Questions tagged [food-and-drink]
For questions about food and drink in-game in the context of RPGs. This includes issues relating to creating, finding, paying for, requirements of, and the effects of food and drink in-game. Questions about magic potions should use the [potions] tag instead. (Questions about real-world food and drink are off-topic for this tag.)
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Can you eat a druid? [duplicate]
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In my recent game our party was travelling through some barren wasteland and we were short on food, fortunately we have druid in a party so we think of using wildshape ability to create ...
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What would be a good 'fantasy' disinfectant/antiseptic? Is it necessary? [closed]
I have been consuming a lot of LARP, bushcraft, and military survival content lately, but I've noticed something about material hygiene and cooking that's got me thinking about fantasy cooking/...
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Can a dhampir survive on blood alone?
I am building a dhampir using the stats from Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft (p. 16-17), which has some interesting entries, such as this paragraph under "Dhampir Hungers":
Those who ...
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Does a Simulacrum need to Eat, Sleep, Drink, or Breathe?
So I am looking for some insights into some specificities of a Simulacrum. I have a vague understanding of how the D&D rules interact with Creature types (which is that they are rarely important). ...
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How can I resurrect a creature that died entirely by starvation or dehydration?
The section of the rules on food and water states that exhaustion resulting from starvation or dehydration cannot be cured until the cause has been eliminated (emphasis added):
Characters who don't ...
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Can the Prestidigitation cantrip create an "infinite" supply of food and water by repeatedly creating these trinkets?
The description of the prestidigitation cantrip says the following:
You create a nonmagical trinket or an illusory image that can fit in your hand and that lasts until the end of your next turn.
In ...
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What do Salamanders eat?
In the D&D 5e Monster Manual, most elementals state explicitly that they do not require food or drink. This is not the case for salamanders. By omission, they need to eat and drink. The Forgotten ...
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Can I use Fabricate and a horse to create burger patties and/or sausages?
I know it’s odd, but it came up recently as my character, using the cloak of useful items, created a horse. The party has no use for it, and we are trapped in a mountainous area where horses cannot ...
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Can World of Darkness vampires drink water?
Vampires in "Vampire: the Masquerade" can't eat normal food. Not only do they not get any nourishment out of it, it tastes foul to them and if they swallow it they'll immediately vomit (...
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How does cooking work in D&D?
So, I haven't played in forever, but a few friends and I have been talking about playing 5e again. I've been the DM, and they've been requesting a cook off since the beginning.
How does cooking work ...
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Can Dungeon World's sanctify make salt water drinkable?
The description of Sanctify is,
Food and water you hold in your hands while you cast this spell is consecrated by your deity. In addition to now being holy or unholy, the affected substance is ...
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Are there any 3rd level spells a Lore Bard could pick at 6th character level to provide food and water to the party?
Just as the title says. I play a Bard, College of Lore. At 6th character level I will be able to pick up two spells, of up to 3rd spell level, from any class. I know we will be on the long-term ...
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How could you maximize food production with magic items and spells over a long period of time?
As a player over a period of in-game years, what magic items and spells would allow me to create as much food as possible for a large town (~1000 people) assuming most of them are farmers/could help, ...
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Do rations contain loose salt?
One of my d&d groups came up against a giant slug (a homebrew monster) today, and one player decreed they were going to toss salt at it (this time, it wasn’t me who suggested it). The GM asked ...
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Food Scraps, what are they and do they go bad?
My Ranger character has the Urchin personality trait of "I hide scraps of food and trinkets away in my pockets", which I have been RPing, without thought for much benefit. I have been just ...
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What are the consequences of eating a myconid? [closed]
I'm a DM of an Out of the Abyss (OOTA) campaign where the party is considering eating Stool, the myconid from the prison. Considering the whole "don't eat mushrooms you find in the woods" ...
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How is the food and water from Create Food and Water presented?
The spell create food and water says:
You create 45 pounds of food and 30 gallons of water on the ground or in containers within range, enough to sustain up to fifteen humanoids or five steeds for 24 ...
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If a dragonborn uses fire breathing with a stomach full of alcohol, what happens? [closed]
I'm having an argument that my intestines would explode if I tried to breath fire as a dragonborn, after drinking alcohol.
What would happen?
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Can a wizard use the Sleep spell to hunt for food?
In the description of the Sleep spell (PHB p276):
This spell sends creatures into a magical slumber. Roll 5d8; the total is how many hit points of creatures this spell can affect. Creatures ...
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Can goblin food of poor quality cause some sort of damage?
To start as a new DM, I choose the first adventure of "Tales from the Yawning Portal", "The Sunless Citadel". During the adventure, the players ran into a store room (Goblin Pantry) filled with food &...
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How do I keep spells from trivializing survival needs?
I'm planning a hexcrawl with the focus on travel in the perilous wilderness, clear group-roles definitions, and resources (time, rations) expenditure.
I'm wondering what should I do with spells that ...
