On the history of taverns, inns and ale houses

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I just found an interesting videos about the history of taverns, inns and ale houses. Plenty of stuff I didn’t know and presented in a fun and entertaining way.

Definitely going to try to make use of that knowledge in some future games.

Also, I didn’t see the medieval pub lasagna coming :wink:

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I love stuff like this!

Purely by chance, this popped up on Youtube for me recently. There are some great videos on his channel.

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If you’re interested in this sort of thing, the Gies books (Life in a Medieval City/Village/Castle) are pretty much the killer app.

The Writer’s Guide series also has one for medieval times. Haven’t looked at that entry, but the prohibition one is more useful for Call of Cthulhu than any sourcebook, so should be good.

Then again, a society with magic would probably differ from one without in so many ways that the idea that medieval equals realistic for fantasy games is pretty tenuous anyway.

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Thanks for the recommendations

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