An excellent suplement. We used this for our run of Waterdeep Dragon Heist and it turned a lack luster plot point from that module into the focus of our campaign.

This is exactly what it said it would be. This reduced the amount of work I have to do by 80%. Players want to expand upon the tavern from dragon heist and this was a fantastic stepping stone. Now I just have to figure out how to scale this up by x4 haha

Really great supplement. There is a lot of love in this project. Not only rules and events for your tavern, but also plot hooks from NPCs, dice games, recipes, and labels for your tavern's brews. Superb job by all concerned. My play by forum table went completely nuts with enthusiasm when I suggested using these rules.

Seriously amazing supplement, this is well worth the price and honestly feels like something I could've bought as a little book in a games shop. I spent the afternoon testing out all the games are my personal favourite is Blackstaff's Apprentice. It's a 5 star product, but my one complaint would be there is a rather detailed image on page 11 of the PDF (the dwarf girl) and it's included on the "Printer friendly" version as well and caused my printer to jam. This of course doesn't stop it from being an amazing supplement, just something to mention and possibly remove.

Although there's many other products out there on enhancing Trollskull manor, this one has to be the most well thought out. Every element of is easy to incorporate and functions independently from the other I've been using the upgrade tables from it for the last few months and my players love it! Cannot recommend this enough.

I highly recommend this adventure supplement!

• I am a relatively new player & DM who started playing AL at the tail end of Season 6 and started DMing at the start of Season 7.
• I DM and play almost exclusively on Roll20/FG so most of my views are based on those experiences.
• I stream my games online
• I am an average person with average cooking/baking abilities

• The main draw here was that there are options to upgrade the tavern and it does not disappoint. Tavern owners even spend TCP to fund their Tavern!
• There’s a bunch of new monsters I’m slowly weaving into our campaign
• I LOVE The fact that there are recipes. I've made a couple already and plan to finish them all. It's my own little private DM Quest.
• The Art for the Bottle Lables is so cool!

• Trying to figure out how this will work with Adventurers League rules is kind of pain

• Maybe the resource could be given some more concrete guidance in the Adventurers League Content Catalogue, but I’m not going to ding this resource for that. That’s more of an AL-ism than anything.

• Some players are vehemently against more regulations in AL, but again, that’s more of a situation within the AL community than with this resource.

I really like this supplement, the ability to upgrade certain parts of the tavern is excellent and the events bring the life and times of waterdeep to life!

I am confused on the specifics of running this in AL, could there be an update explaining how to use this with AL?

Of all the A.L. updates I have purchased for Season 8 this is by far my very favorite. I have ran it multiple times. The mechanics really help with the money issue from season 8 AL. They take a large investment but it does pay off. There is some very cool things in this such as recipes, drink labels and spotify channel. I have never seen AL content like this.

This is a pretty great expansion to the tavern rules from Dragon Heist. If you were underwhelmed by Chapter 2, this is the thing for you. Well worth the $8.95. Also applicable to any campaign where your characters might end up running a tavern as well as being extremely helpful for making any tavern you might need to create on the fly.

Should have just been in the Dragon Heist book.

If your players are taking a serious interest in running a tavern you want this.

Lot of great stuff in here, great resource for DM's looking to bring taverns to life. I don't have Waterdeep Heist, so I cannot comment on that, but the general additions for both DMs and players is (imo) worth the pricetag.

The book is well edited and laid out. For the quality of content, the price is worth it (although a smidge on the higher end when compared to most DMs Guild products). Inside you'll find the rules for

• Running a tavern: and the expenses you'll deal with to earn income, along with some new downtime activities.
• Visiting a tavern: the tables for generating taverns on the fly, including brawls, games, patrons, and events. Basically if your heroes have no interest in running a tavern, this chapter will still give you countless hooks to preoccupy your players with.
• Ambience: how to run real world tavern games with your players and real recipes you can make for them.
• Player options: bards and clerics get new archetype options, two new backgrounds for all characters, and six new monsters provide a derth of options outside of the tavern.

So my opinion here is that there's enough content that almost every table should find use with this book. The numerous pack ins (things like maps, and game aids for the tavern games) are super helpful and just help get everyone into feeling the game.

If I have any criticism (and it's a small one), it's that the format of the Downtime Activities don't match those previously published in either the Dungeon Master's Guide or Xanathar's Guide to Everything, and that the near 9 dollar price point for 45 pages is a little high for being such a focused product. While I can use the monsters, games, and food are all usable outside the tavern, it's unlikely you will. But if your players are building or running a tavern, the price point is a steal!

The value is really dependant upon how tied to taverns your game will be.

Edit: I want to state, if I could rate this 4.5, I would. It's not perfect, the cost, backgrounds, and focus all make me hesitate to give it a 5 (which would, imo, be a universally useful product to all tables).