Feasting during a game?

[fireinthedust]

So I'd like to have a feast *during* a session. I've got a good group, and for Christmas or Thanksgiving it'd be great to have us all get together and enjoy a truly medieval feast.

1) what sorts of D&D stories could I launch with this?
2) Have any of you tried this?

 

[Rechan]

1) what sorts of D&D stories could I launch with this?

Someone poisoned the food?

 

[frankthedm]

Originally Posted by Mark Hope
http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/188036-what-prices-livestock.html
In my current homebrew I told the players that, as a house rule, sorcerers can substitute material components of equal value for whatever is listed in the spell description. "So," the sorcerer's player asks, "instead of needing a 100gp pearl for identify, I could instead use five thousand chickens?"

After we stopped laughing at the image, we decided that (given that we are playing a game about a savage barbarian tribe), it would actually be very cool to have the character sacrificing livestock to the tribe's gods in return for magical insight. We agreed, though, that he'd be better off using cows. You'd only need ten of those, and they're much easier to keep track of...

That sounds AWSOME! Could someone perform a hecatomb for the 1000gp material cost of enhancing a masterwork weapon to be +1? {using the masterwork weapon as the implement of sacrifice of course]

Yeah, we quite enjoyed the idea (once we got over the giggles, heh). I'd think that a hecatomb would be a very neat approach, especially using the weapon intended for enhancement.

I think that, if this approach is going to be used, the key issue is the the DM needs to keep an eye on livestock acquisition, as it is essentially now a form of treasure. For example, if you're using the wealth guidelines, you need to take account of that if the PCs go on rustling expeditions. We haven't examined all the ramifications of this yet (the tribe got ethnically cleansed last session and the PCs now have other things on their minds...) but it was a fun concept that came out of a moment of gaming silliness and one that fits the low-magic concept of the campaign.