Tavern Food

My primary character would order as much as he could afford, plus some. My secondary character would get water, if it was free, and the cheapest beverage if not. She wouldn't take a sip.

Ceramic crock full of beans and salt pork from the baker's oven, a slice of rye bread, and a mug of warm spiced wine if it is winter.

In summer a nettle salad with cured smelt, a crust of bread, and a mug of fruit mead.

>Gimme the grilled snake, the onion soup, and some extra toasted bread. Milk, if you have any cold; brandy otherwise.

Holy shit that food looks good.

Dragons eat them, why cant we?

>tfw haven't roleplayed in over three years

I'd fucking kill to sit down with nerdy friends and have a good time IC in a tavern.

Every inn in my world, from the eyes of the players, is run by an old Jewish woman named Hilda who cooks a mean chicken noodle soup. Doesn't matter where they are, Hilda is always there.

Wouldn't it be Hilde?

Dunno how to spell Jew names, it's pronounced Hill-duh. Never actually had to write it down before now.

Ah, then it would be Hilda. I've just met two old Jewish ladies called Hilde and assumed it's the normal Yiddish way of spelling/pronouncing it.

She's also short, a little fat, and often has a broom in her hands to sweep particularly close to the group as she secretly not-so-secretly listens in on what you're saying. Right?

I like your idea, so she does now. Typically she stays out if the parties way, apart from a generic rumor every now and then, but I like the flavor of always trying to eavesdrop. Shes definitely tried to set up a member of the party with her nephew before.

She's actually a diety that follows around people with potential to do great things. It's her way of keeping tabs ok them. The party is under a greater mind effect to not recognize her as the same innkeeper and non-important people just see a regular bartender.

Why does everyone post the shitty low quality versions of those pics?

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Deep-fried scorpion.

Did someone say fantasy menus? (I can't read Japanese, so fuck if I know what's on the menu.)

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3/3

Petite is sweet... so why not?

>obsessed with fantasy and medieval style food

Its actually torment. If I GM, the menu is super long and detailed and obviously no one gives a shit and they say "I eat something with ten gold" or something. If I am a player and I try to ask for the menu, I get "You get a meal that keeps you full until the evening." Just fuck man, I want to indulge in my food fetish.

I have a female paladin on hold that has a thing for oranges and orange-flavored dishes. It's like her Pink Sauce- if she has to choose between two otherwise equal meals, she picks the one that tastes most like oranges. She will never, ever get tired of the flavor.
However, this comes at the terrible price of hating any sort of chocolate that's not somehow orange-flavored.
Pic related.

>buffalos don't have wings
Yeah, right.

Buffalo is the plural of buffalo.
Buffalo Buffalo buffalo Buffalo.

I'll have a chicken parmi mate with a pint of lager.

Bison from upstate New York bully other bison?

That's got to be the richest fucking tavern on the planet to be offering that many different meat dishes.

Right? RIGHT!?

My best friend, bless her soul, tolerates when I go on overly detailed descriptions of what our characters eat, but when its her turn, the best I can hope for is she'll at least give the food a name ie: "hot pot".

One day I will have a Dungeon Meshi/Toriko style fantasy game. Until then, I read Dungeon Meshi/Toriko.

>One day I will have a Dungeon Meshi/Toriko style fantasy game.

Fuck, dont even. Dont fucking even. I actually have tried to run a game with a premise like Toriko, where most of the world just revolves around hunting rare animals, monsters and plants and to make food out of them. Obviously not as over the top as Toriko but still.

None of the players made a character that would have a reason to go food hunting, even if I told them what kind of game it would be. Everyone just had the basic "revenge for my family's killer" type of stories. Only the groups ranger could be used as a hunter but that motherfucker makes the same ranger for every game anyway. Of course I couldnt run the game like that so the idea fell apart.

I was thinking of GMing a Monster Hunter game... that might mesh well with a game such as yours.

My heart. It weeps for you. And that's not sarcasm either. You'd think if you told them up front what you wanted to run, they'd at least give it half a chance...

If you haven't already, look into Ryuutama. It doesn't have the rules for it specifically, but even the designer's wife specifically used it to run a Dungeon Meshi style game. She even made menus. Let me go hunt down those to add to the thread.

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Quote from one of the English translators:

"In fact, Mizusaka-san (Okada's wife, and artist of the Ryuutama Kickstarter picture of the marketplace) ran a game for me and others on Halloween that blended Ryuutama with some new homebrew Dungeon-Meshi style play

We had to collect special herbs and craft unique recipes using a monster that was terrorizing a village

It involved several rolls from different people, using various skill checks for the various steps of the recipe (checking the time: Int + Spi; kneading the dough: Str + Str; Cutting the pie into strips: Agi + Spi; etc). It worked out pretty well, and thinking of implementing them into the second supplement book!"

