The adventurer’s life is tough. It’s time to call it quits. For years you stumbled through hostile lands, living off stale rations, and struggling to get a few hours’ sleep. Now it’s time to hang up your weapons, sell off your armor, and settle down. If only it were that easy…
Stewpot: Tales from a Fantasy Tavern by Takuma Okada is a collection of cozy mini-games that tell the story of a tavern run by former adventurers. Gather your dice, pick up a deck of cards, set aside a shiny coin, and get ready for a new set of challenges. Only this time… your adventures start behind the bar.
Stewpot is divided into a series of slice-of-life scenes, with a different set of simple rules and prompts helping adjudicate each scene. You might be scrambling to cook something edible with random ingredients, bartending for troubled souls, calming down a tavern brawl, going shopping for all the things a tavern needs, and more! Work to upgrade your tavern’s cuisine, atmosphere, and service. In the process, you might just learn a little bit about yourself – and your fellow party members.
Whether you're looking to play a chill pick-up session, or provide a campaign epilogue to your heroes' epic adventures, Stewpot: Tales from a Fantasy Tavern will serve you well.
- Lightweight rules and prompt-driven play make Stewpot easy to pick up.
- Stewpot is divided into a series of 20 different mini-games. Play a few or play them all.
- Mini-games use everyday gaming bits: a d6, a deck of cards, a coin.
- No game-master, no preparation needed. Open the book and start playing together.
- Ideal for a casual one-shot session or a longer series where you seek to upgrade your tavern's Cuisine, Atmosphere, and Service.
- Import your characters from a different system to play out their transition from epic adventurers to wise proprietors pulling draughts at the bar. What happens when your adventuring career is over?
- Evocative scenarios and prompts inspire players to explore their tavern, their town, and the way their characters change in this new life.
- Includes four original recipes you can actually cook!
