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Admiral Squish
2010-08-20, 06:26 PM
Okay, so, I'm working on a homebrew based on cooking and eating the bodies of the fallen enemies. So, I have some questions relating to that, and I was hoping the playground would be able to help.

How do you butcher the more exotic animals? Snakes, felines, canines, rodents, apes, vermin... I mean, I've been looking at butcher charts, but there's only so much adaptation that can be done.
How would you handle the issue of eating humanoids, monstrous humanoids, and giants?
What happens to the bodies of creatures with death throes? Are they completely consumed?
What happens to outsiders? I've heard they just sorta dissolve and flow back to their plane, so is there any way to eat them?

Private-Prinny
2010-08-20, 06:34 PM
Is this going to be a Quina (http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Quina_Quen)-style Blue Mage?

One solution is to just give them the Swallow Whole ability, but that has the issue of only working on things smaller than you.

Admiral Squish
2010-08-20, 07:04 PM
Well, we're looking at magic here. Could always make it a magic mouth. Perhaps a scaling bite that just drains the life force/essence of an enemy you kill with it. I don't like that, though, since it feels like it somewhat pigeonholes you into a sort of 'feral' role. And it means the five or six pages of monster-meat recipes I've made are now useless. I'd like this to be able to accommodate all character themes, from the savage predatory lizardman to the refined gourmand in search of fine recipes.

Aroka
2010-08-20, 08:10 PM
I wish for a blessed tinning kit.

Admiral Squish
2010-08-20, 08:18 PM
You could get Angriz's chest, from RoD. 1000 GP, and preserves your meats indefinitely. I was considering producing a version with a bag of holding effect, as well.

Leon
2010-08-20, 09:01 PM
How do you butcher the more exotic animals? Snakes, felines, canines, rodents, apes, vermin... I mean, I've been looking at butcher charts, but there's only so much adaptation that can be done.

Try some Survival guides, they often have information on preparing the more esoteric animal types

Keld Denar
2010-08-20, 09:16 PM
Take a knife, carve out whatever meat you can find (beaver tails are EXCELLENT, most birds have breast meat, most quadrapeds have flanks/shoulders), throw it in a frying pan with a bit of butter and some garlic salt, brown both sides VERY lightly, serve with a nice Chianti and some farva beans.

Admiral Squish
2010-08-20, 10:47 PM
Well, the recipes need names, and I can't just say 'chopped up meaty bits'. Beholder Kebabs, Ghostly Roast, Sizzling Dragon Wings, Digester Haggis... Stuff like that.

Leon
2010-08-20, 11:47 PM
Otyugh Steak

Admiral Squish
2010-08-21, 12:03 AM
Okay, this is the list I've got so far of ideas. SOmebody who cooks, please tell me if any of these are impossible.


Abberations:

Aboleth:
Aboleth Fin with Mucous Sauce (Swim speed/water breathing)
Aboleth Brain (Enslave)

Athach:
Arm Roast (Extra arm)

Beholder:
Eye Kebab (2 Random eye abilities)
Flesh Roast (Levitate ability)

Choker:
Hand Stew (Imp. Grapple, Constrict)
Choker Breast (Haste)

Chuul:
Chuul Thermidor (Swim Speed, water breathing)
Claws in Paralytic Sauce (Paralyze in grapple)

Cloaker:
Membrane Wrap (Glide Speed, Concealment)
Cloaker Bacon (Moan)

Delver:
Delver Steak in Sour Sauce (Acid damage, Burrow speed)

Destrachan:
Stuffed Destrechan Head (Scream Attack)

Gibbering Mouther:
Mouther Mash (Multiple Bites, Spittle)
Mouther Puffs (Amorphous, Swallow Whole/Blood Drain

Grick:
Grick Chops (Climb Speed?)

Mimic:
Mimic Loaf (Shapeshift, Constrict)
Sticky Sauce: (Adhesive)

Illithid:
Roasted Tentacles (Extract, Imp Grapple)
Illithid Brain (Mind Blast, temp int?)

