When Your Party Is Low On Food

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.
:lol:

"Look, I found a puppy!"
"Well, you know what the DM said... chop it up!"

"Look, a helpless old lady!"
"Well... we found her, so..."
 

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Back in our 1st Ed days, in one of our more inspired moments, we captured a troll, cut its leg off and sent it on its way (probably by telling it to 'hop it!'). Several slices were duly carved from the leg and thrown in the stew (mmmm, troll buttock...) then it was left to regenerate back to a full haunch. Like a Bucknard's Everful Purse of foul green flesh, so it was.
 

This is a good question and really comes down to knowledge of the creature in question, somethings you just do not want to eat because of what may be living inside of them, think pork - if not cooked correctly there are worms, this use to be very common, oh squirrel is a no no in the summer time, bot flies larvae. I like the players to guess and try, a ranger may help but with different races, you never know. ;)
 



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.

That might be hard to explain to their loved ones..

"Gee, we're sorry, Mrs. Baggins, but rest assured that your son *BURP* died in a noble cause..."
 

Don't tell the family then. Wasn't there a code of silence among shipwrecked sailors who had to eat survivors at sea or something?

Or just say a dragon ate him or something.
 




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