01-26-2015, 04:47 PM | #11 |
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Re: Chacteristic foods of your campaigns?
I'm reminded of James H. Schmitz's "The End of the Line," set in a far future where everyone has lived on vat-grown tissues for so long that eating any natural organism is a death sentence. Except that there are mutants with superhuman digestive powers. . . .
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01-26-2015, 05:20 PM | #12 |
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Re: Chacteristic foods of your campaigns?
Liquid Plutonium, a drink for dragons and others of a supernatural constitution, seems to pop up a lot in the last few years.
An alternative in my last Star Wars game was a Krayt Dragonfire, made with genuine Hutt Sauce, among other ingredients.
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01-26-2015, 05:24 PM | #13 |
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Re: Chacteristic foods of your campaigns?
I imagine mead drunk at Departure and Homecoming(a trading people's substitute for sowing and reaping) as mead comes from a "trading animal".
Game is eaten on any ritual occasion and especially on a war patrol. Hares are an easy game to enclose in a park(hunters have to buy a limited number of bullets, limited time or other fixed rules to give the hares a chance). Blood-red wine is for military units after a successful mission. Spiked coffee is for weddings.
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01-26-2015, 06:53 PM | #14 |
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Re: Chacteristic foods of your campaigns?
I suppose the signature food of my game world would be rahk. It's made in large vats in which people throw all organic waste (and I do mean all). The vats use a combination of magic and chemistry to render it all down into a bland, if nutritious, surimi-like mush. It's a staple food of poor people, travelers, and of course adventurers. It's also the source of a lot of jokes during games.
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01-26-2015, 06:57 PM | #15 |
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Re: Chacteristic foods of your campaigns?
Dwarven Vodka is a staple in my fantasy, dating back to around 2001 or so when looking at the Earthdawn map we decided Throal looked to be somewhere around the Ukraine, so thus, Dwarven Vodka!
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01-26-2015, 07:38 PM | #16 |
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Re: Chacteristic foods of your campaigns?
Ironic considering how humans are essentially fragile herbivores with an "unnatural" taste for meat.
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01-26-2015, 08:21 PM | #17 |
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Re: Chacteristic foods of your campaigns?
Last monster the party killed, seasoned with garlic. On a stick.
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01-26-2015, 08:55 PM | #18 | |
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Re: Chacteristic foods of your campaigns?
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One of my NPC characters is an immortal (or nearly so) woman, who often teases her modern-day American husband and children about being 'food wimps' because they are so finicky about what is acceptable food (in millennia of life, she's seen every imaginable food preference and prejudice come and go). For their part, they've learned never to trust a 'just try it' from her without confirming exactly what it is they're sampling first. That same family drinks a lot of lemonade, sort of a running joke. |
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01-26-2015, 09:01 PM | #19 |
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Re: Chacteristic foods of your campaigns?
That in turn reminds me of an old running joke on the old Buck Rogers TV show. In the 25C almost everybody (at least in the civilized high tech cities) lives on 'food disks' of processed plant matter. Buck Rogers is willing (and even eager) to eat natural plants and to eat meat, which creates a simultaneous revulsion and fascination even among his friends.
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