When Your Party Is Low On Food

[fba827]

When your party is low on food,

That's when the players start repeating "red wizard needs food badly"

do you actually chop up some of the monsters you've killed for food?

But now to provide an actual somewhat-helpful-answer, it depends on the situation. If the party is "out and about" then the nature and dungeoneering skills offer some ways to forage for food (the exact mechanics of which depend on the system being used).

But, beyond that, if the DM says the environment does not support any sort of ecosystem, then, well, yeah, you have to get creative with what is there OR start dealing with hunger/fatigue/etc.

 

[Saeviomagy]

I've had a couple of characters who chopped up or ate everything we found. One on the grounds that he was a hunter, so he considered it his duty to see whether what he'd killed was good to eat, and the other was a budding anatomist.

The next campaign I run (darksun) will allocate treasure assuming that the PCs chop up or harvest everything they find. Probably not humanoids, but we'll see.

 

[Ed_Laprade]

We did hunting even back in the 1E days. But down in the dungeon it can get dicey, especially if the place restocks when you leave.

 

[Wycen]

What is this food you speak of? Fu - oohda? Is that how you pronounce it? Sounds like something eaten by a far off exotic culture. Local adventurers do not eat. Sure they might bring along rations, but eating is something done off camera or else adventurers are never hungry. I think it is a perk of being an adventurer.

 

[Orius]

That's what hirelings are for! Especially in the editions with 0-level hirelings; they're never going to benefit from XP, so they're clearly expendable.

 

[khantroll]

It has only come up once, and yes we did. Not be gruesome, but it the creatures in question were humanoid (orcs). It was a donner party type scenario, and ever since then every group any of us has been a part of has had a magical way of dealing.

Of course, the level of trauma was greatly increased by the fact the DM's wife slapped steaks sauted in some kind of green sauce on the table for that planned moment

 

[haakon1]

When your party is low on food, do you actually chop up some of the monsters you've killed for food?

Yes. We did a LOT of this in the World's Largest Dungeon, using Purify Food & Drink on the carcasses of giant rats and those umbrella creatures that fall from the ceiling.

Didn't come up in most other campaigns, where at low level you go back to town to rest a lot, and at 3rd level or higher, the cleric has Create Food and Water. (I'm talking AD&D through 3.5e.)

 

[cattoy]

This would be a good basis for an edition vs edition poll...

In D&D edition ___ , if your party was in a donner party situation and had to kill and eat one party member, who would it be?

My guess is, 3.x = bard.
4e = warlock?

 

[howandwhy99]

I had a pair of players whose PCs dined on Lizardman flesh. They were trapped in an ancient tomb/burial ground with the lizards guarding the only known exit - a vertical cave shaft above the main room. IIRC, they had actually tricked one of the two guards into falling down the shaft and started calculating how long they could last with the meat available.

 

[El Mahdi]

Gnomes taste like chicken...

...well, that's what I heard from an adventuring buddy...