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325 Amazing DND Shop Name Ideas For Your Game

Need some easy and readily available DND Shop Name Ideas?

Here is an easy list of 325 Amazing DND Shop Name Ideas For Your Game!

Having to come up with a name for that random goblin that your party found on the side of the road and adopted is bad enough, especially now that ‘Renzo’ is a permanent part of the team, but random travelling merchants or in town shops can be just as difficult, if not more so!

Here is a handy list of Dungeons and Dragons shop name ideas either for on the fly or coming up with in advance. These have been taken from all over the internet, TV Shows, and the minds of fellow DND enthusiasts, all consolidated into one easy place.

Since there are so many, they have been broken down into smaller groups: Adventuring shop name ideas (Smith, Herbalist/Apocrathy, Magic, Adventuring), Random shop name ideas, Tavern/Food Shop Name Ideas, Brothel Name Ideas, Shop name ideas with some story, and finally, To Shop Names… And Beyond!

Adventuring Shop Name Ideas

Shops that might actually be useful for your adventurers

Smith:

Frigidity Black’s Metalworks
Tin Titans
Orange is the New Blacksmith
Brawl-Mart
Bang n’ Clang Blacksmith
Armored Saints
The Wroughton Apple Blacksmith
The Best Defense
Armen’s Arms For Men
Between an Anvil and a Hot Place
Gilded Lilies Armourer
Urbane Outfitters
Forge Ahead
Axe Hardware
Armourcrombie and Finch
Arrow smiths (owner is a gnome named Styler)
Shield of Dreams
Britney’s Spears
Enmai’s Axe
Kissmai Axe
What a Steel!
Victorious Secret – skimpy armor
She Sells Shields ‘n Scale by the Sea Shore
Less is Mortar

Herbalist/Apothecary:

Minty’s Herbs
Essential Herbs
Erb’s Herbs
Mary Jane’s
No Thyme Like the Present
Makin’ Thyme with Rosemary
One, Two, Tree
Garden Gnomes – Herb and botany shop run by gnomes
Nick’s Spices and Nices
Fatuous Apothecary
Weeping Sorrow
Wings and Things
The Rabbit Hole – basement apothecary. (Come Down The Rabbit Hole)

Magic:

Taboo Voodoo
Taboos and Voodoos
The oracle gift shop – they always know what you need
Joe’s Exotic Goods
Bibbity Bobbity Boo Magics
Gnaomies Magic Shop
Spells ‘R’ Us
Ocean’s Potions – proprietor Philip Ocean (fill a potion)
Bubble and Boil – potion shop
Potion State Cauldron
Dick’s Warding Goods
Tricks and Treats – magical food
How Do You Spell That?
The Staff Room
Wilwarick’s Wonderful Wares
William’s Wondrous Wares
Empoorium – the poor man’s magic wand
The Potion Cellar
Cast-co – discount supplier of bulk spellcasting components
Apples to Oranges – for all your transmutation needs
The Ward’s Work
Wanda’s One-Shot Wand Shop – only sells consumable items
Uncle Oswald’s Discount Magic – always something wrong, damaged or partially used
Black Emporium on Arcanum
Potent Potables Potion Shoppe
The Pen is Mightier – Scrolls
The Philosophers Store – Alchemy
Mixmasters – Potions/music
The Wizard’s Tower

Adventuring Gear:

Booty Heisters – rogue shop
Magoria’s Shifty Needs – rogue shop
Versarchery – fashionable hunting gear
All-Mart
Silver General
Crusader Joe’s
Caustco – warehouse offering bulk fire & acid products
The One-Stop Stock Shop
Black & Tanned – leatherwork
The Broken Compass
Dora’s Backpacks
The Bent Copper
Maul-green’s – weapons
Target – archery
Poker’s & Sharp’s Wholesale Weaponry – owned and operated by Palen Poker and Sara Sharp
Schwarz & Neager – barbarian shop
Lancer’s Lances – gear for horse-mounted combat
Booming Dales – gunslinger shop
The Crimson Sash
The Crow Bar
The Sturdy Sheath

