(Illustration by Chris McFann)

Master Pett’s Your Whispering Homunculus presents only the finest in British gaming. Indeed, you are not likely to find a more comprehensive assortment of miscellany anywhere.

(So much more than just another bloke in a dress.)

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“Stew!”

“Lord?”

“Dumplings!”

“Master?”

“Tripe!”

“Your worship?”

“All delicious meals in their own right, slugthing, but I have need of more exotic meals tonight. I need those meals that truly stay in the minds (and possibly stomachs) of the true connoisseur.”

“I have the very thing here master. Hundro Ockpot’s Guide to Obscure, Unusual, and Occasionally Revolting Meals, Volume I…”

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Meals (Cost/Day)
Good (5 sp)
Common (3 sp)
Poor (2 sp)

The Pathfinder Core Rulebook gives an excellent potted description of meals, but categorizing all food in one of three ways misses out on a potentially interesting piece of interaction and color that gives an added dimension to your gaming table.

Regional meals vary enormously, and food within a fantasy campaign offers you a great chance to indulge in some imaginative delights: a meat pie in one town could be a significantly different meat pie in another. People tend to live off whatever happens to be abundant locally, but they soon grow tired of the same old dishes and try to spice them up a little.

Here are some foods to throw at your players to keep them on their toes, pique their interest, or just make them feel queasy as they tramp the byways and valleys of your villages, outposts, and camps. In each case, as they are local delicacies, you should consider them common local meals, or where more exotic ingredients are found, up the price to 5 sp. In general, meals with stranger parts—such as roast stirge—is the result of a happy chance encounter although if you really wish to have that stirge farm outside town feel free to develop it and its insane owner.

As usual, use these variations sparingly. A town full of truly weird food could be an unusual diversion.

1. Roast hedgehog with spinach
2. Pot Luck Pie
3. Whole roast stirge with cauliflowers
4. Pig’s blood with scrambled eggs
5. Stewed dormice with greengage jam
6. Beef tongue with pumpkin
7. Calf’s feet jelly
8. Deep fried monkey toes
9. Fermented herring
10. Cow’s heart with fresh vegetables
11. Jellied eels
12. Bison liver with boiled potatoes and parsley
13. Grouse pie and cucumber soup
14. Boiled shocker lizard and cabbage
15. Owl soup with black bread
16. Roast magpie with courgettes and pickled gerkins
17. Fried snails and asparagus
18. Giblet soup
19. Veal cake with marrows
20. Hashed dire game and cabbage
21. Lark pie and jumbles
22. Pickled tongue with apples and hard cheese
23. Roasted whole songbirds with dried fruit
24. Sea slugs with red pepper sauce
25. Steamed dire boar tripe with onions
26. Deep fried blind toad with turnips
27. Strips of dried darkmantle flesh with apple chutney
28. Rook pie and sprouts
29. Boiled giant frog with broad beans
30. Stirge livers and mushrooms
31. Larks in onions
32. Potted lobster
33. Goat’s head with stewed celery
34. Fermented giant crab meat
35. Ram casserole with horseradish sauce
36. Fried ugly fish with baked mushrooms
37. Curried cockatrice
38. Turnip soup with cottage loaf
39. Deep fried dire bat and hardbread
40. Stewed kidneys with sprouts
41. Broiled ox-tails with orange brandy
42. Rabbits stewed in milk
43. Pickled hams and eggs
44. Barley gruel
45. Roast sturgeon with turnips
46. Tapioca soup and fried whitebait
47. Toad-in-the-hole
48. Potted turbot
49. Boiled sea kale
50. Garlic fried sparrows with roast potatoes and chives

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