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Author Topic: Have you homebrewed cuisines in your games?  (Read 223 times)

GiantToenail

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Have you homebrewed cuisines in your games?
« on: October 20, 2023, 03:19:43 PM »
Your Homebrew Cuisines

Have you homebrewed the food the people of your TTRPG world eats on a daily basis? Is it based around flora & fauna unique to the setting, or does hinge on more fantasical ways to prepare meals such enchanted ingredients, Wyrm's breath scorched steak, Vegetables twice blessed by the god of crops etc ? I'd like to know!

I've substituted ale & gruel for "Magma-Moats" and "Minced Rockmeat" for the tavern in a joint dwarf/giant colony that's been on the subterranean frontier long enough for them to develop geophagy and a palatte for searing temperatures and heavy mineral flavors.

My Homebrew Cuisines

A Magma-Moat is sourced from plump oversized creatures similar to lightning bugs that subsists on the heat/rock from the magma it drinks and the bitter species of cave moss it eats that then combines into a searing hot, viscous and bitter nectar stored in its glowing thorax, A giant can hold it in one hand and wring out the nectar stored in the lightning bug's abdomen with the other, into one giant's tankard or several dwarves' usually onto a bed of common ore such tin, nickel, or copper for an added metallic flavor; Named after what the nectar is used for, they are commonly called Float-Flies.

Minced Rockmeat is sourced from "Magma Shark's", Similar to a Megalodon but twice the size with a stony carapace. They are common to equally huge magma lakes that are a day's journey away from the settlement and its meat is then minced and mixed in bowls of ground-up mineral heavy rock to make the taste tolerable and to make the most of the meat, since the hunt requires most of the settlement's manpower and exhausts them after, not mentioning casulaties. This hunt lasts them a year if things go smoothly.

I could've been more creative than giving an extinct shark stony features, If you folks have a historical or fantasical creature that could fill in the place of an apex predator in a magma lake or ways to make the Magma Shark more creative I'd appreciate the suggestions and advice!
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Tod13

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Re: Have you homebrewed cuisines in your games?
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2023, 04:01:05 PM »
Does Death Lizard Vindaloo count? My players created "Cave Catering" by accident. But they ended up presenting themselves as caterers during the campaign.

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Re: Have you homebrewed cuisines in your games?
« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2023, 08:34:12 PM »
Dragon Stew.  Just meaningless slang, for whatever mystery meat happens to be in the stew that day.
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Re: Have you homebrewed cuisines in your games?
« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2023, 08:41:38 PM »
If you want your seriously old-fashioned tavern to be "realistic", you can say that all they have is bread, soup, and beer. Maybe wine and chicken for better off customers.