Random Shop Name Ideas

For when you just need some extra fun shops to throw into your game

Magic Carpet Shop
The Stained Glass
Repossessed – a debt collection agency for exorcists
Push the envelope – an adventurer’s stationery
The smoking hot body – a crematorium
Hackers – a lumberjack’s internet cafe
Miserly Bank
Gnome Depot – Home depot, but gnomes, for all your renovation needs
It Fits – Tailor
Once Upon A Seam – Tailor
Make It Sew – Tailor
Victorious Secret – undergarment store
In the Loupe – Jeweller
Sherman the Potter
Sheldon the Cooper – Barrel-Maker
Crafter Barrel
Pandora’s Box – Pawnshop of stolen goods
Den of Antiquity – Antique shop
Taky’s Tiki of Tropikal Talismans
Ricki Ticki
Nick’s Knacks
Bald Barry’s Barbershop
Big Ben’s Clockworks
Amazonian Books
The Book Nook
Bards & Nobles bookstore
The Skinny Dip – Gossip shop
Charm Person – Dating Agency
Hold Person – Marriage Chapel
Remove Curse – Divorce Attorney. (Charm person, hold person, remove curse all run by the same corporation)
Slate’s Farm – Either a farm or insurance company
Elf Storage
Owlbear Sterns
Layman Brothers Bank
Occam’s Razors barbershop
Harley David & Son’s stable
The Broken Mast
The Mourning Wood
Lots O’ Knots
Cobblers At Dawn
Eye Caramba – glass shop
Sneed’s Feed and Seed (Formally Chucks)
Try N’ Save
I Can’t Believe It’s A Law Firm
The Family Jewels
Curl up and Dye – a scroll and ink shop or tannery
Curl up and Dye – a beauty boutique specializing in magically altering appearances semi-permanently
Semi-Painless Dentistry
Donner’s Party Supplies
Hairy Shearers – barber
Kwik-e-mart
King Toot’s Music Store
Something Wicker This Way Comes
Abercrombie & The Other Guy
Girdles N’ Such
Rock Bottom Remainders
International House of Tackle
Cinderblock Village
One, Two, Tree Gardening
Pots Pot Potporium – Pots of all sizes, never with a lid that fits
Tabaxidermist – a taxidermy shop run by a Tabaxi named Sculpture
The Flowered Skunk – flower shop
Locke’s Socks
The silver piece store, where everything is only a silver piece!
Rick’s Rickety Shit Shack
The Crass Menagerie – (for rude pets) pet shop
Flameboyant Fireworks
In the Wick of Time Candle Store
Hostel Takeover
School of Bard Knocks
Tier 1 Imports
The Bait and Switch
Gnome Man’s Land – Everything about it is tiny
Taylor Swifts swift Tailory – Simple tailoring or clothing enchantments
Partha’s Pewters
Looters – A Pawn Shop
The Gassy Gnoll
Britches and Hoes
Noah’s Arks – boat vendor
Squirrel Power – familiars/pets
Smoke ‘Em If We Got ‘Em – tobacconist
Roll Players – wagon/cart vendor
Flannegan Bannannegan’s Emporium
Back to the Fuschia – A dye and paint shop
In ‘N’ Out Ear Piercing
Brogattos Burberry Bank
The Cats Pajamas – clothing shop
Adventurers Anonymous
Monty’s Pythons and Bird Menagerie (pet shop or zoo)
The Portal Inn
Havi’s Havocs
Ends and Odds – weapon shop with gambling games
War-Mart – War shop (Trebuchet, Sandbags, Trenching equipment, mining equipment etc)
The Crow Bar
Inn-n-Out
The Stumble Inn
Cinches & Stitches – clothier
Coat de Grâce – coat shop
Botanist Bob’s Big Boutique of Bouquets – Flower shop

Tavern/Food Shop Name Ideas

Could technically also work for an inn or just a single NPC food enthusiast

Green Eggs and Ham Breakfast
Breakfast and Bedrolls
Souse House
The Rusty Mug
The Dragon Flagon
The Curly Wolf
Wings & Things
Roll With It Bakery
Miss Steak’s Pub.
The B’s Knees
The Bird in Hand
The Heinz 57
Dungeon Donuts
Ma Jick’s The Gathering – A tavern or place to gather.
The Dreavy Hinker Tavern
The Cracked Barrel – A tavern with a cheese specialty
Barge Wright Inn
The Cod Father (fishmonger)
The Crested Witch’s Raisin – a bakery and patisserie run by Dragonborn
Roll for Initiative Bakery
Nick’s Spices and Nices
Wich Craft – Sandwiches and potions
Ash & Kutcher’s Butcher
Any Given Sundae
Amy’s Winehouse
Bite the Bulette exotic meats
Luke Frywalker
Grounded – coffee shop
The Hammered Horse
Mac and Donalds
The Pickle Barrel
Bob’s Burgers
Meat – butcher
Best Rye – bakery
Green Flesh Brewing (Half-orc brewer)
The Beer of all Bears Brewery
Ale be Damned
Black & Brew
The Devil’s Dew
The Ugly Mug
The Chum Dumpster
The Chum Bucket
Good Knight’s Sleep
The Usual Place
Toast of the Town (bakery)
General Chang’s Taco Italiano
Municipal House of Pancakes
Motherloving Sugar Corp.
Messijo’s Eatery
Tequila Mockingbird

