Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Next
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
Twitch
YouTube
Facebook (EN Publishing)
Facebook (EN World)
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
The
VOIDRUNNER'S CODEX
is LIVE! Explore new worlds, fight oppressive empires, fend off fearsome aliens, and wield deadly psionics with this comprehensive boxed set expansion for 5E and A5E!
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*TTRPGs General
Dwarven Economics: What Dwarves Eat and Why They Trade
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7586921" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>The answer to this question is going to vary from campaign to campaign.</p><p></p><p>In my campaign, dwarves are famous gourmands and Dwarven cuisine is considered by many to be the most enjoyable and refined sort of cuisine (contrast Disc World). The dwarf cuisine results from the merchantile nature of their race, their cosmopolitan nature, their wide travels, and their great appreciation of craftsmanship and working with your hands. So, they eat just about everything that is edible, and tend to do a really good job of making it edible. In the real world, it was European travels and demand for pungent flavors that drove the spice trade. In my game, it's the dwarves. The dwarves love spicy food, and are willing to go to the ends of the world (or have the ends of the world come to them) to get it, and (like the Europeans) will trade gold and steel to get it.</p><p></p><p>What dwarves don't do, and what they recognize they aren't as good at as other races, is raise a lot of their own food. Dwarves recognize that they aren't as naturally talented or well suited to be farmers, either with plants or engaging in animal husbandry. They do raise some of the fungal and underdark crops developed by the goblins, but mostly as a surety against being besieged and not as a primary food source. So most Dwarven kingdoms in my world exist in an explicit partnership with human tenants who live on the surface, and who trade with and/or are taxed by their Dwarf patrons in exchange for protection and metalworking. This is usually a fairly amicable relationship, as dwarves tend to be very fair and just lieges and landlords (although of course abusive exceptions exist, but probably less often than the other way around).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7586921, member: 4937"] The answer to this question is going to vary from campaign to campaign. In my campaign, dwarves are famous gourmands and Dwarven cuisine is considered by many to be the most enjoyable and refined sort of cuisine (contrast Disc World). The dwarf cuisine results from the merchantile nature of their race, their cosmopolitan nature, their wide travels, and their great appreciation of craftsmanship and working with your hands. So, they eat just about everything that is edible, and tend to do a really good job of making it edible. In the real world, it was European travels and demand for pungent flavors that drove the spice trade. In my game, it's the dwarves. The dwarves love spicy food, and are willing to go to the ends of the world (or have the ends of the world come to them) to get it, and (like the Europeans) will trade gold and steel to get it. What dwarves don't do, and what they recognize they aren't as good at as other races, is raise a lot of their own food. Dwarves recognize that they aren't as naturally talented or well suited to be farmers, either with plants or engaging in animal husbandry. They do raise some of the fungal and underdark crops developed by the goblins, but mostly as a surety against being besieged and not as a primary food source. So most Dwarven kingdoms in my world exist in an explicit partnership with human tenants who live on the surface, and who trade with and/or are taxed by their Dwarf patrons in exchange for protection and metalworking. This is usually a fairly amicable relationship, as dwarves tend to be very fair and just lieges and landlords (although of course abusive exceptions exist, but probably less often than the other way around). [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*TTRPGs General
Dwarven Economics: What Dwarves Eat and Why They Trade
Top