What´s the difference between an Inn and a Tavern?

What´s the difference between an Inn and a Tavern?

Inns have beds, taverns are dining establishments.

You might as well ask what the difference is between a car and a skateboard.

An inn also provides spaces to sleep.

They're nowhere close to synonymous. An Inn could just be a hotel. It doesn't have to serve drink. a Tavern has to serve alcohol but doesn't have to have rooms to rent.

Taverns are more like pubs that may have lodging. Inns are more like hotels that may have a bar. Inns can also have long-term tenants.

Inn = Hotel
Tavern = Bar

The difference between a hotel and a bar.

An inn is a tavern with beds.
It's just a matter of where the drunks sleep and how much you charge.
It's the same difference between a brothel and a whore house.

Tavern - a place to get drink and possibly food, does not offer lodging for travelers.
Inn - a place to get food, drink, a bed for a night, and something for your horse/horse-equivalent to eat

What's the difference between a fort and a fortress?

A fortress is female.

Inns are for travelers, taverns are for locals.

Tavern = pub = place to drink and talk with friends.

Inn = place you can stay the night. Does not require a focus on drinks.
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When you besiege him it's a fort. When you besiege her it's a fortress.

Made me giggle like an idiot.

There's no points to inns and taverns when you could take advantage of the practise of sacred hospitality.

That doesn't seem fair.

Consider it like this: You and your average group of 4 adventurers take lodging in a church or equivalent. That's room and food that is not available to those who actually need it. Understandably this has no real effect on gameplay and is up to the GMs discretion, but it should play some factor with the Paladins/Clerics in character who can appreciate such hospitality.

An Inn is a female pub while a tavern is a male pub.

A fortress has breastworks.

Isn't "sacred hospitality" the same as "Xenos" where you just rack up to the nearest big wig of equivalent social status as the most noble member of the party and they have to put you up for a few nights or be forever labelled bad guests?

It's a major theme of the odyssey - basically Odysseus's wife ends up having all the potential suitors staying at odysseus home for the entire decade long journey of the odyssey as a satire of the practice, a contemporary greek listener to the tale would often be told the odyssey by a bard who would make use of the practice for the 3 or so nights it takes to tell the whole saga, so the saga has this recurring theme of odysseus fighting various kinds of "bad hosts" when he turns up at various islands, while back at home telemachus is dealing with various kinds of "bad guests".

"oh the cyclops is a bad host, because instead of feeding his guests he tries to keep them as food and stop them from leaving!"
"oh the suitors are bad guests because they over stay their welcome for YEARS and they keep trying to seduce the hostess while her husband is out of the house for a few years!"

And so odysseus kills all the bad hosts (who the bard's current hosts are so much better and nicer than!) and then he comes home and him and telemachus literally slaughter the entire small army of suitors as the cue for the bard telling the tale to themselves leave.

I thought the female ones had a murderhole while the male ones had drawbridges?

Fawlty Towers is an Inn.
Cheers us a Tavern.

I can't cum tavern your mom

It's "Xenia" not "Xenos"

One gives you quests and the other hangovers

dont forget that taverns are more likely to have wenches

Underrated.

One thing worth noting was that restaurants as we think of them didn't appear until the mid 1800's. Prior to that your food choices at such an establishment were just whatever they cooked that day.

A fort is any fortified position with more than a lone tower, would it be a small outpost with a wooden palisade, a mott and bailey castle or a fortified farm. Its goal is to be easily defended against bandits with a small number of soldier, but not against siege engines. All fortess are also fort, but a fort isn't alway a fortress.

A fortress is usually a stronghold capable of resisting a siege. It is constructed with a defensive mind behind it and can fit a large garnison. If you need a siege tower and to collapse the remparts to take the place, then it's a fortress.

> Bonus

A stronghold is a fort often controlled by the military or the local noble, made of stone and built on a mott.

A castle is a stronghold with a moat remparts and watchtowers, and/or on a highground. Often the household of a noble, his court and his people (except the peasants, and sometime the servants).

An alcazar is a fortified palace built by the Moors.

A citadel is a fortress built to protect a city from an external threat or internal riot. Often command the nearby land.

TL;DR:

citadel = fortress > castle > stronghold > fort

whar about zir and zer?

They're the village midden, and thus immune to seiges.

Laughed, then got hard thinking about it.

Heh