1001 tavern brawl ideas [Archive] - Wizards Community

1001 tavern brawl ideas [Archive] - Wizards Community

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mindflayer4u
11-09-07, 05:33 PM I just purchased the Inn Fighting card game to use in my D&D campaign, now what would be a good reason for a brawl to break out. Just take 20 ideas and write them down in a list, roll a d20 and presto you got yourself a tavern brawl. After that idea is used replace it with a new one. A fight breaks out on a 1 or 20. Just one roll per tavern visit, after all the owner needs time to repair the damages.

1. A person is found cheating at a card or dice table.
2. A confrontation between a couple drunk patrons.
3. A pickpocket is caught red handed.
Dog_O_War
11-09-07, 05:35 PM 4: Someone starts a coversation with,"We don't take kindly..."
knightwriter
11-09-07, 06:51 PM 5. The barmaid that you just slapped on the behind is the wife of the barkeeper/bouncer in the establishment.
Narf_the_Mouse
11-09-07, 09:30 PM 6. The barmaid that you just slapped on the behind is a retired adventurer...Barbarian.

7. Dwarves. Elves. Drinking contest.

8. One of your enemies left a mind-affecting spell behind...Everyone in the bar who failed their save hates you now. Including your friends. And possibly you.
Kaos_Shadow
11-09-07, 10:13 PM 9. Pun-Pun enters and offers to share his secrets to any who can acctualy make him feel the pain.

10. Two paladins of two different patron gods and/or godesses start arguing about whos god is the most pure.

11.Somebody slaps either the party dwarf or barbatian. (if you don't have at least 1 of those then theres a lot less funny situations going to happen)
baby_kamikaize_kobold
11-09-07, 10:59 PM 12 a halfling in a cowboy suit walks into the bar and states "who's lookin' fer trouble?" in a voice like the duke.
Mr_Seth
11-09-07, 11:12 PM Most really good bar brawls have something to do with dwarves. I'm not sure why, but it just works.

13. The tavern runs out of Dwarven Stout, and attempts to serve mundane ale to the local dwarf miners.

14. The tavern runs out of mundane ale, and serves Dwarven Stout to everyone.

15. Someone says that Dwarven Stout tastes like mule whiz. (Note: This still works if no dwarves are around... barflies know a good brewski when they taste it!)

16. Someone asks a dwarf if that rumor about dwarven women having beards is true... in a very rude manner.

17. ******-off fighter didn't get to kill anything on the last dungeon crawl, decides to vent his frustration on everything nearby.

18. Bored mage. Mass rage effect. `Nuff said!

19. Arm wrestling contest ends badly as winner is caught "doping" (Bear's Strength...)

20. Bard won't stop singing "The Ballad of Llewellyn the Loquacious"... is already up to the 73rd verse... eardrums are breaking... SOMETHING MUST BE DONE...

21. Assassin comes in, kills someone that everyone hates - but that owes half the people there money - and then realizes he just hit the wrong mark. Oops.

22. "Hey! That's MY beer!"
Heroic_Ezekial
11-09-07, 11:25 PM 23)Somebody tries to introduce christianity.

24) Hold my beer, while I kiss your girlfriend.
Zousha_Omenohu
11-09-07, 11:40 PM 25. Someone pushes over a table and yells, "BAR-FIGHT!" (Inspired by Elwood Gutworthy of the Oakenshield clan from the D&D movie. He was without doubt the best character in the film. And that's saying quite a lot.)
Mr_Seth
11-19-07, 10:05 PM 26. Someone refers to a Halfling as a Gnome (or vice-versa)

27. "N.. nho, man, I mean... yer a...tchhhhhractive for `n elf girl... but I like me... a whoman with more meat onner bones." Said to a male elf.

28. Kender. `Nuff said!
VulcanStormwrath
11-19-07, 10:11 PM 24) Hold my beer, while I kiss your girlfriend.

Now that's worth the price of admission.
Tuah
11-19-07, 10:17 PM 29: The previously stated barmaid was really just an illusion, behind which a large half-orc Monk stands.
Tanel
11-19-07, 11:31 PM 30) Failed kidnapping of one of the PC's (Shanghai)
31) Line at the privy. (Every tavern fight me and a friend get in; there's a destroyed privy EVERY time....)
32) Privy is destoryed
33) Lady of the Night and her employer, not happy when any PC's deny her advances.
34) A bard performing magic for the crowd, making fun of one of the PC's. (Enlarging their head or something similar.)
Radiun
11-19-07, 11:55 PM 35) Drunken Master Initiation Night.

