What do your players do with thier dead foes?

[KB9JMQ]

we move the minis off the battle mat and goto the next room

This is what we do also.
Sometimes the spellcaster looks for material components if it is a wierd/rare creature

 

[ThirdWizard]

They only ate him once!!

He was a white dragon, though. The meat was cool even after two weeks.

Mostly they just leave the bodies to rot. One member in the current game has a tendency to keep heads of really big stuff and boil the skin off to keep the skulls. He's got a dragon head, some dire wolf heads, and an ogre head...

 

[Seeker95]

Proper burial

One of the PCs is a monk of Wee Jas. He insists on taking sentient foes (well, formerly sentient) outdoors, facing their heads to the north, and then burning them. This does not sit well to the cleric of Al-Akbar in the group, who does not favor cremation. However, he is from "the lands to the West" and as a visitor / diplomat, does not interfere in the horrid and barbaric customs of the eastern heathens.

The other three in the party really couldn't care less.

 

[Imperialus]

depends a lot on the circumstances. Right now we're playing a Freeport campaign of questionable morality so it's usually a case of slitting their throats so we can be sure they're dead and then rolling them into the harbor. We left one snakepersons body impaled on a halbard on a busy street once. Usually it's just a case of looting for valuables, componants and tasty treats before turning them into wormbait though.

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

We EAT THEM!!!

Funny story.

During one particular adventure, our party killed a chuul on a beach. During the fight, our artificer shot it with some bullets of shocking grasp from his rifle.

The DM had described it as something rather like a large lobster. He also decided to mention that the places where the artificer had shot it had turned bright, cherry red.

So, we drug the carcass back to our camp, proceeded to cook it over the fire, and had some really big lobster for dinner.

Everyone made their saves against indigestion.

 

[Romnipotent]

Depends on the game at hand. We have done burial rights, mass graves, last rights, trophy mutilations, rotting corpses left behind, made meals, created distraction balls (dried and salted balls of flesh used to distract guard animals, basketball sized often).
The enemy has fallen, it is my right as victor to ignore their culture! heh

 

[carpedavid]

In my current campaign, when an intelligent creature dies, its spirit departs for the netherworld, which opens a conduit for negative energy to flow back to its body. Looting dead bodies, therefore, results in the accumulation of taint. Additionally, corpses will re-animate as ghouls within 1-4 days unless they're burned within that period of time.

Not only do my players not loot bodies, they burn whatever valuables the enemy might have had along with their corpses. It's had an interesting effect on the acquisition of magical items throughout the campaign.

 

[JustKim]

There is a certain player who always makes a note to burn bodies no matter the character and no matter the situation (Within reason I guess). I don't see this being a socially acceptable or even personally acceptable thing to do, lighting up after every battle to deny burial rights, grieving, not to mention plot devices. Better safe than sorry the credo goes, although it feels a lot more like a tired routine, and I'm resolved to break it with random acts of DM meanness.

 

[the Jester]

It varies. Ultimately, most of 'em are left to rot, but there are often trophies/hides taken from appropriate monsters, and one of the pcs in my halfling game likes to eat human (when she can sneak it past the other pcs).

 

[MonsterMash]

Usually its taken as read that they're left to rot, but not explicitly stated.