This is an excellent resource for DMs looking for world/city building ideas. It is detailed, with NPCs of those who work there or are regulars, prices for goods and services, and contains a number of interesting adventure hooks for each of the inns/taverns included.
The themes of them are excellent, too - nothing too outlandish, the sorts of things that would fit into pretty much any campaign, high fantasy or low - but they are imaginative and varied - each of the 10 is distinct from the others, and has a definite feel to it that players will engage with and remember.
I've been spending the last few days looking for just such a resource, and while there are some things available on the DM's Guild (some long lists of names, with basic information - essentially results from random tavern generators formatted, or some reasonably good things on single inns/taverns), nothing I've come across is as good as this. I think it's a bargain.
My only slightly negative comment is a personal taste thing, regarding the maps - they're isometric, and very pretty, but from my perspective having a standard top-down grid would be useful for encounters. I can, of course, just draw those out on a battlemat as the maps are certainly clear enough (and they are grid based).
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