History Main / YouAllMeetInAnInn

** Before the Spellplague, the TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms had a partly justified example - one of the bars in Waterdeep, one of Faerûn's great metropolis, was not only run by a retired adventurer, but also happened to have an entry-point to Undermountain (a very, very large dungeon) in it. That, of course, made it a convenient place for adventures looking to strike rich in Undermountain to gather.

* Khaavren and the others in ''[[Literature/{{Dragaera}} Phoenix Guards]]''. It is played so straight it is probably a parody of the trope.

* Luke Skywalker and company met Han Solo and Chewbacca at the Mos Eisley Cantina in ''StarWars Film/ANewHope'', which is basically a space tavern. ''Star Wars'' is pretty much a fantasy story [[AC:[[RecycledInSpace in space]]]], so it runs into a lot of other fantasy tropes also.
** The expanded versions and the novelization suggest that Obi-Wan took them to the Cantina [[InvokedTrope specifically for this purpose]].

** In the third expansion, the PC starts out and meets several future party mates in an Inn (a specific inn the source material had already established as being a common meeting place for adventurers seeking to enter Undermountain). Only one of them will stay with you until the end of the story, the other four in the Inn all go back to the surface at the end of the first chapter. The three potential party members that are not in the Inn at the beginning are met under much more unusual circumstances.

** In the third expansion, the PC starts out and meets several future party mates in an Inn. Only one of them will stay with you until the end of the story, the other four in the Inn all go back to the surface at the end of the first chapter. The three potential party members that are not in the Inn at the beginning are met under much more unusual circumstances.

* ''Literature/ForgottenRealms'':

* ''Legends From Darkwood'' involves several scenes with characters posting jobs or looking for jobs in "adventuring" posting to a bulletin board in an inn.

* The short story ''The Most Precious Of Treasures'' by Desmond Warzel. It's only two people meeting there, and it occurs because one has left a note for the other, but it's still an example.

* ''Warlord'', a self-referential ''D&D''-inspired card game, has a card called "Meet At The Inn". Its FlavorText:

** Special mention has to go to the 2nd Edition module ''Reverse Dungeon'', where the players are a group of goblins trying to save their tribe from an (apparently endless) stream of adventurers. The way the module suggests they achieve this is to destroy the tavern, so that the heroes can't recruit replacements for their fallen comrades.

* The boardgame ''Tomb'' by AEG has a board that consists of two sections. One is the titular Tomb, full of monsters, traps, and treasures galore. The other section is the Inn, where you build your party to invade the Tomb.

* In ''Heroes Of Lesser Earth'' this trope is so common that taverns normally have bulletin boards for adventurer recruitment.

* In ''Yamara'', local bars double as employment centers, even officially. The title character goes out drinking with her friend Stress, and warns against trying to fight off the hordes of adventurers, sages in dark cloaks, and barmaids with the low-down on local dragon hoards, since a bar fight will likely lead to a memorable encounter and forming a lifelong fellowship with some dweeb, and who wants that? Then she announces they'll join the party of whichever group buys them the most drinks, and the two of them get plastered for free.

* ''Comicbook/LegendsFromDarkwood'' involves several scenes with characters posting jobs or looking for jobs in "adventuring" posting to a bulletin board in an inn.

* The action of RobertJordan's enormous ''Literature/WheelOfTime'' series begins with Rand al'Thor meeting up with both established friends (Mat & Egwene) and newcomers (Moiraine, Lan & Thom) at the Winespring Inn in the local village. Which, to be fair, is pretty much the only location of note, in the widest sense of the term, in the entire region.

* The short story "Literature/TheMostPreciousOfTreasures" by Creator/DesmondWarzel. It's only two people meeting there, and it occurs because one has left a note for the other, but it's still an example.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warlord}}'', a self-referential ''D&D''-inspired card game, has a card called "Meet At The Inn". Its FlavorText:

** Special mention has to go to the 2nd Edition module ''TabletopGame/ReverseDungeon'', where the players are a group of goblins trying to save their tribe from an (apparently endless) stream of adventurers. The way the module suggests they achieve this is to destroy the tavern, so that the heroes can't recruit replacements for their fallen comrades.

