Cockatrice Wing, Treant Salad, Troll inna can - An Adventure's Cuisine

[wolff96]

Brings up a good point. Druids and Rangers and clerics of Animal dieties can't all be vegans, can they, now?

I didn't struggle my way to the top of the food chain to become a herbivore.

...said druid would probably be devoured herself eventually.

Oh, probably. If it happens, then it's part of the natural cycle.

I'd say that the designation probably ends at "humanoid."

Nah. Like I said, it ends at "Dwarf" for me. Of course, my character True Neutral -- I don't make many allowances for Good, Evil, Law, or Chaos. So societal and legal mores don't bother me.

Although I have to add: I never drew the line at "Oozes" until I had to use that Dwarven "+2 to saves vs. Poison" a few too many times. Indigestion is a killer.

 

[Sejs]

Just an aside: I'm strongly of the oppinion that cannibalism (eating other sentients, or your own race, etc) shouldn't be considdered Evil. At all. It's 'wrongness' would be based off the person's culture; so from a 20th/21st century western view point, yeah... cannibalism is bad. But maybe there's a desert dwelling culture on your game world that believes that eating the heart of your enemy helps to usher the dead into the afterlife. It gives their death a form of legitimacy.

Another example would be the Fremen from Dune. When a member of their siech died, they would drain the corpse of -all- of it's fluid, and the disposed of the powdery remains. "A man's flesh is his own, but his water belongs to the tribe." The water was used like any other: drinking, etc. This was a form of cannibalism, and when mentioned to the people of the cities, they found it repulsive. But to the Fremen.. it was just what you did.

 

[Arkham]

A PC in the campaign I play in cooks _anything_ killed, to such an extent as he has become known as Dexter the Digester.

He was also the ship's cook...

The Kender was tender, and the
Merfolk needed some lemon. Peasant Under Glass started getting old after a while.

But the best dish he served was revenge. Err, Unicorn steaks. They dropped all but one of us before the last of them died.

Of course, this was an evil campaign...

The session when the BoVD came out we flipped through it, checking off everything as 'Did this, and this, and this. Been there, done that.' We even started compiling a list of vile and evil things which we had done but weren't mentioned in the book...