Otyugh:
Grilled Tentacle (Constrict/Imp. Grab)

Phasm:
Phasm Sandwich (Alter Self at-will for the duration?)
Phasm Puffs (Amorphous, Resilience)

Rust Monster:
Feeler Soup (Rusting grasp at will, Scent metal)


Animals:

Ape/Baboon:
Silverback Bacon (Climb Speed)
Ape Shoulder Roast (Str bonus)

Badger:
Badger Roast (Rage-like abilitiy)
Claw Stew (Burrow Speed)

Bat:
Wing Sandwich (Glide speed?)
Sizzled Bat Ears (Blindsense)

Bear:
Bear claw (Imp. Grapple, Claw)
Bear Steak (Con Bonus)

Bison/Bull:
Sirloin (Str Bonus)
Shoulder Cut (trample/gore?)

Boar:
Pork chops (Rage-thing)
Boar’s Tongue (Gore)

Camel:
Grilled Hump (Endurance/Con bonus)

Cheetah:
Roasted Leg (Speed bonus/Sprint)
Claw Soup (Claws, Trip ability)

Crocodile:
Tail Fillet (Swim Speed, NA)
Crocodile Tongue (Bite Attack, Imp. Grapple)

Eagle/Hawk:
Spiced Wings (Glide/fly speed)
Drumstick (Bonus to spot)

Elephant:
Elephant Steak (Powerful Build)
Trunk Chops (Gore attack/powerful charge)

Leopard/Lion/Tiger:
Cat’s paw soup (Claw attacks/pounce)
Tendon Stew (Dex Bonus)

Octopus/squid:
Seppie Nere (Tentacles/Grapple bonus)
Takoyaki (Water Breathing)

Porpoise:
Grilled Bottlenose (Blindsight, hold breath)
Dolphin Fin soup (Swim Speed)

Rat:
Rat Skewer (Swim and climb equal to ½ speed)
Dire rat fillet (Bite + disease)

Rhino:
Powdered Horn (Gore, Powerful charge)
Rhino Flank (NA, bonus to bull rush)

Shark:
Sharkfin Soup (Swim, water breathing)
Shark Fillet (Bite, Scent)

Snake:
Viper Nuggets (Bite, Poison)
Costrictor Bacon (Grapple Bonus)

Whale:
Whale Bake (Hold Breath, Swim)

Wolf/Dog:
Wolf Tongue (Bite, Trip)

Wolverine:
Wolverine fingers (Rage)
Wolverine Marble (cold resistance/bonus vs. cold?)



Dragon:

Dragon, True:
Sizzling Wings (Fly speed)
Scale Stew (Resistance, NA)
Drake Eyes (Blindsight/sense, immune to sleep)
Dragon Tail Chops (Tail slap, tail bonuses)
Fundamentum Sauce (Breath Weapon)

Dragon Turtle:
Steamed Fundamentia (Breath Weapon)
Dragon Turtle Soup (Swim speed, Water Breathing
Dragonshell Bowl (NA, hide bonus underwater)

Pseudodragon:
Drake Nuggets (Blindsense, hide)
Stuffed Dragon Skull (Telepathy)
Tail griller (Sting/poison)

Wyvern:
Wyvern tail (Sting, poison)
Wing Sandwiches (Fly speed)
Wyvern Drumstick (Imp. Grab, talons)


Fey:

Dryad:
Smoked Dryad (Tree-Walk)
Dryad Salad (Speak with plants, charm)

Nymph
Nymphskin Wraps (Blinding Beauty)
Nymph Stew (Stunning Glance, Unearthly grace)
Nymph salad (Wild empathy, druid-abilities)

Satyr
Hoof & Horn Stew (Speed Bonus, Headbutt)
Satyr Breast (Pipes/music)

