf
2 - elf
3 - giant
4 - halfling
5 - mul
6 - kreen
7 - templar
8 - gith
9 - slave
10 - bard
THINGS (d8)
1 - flame
2 - sand
3 - moon
4 - sun
5 - star
6 - silt
7 - shadow
8 - wind
ITEMS (d10)
1 - blade
2 - mug
3 - ladle
4 - kettle
5 - fist
6 - dagger
7 - spoon
8 - tankard
9 - keg
10 - table
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at http://athas.org/articles/Athasian-Tavern-Name-Generator