36) Small Person Tossing Competition with uncooperative ammo.

37) To get out of paying your tab.
GeeBee
11-20-07, 12:01 AM 38) An orc walks in and says "Where all da 'uman women at?"
Jaimas
11-20-07, 02:47 AM 39) A Blackguard walks in, buys the entire bar a round of drinks, and refers to the Paladin as "Nancy-boy" if male. He hits on her if female.
40) Go to a pub with a +5 Butter Knife. Find the drunkest person there and bet he can butter a slice of bread.
41) An Ogre walks into the bar and demands a bucket full of ale.
42) A crazed Wizard confuses a Ball of Darkness (mentally-controlled ball which generates a zone of darkness, as per the spell, caster level 10) when it makes contact with any solid object) for a Sphere of Annihilation and attempts to destroy a tavern with it. Hilarity ensues.
43) Someone crashes their carriage through the front wall of the Tavern. At happy hour.
44) An extremely attractive local bard, attempting to get away with a small fortune in pilfered valuables, states that she'll bed the man who will successfully defeat the rest of the bar, and escapes in the chaos.
45) The Barmaid is replaced by a Succubus. In and of itself, nothing changes, and she's kind of content to keep to herself. Then the good-aligned party enters the bar.
46) A priestess of Heironious gets her drink spiked, has one too many, and winds up doing very un-priestly things at the local tavern!
47) Some asshat puts a glyph of warding on the tavern entrance.
48) A local Alienist runs into the tavern, and throws up her arms, screaming "I have seen it! The cake is a LIE!" before being chased out by the local sanitarium staff.
49) 3 Words: Gnoll Drinking Contest.
50) A local group of militant clerics contend that intoxication is a sin and attempt to confiscate all alcohol.
NecroticBanana
11-20-07, 03:19 AM A dwarf walks in to see his wife covorting with some human, the dwarf promplty knuckle sandwiches him out of his stool, and over the bar! then everything goes apey
szadek1337
11-20-07, 04:16 AM 51: someone have put a gelantious cube into the barrel of dwarven stout!
52: two half-orc bards begin a sing contest in a bar full of tired mine workers
53: a half-ogre frenzied berserker get her hand stuck in a door (taking one dmg :eek: )
54: two disguised mindflayers begin take their lunchbox forth revealing :eek: a brain for each!
55: a mage cast daylight in a bar full drow's 'n duergars!
Zousha_Omenohu
11-20-07, 02:48 PM 56: Someone left the bathtub running!
Belkar
11-20-07, 04:04 PM 57. The party rogue decides to steal the valuables from the adventuring group in the corner with the glowing armor and flaming weaponry, who are playing checkers with platinum pieces - because, you know... they're freakin' rich...!!

58. A kobold barfly trips a gnome PC on his way to the bathroom. Then points and laughs.

59. Inexplicably, the female catfolk bartender doesn't take kindly to being repeatedly hit on by drunken fanboy party members.

60. A spiked-chain wielding half-ogre walks in and offers ten free rounds to any man here who can defeat his unbridled munchkinism!

61. Pixies take offense to being used as darts by the local dwarf miners.

62. [Eberron] Your party gets angry at being refused admittance into a House Jorasco Inn - when their credit checks reveal very low scores!

63. The half-orc bouncer doesn't like the way you look. At him. Or his bar. Or his woman. Dancing half-naked on the bar. Grrrrrrrrr.....

64. Free beer for the first six people to the bar!!!!!!

65. The crowd gets tired of the bard who put way too many ranks into Perform (kazoo).
VulcanStormwrath
11-20-07, 04:08 PM Somebody asks "Nutcracker" the dwarf how he came by such an odd sobriquet.
baby_kamikaize_kobold
11-20-07, 04:56 PM 66. the bartender play a prank on the PC who never pays for his/her drinks and sends him/her a bill that says: My friend prepared explosive runes today.
Sir_Chivalry
11-20-07, 06:16 PM 67: (Once had this happen with a character of mine, a human.) Walk into an elven bar, sit down, order a glass of wine, then call it all sorts of spiteful names. If anyone comments on your actions at any time...

