Just saw Delicious in Dungeon

[Selganor]

Isn't the manga/anime a good blueprint for the dungeon?

Dungeon generators can do the rest to provide actual maps (if they are needed at all)

 

[Krachek]

Very funny and entertaining!
A nice tribute to dungeon crawl play style.

 

[Jolly Ruby]

This was written by a gamer.

The "primary source" Ryoko Kui used for the manga is Wizardry, which is surprisingly similar to AD&D. I'm musing about writing some quick rules on Dungeon Meshi OSE Advanced. It would be mostly replacing "XP for gold" with "XP for being healthy" following these three rules:
1. get proper exercise: you gain XP for killing monsters;
2. rethink your lifestyle rhythm: you only gain XP when you sleep 8 hours, and you don't gain XP for monsters you killed more than 24 hours ago;
3. eat a balanced diet: at the end of the day you add a multiplier to the XP amount you gained according to how many nutrient groups you have eaten (proteins, vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates and fat) up to ×5.

Then you just need to decide which monsters have which nutrients and it's done!

Spoiler: The three rules (mild spoilers)

 

[Hussar]

The "primary source" Ryoko Kui used for the manga is Wizardry, which is surprisingly similar to AD&D. I'm musing abou writing some quick rules on Dungeon Meshi OSE Advanced. It would be mostly replacing "XP for gold" with "XP for having a balanced diet" using these principles:
1. you gain XP for killing monsters;
2. you only gain XP when you sleep 8 hours, and you don't gain XP for monsters you killed more than 24 hours ago;
3. at the end of the day you add a multiplier to the XP amount you gained according to how many nutrient groups you have eaten (proteins, vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates and fat) up to ×5.

Then you just need to decide which monsters have which nutrients and it's done!

That's rather elegant. Wonder if you could do this in 5e. Perhaps just make the kill xp lower. And then xp multiplier for making it healthy.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

So, this is all a fetish for Laios, right?

 

[doctorbadwolf]

They can be made both tasty and safe to eat with the right preparation. You need to char-grill it directly over a hot flame until it is reduced to nothing but a fine grey powder. This can then be used as the basis for a delicious gruel or broth. Many people consider ghoul ash a delicacy.

I can hear the dwarf’s voice saying that…

 

[grankless]

So, this is all a fetish for Laios, right?

Short answer: no.

Long answer: his thoughts and feelings surrounding this whole thing are complicated and a big part of later in the manga. All surrounding the broader themes of the work, in particular "what does it mean to desire something".

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Past the halfway mark of the Netflix season and into what appears to be the second season of the Japanese show (there's new titles credits and effectively a different quest) and it's much more interesting and becoming a more serious megadungeon story.

I'm still not in love with some of the conventions of anime -- Marcille screaming and over-emoting is kind of exhausting for me -- but I officially would like to see an RPG write-up of this for some D&D-derived system.

 

[WayneLigon]

Super good show.

Another similar thing is 'Isekai Izakaya: Japanese Food From Another World' (NOT 'Restaurant To Another World'), very low/no stakes, where half the episode is people eating food, and other other half is a literal live-action cooking show. The restaurant's door sometimes opens on a D&D-like fantasy world, and the various locals try to keep it a semi-secret so the place doesn't get super crowded. To them, the food is especially amazing because it's made to modern cleanliness standards, etc, so the bread doesn't have grit in it, etc.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

So, this is all a fetish for Laios, right?

He got really excited about milking a female minotaur, which definitely feels like something I could find in various dark and sticky corners of the internet.