The [Something] Arms - work in progress

[Dave]

I'm not sure what to call this yet, but it should be a pretty fun one to design. Here's a concept sketch:

[Dryw the Harper]

Cool, as usual.

Dryw the Harper

[old squirmydad]

I vote for the "Godson Arms" as a moniker. ;D

[golem101]

Do want!

[Floyd]

Love the new roof design. And the slightly smaller base
so that the house perches atop it. That, to me, is a staple
in the fantasy look & feel.

Looking forward to it's release.

-f

[magpiestear]

This looks wonderful Dave.

If it had outbuildings like stables etc it would make an excellent 'Prancing Pony' for encounters in Bree!!

[pblade]

Looking very cool, will definitely be an interesting build. And it absolutely should include at least an outhouse, and maybe fencing?

And I think I'll vote for the Adamantine Arms. ;D

-Pb

[Dryw the Harper]

I kinda like "The Open Glade."


Dryw the Harper

[abaddonwormwood]

PaperWeights Arms?


Lord Abaddon of Wormwood

[stevelortz]

I had an inn in my campaign called "The Jolly Corkendril". The owner had asked an itinerant sign painter to make a sign with a corkscrew on it. The sign painter took some of his pay in advance in the form of ale. After tipping back a few pints, he couldn't remember if he was supposed to be painting a corkscrew or a corkendril. He tried to make the corkendril look fierce complete with gaping maw, but he wound up with a silly looking crocodile sporting the broadest, toothiest, goofiest grin you can imagine!

Have fun!
Steve

[Parduz]

OT
What is a Corkendril?

[theauldgrump]

Jan 15, 2010 23:36:44 GMT -9 Parduz said:

OT
What is a Corkendril?

A critter from T. H. White's The Sword in the Stone.

There is some conjecture that it was based on the mispronunciation of Crocodile from johnny-oen's David Copperfield. A somewhat different spelling was used in mediaeval texts, again referring to crocodiles.

You have to know these kinds of things when you are a curmudgeon.

The Auld Grump, as for the spotted cameleopard....

*EDIT* I suggested T. H. White's Book of Beasts (or Bestiary, depending on edition) previously on this forum, though I don't remember Corkendril being one of the critters therein.

[stevelortz]

I probably got "corkendril" from White's The Once and Future King. I was running the tavern in my campaign in the late-'70s and I know I had read the story before then. I re-read it with my seventh-grade humane letters class a couple of years ago, and got much more out of it. In White it's spelled "corkindrill".

I've sketched the sign-board a few times, but always concluded that the verbal description is much more powerful in the minds of my players than my sketches could be.

Have fun!
Steve

[stevelortz]

By the way, I love Dave's concept, and am going to modify it by installing an interior when it comes available.

Have even more fun!
Steve

[abaddonwormwood]

Bump?!

Lord Abaddon of Wormwood

[theauldgrump]

Jan 16, 2010 16:32:41 GMT -9 stevelortz said:

I probably got "corkendril" from White's The Once and Future King. I was running the tavern in my campaign in the late-'70s and I know I had read the story before then. I re-read it with my seventh-grade humane letters class a couple of years ago, and got much more out of it. In White it's spelled "corkindrill".

I've sketched the sign-board a few times, but always concluded that the verbal description is much more powerful in the minds of my players than my sketches could be.

Have fun!
Steve

Stuffed corkendrils were often found hanging from the rafters of alchemists and would be magicians - one also shows up in Bedknobs and Broomsticks. The original book, not the Disney travesty.

Another possibility is Jenny Haniver's Arms. A while back one of those showed up on the cover of a supermarket tabloid as an 'alien'. I just about bust a gut laughing - some old cons hang on.

The Auld Grump

*EDIT* Other names - The Goat and Compasses (God Encompasseth was a fairly common pub name, in an attempt to spare the pub from the attention of Lord Protector Cromwell and the Puritans).
The Mitre Square (Masons' pub).
The Crossed Lancets (Physician's pub).
The Knights Templar once owned a pub near the gates of London - I do not currently remember the name, and will have to look. The knights are gone, but the pub still stands.Ditto for the pub near Tyburn Tree (London's gallows.) I will post when (if?) I remember.

[theauldgrump]

Jan 20, 2010 23:29:08 GMT -9 theauldgrump said:

Ditto for the pub near Tyburn Tree (London's gallows.) I will post when (if?) I remember.

The Path of Hope. Still looking for the Templar owned pub near Clerkenwell.

The Auld Grump