SMASH the tray full of drinks into the barmaid's face, breaking her nose!!! Then draw your rapier and hope for the best. (My party's warlock died form this fight, oh the tension!)
metalmayhem80110
11-20-07, 06:27 PM 68) (VulcanStormWrath didn't number his...) You buy a round of drinks at the bar. When the cleric who doesn't want yours (This happened to my warlock) brings it over to your table and pours it on you... Well, it happens. Just nobody thought that I'd hideous blow with a large mug on the back of his head :D

69) The dwarf bartender tells a pompus elf his one drink was enough, he can't hold his ale.

Also, what groups do you play in that you NEED people to start bar fights? My party can walk into a bar, and it happens.
JulesCARV
11-20-07, 06:46 PM 70) Barbarian: (Walks up to bar, where every stool is occupied, and says to random patron) I need a drink. Would you move elsewhere so that I can sit down?

Random patron: What? I'm not done yet. I'll be done in maybe twenty minutes.

Barbarian: Well, I just want a quick drink. You can have your seat back once I'm done. It'll only be ten minutes or so.

Patron: No! I was here first. You can have my seat once I'm done, but I don't see why I should move for you!

Barbarian: (Increasingly angry, and beginning to draw his longsword) Listen: I am a hero of this realm. I have slain demons and horrid aberrations. I have saved thousands of lives of defenseless sheep like you from indescribable horrors from the lower planes. You are some random **** farmer. I have been courteous and respectful up until now, but if you continue to defy me and pretend equal standing to me, then I shall have no choice but to take it as an insult to my honor.

Cleric of St. Cuthbert (from behind): Hey! Knock it off. He was there first, bigshot.

Barbarian: Who are you to presume to tell me what to do?

(You can see where this is going, I think)
VulcanStormwrath
11-20-07, 06:47 PM 68) (VulcanStormWrath didn't number his...) You buy a round of drinks at the bar. When the cleric who doesn't want yours (This happened to my warlock) brings it over to your table and pours it on you... Well, it happens. Just nobody thought that I'd hideous blow with a large mug on the back of his head :D

69) The dwarf bartender tells a pompus elf his one drink was enough, he can't hold his ale.

Also, what groups do you play in that you NEED people to start bar fights? My party can walk into a bar, and it happens.

Snitch :mad:
Nived
11-20-07, 08:04 PM 71) Some minor stupid thing happens, someone spills a drink, maybe someone bumps into someone. Apologies are made and that should be the end of it, that would be the end of it... if a drunk didn't lean over and say "You gonna take that?"

