Tinker Gnome
Adventurer
What is the food like in your game world? Be it a pre-made one or your own. I just decided to start this topic because I love food and wanted to know what it was like in different peoples worlds.
Food in your game world
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Buttercup
Princess of Florin
Because I like to cook, and because I have a slightly strange sense of humor, and, well, because I can, I frequently make up bizarre menus for the various taverns my players visit.
One place had a goblin chef who did marvelous things with goat. There was Goat Under Glass, Goat a l'orange, Goat Primavera, Goat con Quatro Fromaggi and so forth. You couldn't get bread and cheese there, unless the bread was part of a goat sandwich and the cheese was...goat cheese. Even his mince pies were made with goat fat.
Most of my other tavern menus have been much less strange, for instance the place specialized in apple tarts and cider, or place run by a vegetarian, teatotaling dwarf maiden.
Edit: Oh, oh oh! I forgot the place that was famous for it's omelettes. They were made with lizard man eggs. When the PCs found out what they were eating, I thought one of the players was actually going to puke!
One place had a goblin chef who did marvelous things with goat. There was Goat Under Glass, Goat a l'orange, Goat Primavera, Goat con Quatro Fromaggi and so forth. You couldn't get bread and cheese there, unless the bread was part of a goat sandwich and the cheese was...goat cheese. Even his mince pies were made with goat fat.
Most of my other tavern menus have been much less strange, for instance the place specialized in apple tarts and cider, or place run by a vegetarian, teatotaling dwarf maiden.
Edit: Oh, oh oh! I forgot the place that was famous for it's omelettes. They were made with lizard man eggs. When the PCs found out what they were eating, I thought one of the players was actually going to puke!
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Emperor Valerian
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it varies. Of course there is plenty of real life food included... most noble dinners my PCs went to included roasted boar, pheasant, and all sorts of fruits that commoners wouldn't have access to.
Then of course, since there are strange beasts about, some of these are included as well. For example, sandhog ribs are considered by some to be the greatest meat on earth (These tend to be desert folk... most others think all of a sandhog is poisonous... not true). Some places the water from an ice elemental is considered a drink of the gods. If one looked far enough and hard enough, there would likely be some crazy person that would think troll meat was God's gift to mankind. I try to keep it as varied as my imagination can go... and as unique as the real world.
Then of course, since there are strange beasts about, some of these are included as well. For example, sandhog ribs are considered by some to be the greatest meat on earth (These tend to be desert folk... most others think all of a sandhog is poisonous... not true). Some places the water from an ice elemental is considered a drink of the gods. If one looked far enough and hard enough, there would likely be some crazy person that would think troll meat was God's gift to mankind. I try to keep it as varied as my imagination can go... and as unique as the real world.
Food is very important in my games, it is one of the details I focus on for getting the players more into character and making the NPC's more alive.
Since I game in Hyboria the food tends to be "realistic" in that plup-fantasy sort of way: joints of meat, crusty bread, bowls of grapes peeled by ivory-skinned slave girls and more wine and mead than you can shake a broadsword at.
And the week after that its moldy biscuts and stale torid water
Using the PC's diet is a great way to remind them of where in the world they are and how their fortunes are going.
Since I game in Hyboria the food tends to be "realistic" in that plup-fantasy sort of way: joints of meat, crusty bread, bowls of grapes peeled by ivory-skinned slave girls and more wine and mead than you can shake a broadsword at.
And the week after that its moldy biscuts and stale torid water
Using the PC's diet is a great way to remind them of where in the world they are and how their fortunes are going.
Wombat
First Post
Ever since Chaosium's TrollPak, I have been intrigued by food in my gameworlds.
In the last game, there was a lot of discussion of different kinds of beers and wines; before that there was the Purpleberry Pie Obsession, and for the upcoming game one of my players is threatening to put recipes together, based on a Renaissance cookbook...
We tried one of these recipes -- believe me, Artichokes with Blueberries is, at best, an acquired taste...
In the last game, there was a lot of discussion of different kinds of beers and wines; before that there was the Purpleberry Pie Obsession, and for the upcoming game one of my players is threatening to put recipes together, based on a Renaissance cookbook...
We tried one of these recipes -- believe me, Artichokes with Blueberries is, at best, an acquired taste...
just__al
First Post
Oranges are figuring into my campaign right now. Trade has collapsed between the city-states over the last 50 years and all the roads have fallen to disrepair. The northern city-state where the players hail from really, really needed some citrus fruit and the players travelled south to the city state that has all the orange orchards. They actually brought a ring gate with them and they are sending oranges back to their home city where their parents, who are mechants, are cleaning up.
Bran Blackbyrd
Explorer
The PCs in my campaign haven't eaten many meals yet, but in the last session they had a few to remember.
The inn's serving woman brought them their meal, a simple lamb stew with bread and cheese, and they started to eat. Almost immediately they had to make fortitude saves. Two of them failed, vomited, and then fell unconscious.
Most would assume they'd been poisoned.
One of the unaffected PCs carries the afflicted characters to their beds then returns to the dinner table. Unbelievably, he asks if the two PCs who got sick finished their meals. Finding their bowls half full, the glutton finishes what they left behind (and makes his saves again).
Everyone is ok the next morning. The same woman (someone in disguise, who wants them dead) serves them, and again they have to make saving throws. One of the same PCs who were affected the night before fails again, gets sick, and is out cold.
Don't worry about wasted food though; the gluttonous PC finished the food again...
They never did suspect the woman serving them. They barely seemed to think that poison was involved.
The inn's serving woman brought them their meal, a simple lamb stew with bread and cheese, and they started to eat. Almost immediately they had to make fortitude saves. Two of them failed, vomited, and then fell unconscious.
Most would assume they'd been poisoned.
One of the unaffected PCs carries the afflicted characters to their beds then returns to the dinner table. Unbelievably, he asks if the two PCs who got sick finished their meals. Finding their bowls half full, the glutton finishes what they left behind (and makes his saves again).
Everyone is ok the next morning. The same woman (someone in disguise, who wants them dead) serves them, and again they have to make saving throws. One of the same PCs who were affected the night before fails again, gets sick, and is out cold.
Don't worry about wasted food though; the gluttonous PC finished the food again...
They never did suspect the woman serving them. They barely seemed to think that poison was involved.
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