WHAT KIND OF FOOD DO PEOPLE EAT IN YOUR CAMPAIGN SETTING IF YOU

Turkey legs like from the ren fest.

>>49163592

It's only of relevance in as much as it sets a scene. Alien foods can make a setting feel more unearthly.

More than that is self-indulgent sperging. I guess if you world-build irrelevant details for your own pleasure regardless of whether the players ever learn about them, then that's cool.

>>49163592
Campaign food is overrated because it would basically be like food from the appropriate real life time period with different but similar ingredients, and all ingredients are defined by geography.

The more "magical" food gets the more nonsensical the setting gets, so it's literally just a matter of understanding food and food history and a lot less about the quality of a setting. If food is a hobby already it's an easy way to provide verisimilitude.

>>49163624
My GM gives us way more information than we could ever need, and I honestly love it. You're right though, it's totally world-building self-indulgence. I just have no problem reading his massive info-dumps about the different regions.

>>49163592
A very airy, porous type of fish called cloudfish, often soaked and marinaded in the juices of the local fruits before being grilled, leaving it with a juicy inner whilst getting an almost caramelized outside due to the sweetness of the fruits.
Floating islands have their benefits.

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>>49163637
>It's only of relevance in as much as it sets a scene
>Campaign food is overrated
STOP READING LAZY DETECTED, YOUR SETTING IS UNDEVELOPED AND WEAK.

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>>49163684
>>49163605
THIS PLEASES ME.

>>49163718
That's the most common thing though, cloudfish are seen as annoyances otherwise.
Topward, up high, they eat stratoserpent. A hard beast to hunt but it can feed a village for a month. Very tender meat, think venison. Has an innate spicyness to it, usually served with a flagon of ale and some toproot, similar to potatoes and red beets.

>>49163592
Depends. Mainly corpse statch and wheat bars. The Rogue trader and his party enjoy nachos. With cheese. I must said the ship chef was surprised/stunned/insulted at their first dinner election.

>>49163592
They don't eat solid food, they inhale gaseous nutrition.

>>49163592
I know that's you, George. Maybe if you spent less time drooling over imaginary food you'd be able to put out books faster?

Shitloads of different types of shrooms and fungi, usually served as a stew. Especially in mega-urban areas where industrial underground fungi caves have replaced farms

>>49163592
I ran a cooking campaign.

Everyone was satisfied.

Potatoes.

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>>49163592
Mostly protein sludge and re-hydrated gruel. My players just picked up 2 weeks of good "real" food from the space station they arrived at last night. Vat grown meat, cheese and what seems to be real corn.

They care more about what cigarette and booze brands are available at every space station and planet they visit.

One of the players only smokes Dixie Reds and he gets real upset when he runs out.

>>49163592
Mostly Medieval European food. Bread, potatoes, alcohol, and whatever meat they can get their hands on. Beyond that, it depends on the setting.

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>>49164286
>Medieval Europe
>Potatoes

>>49164286

>Potatoes
>Medieval European

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>>49164286
>Mostly Medieval European food.
>potatoes

>>49163592
Adventurers, and Rich people, eat meals made from monsters
The region where my PCs are now would be based of Anglo/Germanic cuisine

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>>49163592
My character mostly eats insects and small rodents.

>>49163592
Soup.

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>>49163592

So far my players saved a ranch where they raise and slaughter brontosauruses instead of cows. They even used Utahraptors like border collies.

>>49163592
I just open Redwall or A Song of Ice and Fire and read feasts descriptions out of those.

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>>49164417
Fucking Redwall, man.
Literally more food descriptions than a cookbook.

>>49163592
The Island city that the Imperium decided to make its capital has a sort of early Scandinavian cuisine.

All players are required to order from a detailed list of foods, ranging from grains, offal, meats, tubers, roots and herbs.

I track their macro nutrient profiles and provide bonuses or penalties based on degree of malnutrition.

>>49163592
Traveling Rations
Because we aren't Brian Jacques

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>>49164567
> Terry Prachett did Discworld cook book, despite food being nearly non-entity there
> But Redwall cook book was never made
Feels like such a waste.

>Dwarves
>Large insects, various fungi, cave fish
>Elves
>Small game, fruits, freshwater fish
>Halflings
>Treated meats, vegetables, dairy
>Gobs and Orcs
>Any meat they can get their greasy mitts on
>Totally-not-slavic-half-giants
>Kvass, rakia, kompot

>>49164889

Actually, it was! I remember having it as a kid. The only thing we could make cause we were poor as fuck as the super spicy otter soup. Google it, man, it's out there somewhere.

