Basic Trope: All adventures begin at a tavern. * Straight: An adventuring party assembles in a tavern before setting out. * Exaggerated: A small army assembles in a tavern, and then sets out. * Alternatively, every single character that will appear all meet in the inn. Even the villains * Justified: Taverns are a good place to meet people for any reason. * You'd have to be pretty smashed to agree to go on some adventures with some people... * Inverted: An adventuring party celebrates a successful adventure at a tavern. * Or the party disbands and go their separate ways at an inn. * The party owns/are employees of the inn. * Subverted: There's a tavern scene at the beginning of the story. Then the point of view shifts to a prison... * Alternately,