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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mesh Hong" data-source="post: 5146784" data-attributes="member: 73463">The simple answer has got to be yes. The complicated answer is probably. It all depends on how deeply you want to go into it. Really you should be able to eat the fleshy part of any Natural creature, its where meat comes from after all. You should also be able to eat the vast majority of a natural creatures internal organs (usually refered to as offal). The mark of a good chef is to be able to take the cheaper cuts of meat, or indeed offal and make fine dining out of it. For instance if you see sweetbreads on a menu, they are usually a throat gland from a cow or a sheep. The only things you can't really eat are things like poison sacks. However this is D&D we are talking about and it is possible that even poison glands are a fine delicacy to people who have access to poison resistance. Perhaps that could be used as a right of passage in a tribal culture, or maybe a test to ensure that only members of a cult of Zehir are involved in after dinner secret talks. The real complication comes when considering other types of creatures. Fey - You can probably eat it but there could be some sort of residual effect. Shadow - I would doubt that you could eat an incorporial creature after death (they just fade away), and anything with the undead keyword is probably best avoided (in polite society anyway). But standard shadow creatures might me edible, though possibly not very tastey. Elemental - I find it unlikely that you could eat any elemental with a (type), eg an Efreet Fireblade (elemental; fire). But you could probably eat a demon or a fire giant if you wanted. Immortal - You could probably eat most immortals if you wanted, even if you had a moral onjection to eating an angel or celestial charger you probably wouldn't mind a hellstinger scorpion kebab. Aberrant - This is possibly where I would be most cautious, aberations come from a completely different universe. A lot of them might be edible and some are probably quite tastey but who knows what effects a diet of gibbering mouthers might have on you? Do you really want to take the risk? So yes I would imagine that you can eat most things, and many will be quite palitable if prepared in the right way. The more complicated question is not if you can eat it, but should you eat it? Some races get offended if you eat sentient creatures, or creatures you can communicate with, or creatures that claimed to be you friends before they unfortunately died. This is one of those areas that the more you think about it, the more troubling it becomes..... Let us assume you eat beef, no problems with eating a cow right? Now let us assume you can cast a ritual that allows you to talk to a cow and you have a pleasent conversation. Can you still eat it without feeling any guilt? If that raises an interesting point what about a ritual that allows you to talk to plants? What are you supposed to do then?</blockquote>

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