Tavern bar/restaurant
Level 9 Bastion Facility: Tavern
A communal space designed for food, drink, and social gathering. Taverns are a cornerstone of bastion life—serving as both a morale booster for the crew and a magnet for travelers, traders, and gossip. A Bastion can have more than one Tavern, but each must be given its own name and identity.
When building a Tavern, you may choose its Specialty's, which determines its menu and reputation. A Tavern can only serve one specialty by default. A Roomy Tavern supports two, and a Vast Tavern supports a total of four.
Space: Decent/Roomy/Vast
Hirelings: 2-5 (Barkeep, cook, and/or servers)
Order: Trade/Investigate
- When you issue the Trade order, the Tavern opens to locals, travelers, and bastion residents. The work takes 5 days (1 Bastion Turn) and costs 1 Bastion Point, but no money.
- Pick a specialty from the table below to describe the atmosphere and quality that your tavern provides. You can later change your specialty at a cost of 100 gold, over the course of 1 bastion turn.
- Roll 4d6X2 to see how much gold is earned. If operating a Roomy tavern, roll 4d6X4, and a Vast Tavern earns 4d6X6.
- Special Order Investigate: You can ask the tavern to find information based listening into conversation of patrons in the bar. This is paired with the Trade Order, and takes 1 bastion turn.
- When finished, your tavern will have picked up any information that is reasonable for them to have heard.
- However, your profits from that turn are cut in half (to account for free drinks, hiring of individuals, and other extra costs associated with attracting the right people through the doors).
Tavern Specialties Table
| Specialty | Description | Output |
|---|---|---|
| Luxury Cuisine | High Class dishes, rare spices, and artful presentation. | attracts high end clientele and grants advantage on Charisma checks in the tavern during the current bastion turn |
| Cheap Ale and Food | Basic drinks for basic folk. Easy profit, low effort. | attracts a rowdier and lower brow crowd, higher possibility of fights breaking out. |
| House Drinks | Uses alcohol brewed in your Distillery facility (requires a Distillery ) | Doubles Distillery profits for that brew cycle, and may attract specific NPC's interested in unique drinks |
| Live Entertainment | Singing, instruments, and storytelling. Requires an additional hireling who is skilled in the arts requested. | doubles tavern profits, and all players gain +1 Inspiration Die (d6) to be used by the end of the bastion turn (5 days) |
| Adventurer's Menu | hearty stews, salted meats, quick eats for adventurers. | attracts travelers and adventurers |
| Cultural Showcase | Dishes and décor from a specific culture or region. | Attracts people from the region associated with what is being served. |
Upgrading a Tavern
You can enlarge your Tavern by spending 200 extra gold.
- A Roomy Tavern can serve 2 specialties, and requires 4 Hirelings.
- A Vast Tavern can serve 3 specialties, and requires 6 Hirelings.