The "Honey Mead" Special

You get one jug of honey mead
One full size ham
and one round trip ticket to pound town with the beautiful "Honey Mead"

All for 1 Gold.

citation?

Your Vegan options suck I'll be taking my business elsewhere :^)

That's because no-one gives a shit about your stupid food-wank.

I'm here for adventure and drama, not to act out a fucking cooking show.

>implying that cant be in there too

Lets go on another stereotypical DnD adventure. If they werent interested in it, they could have said so when I presented them the idea instead of wasting everyone's time.

Because ordering food in a tavern is so fun and exciting that we have to stop everything and discuss how fresh the fucking bread is

On the other hand
>GMing for a professional chef
>I can barely do a fried egg without causing widespread destruction and deaths of millions

>Yeah, right.
They didn't. Not until Mallefas the Magnificent drank too much beer.

Fucking wizards.

Dude, I'd love to play in a game like that. Actually it'd kind of be a bonus if the world was just as insane as the manga, with everything being about getting and eating the best food.

I always try to offer a quick description of at least a few dishes a place might serve. Beet or potato soup, roast fowl, seared fish or some rarebit. Sometimes a more expensive pork or beef dish, and you can get drippings from it to go with the cheaper meal for an extra copper.

Also having alchemists that make food or baked goods in place of potions. Bacon that gives a Constitution bonus or macarons that give you a fancy illusion disguise.

Do myconids still count as vegetarian/vegan?

I want crêpes.

Dammit.
Whenever I played D&D, we'd stop for a bit for when we ate. But now everyone's gone so I can't give them the grand idea of LARPing the meals.

>DM takes us into his dining room
>acts as the bartender
>"so what can I get you lot? Bed, beer or beef?"
>puts up a prop menu, has only like four meals on it cos this is a dirt village
>we pick
>"alright then. It'll be out for you in but a moment"
>goes into kitchen where he has some meals precooked, heats them up and brings them out"
>continue talking in character about what we're doing next, what we've been doing before this, rumours from the bartender, etc

A man can dream though... A man can dream...

>I always try to offer a quick description of at least a few dishes a place might serve. Beet or potato soup, roast fowl, seared fish or some rarebit. Sometimes a more expensive pork or beef dish, and you can get drippings from it to go with the cheaper meal for an extra copper.

gaming like that makes me hungry

While I don't really like the idea of eating intelligent humanoids, I don't think I'd really have a problem eating dragon

>paella with mussles
>mfw I imagine that with some olive oil, bread on the side, with a glass of white wine or a rose on the side

Jesus Christ OP, you've actually made ~me~ hungry. FUCK.

Good thing game is around dinnertime then. But I run online and can only tell my players, rather than serve up an actual meal as described.

I like getting into really good descriptions when I can, not just 'roast fowl' but "pheasant stuffed with potatoes, onions and chopped bacon leftover from breakfast, rubbed with coarse salt and rosemary"

Oh man, thanks for reminding me of the AMPLE amounts of fun I had with Dragon's Crown. Played it with 4 players. Amazing. Cooking mini game was the best part.

Side note, wouldn't have bought it if Kotaku hadn't whined myopically and incessantly over how misogynistic it was. Best decision I ever made, vidya wise.

>GRRM starts writing a campaign

I want to indulge in my food fetish too-- it kills me that schedules don't allow for our D&D group to meet on the weekends. I just want to cook all my players themed meals for the different world cultures and countries

Perma-GM here. My players have learned to simply put up with my habit of lovingly describing the food they're served, especially if they're invited to dine at a fine table or noble's banquet. Meats basked in herbs and spices, thick sauces, freshly baked bread. Pots that simply explode in steam when you take off the lid and reveal the simmering contents. Then elaborate desserts, cheeses and fruit plates, all of it accompanied by fine wines or hearty ales.

I wish it weren't a PS exclusive title.

That said, I now want to make a witch who specializes in cooking.

Everything looks and sounds so nice.

Except the sauteed worms, what the fuck.

Beef stew with carrots, taters, and onions. Yes, we have taters, got 'em from Lustria.

So why is he called Honey Mead?

Tomato and Potato stew with a beef steak

Doesn't sound very good. I like potato, and I like tomato, but I don't know that I'd like them stewed together. Beef steak is great though.

