Giant Elk Tavern

A grand two-story structure comes into view long before you reach it. The design gives the building an off-kilter kind of look—resembling ascending steps, or perhaps a beast raising its head to better view the countryside. The ground floor consists of a bustling bar and dining area, as well as an open-air stable where mounts drink, eat, and snort in the shade. An upper floor sits atop the stables, serving as its roof, and as sleeping quarters for patrons.

This tavern map is absolutely epic. There are nine variants: Day, Night, Chaos, Murder, Aftermath, Abandoned, and Haunted. And it’s a two-story building, with a bar and dining hall on the main floor, and rooms on the floor above. Everything has been beautifully illustrated by Lone Mapper and lusciously described by Megan Garner—for a total of 118 descriptions!

This tavern is full of character, intrigue, life… and death. Where do your players fit in? Find descriptive text for various features by hovering over them on the map, or browse all included scenes in the list below. Works best on desktop.

Note: Download links for the Abandoned variant can be found here.

Art by Lone Mapper. Support them to access variations of this work and more!

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Included Scenes:

A Battle Deserted

A Guardian and Charge

Abandoned Feasts at Tavern

Accountant’s Room

Adventurers’ Argument Intensifies

Adventurers’ Feasts

An Eternal Tête-à-Tête in a Haunted Tavern

Anxious Dark Elf Adventurer

Approach to Giant Elk Tavern

Bar in Shambles

Bards Waiting to Perform in Tavern

Bartenders Spring into Action

Boar Skull Landing at Night

Boar Skull Landing in Disarray

Boar Skull Landing of Inn

Brawl in the Tavern

Breaking Up the Band

Brood Hidden in Water Closet

Cold Hearth with Web

Complaints about Ransacked Room

Cowering Couple

Creaky Boar Skull Landing

Dark Elf Flees Bar Fight

Date Night at the Tavern

Diary in Proprietor’s Room

Discarded Weapon in Hallway

Discussion in Adventurers’ Room

Disheveled Minstrels’ Room

Dormitory-Style Room

Dwarf Deflects Questions

Encroaching Plants

Entering a Haunted Tavern

Entering Abandoned Tavern

Entering Tavern at Night

Entering the Tavern as Bedlam Begins

Entering the Wrong Room at Inn

Entrance to Giant Elk Tavern

Examining the Victim

Face-off with Constable

Fallen Chandelier

Feast of Local Fare

Final Moves in Tavern Card Game

Fireflies and Ghostly Geckos in Vines

Forgotten Treasure Map

Former Murder Scene

Game of Chess in Tavern

Ghost Playing Chess

Ghostly Mages in Tavern

Giant Elk Skull

Giant Elk Skull with Spiderwebs

Giant Elk Spirit

Guard Interrogates Adventurers

Guardian Confronts Ward

Hidden Treasury

Horde of Spiders in Hearth

In the Wake of Conflict

Inn Patrons Discuss Proposal

Investigating a Crime at the Inn

Large Room for Group of Adventurers

Linen Closet in Inn

Linen Closet in Shambles

Linen Closet with Critters

Locked Room at Inn

Lone Elf and Tavern Cat

Lutist Performing in Tavern

Mage and Warrior Converse over Map

Mage Collects Belongings

Melodic Traces

Merchild in Room at Inn

Minstrels’ Room

Moldering Rug

Mournful Mandrakes

Murder Scene at Inn

Murderous Echoes at the Inn

Noises Above the Water Closet

Occupied Stall in Water Closet

Passel of Pseudodragons in Inn

Phantasmal Phalanx in Tavern

Phantasmic Feast in Haunted Tavern

Poltergeist-Infested Bar

Potted Mandrakes in Inn

Prisoner Under Guard

Proprietor’s Room

Pseudodragons and Fireflies in Large Inn Room

Quietly Haunted Linen Closet

Raging Boar Spirit

Ransacked Communal Room

Ravaged Room in Abandoned Inn

Rekindled Romance

Rogues on Alert

Room for Two Rogues

Room Guarded by Bear Spirit

Room Hiding a Secret

Rotting Feast

Secret Storeroom

Single Room for a Mercenary

Site of a Past Brawl

Sleeping Accountant

Spectral Chandelier in Haunted Tavern

Stage Sullied by Blood

Star-Backed Stage

Surveying from the Bar

Tavern Bar

Tavern Games Tables

Tavern Hearth

Tavern Table with a Map

Tending a Busy Bar

Termite-Ridden Room

Termites Feasting in Abandoned Inn

Vacant but Messy Room

Water Closet in Inn

Webbed Water Closet

Weeping Mandrakes at Inn

Well-Appointed Room

Withered Mandrakes

Witnessing Heist at Inn

Wolf-Haunted Room

Young Artificer at Inn