Sprites:
Grig Bites (DR /cold Iron, Bonus to jump)
Nixie Nuggets (Water Breathing/Swim Speed)
Pixie Snackers (Invisibility, Mischief Touch)


Magical Beasts:

Ankeg:
Ankeg Legs (Burrow Speed)
Mandible Stew (Spit Acid, Bite Attack)

Aranea:
Spindly Kebab (Bite/poison, webs)
Boiled aranea (sorcerer abilities)

Basalisk:
Basalisk Eye Stew (Petrification attack)

Behir:
Behir Tenderloin (Rakes, constrict)
Stuffed Behir Lungs (Breath Weapon)

Blink Dog:
Blink Dog Roast (Blink, Dim Door)

Bulette:
Bulette Flank (NA, Burrow Speed)
Powered Armor (Claws/bite, leap)

Chimera:
Stuffed Chimera Heads (See Chimera totem for ideas)
Cat’s paw soup (Claw attacks/pounce)
Tendon Stew (Dex Bonus)
Sizzling Wings (Fly speed)
Dragon Tail Chops (Tail slap, tail bonuses)
Fundamentum Sauce (Breath Weapon)
Hoof & Horn Stew (Speed Bonus, Headbutt)

Cockatrice:
Cockatrice Nuggets (Petrification touch)

Darkmantle:
Tentacle grillers (Imp. Grapple, Constrict)
Membrane Wrap (Darkness, Hide bonus)

Digester:
Digester Haggis (Acid Spray)

Dragonne:
Cat’s paw soup (Claw attacks/pounce)
Dragonne Loin (Roar)

Ethereal X:
Fried Filcher Fingers (Sleight of hand, detect magic)
Marauder Loin (Bite, speed bonus)
Ghostly Roast (Ethereal Jaunt)

Frost Worm:
Frost Worm Slushie (Cold immunity, cold damage)

Girallon:
Girallon Strips (Claws, extra arms)
Silverback Bacon (Climb Speed)
Ape Shoulder Roast (Str. Boost)

Gorgon:
Stuffed Gorgon Lungs (Breath Weapon)
Gorgon Flank (NA, Str?)
Shoulder Cut (trample/gore?)

Gray Render:
Gray Render Shoulder (Claws, Imp. Grapple)
Render Brisket (shield ally?)

Griffon:
Spiced Wings (Glide/fly speed)
Cat’s paw soup (Claw attacks/pounce)
Tendon Stew (Dex Bonus)

Hippogryph:
Spiced Wings (Glide/fly speed)
Drumstick (Talons)
Horse Breast (Con Bonus/Speed Boost)

Hydra:
Seared Hydra Steak (Regeneration)
Stuffed Hydra Lung (Breath Weapon)
Hydra Neck Strips (Multiple heads)

Kraken:
Seppie Nere (Tentacles/Grapple bonus)
Takoyaki (Water Breathing)
Kraken Eye (SLAs?)

Krenshar:
Cat’s paw soup (Claw attacks/pounce)
Tendon Stew (Dex Bonus)
Krenshar Head (Fear effect)\

Lamia:
Cat’s paw soup (Claw attacks/pounce)
Tendon Stew (Dex Bonus)
Lamia Fingers (SLAs, wisdom touch)

Lammasu:
Spiced Wings (Glide/fly speed)
Cat’s paw soup (Claw attacks/pounce)
Tendon Stew (Dex Bonus)
Lammasu brain (Cleric casting, circle against good)

Manticore:
Sizzling Wings (Fly Speed)
Manticore Tail Slices (Spines)

Owl, Giant:
Spiced Wings (Glide/fly speed)
Drumstick (Talons)
Owl Breast (Hide/move silently)

Owlbear:
Bear claw (Imp. Grapple, Claw)
Bear Steak (Con Bonus)

Pegasus:
Horse Breast (Con Bonus/Speed Boost)
Spiced Wings (Glide/fly speed)

Phase Spider:
Ghostly Roast (Ethereal Jaunt)
Mandible Griller (Poison, Bite)
Spindly Kebab (Climb Speed)

