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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Barendd Nobeard" data-source="post: 1776977" data-attributes="member: 960">OK, we're in a dungeon and food is running low (except for my gnome PC who was the only one smart enough to bring a lot of rations).  There's lot of dead fiendish things, but they don't taste good and aren't providing any nutrients.  The only other dead things we have access to are orcs.We all agreed that cannibalism was evil.  But we could not agree on what exactly constituted cannibalism.One player, playing a human cleric (LG alignment), said it was an evil act for a starving human to eat a dead orc.  He also said that eating *any* humanoid was cannibalism.  I, the player of a gnome cleric (LG alignment), said that a human or gnome eating a dead orc was not cannibalism, since it's a different race.In terms of game mechanics, his stance was that eating the same "creature type" was cannibalism.  Thus, any humanoid eating another humanoid was cannibalism (I guess animals can't eat animals--sorry, tigers and lions).In terms of game mechanics, my stance was that eating something a good-aligned Ranger could not take as favored enemy was cannibalism.  In other words--only your own race is "verboten" in this sense.  So, an elf may not eat an elf; but she may eat a halfling.Any other thoughts on this?  Our DM made a ruling, so it's not an issue in our game.  But we're low enough level that we can't commune with our gods yet, so we don't have any direct proof of what our respective deities may think on the issue.  Yet.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I promised the group I would ask the question at EN World (I'm the only one who hangs out here regularly) and get some feedback.  Should we go with a more restrictive definition (the Ranger rule) or a broader definition (the Creature Type rule)?  Or something different (playable PHB race = cannibalism, for example)?The DM and players are awaiting your thoughts.Thanks.</blockquote>

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