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September 17, 2009

Dungeons and Dragons Sodas

As I posted on my other blog, Jones Soda recently announced that they are partnering with Wizards to create D&D-themed sodas. Wacky. I have to wonder whether these will actually be tasty… or if they’ll be more along the lines of the Jones Thanksgiving flavors. What do you think Illithid Brain Juice tastes like?

February 3, 2009

What I’ve been up to. . .

I realize I haven’t been posting a lot of late. I’ve been pretty busy. Angela and I ran our first game session last night, a week earlier than we’d been planning. We had to cram a bit. I think it went well, even though I blanked on the FATE combat variant we were using halfway through the PCs’ first combat....

May 9, 2008

A spell! About food!

Shocking. I know. An early excerpt from Elmer’s spell book… The material enclosed in the box below is released via the Open Game License. Epicure Divination Level: Brd 1, Sor/Wiz 1Components: V, SCasting Time: 1 standard actionRange: PersonalTarget: YouDuration: 10 min./levelYou may glean a great deal of information from the food you eat. With a single bite of food, you...

April 22, 2008

Cooking With Magic II

Basic: Reduce PersonA small person needs half as much food and water to sustain himself as one of medium size. This has obvious benefits from a food-conservation standpoint. It also has benefits for the frugal arcane gourmet who has limited access to large quantities of high-quality ingredients. Intermediate: Gentle ReposeThe benefits of being able to perfectly preserve a creature’s corpse...

April 2, 2008

Cooking with Magic I

Basic: MendingThe kitchen uses of the Mending cantrip are innumerable. The spell does not have an effect upon creatures, but dead things are considered objects rather than creatures. Want to check the doneness of your meat? Slice it open as far as you want… and then cast this simple spell to mend the tear. Mending can also be used for...

March 14, 2008

Happy Pi Day

In honor of Pi Day, my favorite pie recipe: TO MAKE AN AMBLONGUS PIE Take 4 pounds (say 4 1/2 pounds) of fresh Amblongusses, and put them in a small pipkin. Cover them with water and boil them for 8 hours incessantly, after which add 2 pints of new milk, and proceed to boil for 4 hours more. When you...

December 14, 2007

WOW! A recipe!

I don’t play World of Warcraft. I’ve never been interested in MMORPGs. Still, I find this sort of offensive. For those too lazy to follow the link, it is to a food blog that I read regularly. It has a recipe for “Murloc Fin Soup” – a bit of Googling tells me that is a soup in WoW that is...

October 5, 2007

Food in RPGs, Part II

Food can help define cultures, continued…. Once you associate different foods with specific cultures, you have another tool in your GMing palette. If your PCs walk into an area, they can be assaulted by familiar smells that might give them a clue about what they are dealing with. Once you establish, for instance, that kobolds like to soak their meat...

October 5, 2007

Food in RPGs, Part I

I like food. I enjoy cooking, and I am not too shabby at it, either. Last weekend I made borscht. I also broke out the ice cream maker for the first time and made some donut-flavored ice cream. (My housemate had been craving donuts, and it was her birthday on Monday.) I belong to a CSA. I read some food...

October 3, 2007

Recipe Book: Spider Legs with Orange Sauce

Ingredients: 4 pounds spider legs, about 1-2 feet long each1 mug light ale1 orange1 small onion1/3 pound butter1 handful flour make sure your spider legs are thoroughly washed soak the legs in one half the ale, mixing them around occasionally grate 1/3 of orange peel juice the orange mince the onion melt a small amount of butter in a pan...

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