The new Fallout RPG has extensive rules for butchering and eating various creatures.

I'll go with anything reasonable my players come up with, like making ankheg chitin into non-metallic half plate for the Druid.

Quote from: GeekyBugle on October 21, 2021, 02:11:19 PM
Not all monsters would be a good source of protein due to their meat being foul or poisonous.

But some would not only be a good source of protein but maybe a source of magic powers.

For instance the legend about Unicorn horn being medicinal.

Dragon Scales used as shields?

Dragon blood bringing you from the brink of death?

What have you done in your campaigns?

EVERYTHING is edible once the cleric casts Purify Food and Drink. I've seen players use anything organic as food before just to not spend money on rations.

We had a group eat a bunch of slain crab men.  Delicious with butter.

Quote from: jeff37923 on October 22, 2021, 06:25:45 AM

Quote from: GeekyBugle on October 21, 2021, 02:11:19 PM
Not all monsters would be a good source of protein due to their meat being foul or poisonous.

But some would not only be a good source of protein but maybe a source of magic powers.

For instance the legend about Unicorn horn being medicinal.

Dragon Scales used as shields?

Dragon blood bringing you from the brink of death?

What have you done in your campaigns?

EVERYTHING is edible once the cleric casts Purify Food and Drink. I've seen players use anything organic as food before just to not spend money on rations.

Not every group has a Cleric tho.

Quote from: Persimmon on October 22, 2021, 09:49:37 AM
We had a group eat a bunch of slain crab men.  Delicious with butter.

Giant boars and fireball.... mmm, bacon!

This is really popular in Roguelike games like Nethack and ADOM. ADOM in particular could let you get a bunch of fun things by eating corpses. My favorite was the Kobold Shaman, which would cause debilitating sickness but boost your Mana score by 1. Certain creatures, like Dark Orcs and Giants were valuable targets because their corpses could boost your Strength. Blink Dogs gave you Teleport Control, and Pixies gave you Teleportitis. Eating the corpses of creatures corrupted by Chaos would corrupt you as well, but some of them, especially the bosses of the game, would give you /insane/ boosts. And of course, certain corpses gave you elemental resistances, which were really important.

I'm personally a fan of the idea that eating the brain/neural tissue of a psionic creature also gives you psionics.

One possible issue is that you're going to have your PCs hunting down specific creatures to get boosts. Might not work in say, D&D unless you use incremental boosts, but definitely something I'd like to see in more games.

Quote from: PsyXypher on October 23, 2021, 12:42:45 AM
This is really popular in Roguelike games like Nethack and ADOM. ADOM in particular could let you get a bunch of fun things by eating corpses. My favorite was the Kobold Shaman, which would cause debilitating sickness but boost your Mana score by 1. Certain creatures, like Dark Orcs and Giants were valuable targets because their corpses could boost your Strength. Blink Dogs gave you Teleport Control, and Pixies gave you Teleportitis. Eating the corpses of creatures corrupted by Chaos would corrupt you as well, but some of them, especially the bosses of the game, would give you /insane/ boosts. And of course, certain corpses gave you elemental resistances, which were really important.

I'm personally a fan of the idea that eating the brain/neural tissue of a psionic creature also gives you psionics.

One possible issue is that you're going to have your PCs hunting down specific creatures to get boosts. Might not work in say, D&D unless you use incremental boosts, but definitely something I'd like to see in more games.

Dungeons&Delvers has rules for harvesting monster/creature parts and selling them.

QuoteLimosu Humanoid (Limosu are a Crayfish-like Humanoid that typically lives in freshwater and brackish environments of lakes, rivers, marshes, and swamps).

Pity, my GM consider eating/desacrating bodies of any inteligent species as inheretnly Evil act.

QuoteEVERYTHING is edible once the cleric casts Purify Food and Drink. I've seen players use anything organic as food before just to not spend money on rations.

If something is not inherently edible, then spell should not recognize it as Food.

Quote from: GeekyBugle on October 23, 2021, 01:32:50 AM

Quote from: PsyXypher on October 23, 2021, 12:42:45 AM
This is really popular in Roguelike games like Nethack and ADOM. ADOM in particular could let you get a bunch of fun things by eating corpses. My favorite was the Kobold Shaman, which would cause debilitating sickness but boost your Mana score by 1. Certain creatures, like Dark Orcs and Giants were valuable targets because their corpses could boost your Strength. Blink Dogs gave you Teleport Control, and Pixies gave you Teleportitis. Eating the corpses of creatures corrupted by Chaos would corrupt you as well, but some of them, especially the bosses of the game, would give you /insane/ boosts. And of course, certain corpses gave you elemental resistances, which were really important.

I'm personally a fan of the idea that eating the brain/neural tissue of a psionic creature also gives you psionics.

One possible issue is that you're going to have your PCs hunting down specific creatures to get boosts. Might not work in say, D&D unless you use incremental boosts, but definitely something I'd like to see in more games.

Dungeons&Delvers has rules for harvesting monster/creature parts and selling them.

As does ACKS, in its Lairs and Encounters supplement.

Yeah, I was going to say that Nethack has a lot of ideas that I'm thinking about bringing into my OSE game (like.. seeing if players are tricked by black unicorns by not recognizing that they're the evil versions of unicorns),  it has a good list of stuff that you get from eating monster meat.

The action video game series Monster Hunter has item progression/upgrade/crafting almost entirely based on using powerful monster parts, so ideas from that game series could be used for how to use special/rare monster parts for making exceptional quality weapons and armor, or as required ingredients for crafting magical weapons and armor.

Quote from: Pat on October 22, 2021, 05:17:16 PM

Quote from: Persimmon on October 22, 2021, 09:49:37 AM
We had a group eat a bunch of slain crab men.  Delicious with butter.

Giant boars and fireball.... mmm, bacon!

YES!!! And then I'll love giving them parasites to suffer from afterwards! So much fun!

I am surprised that no one has mentioned troll meat?

Cut a hank off of any troll and keep it in a sealable metal container.  When you are hungry, let the meat regenerate until it expands to a decent size, then cook it up with so e herbs & spices.

Save a little of the raw meat and re seal the container and you have a renewable source of rations. 

Troll meat, the gift that keeps on giving.

Quote from: GeekyBugle on October 21, 2021, 02:11:19 PM
Not all monsters would be a good source of protein due to their meat being foul or poisonous.

But some would not only be a good source of protein but maybe a source of magic powers.

For instance the legend about Unicorn horn being medicinal.

Dragon Scales used as shields?

Dragon blood bringing you from the brink of death?

What have you done in your campaigns?

My book RPGpundit Presents #1: Dungeonchef is all about this.

Also, RPGPundit Presents #13: Making the Most of Your Dragon Corpse.