Tavern Keeper feels like being a fly on the wall in a D&D campaign, and I never knew I needed that in a management sim

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An adventurer wanders into my tavern just as Im serving up a pint of something almost certainly inedible.

Elsewhere, an elven visitor looks to be picking her nose in an empty corner.

There’s something so effortlessly enchanting about Tavern Keeper’s medieval fantasy framework.

I select a tall, spindly-looking elf, underskilled and undertrained for the job at hand.

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