Beckett's Tavern - a system-neutral one-shot

“After waiting in the tavern for an hour you start to realise that whatever it was you thought you might find in this remote and wretched place has apparently joined Godot for an infinite round of chess so you all decide to get drunk. The end.”

A homage to Samuel Beckett, Existentialism, and starting adventures in a tavern

The party wait in a tavern for Samuel the Bard, who never arrives. There is drinking, a mysterious stranger, a brawl, and then it all starts to happen again… The adventurers must find out what is happening and how to escape as something tries to find out what they really want from life. Or they might decide that adventures are pointless, and would rather spend the time having fun in an imaginary pub. They’re free to do that too.

Winner of the Saga Forge Adventures Grand Prize 2020.

"BECKETT’S TAVERN took all the tropes and turned them on their ears. The characters have CHARACTER and the problem-solving, creativity, and humor charmed me. It had all of the E’s: ENTERTAINMENT, ENLIGHTENMENT, EDUCATION and by focusing on another E —Existentialism— it really had something to say. " - Clint McElroy, The Adventure Zone

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