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GURPS Taverns is an add-on book to Steve Jackson’s Generic Universal RolePlaying System, or GURPS.  Part of the Dungeon Fantasy series of E-Book supplements, GURPS Taverns explores that most common of Fantasy RPG settings: the Tavern…where every adventure seems to start!

I got really excited when I saw this book as I’m always looking for better maps and detailed settings for our TL3 Fantasy game. When it comes to settings, Taverns provides a lot of interesting ideas for Tavern specific characters and special rules for bar fights, tavern based adventures, and more.

Taverns also includes a few pre made taverns… but not many.  Most of them are also pretty bizarre – I found it difficult to integrate any of them into our game.  The maps are only for these strange taverns and are certainly not to scale – I would estimate they’ve been shrunk 75% from what you’d want if you’re using miniatures. If you were hoping for removable pages that you could move figures around on… better hope your copier has a nice zoom setting!

Unfortunately Taverns left a pretty bad taste in my mouth. I was hoping for some good maps and settings and ended up with a fairly limited selection. The character details, as usual, are quite excellent. The settings themselves, while not being what I wanted, might be useful to you in your game.

I don’t feel cheated, as the price is only $7.99 from E23. If you’re looking for some pre-made settings and