If you are new to mixology or drink making then I recommend reading through the books “Tavern Basics” where it gives you an idea of what essential spirits and ingredients you should keep to make your tavern bar keep running, along with some extra stuff (such as luster dust) that can take the visual effects to the next level. What I love about this book is every drink recipe has some lore, an easy to understand ingredients and recipe followed by a düngeonmeister tip. The artwork is simplistic but well done in the flavor of the drink that it is representing. I also appreciate that the authors have a complexity system in which they say how hard it is to make each drink and then how much each recipe makes.

The book is broken down into themed chapters.

Chapter 1: Spirited species (my favorite from that section is the Dwarven Forge)

Chapter 2: Class-Y Drinks (favorites include Bard’s Songs and Flavored Enemy)

Chapter 3: Skilled Selections (favorites from this chapter are Seduction Rolls and Twin Strikes)

Chapter 4: Magic Mixers (With classic names like Elemental Plane of Fire punch bowl, Faerie Fire, Blue Mana and Goodberries)

Chapter 5: Muddled Minions (Including but not limited to Gelatinous Cube Jello Shots, Goblin Grenades, Wight Russian and Kobold Fashioned)

Chapter 6: Immense Intoxicants (With amusing names like “The 666 Layers of the Abyss, Now with Coconut”, Claw Claw Snakebite, and Mai Tyrant)

Chapter 7: Metagame Madness (where the name Düngeonmeister is also the name of a drink and the book, and “Fudge the Dice” is something delicious, and a good reminder to “Never Split the Party” in the form of a punch)

Chapter 8: Alcoholic artifacts (Electrum pieces are liquid and you can gaze into your own Pool of Radiance)

There are also US/Metric conversion charts to help those who need to do some math to take the Metric ounces of the recipes to something more familiar.