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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gregor" data-source="post: 5032840" data-attributes="member: 11751">Awesome topic.Cooking, the collection of high end cooking equipment and spices and the accumulation of knowledge on all things food related, are hobbies right up there with d&d for me.As such, my players are never exposed to taverns or inns that offer up "stew and bread."  Nay, I have the culinary habits and commonly found ingredients in each region of my homebrew world.  Inns and taverns provide interesting menu choices and my players enjoy (and I think they find a bit of humour in it) hearing what each tavern is serving that night, so it adds a bit more roleplaying into the game.I have actually gone so far as to make a d100 chart for each region that can be used by the ranger/scout in the party to forrage in the wild for food, and then can be used by the player with ranks in profession (cook) to make excellent meals around the camp fire.  Thus, the party is currently in a colder rugged boreal climate (e.g. northern Canada) so the scout in the party is now finding lake trout, wild parsnips, sage and cranberries when he rolls his survival check.  The paladin, who is also the party chef, rolls his cooking check and whips up a pan fried trout fillet with roasted parsnips and a sage and cranberry sauce.In fact, since we dont really have a cleric or druid in the party, I've allowed clever forraging and cooking descriptions, to result in the party healing at a slightly higher than normal rate (e.g. like as if they were in total bedrest).  You'll heal alot better when you've had a great meal <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> They seem to like it and have embraced it.Obviously this is a bit more hard core in terms of cooking than most people probably want to extend into their game, but we dig it.I just cant wait for them to travel south so I can start making my southern spanish / berber style d100 list! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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