Name that Tavern!

[Cyrion]

So, for the 78% of people who begin their campaigns in a tavern (and for the other 22% who presumably encounter a tavern at some point)- what are your favorite tavern names for D&D?

Mine so far-

The Bloated Gargoyle

The Drunken Weasel

Possum's Last Dance

[Blackjackg]

I've used a lot, but I can't come close to remembering them all. There was...

The Lion & Lantern

The Tipped Scales (the dive bar in a town run by the priesthood of a god of justice)

The Leapin' Lizardman

The Wobblin' Goblin

[Gorbash]

Smoldering Corpse.

[Telonius]

The Drunken Morkoth, from Shackled City.

Mainly because one of the players misheard it.

"Did you just say, the Drunken Moorcock?"

[The Rose Dragon]

Dragon's Landing.

Only it wasn't a tavern. It was a teahouse.

[The Gilded Duke]

The Willing Goblin.

[Frosty]

The Trustworthy Wench.

[Keld Denar]

Princess Frumpy's House

From here.

Also: Angry Eunuch

[Magicus]

I've always been partial to the Tipsy Harper.
Or the Ale Pit, for those seedy Dwarven bars where you don't care about anything but the quantity of the alcohol and the available number of people to fight.

The Willing Goblin.

*cringe*

[shadzar]

Dew Drop Inn

Broken Drum (later the Mended Drum )

Porky's

The Outhouse

[Kurald Galain]

There's the For-Rest Inn (which IIRC was run by a dryad...)

[Vargtass]

I've always used

The Yawning Pike
Den Gäspande Gäddan
Der Gähnende Hechte
Il Spadigliante Luccio

or something along those lines... any other translations, or corrections to the ones above, are welcome.

[RebelRogue]

I think "Det mugsorte Ostebord" was one of the most memorable, not to mention deadly places I've set foot as an adventurer. It translates roughly into "The black-moldy cheese platter"... I guess it's one of those "you should have been there" things...

[AngelOmnipotent]

The Curious Kobold was always a fun one.

[ZeroNumerous]

I dunno about taverns, but I've used the Gungan's Testicle on several tramp freighters.

[FoE]

The Filthy Whore. No wait, that was a ship's name.

[Ravens_cry]

The Plotting Hook.
The Distressing Damsel
The Smashing Jugs

However, symbolic names are only really important in a none-literate culture. In D&D, almost everyone can read. Oddly enough considering I don't hear tell of many printing presses.

[Cicciograna]

The Hanging Madman (name deriving from owner's old robbing technique - hard to explain...);

The Firebird (name deriving from the sighting of a phoenix by the owner);

The Stinking Fish (lowly tavern near the docks...)

The Green Bull (no particular reason, apart from oddity...)

The Thirsty Adventurer (Adventurer Guild's personal tavern).

[arguskos]

The Minotaur and the Scroll (run by a bookish minotaur)

The Artistic Giant (run by a half-giant who had this thing for painting, and was pretty good at it)

The Drunken Fiends (named after three bearded devils that were ALWAYS there and ALWAYS drunk as hell)

Those three are pretty much my favorites.

[xPANCAKEx]

The field and scythe - for small farming villages

[Talon Sky]

The Plotting Hook.

Lol, I've used that one before. My players never got the joke.

Hmm....I'd have to say the most recurring inn in my campaigns is the Dragonfang Tavern. However, I've also had critical success with the Slam-Bam, Thank-The-Ma'am Single Night Inn. Which doubled as a brothel, hence the name.

[Largo]

My favorite always was

The **** and Gaggle

We were a dirty minded group.

[Dixieboy]

Smoldering Corpse.

Ignus hears you

[arguskos]

Ignus hears you

You are but tallow for my flames.... hissssssss

Also, I like The Plotting Hook. I'll have to use that one.

[Shadowbane]

Well, I named my weapons-store Bloodbath and Beyond, so yeah. xD I had a tavern in an evil campaign called The Paladin's Head, and another one that was a significantly ruder part of the paladin in it's name.

[Thurbane]

The Vulgar Unicorn

[TengYt]

The Pink Elephant

[FoE]

The Vulgar Unicorn

That's from Thieves' World, right?

My brother once named an inn "The Minotaur's Head." Guess what hung over the counter where the innkeeper stood?

[Tallis]

Cmon Inn

Fuglees

Both are real places, but I'll probably use them if I get to run a campaign again.

[Catbeard]

The House of the Stinking Cat

Cause we played in a house... with a stinking cat. Man that putty tat could rip....