Purple Worm:
Purple Worm Strips (Grapple/str bonus)
Stinger Roast (Sting, poison)

Razor Boar:
Pork Rump (NA, Trample)
Razor Boar’s Tongue (Vorpal Gore)

Remorhaz:
Searing Bacon (Immunity to cold, Heat)
Coil Strips (Grapple/str bonus)
Remorhaz leg (Burrow Speed)

Roper:
Strand pasta in sweet sauce (Strands, drag)
Roper strand stew (Weakness touch attack)
Roper Chops (NA, hide bonus)

Sea Cat:
Sea Cat Fillet (Hold breath, swim speed)
Boiled Sea Cat Claw (Claws, rend)

Shocker Lizard:
Grilled Shocker (Shock)
Lizard Tail (Climb&Swim)

Sphynx:
Cat’s paw soup (Claw attacks/pounce)
Tendon Stew (Dex Bonus)
Spiced Wings (Glide/fly speed)
Androsphynx Tongue (Roar)
Criosphynx Horns (Gore)
Gynosphynx Brain (SLAs)

Spider Eater:
Sizzling Wings (Fly Speed)


I still have to finish magical beasts, oozes, plants, then get into determining the mechanic for people-eaters.

2xMachina
2010-08-21, 12:19 AM
Well, the recipes need names, and I can't just say 'chopped up meaty bits'. Beholder Kebabs, Ghostly Roast, Sizzling Dragon Wings, Digester Haggis... Stuff like that.

... How do you even eat incorporeal things?

Admiral Squish
2010-08-21, 12:25 AM
... How do you even eat incorporeal things?

Those are actually off ethereal filtchers and marauders.

Gavinfoxx
2010-08-21, 12:30 AM
... How do you even eat incorporeal things?

With a Serrenwood spoon?

Admiral Squish
2010-08-21, 01:07 AM
Hmmm, I wonder if there's actually a material like that.

Mongoose87
2010-08-21, 01:21 AM
Take a knife, carve out whatever meat you can find (beaver tails are EXCELLENT, most birds have breast meat, most quadrapeds have flanks/shoulders), throw it in a frying pan with a bit of butter and some garlic salt, brown both sides VERY lightly, serve with a nice Chianti and some farva beans.

Beaver tails (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_tail_%28pastry%29) are not what you think they are.

Dr Gunsforhands
2010-08-21, 02:14 AM
Displacer soup:

You have a 50% chance to eat it.

Keld Denar
2010-08-21, 02:43 AM
Lies...I've actually eaten a real beaver's tail. Its pretty good. All lean, no fat, all delicious.

Poil
2010-08-21, 03:35 AM
It could just be me, but you might be better off NOT attempting to eat demons and the like. I can't imagine that things composed of rotting flesh would be very healthy either. How long would you need to boil a zombie before it's safe to eat anyway?

Admiral Squish
2010-08-21, 03:42 AM
That's why we don't have constructs or undead on the list just yet. Though, you could possibly eat undead or some constructs with the scavenging gullet feat.

Coidzor
2010-08-21, 03:46 AM
Most things you'd kill like that you're probably better off making into stew meat anyway, if unfamiliar with how to cut the meat, though, if there's enough discernible anatomy, basically preserving the muscle by cutting it out in one go is pretty much the crux of it.

That's... by and large how a quest-line in Avernum 5 ran, take the parts of magical beastie X and make a stew out of 'em.


It could just be me, but you might be better off NOT attempting to eat demons and the like. I can't imagine that things composed of rotting flesh would be very healthy either. How long would you need to boil a zombie before it's safe to eat anyway?

Rotten things aren't so much unsafe due to the bacteria so much as the toxins that have been built up by the breakdown of cells and the action of said bacteria.

Balain
2010-08-21, 04:16 AM
Beaver tails are not what you think they are.


my mom has her moms recipes that includes beaver tails from when she lived and worked in lumberjack camps. It was no pastry it was real tails.

