So my players are at a party being hosted by the town council, where they are being celebrated to impress a trade group from another nation.
One of my players between sessions (2 sessions at a dinner party yes) said they wanted to give me a heads up that their character would be perusing the buffet table and want to know exactly what is on display :).
So for a bit of fun looking for any ideas anyone here might have for DnD Buffet food ideas, there are lots of different races at this event. The town they are in is in a largely Mid european type setting and the trade organisatio come from a far hotter, southern lands (think the trade routes between Turkey/southern span and Norther Europe)
goat, probably prepared a couple of different ways (maybe a roast and a kebob?)
fowl - chicken, and then something more exotic like duck or quail or pheasant
breads… lots of different types and kinds of bread, maybe paired with sliced cheeses and jams, jellies or dairy based spreads
is it near harvest time? If so play up the local food crop… squashes, pumpkins, sweet potatoes… there are dozens of ways to prepare these
dessert table! Pies, tarts, sugared breads
hard boiled or deviled eggs. Plus, it’s d&d so maybe they are literally DEVILed eggs
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PC - Ethel - Human - Lvl 4 Necromancer - Undying Dragons * Serge Marshblade - Human - Lvl 5 Eldritch Knight - Hoard of the Dragon Queen
DM -(Homebrew) Heroes of Bardstown *Red Dead Annihilation: ToA *Where the Cold Winds Blow : DoIP * Covetous, Dragonish Thoughts: HotDQ * Red Wine, Black Rose: CoS * Greyhawk: Tides of War
The big thing to remember is without refrigeration the food is going to need to be very local and seasonal. No cherry pie in December kind of thing. And while the trade routes will bring spices, there’s not likely to be much actual produce from far away — unless it’s a delicacy teleported in just for the event, which now that I think of it could be really a good flavor thing if the host wants to flaunt their money.
I strongly recommend that you take some time to peruse a Youtube channel called "Tasting History with Max Miller". It's amazing! Not only is it fun and educational, it presents a wide variety of dishes that might seem extremely unusual by today's standards but that were mainstays of diets in centuries past. And each video is only about 10 minutes long, so you can binge a bunch at once. You'll see stuff on that channel that none of your players would ever expect!
Halflings are probably the best race from which to find a good Chef, possibly even one with the Chef feat. So there might be some of those tasty treats that restore hit points around, as well as good tasting rustic foods like roast beef and English style puddings. (If you've ever had the pleasure to try Yorkshire Pudding, you know what I mean.) They would have the most wonderful garden salads around, Cornish game hens, different kinds of cheeses, as well as things like Chicken and Dumpling stew. Halfling desserts would run to fruit pies, and hard candy for the most part, maybe ice cream, and they would almost certainly supply fruit juices and hearty ale.
That would be what you would find at a Buffet. Later in the evening, a trade delegation would likely have a formal dinner.
Dwarves aren't known much for being cooks, but if there is anything they do, they do it well, and the Ice Sculptures at the party might be Dwarven work, as well as some of the utensils. While Halflings might bring good ale, Dwarven craft beers and hard liquor would be the best stuff you could get.
Elves aren't all that well known for being cooks as such, but then again, they are often great artists and they would likely bring wild game cooked with unusual spices, as well as exotic fruits that few people have ever tried. They could potentially even bring dishes from the Feywild, so I can imagine something like Tangerine Sherbet could come from the Elves, and I'd expect they would be great for fine aged wines.
Gnomes are known for tinkering, and might make some very interesting automated cooking devices for the kitchen, and they tend to use magic, so you might actually have a refrigerator in there, or a rotisserie for chickens. Just be careful about eating any of the food they bring, because Gnomes are known for practical jokes.
It amuses me to think of Tieflings as enjoying foods that involve peppers that are hot as Hell, and Aasimar might bring Heavenly sweets, perhaps even Chocolate (Keep in mind, that stuff comes from locations not normally part of D&D campaigns)
I don't know what Gensai might bring as far as food goes, but given their connection to the Elemental planes, I'd love to watch them cook whatever it was.
Orcs and Half-Orcs aren't known much for fancy food, but they would likely bring a lot of meat in bbq sauce, like an entire roasted cow or pig.
Mid European dishes, so far as I can remember, tended to be bland, but I believe the Turks enjoyed Coffee, which is another rather rare item in your typical D&D setting.
Session went really well, the player asking about the buffet is the halfling who roleplayed stealing as much as he was eating to put in his bag of holding for a snack later. I was able to describe each thing he ate or stole.
Later the Minotaur Babarian decide to challenge the visiting envoy (a racist, sexist, condescending individual who believes slavery is a good thing, but isn’t the bbeg, a bit of misdirection for my players). bodyguard to a fight, a monk far to strong to take one on one, 2 rounds of combat later Minotaur is unconscious the monk deciding to go for the body and the “first blood” stipulation being taken to mean coughing up from Internal bleeding, The halfling used the opportunity to continue nabbing food so in between describing each round I was describing the delicious morsel the halfling was eating and taking :).
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So my players are at a party being hosted by the town council, where they are being celebrated to impress a trade group from another nation.
