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| Oroburos69 |
Posted - 06 Jul 2008 : 08:33:23
Has this been written about somewhere? If so, could someone tell me what was written? The piece of dragon in question was the heart of a black dragon which was made into dragon stew. I doubt it'll affect the effects, but the stew had potatoes, onions, dried peppers, and mushrooms in it too. This has become quite a debate so I'd certainly appeciate an answer. |
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| Markustay |
Posted - 14 Jul 2008 : 20:15:13
When I ran Greyhawk I added in a 'mosnter city' on the Wild Coast called Gwarch. The funny thing is, that TSR later did pretty much the same thing by making an Orc Kingdom there. 
Anyhow, the city was techniaclly lawful evil, ruled by a VERY poweful Gwarch (Norse Witch) who had a ZERO-tolerance policy when it came to her laws regarding NO VIOLENCE within the city, which extended some 25 miles from the city as well (it was well patrolled). The city was filled with all the regular intellingent monster species (VERY similar to Skullport, long before FR was bought by TSR), and the Eateries catered to their patrons very strange tastes.
The characters, rescued from angry Grugach Elves (who were in hot persuit) by Orcish Knights (they didn't know they were Orcs until they lifted their visors) were escorted to the city to state their business to "The Gwarch", and were settled in an Inn (and carefully, but covertly, watched) until their audience the next day.
The Elf in the group nearly lost total control when they went to have dinner, and "Elf Fingers" were on the menu. 
I guess it really depends on what you are and where you are as to what makes appropriate eating and what doesn't.
And I still wouldn't eat a cow I spoke with, even if all it said was "Grass Good". 
Maybe if that ever comes up in one of my games, I'll ask the gras how IT feels about that?  |
| Gwydion669 |
Posted - 14 Jul 2008 : 09:07:53
It does bring to mind interesting scenarios for a DM ....
The PC's are at a dinner party where dragon stew is about to be served.
One of the guests is a song dragon in human form (and did not have advance knowledge of the menu) .... |
| Wooly Rupert |
Posted - 09 Jul 2008 : 20:19:42
quote:
Originally posted by Markustay
There's just one hole in your logic, Wooly.
In FR (or any fantasy setting, for that matter) you can 'talk' to just about anything, just by using magic.
Just ask any Urdunnir Dwarf who had an argument with a rock after he used it as a slingstone.
So you can indeed talk to cows, which to me, makes the idea of eating it afterwards pretty damn gross.
I'd eat it's quiet friend, though.
True, but most things lack human-level or greater intelligence, even if you can magically communicate with them. And that's what I was referring to: something that can hold more of a conversation than "grass good!" 
quote:
Originally posted by Markustay
Bizarre Question that just lept to mind:
Would a Minotaur (one of the more 'civilized' types, like from Taladas) get really mad if he caught you eating a hamburger? Would he even eat one himself? 
I actually considered that, since I played a minotaur... I don't think one would have any problem with eating beef, since minotaurs are a separate race. They look like cows, but aren't related to them. |
| Markustay |
Posted - 09 Jul 2008 : 19:39:02
There's just one hole in your logic, Wooly.
In FR (or any fantasy setting, for that matter) you can 'talk' to just about anything, just by using magic.
Just ask any Urdunnir Dwarf who had an argument with a rock after he used it as a slingstone.
So you can indeed talk to cows, which to me, makes the idea of eating it afterwards pretty damn gross.
I'd eat it's quiet friend, though.
Bizarre Question that just lept to mind:
Would a Minotaur (one of the more 'civilized' types, like from Taladas) get really mad if he caught you eating a hamburger? Would he even eat one himself? |
| Varl |
Posted - 09 Jul 2008 : 16:55:42
For me, it would depend on the character I was playing whether or not they'd eat sentient creature flesh, if they even knew what it was in the first place.