Greenish
2010-08-21, 04:49 AM
You should definitely be able to make Opposable Digit Stew from Girallons.

Admiral Squish
2010-08-21, 06:03 AM
I'm honestly starting to get curious about the flavor of beaver tail...

Also, is there a D&D beaver?

Ravens_cry
2010-08-21, 06:14 AM
I'm honestly starting to get curious about the flavor of beaver tail...

Also, is there a D&D beaver?
I know for a fact there is a GIANT Beaver. You can trade with them or sell their pelts. (http://www.headinjurytheater.com/article73.htm)

ShadowsGrnEyes
2010-08-21, 12:13 PM
How do you butcher the more exotic animals? Snakes, felines, canines, rodents, apes, vermin... I mean, I've been looking at butcher charts, but there's only so much adaptation that can be done.

How would you handle the issue of eating humanoids, monstrous humanoids, and giants?

What happens to the bodies of creatures with death throes? Are they completely consumed?

What happens to outsiders? I've heard they just sorta dissolve and flow back to their plane, so is there any way to eat them?

1. Snakes are butchered kinda like fish, but you also skin them. Gut it Skin it and Chop the body into Chucks of approrpiate sized for you or very long fillets. (barbequed rattelsnake isn't bad actually, little chewy)
Most quadrupeds have a similar muscle structure overall so they'll butcher in a similar fashion to more commonly butchered animals like cow or rabbit.
Very small game generally falls under the roast it hole or chop it into stew category.
As far as there very exotic. . . look at seafood. . . people already eat some pretty exotic anatomies.

2. Were you talking about the moral issue? morally it's only canibalism if your eating your own species(and depending on your race there might not be a problem). If you happen to be eating another sentient species then you need to asses your characters beliefs.
if your not talking about morally and we were still talking about butchering then the same way you eat anything else. in the grand scheme of things meat is meat.

3. no idea

4. outsiders dont leave remains. so you probably cant eat them. . .

Moriato
2010-08-21, 01:32 PM
... How do you even eat incorporeal things?

Ghost-touch dentures? Regardless, I tend to avoid eating incorporeal things, they go right through me...

Poil
2010-08-21, 02:06 PM
Rotten things aren't so much unsafe due to the bacteria so much as the toxins that have been built up by the breakdown of cells and the action of said bacteria.

Ah, so zombie meat would be more like a delicacy served at expensive inns then? Cure poison is extra.

Admiral Squish
2010-08-21, 02:10 PM
1. Snakes are butchered kinda like fish, but you also skin them. Gut it Skin it and Chop the body into Chucks of approrpiate sized for you or very long fillets. (barbequed rattelsnake isn't bad actually, little chewy)

Very helpful! Lotsa serpentine body plans in D&D.

Most quadrupeds have a similar muscle structure overall so they'll butcher in a similar fashion to more commonly butchered animals like cow or rabbit.

what about a dodekaped, such as a behir? What about giant vermin with virtually no recognizable translations to 'normal' food animals? While a cow might have the same basic muscles as an ape, a cow doesn't have meat on their forearms. There's a lot of considerations that need to be made for the atypical bodies.

Very small game generally falls under the roast it hole or chop it into stew category.

Also quite helpful.

As far as there very exotic. . . look at seafood. . . people already eat some pretty exotic anatomies.

Oh, yeah, I'm not arguing we don't eat wierd stuff, just that 'wierd' is different from this 'wierd'.

2. Were you talking about the moral issue? morally it's only canibalism if your eating your own species(and depending on your race there might not be a problem). If you happen to be eating another sentient species then you need to asses your characters beliefs.

Well, I'd argue that it would still be considered cannibalism. Were an elf to eat a human, it would have much the same overtones as a human eating a human. What about a half-giant? Technically, it's still a giant, according to creature type, but it's definitely somewhat human as well.

if your not talking about morally and we were still talking about butchering then the same way you eat anything else. in the grand scheme of things meat is meat.