One of my players between sessions (2 sessions at a dinner party yes) said they wanted to give me a heads up that their character would be perusing the buffet table and want to know exactly what is on display :).
So for a bit of fun looking for any ideas anyone here might have for DnD Buffet food ideas, there are lots of different races at this event. The town they are in is in a largely Mid european type setting and the trade organisatio come from a far hotter, southern lands (think the trade routes between Turkey/southern span and Norther Europe)
Hmmm…
PC - Ethel - Human - Lvl 4 Necromancer - Undying Dragons * Serge Marshblade - Human - Lvl 5 Eldritch Knight - Hoard of the Dragon Queen
DM - (Homebrew) Heroes of Bardstown * Red Dead Annihilation: ToA * Where the Cold Winds Blow : DoIP * Covetous, Dragonish Thoughts: HotDQ * Red Wine, Black Rose: CoS * Greyhawk: Tides of War
Just a bowl full of goodberries.
A cleric casting hero’s feast.
The big thing to remember is without refrigeration the food is going to need to be very local and seasonal. No cherry pie in December kind of thing. And while the trade routes will bring spices, there’s not likely to be much actual produce from far away — unless it’s a delicacy teleported in just for the event, which now that I think of it could be really a good flavor thing if the host wants to flaunt their money.
Otherwise, bowl of good berries.
I strongly recommend that you take some time to peruse a Youtube channel called "Tasting History with Max Miller". It's amazing! Not only is it fun and educational, it presents a wide variety of dishes that might seem extremely unusual by today's standards but that were mainstays of diets in centuries past. And each video is only about 10 minutes long, so you can binge a bunch at once. You'll see stuff on that channel that none of your players would ever expect!
Anzio Faro. Protector Aasimar light cleric. Lvl 18.
Viktor Gavriil. White dragonborn grave cleric. Lvl 20.
Ikram Sahir ibn-Malik al-Sayyid Ra'ad. Brass dragonborn draconic sorcerer Lvl 9. Fire elemental devil.
Wrangler of cats.
Halflings are probably the best race from which to find a good Chef, possibly even one with the Chef feat. So there might be some of those tasty treats that restore hit points around, as well as good tasting rustic foods like roast beef and English style puddings. (If you've ever had the pleasure to try Yorkshire Pudding, you know what I mean.) They would have the most wonderful garden salads around, Cornish game hens, different kinds of cheeses, as well as things like Chicken and Dumpling stew. Halfling desserts would run to fruit pies, and hard candy for the most part, maybe ice cream, and they would almost certainly supply fruit juices and hearty ale.
That would be what you would find at a Buffet. Later in the evening, a trade delegation would likely have a formal dinner.
Dwarves aren't known much for being cooks, but if there is anything they do, they do it well, and the Ice Sculptures at the party might be Dwarven work, as well as some of the utensils. While Halflings might bring good ale, Dwarven craft beers and hard liquor would be the best stuff you could get.
Elves aren't all that well known for being cooks as such, but then again, they are often great artists and they would likely bring wild game cooked with unusual spices, as well as exotic fruits that few people have ever tried. They could potentially even bring dishes from the Feywild, so I can imagine something like Tangerine Sherbet could come from the Elves, and I'd expect they would be great for fine aged wines.
Gnomes are known for tinkering, and might make some very interesting automated cooking devices for the kitchen, and they tend to use magic, so you might actually have a refrigerator in there, or a rotisserie for chickens. Just be careful about eating any of the food they bring, because Gnomes are known for practical jokes.
It amuses me to think of Tieflings as enjoying foods that involve peppers that are hot as Hell, and Aasimar might bring Heavenly sweets, perhaps even Chocolate (Keep in mind, that stuff comes from locations not normally part of D&D campaigns)
I don't know what Gensai might bring as far as food goes, but given their connection to the Elemental planes, I'd love to watch them cook whatever it was.
Orcs and Half-Orcs aren't known much for fancy food, but they would likely bring a lot of meat in bbq sauce, like an entire roasted cow or pig.
Mid European dishes, so far as I can remember, tended to be bland, but I believe the Turks enjoyed Coffee, which is another rather rare item in your typical D&D setting.
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Found these 2 resources
http://thecampaign20xx.blogspot.com/2015/07/dungeons-dragons-great-list-of-food.html
https://www.dndspeak.com/2017/12/12/100-tavern-food/
Session went really well, the player asking about the buffet is the halfling who roleplayed stealing as much as he was eating to put in his bag of holding for a snack later. I was able to describe each thing he ate or stole.
Later the Minotaur Babarian decide to challenge the visiting envoy (a racist, sexist, condescending individual who believes slavery is a good thing, but isn’t the bbeg, a bit of misdirection for my players). bodyguard to a fight, a monk far to strong to take one on one, 2 rounds of combat later Minotaur is unconscious the monk deciding to go for the body and the “first blood” stipulation being taken to mean coughing up from Internal bleeding, The halfling used the opportunity to continue nabbing food so in between describing each round I was describing the delicious morsel the halfling was eating and taking :).