Quote from: Mind Crime on October 28, 2021, 01:35:02 PM

Quote from: GeekyBugle on October 28, 2021, 01:22:50 PM

Quote from: Mind Crime on October 28, 2021, 01:10:36 PM

Quote from: GeekyBugle on October 28, 2021, 12:08:56 PM
As for the taste, yes, predator meat doesn't taste good by any stretch of the imagination, much worst it's the taste of carrion eaters.

This is so true. Bobcat is delicious but opossum, unless you're starving, there is no way to make this palatable. I'll never try that shit again if at all possible. Racoon can be doctored-up, bear is fine as is. All about that diet. One way to stave off rabbit starvation, gotta eat the eyes, heart, liver, lungs, kidneys which turns a lot of people off. But if you're trapped in the dungeon.....

But would your adventurers even know about rabbit starvation? Or do they use to eat all the animal when at home?

I know for a fact that in antiquity some cultures had a taboo about eating certain parts of the animal and others believed some parts to be magical.

Hunters eating the liver of the bear in the spot was a thing and such a meat was considered a prize for the hunter, a reward for his work/valor.

I'd say they would know about it even if they didn't understand the particulars. Primitive peoples figured it out. But I guess it would make a difference what particular class the adventurers came from. Seems peasants would be more likely to eat the offal, especially if it's prepared in a way that doesn't hide what it is or what it naturally tastes like.

"Dude, it's not a pig, it's a pig-faced orc"
"Close enough. <battlecry> SOUP'S ON MOTHER FUCKER"

QuoteThe aurumvorax, for example, has a great deal of heavy metals impregnated into its meat and eating it will give you a possibly lethal case of metal poisoning (per the article, save vs poison 1d4 turns after the meal; success means you're only incapacitated in agony, as if by a symbol of pain, for 2d4 hour, while failure means you go into a coma and die 10d6 rounds later).