What do you eat/drink?

[justanobody]

Spoon and Fork: A Gamers Guide to Cooking and Eating

Boy this industry does steal ideas pretty quickly doesn't it! Like a week after I start this thread they already got a book coming out!

This is 4e! They eat "Everlasting Provisions"

Well at least mine have. But I guess that has something to do with being stuck in an oubliette for 3 months.

But how do they taste? Are they like K or C rations?

 

[Stormborn]

@Stormborn: I want to here more about filtering things throw zombies.

It was mainly just flavor (no pun intended). The party went to the ruins of an inn at the behest of a patron. There they discovered entrance to a cellar that served as a brewery. The brewing apparatus had a vat that was filled with zombie torsos (the limbs were removed to keep them stationary) as part of the fermentation process. I figured that some special kinds of bacteria were present in undead bodies that gave the beer a subtle aura of necromancy. It was called Dead Man's Brew. The cellar further had a secret entrance the lair of the alchemist/necromancer who had been using the Inn as a front before a group of paladin's burned it down.

It was pretty fun. The PC fought skeletons and monsterous vermin at first (they were only 1st or 2nd level) then I had some homebrew lesser bone golems that were essentailly animated objects tied to a trap that triggered when some one intruded on the secret areas. That confused them. The place also had a carrion crawler that was trying desperatelly to get into the vault where the necromancer had stored his raw materials, some zombies left animated in said vault, and jars filled with various arcane substances like dragon's urine and tiny elementals.

On the way home they were ambushed by the necromantic sorcerer and his half-flesh golem henchman that wanted the brew without paying them for it. It was all set up to lead into a larger conspiracy, but it was just a mini-campaign for some in-laws who had played DnD back when and wanted a taste.

 

[Jack99]

But how do they taste? Are they like K or C rations?

No idea what K & C rations are, but I described it as basic stuff. Soup, bread and water.

 

[Stormborn]

No idea what K & C rations are, but I described it as basic stuff. Soup, bread and water.

C Rations and K-rations were the US military's forerunners to MREs. My father could, at times, wax quite eloquently about the horrors of some of the rations in Viet Nam.

 

[justanobody]

No idea what K & C rations are, but I described it as basic stuff. Soup, bread and water.

K-ration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

C-ration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Meal, Ready-to-Eat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

MREs take water to make so excluded them, so I figure your description has it right at K-rations unless they have a supply of water.

When my players want to buy "rations" I have them tell me which of those 3 things they are intending to carry, and allow the C-rations in a form other than metal cans.

C would be the easy to go bad rations since they are wet, and the K and MREs would be more close to what used to be iron rations, but MREs will last longer.

That reminds me I still have lasagna MRE from the early 90s around here somewhere. I should have it for dinner tonight with its banana pudding!

 

[Prisoner6]

@Prisoner6: All of this is golden and things missing of recent D&D official products and many games that rely on them!

Thanks.

I must ask though Prisoner6 what happens when that sect suspects assassination attempts? Do they have plates for different things that they must share and must everyone eat from each plate? What happens to the person that doesn't eat something from each plate?

That's never come up. That particular sect is concentrated in a certain geographical region, which the PCs only visited for a couple of game sessions.

That would make for some good adventure material: "You notice that Sir Garnfor is staying away from the potatoes...."

 

[Mallus]

@Prisoner6: All of this is golden and things missing of recent D&D official products and many games that rely on them!

Ahem... my campaigns "rely on" --which is to say they use-- many of the recent official D&D products (including later 3.5e for one and 4e for the other), and there's no shortage of interesting details in them. I should know, I thought most of them up myself.

And yes, Prisoner6 (insert obligatory "Be seeing you" here) has a knack for intriguing, colorful setting details.

 

[Prisoner6]

And yes, Prisoner6 (insert obligatory "Be seeing you" here) has a knack for intriguing, colorful setting details.

Mallus is being nice ... check out his homebrew setting below. It blows away anything I've ever come up with.

 

[justanobody]

That is good for those in Philly, Mallus. Which makes yours an exception rather than the norm it seems, as all in this thread are probably the exceptions. I just don't see food that present anymore form DMs except, "you eat for the day".

 

[Rel]

The campaign I'm preparing to run is going to be VERY points of light. Transportation of resources between points of light can and does happen, but bulk goods (like food) are generally too expensive to do this with (to say nothing of the issues about preservation). So I'm thinking I should really make an effort to have the "local flavor" be represented in the different places the PC's visit. And underscore that it's only the very rich who can afford to have exotic foods from faraway places shipped in.