Every adventurer needs a place to stable his or her mount. In Daggerford it is Tippy's Stables. This two-story wooden building is the general livery for the town's populace. As well as the common folk, this place stables mounts for the militia, adventurers, and the local contingent from Waterdeep.

The first floor is used to hold the horses that are being cared for, are sick, and during times of bad weather. It has a large coral, an open coral with hooks on the wall that horses can be tied to, and four separate booths on the north-east wall. These booths hold animals that are being separated from the general populace for a wide variety of reasons. These animals are in the booths because they are sick, in heat, are another species, or whatever the D.M. wishes.

The owner of the stables is human of average size named Tippy. He is the resident animal expert in town. His specialty is horses, donkeys, and mules. Very rare is the mount that Tippy cannot ride and train. Tippy is a middle-aged man black hair that is just starting to go gray at the edges. Originally he came from the southern land of Tethir with his father and five prize horses thirty years ago. Since then those horses have been breeded with the local stock to produce some excellent riding horses, and even a light war-horse or two.

The other people in the stable along with Tippy are his son Jarmit and his adopted son, a halfling named Thissle. These two live on the second floor with Tippy in the simple apartment that they built. They are both lively and energetic youths that are just now coming into young adulthood. Both of Tippy's sons help out when they can, but seem to spend much time gallivanting around town. They are both excellent sources of information about people in town and about caravans coming through.

Prices to use the stable run around a silver piece per day. This includes stabling, feeding, as well as cleaning when the stables are not too busy. During the busy summer months when the caravans are running the prices might run slightly higher, and consequently in the winter the prices slightly lower. Anything that is sold here is usually 20 percent higher than the player's handbook, but that also covers free stabling for two months.

For more information on the stables look in the Forgotten Realms ™ campaign expansion book Daggerford ™.

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