{"id":1388088,"date":"2025-11-10T23:40:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T23:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hS5rkzGYAKpuUtQV7r5kWK"},"modified":"2025-11-10T23:40:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T23:40:43","slug":"tavern-keepers-item-design-tool-is-so-good-one-player-made-a-tabletop-dd-set-where-you-can-actually-read-the-stats-on-the-character-sheets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/tavern-keepers-item-design-tool-is-so-good-one-player-made-a-tabletop-dd-set-where-you-can-actually-read-the-stats-on-the-character-sheets\/","title":{"rendered":"Tavern Keeper’s item design tool is so good one player made a tabletop D&D set where you can actually read the stats on the character sheets"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’ve fallen hard for Tavern Keeper<\/a>, a sim where you manage an inn in a fantasy realm filled with halflings, orcs, and elves, serving drinks, cooking meals, and dealing with occasional devastating fire or insect infestation. Despite only entering early access just last week (after more than a decade of development), it’s already beloved among players who awarded it an ‘Overwhelmingly Positive’ review score<\/a> average on Steam.<\/p>\n

Something I didn’t get too deeply into when I gushed about Tavern Keeper<\/a> last week is its item design tool. There are all sorts of objects to build in your tavern, from useful furniture like tables, chairs, and beds to decorative items like bookcases, paintings, and rugs\u2014but that’s just the start.<\/p>\n

Tavern Keeper also invites players to modify existing items or create their own with its in-game design tool and share them with other players. I’ve only done some basic modifications so far, like decorating countertops with items like gold coins, goblets, playing cards, and perhaps a dagger half-buried in the wood of a table. Typically fantasy set dressing.<\/p>\n

But the item design tool in Tavern Keeper is so flexible that players have been creating some shockingly imaginative stuff. Case in point, this Dungeons & Dragons table created by Jolle that I spotted over on Reddit:<\/p>\n

Dungeons and Dragons table for your tavern!<\/a> from r\/TavernKeeper<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n