That too, though humans generally have different cuts, I would think. A cow's meat mostly comes from the sides and shoulders/hips, where as most humans carry their meat in the thighs, stomach, breast and arms, with very little on the sides or back.

3. no idea

The main cause for this question was the frost worm, which says that it turns into ice and explodes.

4. outsiders dont leave remains. so you probably cant eat them. . .

Do they leave remains at all? Even if they were on their home plane? If they don't leave remains, how can native outsiders be raised at all?
It';s beginning to look like I'm never be able to savor the sweet taste of seasoned angel wings...


Replied in bold.


Ghost-touch dentures? Regardless, I tend to avoid eating incorporeal things, they go right through me...

You, sir, are going to pun hell for that one.

Lysander
2010-08-21, 02:47 PM
... How do you even eat incorporeal things?

Simple. Just eat it on the ethereal plane.

Tiki Snakes
2010-08-21, 03:30 PM
Having discussed exactly that at length in a previous thread, I have come to the personal decision that eating other sentient creatures (that are however not the same species as yourself) is not strictly speaking cannibalism. It is however, a similar taboo, for very similar reasons, it's just a practice that we don't have a snappy word for as it's not actually possible in the real-world.

Problem is, cannibalism isn't derived from ancient latin or greek for "Eating People", that would be 'Anthrophagy', and I can't think of any appropriate and clear variation for this fantasy-cannibalism. Any budding ancient-greek language affectionados in tonight? :smallsmile:

Oh, and 'Giant Vermin'? That mostly means Big Bugs in DnD terms, right? Well, you'd butcher and eat them like any other real world Big Bugs.

See Crabs and Lobsters for details, if nothing else.

http://www.broerse.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/giant-coconut-crab.jpg
http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/7896/formassivedamage.jpg
Hit it's weak point for MASSIVE DAMAGE.
Just don't let it's folks find out.
http://www.401hiphop.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/giant_crab.jpg

They Get Cranky.

http://roberthood.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/_incredible_giant_crab_redux_by_vegasmike.jpg

Oh hey, bonus crustacean!
http://0.tqn.com/d/paranormal/1/0/h/T/weird_crustacean.jpg

Lyndworm
2010-08-21, 03:52 PM
I actually know a recipe for tarantula. It's supposedly a delicacy appropriate for weddings and the like. It involves separating the meat from different parts of the body, although it all goes into one mush when you cook it.

On the subject of cannibalism, in the Book of Vile Darkness it's specifically stated that the D&D term for eating intelligent creature is cannibalism, regardless of species. It's also always an Evil act, even if the guy died of natural causes and you're starving to death.

Oh, that last "crustacean," Tiki Snakes, isn't real. It's a model of an extinct sea scorpion, which actually isn't a crustacean anyway.

The first picture, however, is very, very real. It's the dreaded coconut crab.

Tiki Snakes
2010-08-21, 04:31 PM
The crusty in question came up in a search for crabs, and it was difficult to find a working picture, so I don't really know enough to comment on it. The JPG was called 'Weird Crustacean'.

I did find some mention of Giant Scorpions actually. Though, the model (and yeah, actually it does look a little like a model perhaps) doesn't actually look like the images I've seen of the 'Giant Sea Scorpion' in question, which all have a slightly different looking tail.

Some further digging points to it having possibly been put together for a Nigel-Marvin 'walking with dinosaurs' style schlock documentary, funnily enough, and is a totally different extinct-sea-scorpion to the one I was thinking of. :smallsmile:
Apparently the guy in the jpg is the head of the company (Crawly Creatures (http://www.crawley-creatures.com/walking/seamonsters.htm)) that put it together for the show.

Still, it's basically a small Dire Scorpion (Aquatic), so it still serves as a decent example of things wot could be eaten, as it's also clearly not that far removed from a wopping big lobster.

