The Weary Traveller
A roadside inn at dusk: bar, hearth and long tables, a stranger in the corner.
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The place
Setting: Dusk, fog rolling in over a muddy yard
Every campaign starts in a tavern, and this one is ready before the players have finished ordering. The Weary Traveller is a timber inn under a mossy clay roof, built as an L: the taproom with the kitchen wing off one end and two storeys of guest rooms against its gable. Lift the roofs in Play and it is all there: a stone hearth with a cauldron and a real fire, two long tables laid for supper with benches, a chandelier lantern over them, a round table and stools, a bar along the gable wall with the innkeeper behind it, a corner booth by the door, a keg rack and stores in the kitchen, and upstairs two beds, a chest and a lamp.
The party is already seated at supper: a fighter, a dwarf fighter, a cleric, a bard, a halfling rogue, a ranger, a sorcerer and a warlock, so a first session starts with characters on the map. A hooded stranger watches from the booth, and a giant rat swarm waits behind the kegs, hidden from the players. Outside, lanterns flank the door, the yard holds a well, a cart, a campfire and a woodpile with a thatched stable on its far side, and the road runs along the south and fords the mill-stream. The scene opens at dusk with a purple-grey fog over the yard and smoke rising from the chimney.
What the recipe places
- 2 floor and road ops
- 2 wall runs
- 68 props, lines and scatters
- 7 lights and effects
- 11 miniatures
Encounters it was built for
- A bar brawl: the tables are obstacles, the benches are improvised weapons, and the hearth is a hazard.
- A meeting with a patron in the corner booth while the party watches the door.
- An assassin through the window: the sightlines from the yard matter, and the ruler measures them.
- Rats in the cellar: the giant rat swarm boils out from behind the keg rack, and the party fights among benches and barrels.
- A brawl that spills outside: the yard is broken ground with logs and a stump, and the fog makes the far end of the road hard to read.
Tips
- In Play, press U to lift the roofs and see into the taproom; it lifts for you, not for the players.
- Drag the time-of-day slider to night and the hearth, the lanterns and the candles do the lighting.
- Drag a character in from the shelf and it arrives as a miniature with a base and a name.
- The rat swarm is Hidden from players; they are not sent a hidden mini until you show it.
- Brush fog over the yard before the session and reveal it when someone steps outside.
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Free top-down battle map
A flat, gridded version of The Weary Traveller for any other tabletop: straight down, north up, 44 by 36 squares at 70 pixels per 5-foot square, with no miniatures on it. Set your tabletop's grid to 70 px and it lines up.
Free under CC BY 4.0: use it, share it and change it, in paid work too, as long as you credit TerrainTale. Some buildings in it are other artists' CC BY models, credited on the About page.
Questions
Can I change The Weary Traveller after loading it?
Yes. A template is a normal scene once built: paint, drag, delete and add to it, then save it as your own project.
How long does it take to load?
A few seconds. The recipe compiles instantly and the models it uses download from the built-in library on first use, then stay cached.
Can I make my own template?
Write a recipe (see Build with AI) and import it with File ▸ Import Scene JSON, or save any scene as a project and reopen it from the welcome screen.
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