>>49164899

Dwarves are pretty tasty. No meat on those elves though

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>>49164286
>Mostly Medieval European food.
>potatoes

I'm Peruvian and I'm so fucking triggered right now.

>>49164889
>>49164928

Aha! Found it on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Redwall-Cookbook-Brian-Jacques/dp/0399237917/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1473003522&sr=8-1&keywords=redwall+cookbook

If you want to get it, which I highly recommend, make sure to spring for the hardcover. Much easier to prop up when you're cooking. Amazon also has the ASOIAF cookbook, which I have and which is great. Shows you how to make medieval bread, which is great.

>>49164372
>sauteed minotaur tongue
>stewed minotaur tongue
Aren't minotaurs usually sentient?
Even if they aren't, why eat something that's mostly human when there's a perfectly good completely non human version found all over the world?

>>49164874
>Traveling Rations

Containing what? It's not like you have modern MRE or even cans.

>>49164286
>Medieval Europe
>Potatoes
>Bread

Mostly bread, cheese, and mulled wine. I find that too many varieties of fantasy foods cause them to blend together and become boring. I keep that shit rare so every greeble fish with honkberry sauce is special.

>>49164996
I'm always shocked when people don't know potatoes are a New World food

tomatoes, too

>>49165000
since because fantasy

>>49165027
It's been over 400 years. And South America did jack shit with it compared to all the dishes that sprung when it was exported to Europe. Well, after people stopped eating it raw and getting sick.

>>49165000

you ask such silly questions

>>49165010

In my party they contain hardtack, a small wooden box of goatchese, bread that's so hard you have to either beat it against a rock or soak it in some soup, and a small party popper. Once I described the state of the food they were eating day in day out they started to put some points into cooking and started hunting their food. I was so happy.

It's going to depend heavily on socio-economic class and profession.

However, in the region where the players are currently located, there is a strong tradition of eating cured foods. So meals tend to consist of smoked meats and pickled vegetable and chutney.

>>49165042
It's less the "fantasy" and more the "medieval" that we find concerning.

>>49165053
>Once I described the state of the food they were eating day in day out they started to put some points into cooking and started hunting their food

best outcome. trail food isn't exactly fine cuisine, even if you can afford prepared food.

>there's some insects in my hardtack? good, it means more protein.

>>49165085

In the military, I managed to eat almost all of the main meal in an MRE before I realized the last quarter was like solid mold. I've never puked that fast in my lifetime. If we could hunt our food on the regular, I gurantee we would.

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>>49165108
What were you eating that was so bad you couldn't tell it was moldy as fuck?

>>49164062
> Current year
> Not having booze tables

>>49163592
Axebeak breasts smothered in cream sauce served with radish salad dressed witg a salt and vinegar dressing. The lower classes eat "Munchkin Stew" (rabbit and squirrel stew with wild root vegetables and wild black pepper) and brown bread made from stone-ground barley and oats, formed into rough, somewhat dry mounds, and baked till the top cracks.

Commoners eat the rougher cuts of meat from livestock, while the merchant class and middle-class get a chance to purchase the more tender cuts. Butchers have first right to pick their cut of meet since they are the owners of it by common law. The nobility obviously eat the finest cuts of meat as well as can afford exotic fruits and vegetables.

The nomads of the mountains and deserts hunt and eat various creatures, the most prized being the Gurlong--giant feathered serpents that burrow beneath the sand at night to sleep and soar majestically in the sky during the day. One adult Gurlong can feed a tribe for three days and three nights.

Fruits are common at all levels of the social tree due to an abundance of orchards and free trade with the fertile Elf kingdom.

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>>49165340

I think it was Chili Mac. I was too pissed off from the past 16 hours of rain to heat it up. It was a congealed mass of "food" and thus, I couldn't see the mass of mold hiding at the bottom from probably a pinhole insertion six goddamn years ago.

Thing is, I still would have taken that over the Vegetarian Omlette. I still have no shit nightmares about that thing.

>>49164372
>bear picatta
I thought bear would be a red meat, rather than a white one, would go much better in a marsala sauce
>.t waiter at a family owned italian resturant

>>49165390
Speaking of preserved egg product, what sort of monster would invent powdered eggs?!?

