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10-23-1998, 03:33 PM #11Gary V. FossGuest
The Fifth Food Group
DKEvermore@aol.com wrote:
> Hey, these are cool ideas! And I say that Gobbos eat insects as a dietary
> supplement. Especially spiders!! Yum!
I actually like that idea too. Goblins can eat snakes, spiders and various items
that other races would find unpalatable, maybe even poisonous. If goblins could
eat locusts, for instance, it would be a cute analogy for their reproductive
habits and the way they are seen as a pestilence by many other cultures. After
all, you are what you eat.... Does that mean cannibals don't change at all?
Gary
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10-23-1998, 05:19 PM #12Jim CooperGuest
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Gary V. Foss wrote:
> What a heart warming tale of survival! We should make a movie! Heh. Cute analogy. Though I don't really think the Baruk Azhik even have a soccer team, do they?
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10-24-1998, 01:33 AM #13darkstarGuest
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Ryan Freire wrote:
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> Personally i think dwarves survive underground mainly on Mushrooms and
> Rothe herds, Mushrooms, being easy to grow in places like caves, can be
> plentiful easily. Rothe being cattle raised to live underground would
> provide the protien. Even the most important staple of dwarven
> life...alcohol, is made from mushrooms.
>
I have always liked the Dwarven Diet set out in the players secrets of
Baruk-Azhik. In that they mainy ate things like mushrooms, shellfish and
root vegetables. They can also survive on just rock, dirt and a little
water if need be.
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10-24-1998, 11:53 AM #14MANTAGuest
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> > But one of my players pointed out that
> > > elves and humans can get fertile offspring.
> One thing I have noticed that is kind of strange with normal AD&D (not
sure
> about BR, is it still true) is that a half elf and human can mate, and
make a
> half-elf. Then, a human and orc can mate and have a half-orc. So that
means
> an elf and orc should be able to have a half elf and half orc baby!
there are
> also half ogres, which means there could be a half orc half human man,
that
> has a baby with a half elf half ogre woman, and make a.....
Mongrelman (the designers thought of it)
MANTA
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10-24-1998, 11:55 AM #15YTHmin@aol.coGuest
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As a DM playing the Dark Side ( yea I get to be the Gorgon and the bad guys )
I always thought humans were the fifth food group
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10-24-1998, 05:46 PM #16Jim CooperGuest
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YTHmin@aol.com wrote:
> As a DM playing the Dark Side ( yea I get to be the Gorgon and the bad guys ) I always thought humans were the fifth food group<
Heh. Don't forget halfings - they're tasty!
Elves, on the other hand, are gamy, and dwarves give you gas.
:)
Cheers,
GV on the relative merits of eating certain food groups.
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10-24-1998, 10:19 PM #17Kenneth GauckGuest
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>Ryan Freire wrote:
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> Personally i think dwarves survive underground mainly on mushrooms and
> Rothe herds, Mushrooms, being easy to grow in places like caves, can be
> plentiful easily. Rothe being cattle raised to live underground would
> provide the protien. Even the most important staple of dwarven
> life...alcohol, is made from mushrooms.
That makes an underground life more sensible, but the way the sup was
written (which I take to be only a suggestion to players and DM's) was that
dwarves lived entirely underground and prefered to eat potatoes, carrots,
other root vegetables, onions, peanuts and legumes (peas and beans) as well
as strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, pepers, greens, thistles,
artichokes, radishes, oats, rye, barley, and occasionally pears, peaches,
cranberries, cherries, hickory nuts, chestnuts, and acorns. This
absolutely requires above ground cultivation, which is contrary to what the
sup claims.
My explanation of this to my players was that Dwarves find the cultivation
of these crops so effortless (relative to other things they do) that dwarves
don't value the time and effort, hence its under-reported in the dwarves own
thinking.
The sup also says there are no surface structures, which I explained by
saying that the many structures built on the surface were wood, and lasted
so few years compared to stone buildings that they were viewed by the
dwarves as temporary structures (like humans might view a tent).
This cultural translation requires players to get inside the heads of the
dwarves to make any sense of what they are saying.
Kenneth Gauck
c558382@earthlink.net
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10-26-1998, 02:00 PM #18DKEvermore@aol.coGuest
The Fifth Food Group
In a message dated 10-24-1998 12:20:43 PM Central Standard Time,
Jim_Cooper@bc.sympatico.ca writes:
> Heh. Don't forget halfings - they're tasty!
>
I have found halflings a tad greasy for me.
- -DKE
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