When Your Party Is Low On Food

[David Howery]

Don't tell the family then. Wasn't there a code of silence among shipwrecked sailors who had to eat survivors at sea or something?

Or just say a dragon ate him or something.

what if you're a paladin and you can't tell lies? Of course, if you're a paladin, eating the hired help is probably a no-no too...

 

[Orius]

Find a way for the paladin to draw the short straw then...

 

[TheClone]

Find a way for the paladin to draw the short straw then...

Everybody will be happy to stop that whining. If you have some ranks in Diplomacy, you might be able to ommit the straw just for the first round and "assign" it to the paladin...

 

[Roland55]

Generally speaking, it is quite literally in poor taste.

However, on the Isle of the Ape ... one does what one must to survive.

 

[TarionzCousin]

I've never enjoyed "potential starvation" as a game element. It just isn't heroic or fun for me.

As a guy I used to game with put it "I don't like roleplaying the 'Grubbing for Coppers' game."

 

[David Howery]

as one who used to enjoy making up wilderness adventures for the party, I used the 'potential starvation' idea quite a bit, although it's only workable at lower levels. Adventures set in deserts and jungles are particularly good for this (it's a bit surprising that food for people can be hard to come by in a jungle, but it's apparently true)...

 

[Osgood]

The only time this happened, we made excellent use of stone to flesh on the dungeons walls. Also a great way to get through a stone door you can't open.

 

[Argyle King]

It highly depends upon the situation. If the monster was animal or beast-like, it wouldn't be much different from hunting, so yeah.

Humanoids? Not normally, unless it is my only choice other than starvation. I'd rather not pick up Social Stigma (Eats Sentients) or anything like that. There's also not telling what manner of diseases you could pick up from eating filthy orcs. Depending on the character, I might try a survival skill roll to forage for food.

Undead? Generally speaking, undead either have no meat or are composed of rotted meat, so I'd assume eating undead would have negative effects.

Overall, if it was something I was unsure of. I might make a Knowledge or Lore roll to try to figure out if it is edible.

 

[jdrakeh]

When your party is low on food, do you actually chop up some of the monsters you've killed for food?

Animals? Maybe. Monsters? Never.