Brothel Name Ideas

There were actually so many of these it gets its own category

The Charming Tail
The Pucker, Poke, & Puke saloon
Breast Buy
Odds and ends – Casino/Brothel
Ho Kee Pokee
Britches and Hoes
The Skinny Dip
The Prancing Kobold (everyone refers to it as TPK)
Boy Toys
Boys R Us- A drag king bar
The Dice
The White Swallow
Blue-Footed Booby
Snatch & Sniff – Brothel/Perfume shop
The Low Blow
The Shrieking Clam
The Pickle Barrel
The Great Club
Leaky Sausage
Salty Swallow
Phallus Palace of Malice

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Shop name ideas with some story

In case you need a little push in the backstory direction

The lost soles – a shoe shop where orphans are trained in the art of shoe maintenance, but you can only purchase mismatched pairs
Phinagins House of Holding – run by a Full blood Orc Artificer named Grum, if anyone asks “Phinagin is out on another supply run he’ll be back faster than you can skin a tarrasque.”
Bob’s Shack – the shop moves slightly up and down as if it’s floating on water (bobbing if you will)
The Clutch – Dragonborn owned inn
“S” mart boomsticks & books – Magical shop for fighting and making undead. Half off gloves.
H. O. E (Hell On Earth) – A tavern owned by a devil made for travelling monsters to enjoy.
The Second Spellbook – Primarily sells scrolls and potions.
Gnelson Gneat Gnick-Gnacks – Shop owner Gnelson Glick. A Gnome if you couldn’t gnuess
The Normal Store – Run by John Normalman, who is most definitely a human and not three goblins in a trenchcoat named Tip, Tap and Top (Every time you see “John“ it is quite clearly a different goblin at the top. Even if you turn your back for only a moment to browse the shelves.)
Erb’s Herbs – Less of a shop, more of a man with a canopy, small wood desk and ton of pots and jars strapped to him.
Heinz’s potion shop – Famous for its random potion with 57 different effects.
Red Bear’s Maps – A map store, with maps from almost anywhere. When you ask the owner, a native-like druid, how does he have a map of the inside of the BBEG’s HQ, he just says “I know a guy. He owed me one.” or random bullshit like that.
Al Victoriam’s Midnight Emporium – Opens at Midnight, sells till noon, for those late-night/early-morning adventuring needs
Widdershins Witchery – A small shop cluttered with reagents, herbal medicines, and Druid aesthetic decor. Every wall is densely packed and covered floor to ceiling.
Roy G’s Bivwak and Camping Supplies – Rainbow style branding (ROY G BIV )
Stillgood’s Second-hand Tools – Run by Adrian Stillgood, who will charge you more if you mention the unintentional pun to him. He of course only has one hand, the other is a hook.
Creatures of Comfort – A store that sells clothes and armor made for non-human races with unusual shapes or skin, such as Dragonborn, Warforged, Shardminds, etc
The Seven Leaf Clover – A store dealing in excessive superstition objects. Seven leaf clovers, shooting star firework kits, black cat repellant, mirror insta-fix gel. Owned by an incredibly paranoid gnome named Riley, who is covered in charms and believes in the universe, karma, luck, and that other intangible world forces are out to get him.
Sneak & Hide – Sneak is the store owner, they sell various hide armors, specializing in custom orders and are used to handling special materials. Rumored a tarrasque shield was made here.
The Drakery – a baking chain run by enterprising Dragonborn, kobolds, lizardmen and dragon sorcerers. If you find a scale in your food, get another cake free!
Barry’s Botanical Bar – a pub made from living plants, you have to ask the doors to open (bonus points if you make them say a catchphrase of the pub or just say please nicely and mean it) the drinks all taste HORRIBLE earthy, probably because they use roots twisted together as the barrels
Jacks House of Beans – A coffee shop atop a beanstalk where magical coffees are brewed daily (Ask about their giant-sized discounts)
Books, Scrolls, and Adventures Galore – Two-story shop with moon-shaped windows. The outside looks fairly normal, but the moment you step in, a relaxed feeling settles over you.
Burning Anger – This is a gym owned and run by a red half-dragon named Pyrothraxis. He named his shop after his great axe (Burning Anger).
Carl’s Insane Discounts – A general store led by a multi-eyed tentacle monster who has since retired from his cult leading days. He calls himself Carl out of courtesy, seeing as how his true name turns mortals insane. He speaks directly into the minds of customers, but he means well.
He Who Smelt It – A Blacksmiths acting as a front for an illegal gambling house called: He Who Dealt It
Belthezar’s Shop of Spell Scrolls – Only sells scrolls of level 5 or below that don’t directly cause the loss or gain of hitpoints.
Myth Directions – Standard instructions, cartography, and local lore. She collects stories and snippets of information that she’ll sell or trade if first, you show her due respect. But if you offend her, she may send you off with a red herring, a map that will take you the long way ’round, or right to your enemy’s trap. (Think squirrel seller from Rat Race)