In my experience, that's all it takes.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
mindflayer4u 11-09-07, 05:33 PM	I just purchased the Inn Fighting card game to use in my D&D campaign, now what would be a good reason for a brawl to break out. Just take 20 ideas and write them down in a list, roll a d20 and presto you got yourself a tavern brawl. After that idea is used replace it with a new one. A fight breaks out on a 1 or 20. Just one roll per tavern visit, after all the owner needs time to repair the damages. 1. A person is found cheating at a card or dice table. 2. A confrontation between a couple drunk patrons. 3. A pickpocket is caught red handed.
Dog_O_War 11-09-07, 05:35 PM	4: Someone starts a coversation with,"We don't take kindly..."
knightwriter 11-09-07, 06:51 PM	5. The barmaid that you just slapped on the behind is the wife of the barkeeper/bouncer in the establishment.
Narf_the_Mouse 11-09-07, 09:30 PM	6. The barmaid that you just slapped on the behind is a retired adventurer...Barbarian. 7. Dwarves. Elves. Drinking contest. 8. One of your enemies left a mind-affecting spell behind...Everyone in the bar who failed their save hates you now. Including your friends. And possibly you.
Kaos_Shadow 11-09-07, 10:13 PM	9. Pun-Pun enters and offers to share his secrets to any who can acctualy make him feel the pain. 10. Two paladins of two different patron gods and/or godesses start arguing about whos god is the most pure. 11.Somebody slaps either the party dwarf or barbatian. (if you don't have at least 1 of those then theres a lot less funny situations going to happen)
baby_kamikaize_kobold 11-09-07, 10:59 PM	12 a halfling in a cowboy suit walks into the bar and states "who's lookin' fer trouble?" in a voice like the duke.
Mr_Seth 11-09-07, 11:12 PM	Most really good bar brawls have something to do with dwarves. I'm not sure why, but it just works. 13. The tavern runs out of Dwarven Stout, and attempts to serve mundane ale to the local dwarf miners. 14. The tavern runs out of mundane ale, and serves Dwarven Stout to everyone. 15. Someone says that Dwarven Stout tastes like mule whiz. (Note: This still works if no dwarves are around... barflies know a good brewski when they taste it!) 16. Someone asks a dwarf if that rumor about dwarven women having beards is true... in a very rude manner. 17. ******-off fighter didn't get to kill anything on the last dungeon crawl, decides to vent his frustration on everything nearby. 18. Bored mage. Mass rage effect. `Nuff said! 19. Arm wrestling contest ends badly as winner is caught "doping" (Bear's Strength...) 20. Bard won't stop singing "The Ballad of Llewellyn the Loquacious"... is already up to the 73rd verse... eardrums are breaking... SOMETHING MUST BE DONE... 21. Assassin comes in, kills someone that everyone hates - but that owes half the people there money - and then realizes he just hit the wrong mark. Oops. 22. "Hey! That's MY beer!"
Heroic_Ezekial 11-09-07, 11:25 PM	23)Somebody tries to introduce christianity. 24) Hold my beer, while I kiss your girlfriend.
Zousha_Omenohu 11-09-07, 11:40 PM	25. Someone pushes over a table and yells, "BAR-FIGHT!" (Inspired by Elwood Gutworthy of the Oakenshield clan from the D&D movie. He was without doubt the best character in the film. And that's saying quite a lot.)
Mr_Seth 11-19-07, 10:05 PM	26. Someone refers to a Halfling as a Gnome (or vice-versa) 27. "N.. nho, man, I mean... yer a...tchhhhhractive for `n elf girl... but I like me... a whoman with more meat onner bones." Said to a male elf. 28. Kender. `Nuff said!
VulcanStormwrath 11-19-07, 10:11 PM	24) Hold my beer, while I kiss your girlfriend. Now that's worth the price of admission.
Tuah 11-19-07, 10:17 PM	29: The previously stated barmaid was really just an illusion, behind which a large half-orc Monk stands.
Tanel 11-19-07, 11:31 PM	30) Failed kidnapping of one of the PC's (Shanghai) 31) Line at the privy. (Every tavern fight me and a friend get in; there's a destroyed privy EVERY time....) 32) Privy is destoryed 33) Lady of the Night and her employer, not happy when any PC's deny her advances. 34) A bard performing magic for the crowd, making fun of one of the PC's. (Enlarging their head or something similar.)
Radiun 11-19-07, 11:55 PM	35) Drunken Master Initiation Night. 36) Small Person Tossing Competition with uncooperative ammo. 37) To get out of paying your tab.
GeeBee 11-20-07, 12:01 AM	38) An orc walks in and says "Where all da 'uman women at?"
Jaimas 11-20-07, 02:47 AM	39) A Blackguard walks in, buys the entire bar a round of drinks, and refers to the Paladin as "Nancy-boy" if male. He hits on her if female. 40) Go to a pub with a +5 Butter Knife. Find the drunkest person there and bet he can butter a slice of bread. 41) An Ogre walks into the bar and demands a bucket full of ale. 42) A crazed Wizard confuses a Ball of Darkness (mentally-controlled ball which generates a zone of darkness, as per the spell, caster level 10) when it makes contact with any solid object) for a Sphere of Annihilation and attempts to destroy a tavern with it. Hilarity ensues. 43) Someone crashes their carriage through the front wall of the Tavern. At happy hour. 44) An extremely attractive local bard, attempting to get away with a small fortune in pilfered valuables, states that she'll bed the man who will successfully defeat the rest of the bar, and escapes in the chaos. 45) The Barmaid is replaced by a Succubus. In and of itself, nothing changes, and she's kind of content to keep to herself. Then the good-aligned party enters the bar. 46) A priestess of Heironious gets her drink spiked, has one too many, and winds up doing very un-priestly things at the local tavern! 47) Some asshat puts a glyph of warding on the tavern entrance. 48) A local Alienist runs into the tavern, and throws up her arms, screaming "I have seen it! The cake is a LIE!" before being chased out by the local sanitarium staff. 49) 3 Words: Gnoll Drinking Contest. 50) A local group of militant clerics contend that intoxication is a sin and attempt to confiscate all alcohol.