I don't have a problem with characters eating sentient creature meat, properly prepared of course, but it also highly depends on the creature type too. Dragons and other monstrous beings are sufficiently non-anthropomorphic enough to consider putting on the menu, but humanoids are right out, and considering all the other vile and debased things adventurers do during their careers, and have committed upon them, what's on the menu can be have just as much fantasy flavor to it as discovering a new type of magic. Just because we wouldn't eat it doesn't mean Merle the Monster Slayer/Cook doesn't see the potential. |
| Brother Accam |
Posted - 09 Jul 2008 : 06:25:57
quote:
Originally posted by The Hooded One
Wooly, your point about not eating sentient creatures is precisely the one enforced by the DRAGON editor who once deep-sixed one of Ed's articles ("Dragon Soup"), a collection of monster-use recipes (my "horrid favourite" was Baked Stirge On Toast) that a previous DRAGON editor had specifically asked Ed to write.
So it's a stance that has been taken "officially" before.
love,
THO
Any chance of seeing this article included elsewhere sometime in the future THO? |
| Murray Leeder |
Posted - 09 Jul 2008 : 05:57:53
The Draconomicon, the second edition FR product, had some lines on this, as I recall.
I too wrote a short story on this subject, called "Wyrm Food," which appeared in the anthology Fantasy Readers Wanted -- Apply Within. It involved a mad gourmet who hires a dragonslayer to retrieve a dragon brain for him. |
| Pasta Fzoul |
Posted - 09 Jul 2008 : 04:17:12
quote:
Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
I've also never really liked the standard thing of looting dead bodies, though I've had my characters do it often enough.
And which, I believe, has been standard practice in warfare (at least in the West) for millennia.
As to the topic at hand: metallic dragons taste like sweet, noble virtue... Er, uh, that is to say... *disappears with a puff of smoke and whiff of brimstone* |
| The Hooded One |
Posted - 09 Jul 2008 : 03:37:55
Wooly, your point about not eating sentient creatures is precisely the one enforced by the DRAGON editor who once deep-sixed one of Ed's articles ("Dragon Soup"), a collection of monster-use recipes (my "horrid favourite" was Baked Stirge On Toast) that a previous DRAGON editor had specifically asked Ed to write.
So it's a stance that has been taken "officially" before.
love,
THO |
| Wooly Rupert |
Posted - 09 Jul 2008 : 01:56:21
quote:
Originally posted by capnvan
quote:
Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
I've never been keen on the idea of eating a sentient creature. I'm not vegetarian or vegan or anything (I am happily carnivorous), but if something was capable of holding a conversation with me when it was alive, I don't want it on my dinner plate. This is something that carries thru to my PCs.
Interesting point. Particularly given that many of those dragons, and other carnivorous beasties aren't nearly so discriminating. After all, how many times have you heard/played a dragon who toys a bit with his perfectly sentient (well, they are PCs, so I may be overdoing it, I suppose) prey?
Yeah, dragons do it. But they generally have a low opinion of non-dragons, even if they can talk to them.
*shrugs* There are a couple of things in roleplaying that bug my modern, real-world sensibilities. And eating sentient critters is one of them. I've also never really liked the standard thing of looting dead bodies, though I've had my characters do it often enough. |
| althen artren |
Posted - 08 Jul 2008 : 19:05:39
If cows would talk, what would they say before you turned them into cheeseburgers?
As an orc, I ate the fingers of other orcs.
Haven't really done any eating sentient creatures myself. |
| Hawkins |
Posted - 08 Jul 2008 : 17:59:22
quote:
Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
I've never been keen on the idea of eating a sentient creature. I'm not vegetarian or vegan or anything (I am happily carnivorous), but if something was capable of holding a conversation with me when it was alive, I don't want it on my dinner plate. This is something that carries thru to my PCs.
I normally wouldn't consider it, but it was in character for this character. |
| Wooly Rupert |
Posted - 08 Jul 2008 : 17:08:07
I've never been keen on the idea of eating a sentient creature. I'm not vegetarian or vegan or anything (I am happily carnivorous), but if something was capable of holding a conversation with me when it was alive, I don't want it on my dinner plate. This is something that carries thru to my PCs. |
| althen artren |
Posted - 08 Jul 2008 : 16:51:37
Gold Dragons: Taste exactly like Goldschlagger alcohal. Smells of
incense before cooked.
