Great Bar Names Options

[Sargasso]

I thought it would be a good idea to start a thread with good names for bar, pub, clubs and other social venues with style. What's the best social venue in your game?

There's something of a running joke across several of the games for my group involing a ubiquitous bar named, "The Diseased Whore". It was orginally "The Soiled Dove" but a non-native english speaker paid for the old rotting sign to be replaced..and you get the idea.

What made things surreal was when one of my players played the standard Combat Decker archetype in the Sr3 book. He was going to meet up with another PC, a former cop. Since the Combat Decker has the knowldge skill: Seedy Ork Bars 3, he wanted to meet at a seedy ork bar, namely, the Diseased Whore. Understandably, the cop hesitated, and asked if the Combat Decker knew any sushi places instead. I assigned a high target number, 10 or so, and the Combat decker rolled his 3 dice, for 3 successes. With that, "Beoke Baeshunfu" was born. A Seedy Ork Sushi bar. According to my Japanesse/English Dictionary, "Beoke Baeshunfu" is a reasonable translation of "Diseased Whore."

What's the most interesting place in your games?

[Prospero]

This wasn't a memorable name, but a memorable bar - during a pirate campaign, the group had a meet in a stylish "pirate bar" (I don't remember the name, since I wasn't in the group at the time - the Bluebeard or something, maybe?) where a bunch of wannabes dressed up in archetypical pirate getup (complete with eyepatches and fake parrots) sat around sipping expensive concktails, listening to "pirate beat poetry" and, instead of clapping, they snapped their fingers and growled, "Arrrr! Arrrrr!" in their best pirate impression. I think one of the PCs with the combat monster flaw went beserk after waiting for the Johnson to show beat a couple people senseless. Ahhhh, such fun.

[Sargasso]

Port Royal Pain in the Ass maybe?

[Quix]

Once had a friend who went about collecting bars. He ran them as a side line gig. My favorite was always: Apathetic Diabetic Old Men on Rollerskates with a Remarked Propensity for Procrastination and Sloth. :rotfl: I've always wanted to see the sign for that bar

[L.D]

Spit & Clean

Owned by the troll Spit and the drawf Clean. It's a local pub/restaurant with pretty good clientel. They have fake wood and in the center of the bar there is a single berrglas standing on a shelf. If anyone asks them about the name the troll takes the glas down and spits in it, hands it over to the dawrf who then cleans it and then puts it back. All without saying a word.

[Arz]

Not great, but ultra common:

Rathskeller

Every town has one. I've even seen them with family nights (free drink for mom or dad).

[nezumi]

To quote the masters...

"Broken Drum" (you can't beat it. From Terry Pratchet.)
"Tavern of Butt" and I believe it was "Stomp your Goddammed Head In", both care of Blackjack.

Of course, any combination of adjetives and nouns will suffice. Don't even have to make sense. Grab that dictionary and see what you come up with.

[Empyrean Seraph]

For my Columbia/Lancaster/Harrisburg Shadowrun thing, I've come up with one called Neon Blue Apocalypse. I wanted to name it after the Tool song. 'Course, after I named it, I remembered the Tool song was Eon, not Neon, but it stuck. I have another one named simply Bar, because the ill-educated ork owner never bothered to name it.

A specialty drink in all my SR games I've ever run has been the Meltdown. Feels like you're having one in your chest...

[Herald of Verjig...]

This works

for such names as:
The Idiotic Cleric Tavern
The Corrupt Quail Tavern
The Laughing Fish Hall
The Boring Staff Alehouse

and many more with a predominately fantasy and non-whore related bend.

[Nikoli]

Funny, there was a "Bar" in Atlanta for a while...

Was always partial to the "Rusty Nail" , "The Drunken Yak" and of course "Merciless Mings' Bucking Fest Bar and Grill"

[Dashifen]

I've had a bar in a game run by ex-nuns who lost the faith when they expressed as metahumans in the early 21st century called Our Lady of the Bottle. There was a whole backstory to the nuns that I never got to play around with because the players were only there for one session and left the place pretty beat up, but I've been itching for a chance to get those ladies back invovled in some way ;)

[BitBasher]

[Siege]

The "Rusty Nail" is still on Buford Highway, if memory serves.

I haven't been into Buckhead for a while, but I do remember "Bar" as a rather tacky little drinking hole.

-Siege

[Nikoli]

The Rusty Nail is great, huge tacky pistol that smokes (when the manager remembers to turn it on)

[Dax]

A bar name that came from around my area, and that I've always used in my games is "Have a Nice Day Cafe". Complete with the angry smiley face and bad attitude patrons.

[Nikoli]

ATL has those too, I remember when it opened up... man that was an obnoxious sign...

[bitrunner]

A couple from when I was in Japan - and spent most of my free time and money...

Red Dawg Saloon
Flamingo's
Stagger Inn (my favorite)
The Office (the owner wanted men to be able to tell their wives "I'm at The Office")

and then there is (according to what i've heard)
The Blue Oyster Bar
(runners never seem to want to go in there for some reason)

Some more:

Y Knot Lounge
Styx (also a pool hall)
Blue Note (blues club)
Boot Hill Saloon (biker bar)
Frogger's
Bull & Bush (english pub, natch)

i guess it depends on the type of bar or club you're looking for - what kind of atmosphere and clientele, type of music, etc...a lot of them that others have already mentioned, like the "Rusty Nail" are either chains or just happen to have one in each city - i've seen about 4 different Rusty Nails in my travels...

[Suenert]

[Smiley]

You're not a badass until you've gotten into a fight at the Grizzly Grunion. Best place EVER.

[Rory Blackhand]

Somewhere in Germany, not sure where, but by a base is a club called the metropol, my army friends called it the Metro Hole.

In Bangkok there is thermopylae which is a hot after hours spot. alot of the bar girls go there after work for "whatever", depending on who you are, what you look like, and what they feel like.

In other games I have liked Hell Nine, with 9 different levels. The deeper you were allowed to go the more rep you had.

Another game had The Afterlife, with three levels. Again, you had to be somebody to get in to the lower levels. In this club you had to be able to fight your way in and withstand any challenge to you being there once you did until you were established on a level.

Also liked the Jaded Mantis in Redmond Barrens?, the sign had the letters "tis" burned out so it was known as the Jaded Man.

There was Big Ed's Bowery in Jacksonville, NC. He had a noise making contest with the loudest table getting a free pitcher of beer. Imagine a platoon of rowdy Marines all banging their fists on the tables screaming, barking, growling, whistling, etc... all at one time in a little hole in the wall joint packed to overflow capacity. Now that was fun, drunken revelry.

[Axe]

There's a pool bar here that I've always liked the name of: Swimming (Well technically le Swimming)

I like the Stagger Inn, I'll have to use that one :D

[FrostyNSO]

We have a strip joint called The Library where I used to live....classic.

[Sargasso]

Ah, that reminds me: down the road here there's a Strip Club called, "The Booby Trap." The ads on TV go, "Get caught...IN THE BOOBY TRAP!"

[the_dunner]

[Siege]

I spent some time in Bozeman, Montana.

The slogan of the bar was: "Liquor in Front; Poker in Rear"

And just for the record, you can have gambling and drinking in the same establishment. :grinbig:

-Siege