NecroticBanana 11-20-07, 03:19 AM	A dwarf walks in to see his wife covorting with some human, the dwarf promplty knuckle sandwiches him out of his stool, and over the bar! then everything goes apey
szadek1337 11-20-07, 04:16 AM	51: someone have put a gelantious cube into the barrel of dwarven stout! 52: two half-orc bards begin a sing contest in a bar full of tired mine workers 53: a half-ogre frenzied berserker get her hand stuck in a door (taking one dmg :eek: ) 54: two disguised mindflayers begin take their lunchbox forth revealing :eek: a brain for each! 55: a mage cast daylight in a bar full drow's 'n duergars!
Zousha_Omenohu 11-20-07, 02:48 PM	56: Someone left the bathtub running!
Belkar 11-20-07, 04:04 PM	57. The party rogue decides to steal the valuables from the adventuring group in the corner with the glowing armor and flaming weaponry, who are playing checkers with platinum pieces - because, you know... they're freakin' rich...!! 58. A kobold barfly trips a gnome PC on his way to the bathroom. Then points and laughs. 59. Inexplicably, the female catfolk bartender doesn't take kindly to being repeatedly hit on by drunken fanboy party members. 60. A spiked-chain wielding half-ogre walks in and offers ten free rounds to any man here who can defeat his unbridled munchkinism! 61. Pixies take offense to being used as darts by the local dwarf miners. 62. [Eberron] Your party gets angry at being refused admittance into a House Jorasco Inn - when their credit checks reveal very low scores! 63. The half-orc bouncer doesn't like the way you look. At him. Or his bar. Or his woman. Dancing half-naked on the bar. Grrrrrrrrr..... 64. Free beer for the first six people to the bar!!!!!! 65. The crowd gets tired of the bard who put way too many ranks into Perform (kazoo).
VulcanStormwrath 11-20-07, 04:08 PM	Somebody asks "Nutcracker" the dwarf how he came by such an odd sobriquet.
baby_kamikaize_kobold 11-20-07, 04:56 PM	66. the bartender play a prank on the PC who never pays for his/her drinks and sends him/her a bill that says: My friend prepared explosive runes today.
Sir_Chivalry 11-20-07, 06:16 PM	67: (Once had this happen with a character of mine, a human.) Walk into an elven bar, sit down, order a glass of wine, then call it all sorts of spiteful names. If anyone comments on your actions at any time... SMASH the tray full of drinks into the barmaid's face, breaking her nose!!! Then draw your rapier and hope for the best. (My party's warlock died form this fight, oh the tension!)
metalmayhem80110 11-20-07, 06:27 PM	68) (VulcanStormWrath didn't number his...) You buy a round of drinks at the bar. When the cleric who doesn't want yours (This happened to my warlock) brings it over to your table and pours it on you... Well, it happens. Just nobody thought that I'd hideous blow with a large mug on the back of his head :D 69) The dwarf bartender tells a pompus elf his one drink was enough, he can't hold his ale. Also, what groups do you play in that you NEED people to start bar fights? My party can walk into a bar, and it happens.
JulesCARV 11-20-07, 06:46 PM	70) Barbarian: (Walks up to bar, where every stool is occupied, and says to random patron) I need a drink. Would you move elsewhere so that I can sit down? Random patron: What? I'm not done yet. I'll be done in maybe twenty minutes. Barbarian: Well, I just want a quick drink. You can have your seat back once I'm done. It'll only be ten minutes or so. Patron: No! I was here first. You can have my seat once I'm done, but I don't see why I should move for you! Barbarian: (Increasingly angry, and beginning to draw his longsword) Listen: I am a hero of this realm. I have slain demons and horrid aberrations. I have saved thousands of lives of defenseless sheep like you from indescribable horrors from the lower planes. You are some random **** farmer. I have been courteous and respectful up until now, but if you continue to defy me and pretend equal standing to me, then I shall have no choice but to take it as an insult to my honor. Cleric of St. Cuthbert (from behind): Hey! Knock it off. He was there first, bigshot. Barbarian: Who are you to presume to tell me what to do? (You can see where this is going, I think)
VulcanStormwrath 11-20-07, 06:47 PM	68) (VulcanStormWrath didn't number his...) You buy a round of drinks at the bar. When the cleric who doesn't want yours (This happened to my warlock) brings it over to your table and pours it on you... Well, it happens. Just nobody thought that I'd hideous blow with a large mug on the back of his head :D 69) The dwarf bartender tells a pompus elf his one drink was enough, he can't hold his ale. Also, what groups do you play in that you NEED people to start bar fights? My party can walk into a bar, and it happens. Snitch :mad:
Nived 11-20-07, 08:04 PM	71) Some minor stupid thing happens, someone spills a drink, maybe someone bumps into someone. Apologies are made and that should be the end of it, that would be the end of it... if a drunk didn't lean over and say "You gonna take that?" In my experience, that's all it takes.