>>49165378
I really dislike this "commoners couldn't eat the good cuts of meat couldn't eat meat at all" meme.

>>49163718
Reading this thread proved my point correct. Most of these anons know nothing about food and food history so it's not something they should focus on at all to breathe life into a setting.

Fucking peasants not getting "choice cuts" and potatoes in a !Europe setting. Christ.

>>49165443
It's less they can't and more they don't unless it's a special occasion, most commoners want to maximize the money they can make and that means serving up the best cuts for customers rather than themselves.

As far as meat goes they eat it all the time, it's one of the primary diets of all the races.

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>>49164996
The potatoes were magically introduced by the demon king.

>>49164417
>>49164567
are the redwall books good
I mean they're (according to wikipedia) children's fantasy so I'm afraid they'll be shitty like the harry potter boks

>>49165507
but that assume that there enough well to do people to buy all the good cuts from all the peasants in the area. That might be the case near large cities but I doubt that's how it worked anywhere else.

>>49165520
With big titties?

>>49163592
All sorts of food. If I knew all the food they were eating, I wouldn't be able to remember anything else.

>>49165398
it is red, and also very gamey. Preparing to be good eating takes a pretty deft hand really.

>>49165551
maybe

>>49165507
Wild rabbits, pigeons, and duck. It's super easy to find game.

>>49165548
Yes, in the country side the yeomen farmers have free reign over everything and anything they grow or breed. City commoners are a distinct class so I make the distinction.

>>49165398
I'm pretty sure it says "Boar Picatta".

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>>49164372
>harpy egg
oh no

>>49165398
>>bear picatta
The picture says BOAR picatta, not bear.
I've seen boar meat being classified as white (like pork), red or even black (like other games).

So I don't know if it's red , but the wine sure can be.

>>49165696
Not all eggs are fertilized anon.
Still weird I guess.

>>49163592
They eat meat, vegetables, grog, and ale. The four food groups! OP, what else would they eat you fukken' pleb!

A nutritious goo that they harvest from magically grown land sponge. It comes in different flavors and colors, but is the primary food for all life. Richer people might be able to afford some meat, but that's rare.

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>>49163646
But it's not self-indulgent wank. Cuisine=culture. The ingredients used, the variety of them, the amount and kinds of seasoning, the cooking styles employed, the number of choices on a menu, the utensils required to eat it (if any), whether the food is easily portable or not... all these things speak volumes about culture, economics, and geography in relatively few words. As a GM, I use detailed descriptions of food to establish a sense of place since I know a huge amount about food and drink and basically fuck-all about, say, clothing and architecture.
>>49163847
Actually, I'd point to GRRM as an author who does what I'm talking about pretty well. He's not always very clever or subtle about it (the upper class in Slavers Bay literally EAT PUPPIES), but his "food porn" usually does serve a purpose.

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>>49163592
Depends on where they're from.

People in the west, from Valonne, Arinoa, and Garm like their food spicy as fuck. The espers of Erud live up in the mountains, and keep yaks and goats. The lizardfolk in the desert south of those regions hunt the enormous and dangerous sand-burrowing deathworms for food, and while humans and espers may not like the idea of eating worm, the deathworms are actually nutritious and delicious. Since these lizardfolk are the vassals of the great fire dragon Bolla, they know a thing or two about cooking that would astound even the best human or esper chefs.

Even further south, the espers of Medon and the lizardfolk of the great water dragon Apalala are consummate sailors, so they know everything there is to know about fish and other sea-dwelling creatures. Across the sea, the lizardfolk of the great earth dragon Amaru bring down great roc birds and feast on them, with one roc being enough to feed entire tribes for weeks, provided the meat is preserved right. Amaru's lizardfolk also eat a lot of bugs.

The Gou Empire is known for its huge variety of bread and its vast wheat fields, and they also do a lot of fishing since there are a ton of islands all over the place around central and northern Gou.

Plenty of fruits and vegetables since most of the people in the setting are vegetarians. Tactical Hay rations for when they're on the road.

Mashed beans and other protein heavy foods for the other races when in their presence. Fish and game when in their lands.

>>49165027
and corn

>>49165859
>But it's not self-indulgent wank. Cuisine=culture.

That very statement is self-indulgent wank. It's like saying that skin colour or climate = culture. You foodies need your heads pulling out of your asses.

