New perks

[PTTG]

Someone had Lactose Intolerance in the Quirks thread, for times and places where tolerance was the norm. That implies for most times and places, you can have this perk:
Lactose Tolerance: Unlike most adults of your background, you can eat dairy products comfortably.

[Pursuivant]

Originally Posted by PTTG

Lactose Tolerance: Unlike most adults of your background, you can eat dairy products comfortably.

Which is a variant of Immunity (Single Poison) or equivalent to Reduced Consumption 1 (Cast-Iron Stomach).

More generally, the ability to eat "raw" food products that others of your kind can't consume unless they're processed is a Perk. Sort of the opposite of the Restricted Diet disadvantage.

[awesomenessofme1]

Originally Posted by PTTG

Someone had Lactose Intolerance in the Quirks thread, for times and places where tolerance was the norm. That implies for most times and places, you can have this perk:
Lactose Tolerance: Unlike most adults of your background, you can eat dairy products comfortably.

I don't think this is how it should work. There's a reason the value of literacy stopped being context-dependent in 4e.

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by PTTG

Someone had Lactose Intolerance in the Quirks thread, for times and places where tolerance was the norm. That implies for most times and places, you can have this perk:
Lactose Tolerance: Unlike most adults of your background, you can eat dairy products comfortably.

Where would a lactose tolerant person even get dairy if they're such a rarity in the setting?

[Anders]

There are dairy products that are low in lactose, like yogurt and cheese.

[johndallman]

Originally Posted by Anders

There are dairy products that are low in lactose, like yogurt and cheese.

As a lactose-intolerant person, most cheeses aren't low enough to avoid problems. The exceptions are Emmental and other cheeses with interior bubbles. Those have an extra phase of bacterial processing that sweeps up all the lactose.

[Anders]

Those are the cheeses I would expect to find in a lactose-intolerant population. And of course, lactose intolerance isn't an on-or-off switch. You can have different levels of lactase production.

Apparently butter is also low in lactose, which makes sense.

[Varyon]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

Where would a lactose tolerant person even get dairy if they're such a rarity in the setting?

You could have a situation where cattle have recently been introduced as livestock - perhaps from a foreign nation. They can be useful for traction as well as meat, which a lactose-intolerant culture could make use of right away, and as noted there are dairy products that lack sufficient levels of lactose to cause problems. A character with the Lactose Tolerant Perk can drink milk straight without it needing to be processed first, so that's an additional potentially-cheaper source of calories if they're near a farm (or possibly if trading with merchants from that lactose-tolerant nation, provided there are means available to stop the milk from spoiling too quickly).

[pawsplay]

Originally Posted by Varyon

You could have a situation where cattle have recently been introduced as livestock - perhaps from a foreign nation. They can be useful for traction as well as meat, which a lactose-intolerant culture could make use of right away, and as noted there are dairy products that lack sufficient levels of lactose to cause problems. A character with the Lactose Tolerant Perk can drink milk straight without it needing to be processed first, so that's an additional potentially-cheaper source of calories if they're near a farm (or possibly if trading with merchants from that lactose-tolerant nation, provided there are means available to stop the milk from spoiling too quickly).

Which is pretty much how the trait became prevalent in parts of the world.

[Anders]

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