* The boardgame ''TabletopGame/{{Tomb}}'' by AEG has a board that consists of two sections. One is the titular Tomb, full of monsters, traps, and treasures galore. The other section is the Inn, where you build your party to invade the Tomb.

* In ''Webcomic/HeroesOfLesserEarth'' this trope is so common that taverns normally have bulletin boards for adventurer recruitment.

* ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'' regarding the [[http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0745.html Mos Eisley cantina scene]] in ''Film/StarWarsEpisodeIVANewHope''.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Yamara}}'', local bars double as employment centers, even officially. The title character goes out drinking with her friend Stress, and warns against trying to fight off the hordes of adventurers, sages in dark cloaks, and barmaids with the low-down on local dragon hoards, since a bar fight will likely lead to a memorable encounter and forming a lifelong fellowship with some dweeb, and who wants that? Then she announces they'll join the party of whichever group buys them the most drinks, and the two of them get plastered for free.

** The AD&D 1st Edition ''Dungeon Master's Guide'' (1979) has this suggestion for getting a party of {{PC}}s together:

** From the AD&D 1st Edition ''Dungeon Master's Guide'' (1979).

-->As background you inform them that they...met by chance in an inn or tavern and resolved to
journey together to seek their fortunes in the dangerous environment.

'''[[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Player 3]]:''' This place has really good noodles.

* In the opening of the parodic fantasy audio webserie ''[[RefletsDAcide Reflets d'Acide]]'', the first protagonist hires his team in a tavern. The player playing the character complains to the DM because how stereotyped it is.

** On a rainy day, a group of youths gathered in a coffee house somewhere in a subjugated country to discuss a list of social demands they planned to submit to the government office. Things like stopping censure, release of political prisoners, that sort of thing. By the end of that day, a full-blown peaceful revolution involving tens of thousands was behind them, eventually escalating into a war of independence that saw, among other things, {{The Empire}}'s military and various armies of [[DivideAndConquer imperial-supported minorities]] getting so utterly ''[[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu humiliated]]'' by the insurgents that they had to SummonBiggerFish in the form of another superpower to quell the uprising. Sounds like a fictional story but this is actually what happened in Hungary during 1848. All caused by a meeting in Coffeehouse Pilvax[[hottip:*:although the original building was demolished in 1911, the coffee house is still in business]]. That's one hell of a resume...

* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' has this built into certain locations for ease -- like in [[WretchedHive Nexus]], where no-one is allowed to eat alone after dark, so it's easy to just say, "You're all in Nexus, it's nighttime, so you all had to sit at a table together."

** Several fan-made expansions also contain examples. In "VideoGame/ADanceWithRogues", your first encounter with Pia is in a private dining room at an inn, your first encounters with Bran, Norah, and Gemli in the second chapter are also in an inn. You technically meet Diane in an inn in the first Bastard of Kosigan module, but you actually recruit her in a forest if you so choose. Several possible henchmen in A Hunt Through The Dark, in the final chapter, show up in the inn for the first time.

* And then there's ''TabletopGame/TalesFromTheFloatingVagabond'', which deliberately shortcuts this by making the primary setting an InnBetweenTheWorlds.

* Luke Skywalker and company met Han Solo and Chewbacca at the Mos Eisley Cantina in ''StarWars Film/ANewHope'', which is basically a sort of space tavern. ''Star Wars'' is pretty much a fantasy story [[AC:[[RecycledInSpace in space]]]], so it runs into a lot of other fantasy tropes also.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Bladestorm}}: The Hundred Years War'', the tavern is where you get new contracts, upgrade your weapons, meet fellow mercenaries and recruit new squads.

* Paradoxically, in the ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' game ''[[Videogame/VampireRedemption Vampire: Redemption]]'', taverns and pubs play no role in the Dark Ages portion of the game. In the modern era, however, you meet most of your party members (and undertake half the plots) in bars and nightclubs.

** The Raleigh Tavern was the spot of several noteworthy (minor but crucial) events in the lead-up to the American revolution and was a spot where many leading Virginians, including GeorgeWashington, were known to dine. The United States started at an inn. Okay, that's stretching it a bit but it's a historical location you wouldn't want to overlook as concerns this trope.... The key organizer of the Revolution, SamuelAdams, ran a bar stocked with his own signature lager. He gathered people at the bar to discuss kicking out the Redcoats.