>>49163592
Bland, tasteless bread and plain water created by the 3rd level spell Create Food and Drink. It is pretty boring until the wizard upgrades the bread using Prestidigitation to make it taste fresh and warm, as if it had just come out of the oven. Though this alters not the contents, it makes the characters at least feel like they aren't just eating rations.

>>49165759
not much weirder than giving someone oral.
You'd eat your harpy GF's omelettes wouldn't you anon?

>>49166097
>I don't see the point in immersion or creating a sense of place
Congrats on being a shit GM. I'm sure your players love being dragged from one vaguely Ren Faire-esque town to another, and find each one so memorable and unique

>>49163762
>venison
>ale
>perderders
>beats
What in the name of Sharragash are those?

>>49166279
>deer meat
>pickled barley stew
>eating rocks
>an abomination

>>49165027
Then where did all the Irish and Potato jokes come from?

>>49165859
Depends, if your setting is historical !Europe then the food will be mostly he same based on region: coast, forest, city, etc. are very similar without established global trade - and even then it's just a bastardized version of exotic cuisine in that area. You have different food when you go the the extremes (northern winter lands, southern coastal tropics, etc.) but there is mostly meat, gravy, vegetables, and biscuits.

Asia is a lot more interesting because their food is disgusting before cooking and the cultural impact is greater, but even it is meat/bean, vegetables, sauce, and rice.

Most of the interesting history of food has been par age of exploration.

>>49166529
*post age of exploration

>>49166507
The hundreds of years after the New World was discovered dumbass

>>49166423
Not liking beets advertises your faggotry

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>>49166589
they're just too damned sweet.

>>49166222
yeah, he's right - pull your head out of your ass, there's more to a game than food, and there's more ways you can make something interesting than describing food

it's just one way of fleshing out a setting

>>49166569
Is this after the Vikings discovered it, or after Columbus "discovered" it?

>>49166621
I bet you wouldn't even salt your bitter melon, pleb.

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>>49166682
You can salt my bitter melon any time you like

>>49166679
You literally known nothing about history.

Spain cultivated potatoes because they could survive the journey easily, and Sir Walter Raleigh brought them to Ireland in like 1590.

>>49166716
See >>49166589

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>>49166732
Also the potato famine was in the mid 19th century

>>49163592
Thin strips of salted meat, fried in fat. They're commonly known as dracon.

>>49166655
Where did I say my sessions are literally nothing but sitting my players down and describing food to them?
>>49166529
>I don't know much about topic, so there can't be much to know, right?
I'm not even sure that greentext is appropriate here. Do seriously think the food in coastal Spain, Latvia, and Greece are in any way similar? Do you think Europeans didn't use "disgusting" ingredients as well? Do you not realize what people eat changes depending on what's native to that area? Do you not realize how much the introduction of certain New World crops like peppers utterly transformed certain cuisines? I'm not exaggerating when I say virtually every single thing you said is incorrect.

>>49166732
>You literally known nothing about history.
Nope, not at all. But at least I'm not a smug jackass about it.

>>49166809
No, you're just a smug jackass when you get called out on your own ignorance

>>49166801
In the Middle Ages it was all pretty much the same shit in Europe, broken down by type of geography - which is exactly what I said.

>>49163592
Which kind of people? Elves, dwarves, halflings, gnomes, or one of the regional human cultures?

You're gonna have to specify; your question is pretty shallow OP.

>>49163592
Depends. In the two shadowrun campaigns I run I try to always describe a bit the food, if only to set the tone. Since the players eat a lot of street food, in restaurants or industrial food, it's pretty great for that. Really it depends if they go for a classy restaurant, a mafia-run pizzeria or an illegal greasy kebab shop.

On the other hand, I'm also player in a d&d game and I often cook various meat and game I hunt, since I only use rations for emergencies.

>>49166852
How? I admitted I know nothing about it. I'm asking questions so I can learn about it.
I'm not the one talking down to people and jacking himself off about how he knows so much about food and history.

>Dregs: Vat-Gruel made from reconstituted corpse starch and vat-protein, kelp food products, rats and rat based dishes, a dash of fruit-nutrient extract in their recyc-water to ward off ill humours, moonshine and watery beer for booze.
>Lower class: Meat substitutes made from mycoprotein, kelp, and soy, heavily processed meat food products, heavily processed fruits, lots of cheap veggies, cheap noodle dishes. Rat-meat is still the most common real meat seen at this level. Beer and actual liquor now and then.
>Middle Class: Processed meats, processed fruit and veggie products, quality noodles and bread, unprocessed food on special occasions. Full booze selection.
>Nobles: Real food all the time, exotic foods on a regular basis.
>Super-rich: The eggs of endangered alien beasts. Thousand-year-wine. The craziest crap you can imagine. Once in a while, real Terran beef.