Gimme some of those cute-ass seashell macaroons

I love me some cute-ass seashell macaroons

it's based on what level you went through and boss you killed

Cranking the saturation up doesn't make them look any better.

Vanillaware really does the best food porn

They don't have wings because they dock then when they are still new-born.

Do you really want to try herding two tonnes of flying bovine?

IT ALL LOOKS DELICIOUS!
ONE OF EVERYTHING

Serving a very...diverse clientele with a fairly limited selection of ingredients. Nicely done.

But I'll play it safe and go with roast chicken and fried potatoes.

It's just too bad they can't put their stuff on PC, just like god intended

Call me bland, but I'd just get toasted bread and the deep fried scorpion

I'd imagine that the scorpion might taste a lot like lobster or crab.

Meat, raw.
Backstrap or loin, ribs or thigh, organs or offal, fat or lean, hide or bone, it doesn't matter.

She'll apologize but she has very strict dietary concerns. She needs raw meat to survive.

She'll also ask where the tavern is obtaining their harpy eggs from, pay for the information even.
She would rather like a pet harpy or two.

I agree.

>pet harpy
Bad idea.

>he wouldn't adopt a harpy
I bet you think you can't study beholders alive, too.

how would you approach one?
how do you take care of a pet arpy properly?

Adopt her properly or die in the attempt.

>Half-elf Warblade and party tank

I'll have the Hearty Meat Soup, Grilled Enoki Mushrooms, Rabbit Stew, and I know it's not on the menu, but do you guys have steamed spinach and broccoli?

My 18 con, 16 str, and 1d12 hit die require fuckloads of nutrients to keep my energy up and I've been munching rations for the past week and a half.

The party has a Barbarian who has 'trained' a Dire Bear and something that is a cross between a Gorilla and a whole butcher's worth of knives and used to breed and break Diomedian Horses violent, flesh-eating horses our DM stole from greek myth before his tribe was destroyed.

Our Eldritch Pact Warlock is experimenting in mind-crafting with dreams of going full Thrall master. She is already able to install a very good sense of hierarchy and loyalty.

My own Sorceress who's done her fair share of monster hunting and handling knows how to go about a violent animal we have to keep bound.

Failing all that, we know an NPC who can speak all the beast tongues.
So if negative reinforcement doesn't work, we can try some positive for a change.

The image is called "camp cooking" so i assume these are examples of the kinds of things you can make on the road as a murder hobo.

Maybe you guys can help me with designing a tavern, I love expansive life like detail.

Essentially, there's a small town of about 3000 people, just big enough in a fantasy setting to support adventuring supplies, more than just general store leather armor and local hand me downs, and a tavern of multiple floors.

Truth, this town was cursed by a group of adventurers ( an otherwise popular legends group in this kingdom ) to literally exist forever. The party had been elven and they wanted to preserve this place since it had been a human village.

They aren't too pissy about it, they came to terms with it after a few thousand years.

So what would the tavern be like in this town?

You just made me realize they probably don't realize my character is a Halfling.

They're worried about getting caught buying drinks for minors.

How did I not get this.

what game is this?

>Broodwich
>This mysterious object from hell cannot be deconstructed or taken apart except for when it can.
>It is the most delicious sandwich in the world except for that it lacks bacon and has sun-dried tomatoes. Which might be a bonus to some but others might think it's kind of annoying.
>Anyone who consumes the broodwich is instantly taken to an alternate dimension where Jerry shows up.
>Jerry is always about 10 levels higher than the PC who eats it and he has an axe.
>If the PC's merely taken a bite of the broodwich he's only teleported there long enough for Jerry to threaten him.
>If he eats all of it then he's teleported there permanently.
>If the PC deconstructs the broodwich a mysterious voice will force him to either marry a skeleton or have brain surgery where he (in his lobotomized form) will obey all of the voices commands which will mostly be to finish off the Broodwich so Jerry can kill him.
>The Session ends before Jerry can do it.

Those must cost a fortune

yeah

Sauteed Minotaur, Snail Soup with lots of garlic and French Fries, please

And now for the important question: does myconid count as mushoom or meat?

What fries?

So are the villagers immortal? If so you can have the innkeeper be a 1000 year old baby who smokes heavy and talks a big game to destract from the fact that he is less than a foot tall and cant see shapes, only colours. Maybe give him a halfling wife and a human sized daughter.

If the town is immortal, then the usual gypsy reading palms bit is out. who the fuck wants to know their future when life has long gotten boring,

I imagine the drink would be particularly strong, you build up one hell of a resistance when you cant get alcohol poisoning.

For those who want a historical resource: medievalcookery.com is very good.

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