Admiral Squish
2010-08-21, 05:12 PM
Holy crap coconut crabs. :smalleek:

But yeah, that's a pretty good base.

Coidzor
2010-08-21, 05:21 PM
I love how by that definition, unintelligent things can't commit cannibalism.

I think that alone shows how... readily discarded that particular ruling is in favor of something more sane. I mean, honestly, a druid going around casting awaken on cows before they get slaughtered could cause wendigos to sprout up all over the kingdom? That's... Well, on the one hand that's kind of funny as a villainous plot to turn the players' assumptions that they're doing a Warcraft 3 run, but on the other hand it just reeks of stupid.


Ah, so zombie meat would be more like a delicacy served at expensive inns then? Cure poison is extra.

Sort of like those hundred year old eggs that are considered a delicacy. You mostly eat them to be amazed at how they didn't kill you.

Project_Mayhem
2010-08-21, 08:09 PM
You died from eating a rotted Kobold corpse

Admiral Squish
2010-08-21, 08:16 PM
I was actually considering a craft (cooking) check to produce dishes. Failed checks mean the guys who eat it get a disease or somethin'.

Some other ideas: Food must be prepared within one hour of creature's death, or the DC to prepare safely increases by 5/hour.

A 'devourer' class gains a scaling bite attack, much like a monk's unarmed strike. Eventually, the bite is doing con damage and healing you each time you hit with it. For a more feral feel.

An anthrophagi PrC for eating humanoids and gaining abilities. A significantly less-broken version of the illithid savant.

ShadowsGrnEyes
2010-08-21, 08:36 PM
Keep in mind that very few cultures restrict the meat they take off animals to the basic butcher cuts. Butcher cuts are a developed world thing.

The term "Bushmeat" will bring up a large amount of information on the cooking and eating of just about anything that you can kill.

Tiki Snakes
2010-08-21, 08:38 PM
Keep in mind that very few cultures restrict the meat they take off animals to the basic butcher cuts. Butcher cuts are a developed world thing.

The term "Bushmeat" will bring up a large amount of information on the cooking and eating of just about anything that you can kill.

And even then, possibly a recent development.

I understand there was a Victorian saying - You can eat every part of a Pig but the Squeal.

Coidzor
2010-08-21, 08:43 PM
And even then, possibly a recent development.

I understand there was a Victorian saying - You can eat every part of a Pig but the Squeal.

Indeed, that reminds me, aren't there some scorpions which are basically prepared whole and then eaten as is? I seem to recall something being said about how one can fry locusts/grasshoppers whole or pan-fry/saute 'em... Or even candy them.

hamishspence
2010-08-22, 02:57 PM
I seem to recall something being said about how one can fry locusts/grasshoppers whole or pan-fry/saute 'em... Or even candy them.

Makes me think of a parody of the Forrest Gump line:

"if life is like a box of chocolates- I just ate the candied cockroach"

dgnslyr
2010-08-22, 03:15 PM
... How do you even eat incorporeal things?

It's a class feature of a homebrew PrC that gives your digestive system the Ghost Touch property, as well as your hands. Said homebrew PrC is just a bunch of ideas I've daydreamed about on occasion. Don't expect me to actually type it out, because that would require effort.

Crasical
2010-08-24, 04:09 PM
Just something that I thought about, without having read the PRC before.

1. Something like the Master of Masks or Tattooed Monk PRC, where every level up gives you a new slot for a recipe your character knows or has consumed, giving a different benefit to the cannibal or gourmet who took the PRC.

2. Should this PRC be limited to recipes dealing with animals or creatures with an int of 1-2, to avoid the ethical ramifications for eating sentient creatures? If not, should the PRC be limited to evil aligned characters, who don't have a problem eating sentient creatures?

3. I feel like the character's Con Modifier should be used somehow in this PRC, for 'stomach capacity' or 'intestinal fortitude' or something.

4. Maybe the 'ingredients' for the food should be limited to those with a CR equal to the character's level?