>>49166949
I was smug because your self-assured "vikings discovered the new world" statement. I answered your actual question completely and honestly.

You could have also answered your question without being so proudly ignorant with a Google search easier than asking on 4chan - home of smug assholes.

>>49166900
First of all, that's not true at all. Again, different crops are better suiting to growing along the coast of the North Sea vs the Mediterranian. That is going to lead to distinct differences in what people eat and drink. I admit I don't know much about food during the medieval period, but that's a basic fact.
More importantly, you said a bunch of other things I know for a fact are complete horseshit, which gives me no reason to think you have any idea what you're talking about with the rest.

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>>49163592
The module I'm running includes an "Extravagant Imperial Banquet" table. It involves rolling 6d12 to determine appetizer, drinks, main course, accompaniments, desert and entertainment. In addition is a full menu for the local inn, complete with prices for each item.

Here's an example feast I just rolled up
>Shortly before being served, itinerant musicians begin a melodic flute and lyre recital which continues throughout the feast
>Servants emerge to present all present with drinks: [greece analogue] dry white wine with wormwood and saffron
>Soon thereafter, appetizers are served: Baked chickpeas with almonds
>After that is finished, the servants emerge again to serve the main course: Roast boar, stuffed with blood sausage.
>The boar is accompanied by baked grape leaves stuffed with mackerel and cheese
>For dessert is baked custard [some kind of cake or tart?] with cinnamon and pepper

I intend to reuse and modify these tables for the rest of my DMing career. My PCs shall feast well.

>>49167075
That's why threads like this are basically worthless. Any real discussion is going to get drowned out by people being loudly ignorant then getting indignant when someone tries to correct them, since anonymity gives you no reason not to act like a dickhead to salve your own ego.

>>49167096
Any chance you could post that table? For science, of course.

>>49167081
>What you said was horseshit! The continental extremes are way different!
I said that
>crops are different!
Yes, which is why I said geography changes are the most important aspect back then.
>A bunch of other stuff you said was wrong!
Like what? We sort of covered everything I said.

>>49166809
>>You literally known nothing about history.
Not only is he a smug jackass, he's a grammatically incorrect one.

>>49167150
>anonymity gives you no reason not to act like a dickhead to salve your own ego.
Apologetic correction: This one has had its ego surgically removed, and thus its ego requires no salve. This one merely enjoys acting belligerently for its own amusement.

>>49167150
people being smug jackasses when anyone asks a question sure doesn't help either.

>>49163592
Halflings like Salted wine, salted cheese, a kind of honey-mead thick bacon, and woven meat pie where strings of meat are ground like spaghetti and woven together loosely

My players don't give a damn about what they eat so long as it doesn't kill them and neither do I.

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>>49163592
in order of rarity:
we had curanto (pic) by the end of the campaign.
pastries in a big city along the way
but mostly bread and beef jerky

>>49166801
>muh cuisine is culture if you don't spend an hour describing food to your players your game is boring

>>49166809
nigga you're being a 'smug jackass' right now

>>49167025
>>Super-rich: ... The craziest crap you can imagine.
Anybody got that comics strip with a billionaire growing clones of himself for meat?

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>>49167175
>Any chance you could post that table? For science, of course.
The table is from Sinister Stone of Sakkara, an ACKS module resembling Keep on the Borderlands. The GM is meant to roll on it if the players get a Friendly reaction roll (or finish the quest) and are invited to dine with the fort's leaders.

1d12 is supposed to be rolled independently for each of the 6 feast components. Appetizers and drinks are rolled separately from each other, for example.

>>49163592
Bread, berries, honey, nuts, apples, potatoes, goose and duck eggs, fish, sea birds, deer sometimes

Dairy, meat from livestock at the end of grazing season

Probably missing a few things but that's among what I remember from the last feast I described

>>49167774
This will see use in my games. Many thanks, Anon.

>>49167802
oh damn I forgot the mustard (coincidentally I also did that at the table)

Hommlet Omelet!

My old Shadowrun group had lots of fun making up soy-anything. Soylash became a running joke.

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>>49163592
Rations,
glorious life giving rations