Deluge – Enchanted umbrellas protecting from different liquids.
Sears – Enchanted outfitters focused on fireproof equipment or flaming weapons
Wolves Forgo Bank – a bank set up by secret werewolves that gives a suspiciously good exchange rate on silver, hoping to remove as much of it as possible from circulation
Book Wyrms – It’s run by Aurelius, a person of indeterminate age, origin, or gender, who insists that they are absolutely NOT a polymorphed dragon – although they provide this information a little too willingly, and with a mischievous wink…
The Tarot Dactyl – Where cards are read in dactylic pentameter
Fireball’s – A local pub named after the personality of the owner, a fiery redhead named Ember (human rogue), who knows way more than she lets on.
The Library – Magical book store with a twist. If you are given a flyer with a password, and it’s spoken aloud, you will be teleported to a back room of the library where a very powerful mage has succubi do strip dances and private shows. The flyer is consumed on use.
Can Tucky Fry Chicken – An eating establishment where the fryer is named Tuck. He also happens to be a monk.
The Lolipop Guild – A candy shop operated by a Gnome and his family.
Holy Crap – A black market shop for clerics who need specialty items that might be looked down upon by their clergy.
Super Cal’s Frag Ballistic Expell All & Dose Us – An apothecary specializing in digestive issues.
Cloak and Shag’r – The tools to sneak in and shag the mayor’s wife.
The King’s New Clothes – A Clothier and Tailor shoppe. Run by a snobby Gnome named Nare Baked, who seems to be completely out of stock on every customer request.
Plates and Bulls – A China/silverware shop owned by a Minotaur.
The General – A general store run by a Goblin who calls himself “The General”, and wears a little green outfit with strange medals he claims is a General’s outfit of some far-off country.
Great Cut! – A weapon shop specialized in slashing weapons. The shop is run by a half-orc blacksmith named Blurg En’deal, who only wears pants and his trusted handcrafted great axe on his back. The shop has suspiciously low prices, because while Blurg is a very good blacksmith, he is a bad businessman, and he lowered his prices too much to attract customers.
Colossus Layers – Retired Elven Ranger focusing on their baking adventures by making very large cakes
Sheerina’s Sheep-farm, Dyers, Weavers, & Millinery – Hats & Scarves, a specialty! (We’re dyeing to pull our wool over your eyes!)
Wizards of the Coats – Outfitters of almost magical skill.
Hoaxy Pokies – A pawn shop of enchanted/cursed weapons and traps
Precious – A ring shop run by a halfling obsessed with one ring in particular
Gunter’s Gesticulating Gourds – Gunter the Tiefling carves realistic faces into hollowed-out gourds. If you stare at them long enough they seem to move! (You might also hear sounds coming from them if you listen hard enough)
Morning’s Wood – Owned by a human named Morning, it’s a woodshop that also sells logging equipment
The Hammer and Pickle – Blacksmith with a delightful cafe on the side
The Ran-Shack – A place to turn stolen goods normal or trade them in for clean gear
With Threads Like These (tailors) right next to Who Needs Enemies (weapons shop)
Brezug’s Brews – a potion shop owned by a friendly old goblin with a large mushroom as a hat. He has awakened plants as helpers, which he creates using pots of awakening.
It’s a Steal! (Rogue supply shop) it’s right next to the Italian blacksmith, It’s a’Steel!
Gnome is Where the heart is – a furniture shop run by gnomes. Though well made, has a slight chance of combusting. Design feature or fault? They won’t tell you.
The Gnolling Alley – A bowling alley that has ten cardboard cutouts of Gnolls at the end of the lane, you have to charge down the lane and knock over as many as you can. A game invented by barbarians, loved by all.
The Giants’ Digest – A newspaper company made inside the taxidermied stomach of a hill giant. No guys no glory, right
Jacob’s Poti^sons – A shop of a failed Potion maker, all his potions ended up harming people, so he crossed out some letters and changed the name to ‘Poisons’
The Outside Inn – A wall with a door that you go through and is an outdoor experience. Tables are set up with ‘beds’ around fireplaces
Dis-enchanted – The place to go to have magical items disenchanted into their basic components. A disclaimer hangs in the window that magical effects from living creatures cannot be removed.
Sword and Board – An inn that sponsors a knightly fighting ring

To Shop Names… And Beyond!

How many possible combinations are there?

Blood, Bath, & Beyond
Dead, Wrath, and Beyond
Bed, Beer, and Beyond
Club, Blade and Beyond
Spellbound & Beyond
Bed, Bath, & Beholder

There are most certainly more “Bed, Bath and Beyond” references, if you think of another please post it in the comments below!

Hopefully, you are able to use at least one or two of these great names and ideas for your game if you have fleshed out any of them please definitely mention it in the comments!