Silver Dragon: Tastes somewhat like Coors beer-silver bullet
Mercury Dragon: Poisonous, metallic taste, not real good.
Brown Dragon: Tastes like chocolate, especially sought for
Spring Celebrations (think Easter and choco bunny)
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| althen artren |
Posted - 08 Jul 2008 : 16:39:29
Spells stilled, Admins
Can we have a smiley-con of a smile with his tongue out
with a knife on one side and a steak knike in the other.
We do talk about food a lot in this forum. |
| Hawkins |
Posted - 08 Jul 2008 : 16:29:08
A week and a half ago, at my every-other-week gaming group, we brought down and blue, and my wild dwarf (non-Realmsian of Realmsian design) decided to slice off a bit and eat it (it was responsible for the hobgoblins that killed his tribe). We decided that it was probably spicy, and we talked about the other colors and decided on similar results to what dracons posted above. |
| Dracons |
Posted - 08 Jul 2008 : 16:16:33
Red Dragon: The hottest known meat in the realms. Remember that scene in the Simpsons with Chief Wiggum making the super hot chili? Yeah, thats the minor part. The dark meat is much more hotter. But one of the better tasting meat.
Green Dragon: Poisonous. But tastes so good. Good way to assassanate people though.
White Dragon: Uncookable. It seems like the white dragon meat just cannot get heated, even by magical means. It reminds raw and frozen.
Blue Dragon: Has a bit of a spice to it, like Cumin. However, it sizzles in your mouth, and sends little shocks of joy down ones spine.
Black Dragon: Another poisonious meat. However, this one can be salvaged, if cooked right. Not as good as Green though.
I've yet to decide on how the other dragons would taste. That is how it is in my game though. |
| IngoDjan |
Posted - 08 Jul 2008 : 03:27:03
I read in some place that Dragons eat all things. From vegetables ´til iron!!! |
| Markustay |
Posted - 08 Jul 2008 : 03:10:48
It taste like Chicken.
And a VERY hungry Halfling with a fork might just be scarier then an angry one with a sword.
Especially if you're on Athas.... |
| Varl |
Posted - 07 Jul 2008 : 22:59:15
There's a short adventure in Adventure Pack 1 or 2 (I forget which one) called "Steaks" which I ran a few years back which is about eating dragonflesh. Yum. Cooks up nice with some aged Chianti. |
| The Red Walker |
Posted - 07 Jul 2008 : 21:55:13
quote:
Originally posted by althen artren
Dragons on the verge of extinction?
Obviously you have not looked in
a monster manuel recently.
I think he was referring to events within the story he metioned |
| althen artren |
Posted - 07 Jul 2008 : 21:24:28
Dragons on the verge of extinction?
Obviously you have not looked in
a monster manuel recently. |
| Ayunken-vanzan |
Posted - 07 Jul 2008 : 05:58:19
*Has an image of a gnome approaching a dragon not with armor, sword and buckler but with napkin around his neck, knife and fork.* |
| Kes_Alanadel |
Posted - 07 Jul 2008 : 03:51:33
quote:
Originally posted by althen artren
I think that before anybody tried, the dragon should
probably be killed 1st.
*Has an image of a halfing walking up to a dragon, "Excuse me? I'm hungry, can I 'borrow' a piece of your tail?" *
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| Jamallo Kreen |
Posted - 07 Jul 2008 : 03:48:26
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| althen artren |
Posted - 07 Jul 2008 : 02:54:28
I think that before anybody tried, the dragon should
probably be killed 1st. |
| Jamallo Kreen |
Posted - 07 Jul 2008 : 00:04:37
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| Lord Karsus |
Posted - 06 Jul 2008 : 21:26:51
-Meat is meat... |
| Thauramarth |
Posted - 06 Jul 2008 : 17:14:39
Also from the indomitable Volo: Dragon Soup! (Volo's Guide to Waterdeep, p. 150). |
| Jamallo Kreen |
Posted - 06 Jul 2008 : 15:37:59
Eating dragon meat and dragon dragon blood may have unintended side effects such as learning what birds are really saying, which, as 'Monty Python's Flying Circus" revealed years ago, isn't a whole lot.
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