#TTRPGQuestion Food is a very important thing in story telling, what are some ways you've used it to express details about a world? As an EXTRA thing what are some of the stranger or cooler meals you've brought up in games? - ThreadSky

raynegrimm.bsky.social • 24 days ago

#TTRPGQuestion

Food is a very important thing in story telling, what are some ways you've used it to express details about a world?

As an EXTRA thing what are some of the stranger or cooler meals you've brought up in games?

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ariaunderground.bsky.social•21 days ago

I had a DM NPC in a Curse of Strahd/Ravenloft mists campaign (There were only two other players and they needed a meat shield.)

She was from the zombie-embattled Falkovnia, and she was their cook, so they often had pretty grim, utilitarian meals with scant ingredients. That was all she knew!

raynegrimm.bsky.social•21 days ago

I love that. It's so important to varovoa to show how utilitarian and remote they all are. Survival is the forefront of their behaviors

deadmoondesign.bsky.social•24 days ago

In my Starfinder game, my favorite homebrewed dining tradition was for the Shirrens, who were so obsessed with individualism that each Shirren carried their own set of utensils that they’d collected over their lifetime for every meal. The act of choosing the correct utensil was an important ritual!

raynegrimm.bsky.social•24 days ago

Ohh that is lovely, I like that concept alot. Was it also a status thing of how traveled and varied it was?

deadmoondesign.bsky.social•24 days ago

Absolutely! The more utensils meant more choices to make, which to a shirren, is an absolutely divine problem to have.

deadmoondesign.bsky.social•24 days ago

As for a favorite dish, the Ysoki (ratfolk) had a dish called Rattaewwie made of mystery meat stewed with whatever
vegetables and cheeses the chef could get their paws on that was always a treat to bring out

pirates-ttrpg.bsky.social•21 days ago

In Hades the dead couldn't taste food but the PCs could (for reasons). After saving a village, residents brought foods and wines for the PCs to eat and describe to them.

I had the players describe various foods. The crowd grew and the villagers listened with tears and longing.

pirates-ttrpg.bsky.social•21 days ago

tbh, I liked the moment a lot but I don't remember my players reaction except that they played it with sincerity.

Oh, wait, no, what they remember is that they asked the name of one villager, I said "Joseph", and my daughter pointed at the tub of Joseph brand hummus on the table. "Joe Hummus?"

pirates-ttrpg.bsky.social•21 days ago

And OMG, at the time I didn't realize I had lifted the dead can't taste food thing from Pirates of the Caribbean. FML.