Downtime Destinations: The Cantrip Cantina by Jess Pendley and Keith Pendley is a role playing game supplement published by Underground Oracle Publishing for use with Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition. As such, it is covered by the Open Game License and some parts are considered to be Open Game Content as a result.
This is available from DriveThruRPG as a 3 page Pay What You Want PDF. One page is the Open Game License.
The opening paragraph explains that Cantrip Cantina is a tavern known for its owner, Arleena Rindaloo.
Arcane Oddity explains that Arleena Rindaloo went to a prestigious magic school at an early age due to apparent talent, but didn’t progress further than being able to cast cantrips. She devoted time to these and left the school before she could be asked to leave and founded the Cantrip Cantina.
High Ceilings, Higher Spirits describes the cantina, that it serves drinks that often have magical enhancements and that it also plays host to monthly meetings of wizards.
The second page of content is Arleena’s Offerings and describes two new cantrips and two new drinks that can be found at the cantina. One cantrip removes alcohol from a drink and another can allow a small piece of information to be pulled from a questioner’s mind.
For the drinks, one gives a brief bonus to Charisma (Persuasion) checks and the other grants advantage to the drinker’s next Intelligence or Wisdom save in the next 24 hours.
Downtime Destinations: The Cantrip Cantina in Review
The PDF lacks bookmarks and is short enough that these are not needed. Navigation is fine. The text maintains a two-column colour format and appeared to be free of errors. There is a single piece of colour stock art. Presentation is fine.
The Cantrip Cantina is one of the more interesting taverns around; the main problem is that it hasn’t been detailed as well as it could be. This could have made a better, longer supplement, with maps, stats for the owner and more cantrips and drinks. As it is, it feels like the supplement’s potential has been underutilised. Downtime Destinations: The Cantrip Cantina is a decent little supplement and it can be found by clicking here.
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