I should of kept a post open at the top for world building and updates... Oh well, silly me.<br/><br/>How Taverns and Inns work in the world.<br/><br/>This is a primer on how something in my worlds work as opposed to the common idea that some might expect.<br/><br/>Inn's are still the hotels of the fantasy world; usually situated in most towns and cities and as often as not, major crossroads on the various trade routes. They range from high-quality establishments to someplace the roaches wouldn't sleep in. Prices for a night's stay vary greatly but they'll all have more or less the same features.<br/><br/>A common room where food and drinks can be obtained. Usually, a night's stay includesa meal; either dinner or breakfast. Although the common room may remain open to the early hours of the morninings, the kitchen will not and will usually shut down at a certain hour.<br/><br/>Inn's will have a number of rooms with two beds, a couple of rooms with a single bed and an area that has a number of cots and chest (With a key) in one large room. Prices are rated on what you want. A cot in the commons may run as little as a copper while a single room may be several GP in the best places. They almost universally have a stable and barn for the storage of animals; stabling is part of the bed price, but feeding the beast may be an added expense in the less savory inns.<br/><br/>Inn's may have some form of entertainment each evening, but what that is will never be certain until you come in and find out. But, usually, it ranges from an actual bard in a full on performance to the owner's daughter singing to an instrument to... you guested it, the baudiestdancers showing off almost everything that they have.<br/><br/>Taverns are pretty much what you expect. They're in the business of making money and their primary income is drinking. They'll have some food options, but mainly, it's drinking. The quality ranges greatly and while there's almost always some form of entertainment,it's as often as not simple noise. The best accomidations that may be expected at a tavern may be a lumpy cot in the loft that you'll have to share with any number of multi-legged critters. Again, quality varys from high-quality to dirt floors and smoked stained walls.<br/><br/>Either an inn or a tavern will offer food of some kind. Inn's will invariably offer better quality and more of it, but the fantasy world's menu will not be expansive unless it's a festival or holiday.<br/><br/>The menu for an inn will usually include:<br/>Bread, baked fresh daily,<br/>Fresh baked, fried or roasted meat, depending on what's available on any particular day,<br/>A variety of vegetables, but usually not a wide selection at any given time and dependent upon time of year and what's available,<br/>A thick, hardy stew made from the leftovers of the previous day,<br/>possibily fresh fruit, or fruit in a sweet confection,<br/>"Mweat Bread" may be available; a croos between an eggroll and a turn-over stuffed with meat, cheese and grains. Some may be glazed with sweets inside.<br/><br/>In general, fairly basic fair that's filling and easy to either preserve or store. Beans, for example, are not uncommon. Breakfasts are more what you might expect from a modern kitchen, eggs, bread, ham/bacon/sausage, poriage, etc.<br/><br/>Tavern menues are more basic. roasted animal of some sort... sometimes best not to ask...<br/>bread that may be anything from fresh that day to a few days old.<br/>Stewed meat with something to hold it together, usually beans or a common vegetable for the region.<br/><br/>Perhaps some regional dish, but again, better not to ask what's in it.<br/><br/><br/>In some regions, Hostiils are fairly common. A series of structures spaced, usually, a good day's walk apart and offers the bare minimum required for their purpose. Usually the accomidations are spare but reasonably comfortable, clean and that's about it. The offerings from the kitchen are more along the tavern than the inn and overall, they're expensive. Some are walled, some are open and all will offer stabling for animals and some may have a blacksmith or wheelright to offer repairs to wagons or shoeing horses. Nearly all are owned by the crown and have a few of the kingdom's  soldiers in residence to patrol that stretch of roadway.<br/><br/>Then, there may be the occasional inn sitting all by itself along a stretch of road that may get a fair amount of traffic.