Hahaha, amazing. Haven’t read this before.
What a coup
A coup is a passenger car with a sloping or truncated rear roofline and two doors.
That’s a coupe. Coup is a wine drinking vessel.
That’s a cup. Coup is the sound doves make.
That’s a coo. A coup is the main villain of Samurai Jack.
That’s Aku. A coup is how actors know when to go on stage.
That’s a cue. A coup is a liquid dish, usually hot and savory, sometimes with chunks of meat, vegetables, and/or pasta.
That’s a curry. A coup is a child of your parents siblings
No, that’s a stew. A coup is a long procession that’s waiting for something.
Sorry, is the joke that you spelled coupe wrong?
This kills the joke.
You gain 20xp and find 10 gold on the joke’s body.
I’m pretty stoked this came up in my feed today. I was actually one of the players in that campaign! We played in a small, virtual group during Covid. I sent this thread to Garlic~
The coffee shops weren’t a big part of the campaign, but it was definitely a recurring theme. He did a great job world-building and there were backstory elements he added in for us. I did miss the Starbucks reference until it came up and I echo the collective groan we had. There were other puns and fun adventures we had in the campaign.
My world always has some strange puns and other characteristics. My favorite has been the Young Mariners Cobol Abode which is mostly populated with young sailors. One player was having a real hard time to understand why everyone there was asking if “he is a friend of Dorothy” and why people seemed a little on edge. It took about 30 minutes for him to realize he was in a gay bar and everyone was confused why he was there grilling them if had met a “handsome young well dressed half orc man”. They were looking for their rival and they just assumed it was his boyfriend. Everyone else slowly go to the joke and added on. Good times
As someone who’s been DMing for 30+ years, it’s really interesting to me when people have anachronistic stuff like coffee shops in D&D.
Coffee shops go back pretty far tbh.
That being said, it’s only anachronistic if your setting is this world. No reason why the equivalent of an inn wouldn’t be serving a stimulant beverage of some kind.
Certainly coffee houses do have historic basis in our own reality but the highly commercialized omnipresent franchises with extensive supply chains like IRL Starbucks would definitely be a bit more anachronistic, especially in an adveture friendly world where monsters and bandits are waiting outside the walls of the city waiting to ambush cargo shipments.
Something like that probably wouldn’t have been even remotely possible until the age of Mercantilism well after the medieval period gave way to the Renaissance and eventually the age of exploration.
Anachronistic like magic in medieval settings?
Depends on the magic. Fireball was used in the seventh through fourteenth centuries, so that’s not anachronistic. But if you want to do elemental transmutation, that wasn’t discovered until 1896. You could have it in steampunk.
Coffeehouses have been around since the 15th/16th century in the Ottoman Empire.
The only issue I have with this jape is the first in the list might should be “moondoe.”
Moondoes. Sunfawns.
Yeah, why is only Starbucks pluralized? Joke ruined!
I failed a brain check, I’ve been googling those names for 30 minutes. I don’t get the reference. What’s the joke here? I would have just taken it as cleaver naming for the region.
Each one is a combination of ‘Celestial Object’ and ‘synonym for deer’. The first two seem innocuous and fantastic enough, but they establish the pattern - letting the third be ‘Starbucks’, a real-life coffee shop chain.
Starbucks is a real coffee chain that exists in the real world. Moondeer and sunfawn follow the same naming scheme, but the players didn’t realize that was what the DM was building to until the big reveal. It’s…pun-adjacent.
Astrology term and name for deer
Star bucks
Moon Deer
Sun Fawn
I think you meant astronomy. Astrology is pseudoscience horoscopes stuff.
Well, in this case all of those are astrology too as far as I know, and that might be more fitting for a fantasy world
Sun and Moon are astrological symbols, but stars aren’t, so Starbucks wouldn’t fit. :P
I’m not clear on the details, but I know the constellations are made out of stars, I think planets like mars were thought to be major stars, and I’d think sayings like “the stars aligned” would have roots in astrology…
I will also nitpick and say that they said astrology terms, specifically - if astrology considers constellations to be important, and acknowledges they are made out of stars, I’d imagine stars would be part of the terminology. (Doubly so if I’m correct about astrology having (at least previously) a skewed view on what a star is!)
Yeah that’s what I meant by clever naming. I guess I was reading too deep. I thought it was referencing more.
OH DEER GOD