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What happens if a creature eats food created by a College of Creation bard?
If a College of Creation bard uses their Performance of Creation to summon rations, and then eats the rations, will they still be hungry at the end of their next turn? What if they maintain the ...
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Can the Creation spell create food?
I looked for any duplicates and didn't find any, but if there is please let me know.
The spell creation states:
You pull wisps of shadow material from the Shadowfell to create a nonliving object ...
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In the Descent into Avernus adventure, all food and drink tastes bad when consumed in Avernus. How can we avoid this problem?
In the Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus adventure, all food and drink tastes horrible to our characters when it is consumed in Avernus. If we eat or drink anything, we must roll to not vomit. Would ...
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Do the rules detail any effects caused by cannibalism?
I'm thinking on running a campaign in 5e where a shady character is selling, what looks to be, high quality meat for outrageously low prices in a small, slowly rebuilding, town.
I'm making it fairly ...
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Are Warforged required to eat and drink?
Do Warforged (from Eberron) need to eat and drink to survive like Humans/elves/dwarves/etc.?
If not, what daily maintenance and sustenance do they require? How were Warforged maintained during the ...
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Can the Illusion wizard's Illusory Reality feature be used to make food or potions?
Can the School of Illusion wizard’s Illusory Reality feature be used for self-sustainment and healing?
Illusory Reality specifies that “you can choose one inanimate, nonmagical object that is part of ...
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Can the Prestidigitation cantrip flavor magical food?
The prestidigitation cantrip's description lists the following effect as one option:
You chill, warm, or flavor up to 1 cubic foot of nonliving material for 1 hour.
The create food and water spell'...
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Would the flavoring from the Prestidigitation cantrip mask a food/drink that is otherwise inedible?
Based off of this other question about flavoring swamp water, and highly related to this question about the "limits" of the flavoring.
It's been kind of skirted around, but can magical "flavor" mask ...
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Can the Purify Food and Drink spell make ocean/sea water drinkable?
As the title says, can the spell purify food and drink make ocean water clean and drinkable?
The spell says:
All nonmagical food and drink within a 5-foot-radius sphere centered on a point of your ...
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Do features such as Timeless Body remove the requirement of eating/drinking during a long rest to remove a level of exhaustion?
The section on Exhaustion states:
[...] Finishing a long rest reduces a creature's exhaustion level by 1, provided that the creature has also ingested some food and drink [...]
However, there are ...
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How do I get a planar traveling party to use survival/spell slots for food/drink instead of an artificer's Replicate Magic Item infusion?
I have a planar traveling campaign that sometimes runs into survival issues.
With Eberron coming out, I have promised my players can use Artificers. The problem is that level 2 Artificers can use the ...
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What DC should I use for someone trying to survive indefinitely solely with an alchemy jug as their only source of food and water? (survival campaign)
In a campaign where securing sustenance is part of the challenge, a player with an alchemy jug has decided the party will never have to buy/gather/magically summon food/drink ever again for the rest ...
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Do the benefits to foraging from the ranger's Natural Explorer feature and the Outlander background's Wanderer feature stack?
I am planning on building my first ranger ever, and I was wondering about the Natural Explorer feature. One of its benefits when in your favored terrain is:
When you forage, you find twice as much ...
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How to season a character?
Granny Bells, the Night Hag, has captured a PC (half-elf bard) and plans to eat her, as hags are wont to do. Granny Bells has a preference for sour and bitter food and an extensive array of monster ...
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Can the Purify Food and Water spell fix water impacted/poisoned by the presence of a black dragon?
Can the purify food and water spell fix water impacted/poisoned by the presence of a black dragon?
I assume the power of the black dragon would overpower the spell, but I'm not totally sure.
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What is the mechanical difference between the Spectator's Create Food and Water action and the Banshee's Undead Nature Trait?
Inspired by What is the lore-based reason that the Spectator has the Create Food and Water trait, instead of simply not requiring food and water?
The Spectator has the Create Food and Water action (...
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Can Ogre clerics use Purify Food and Drink on humanoid characters?
Can Ogre clerics use Purify Food and Drink on humanoid characters to cure them as humanoid creatures are regarded as food in Ogre culture?
Similarly, can Ogre clerics use Create Food and Water to ...
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What are the effects of eating many berries from the Goodberry spell per day?
I wonder the kind of effect that eating many Goodberry in one day can do to a character.
The spell description states:
[...] the berry provides enough nourishment to sustain a creature for one day....
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How do I rule on a character who cooks food? [closed]
I have a player who's character wants to preserve and enhance the dwarven culture by learning new cooking techniques and ingredients. As such she has taken Profession (Cooking) as a skill (she's a 1st-...
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Can the DM override racial traits?
In our two-week old campaign, the DM is trying to say I need food or water, or otherwise I'll suffer from exhaustion.
But I am a Warforged Juggernaut, and the Warforged Resilience trait says I don't ...
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Are there any consumables that function as addictive (psychedelic) drugs?
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Today, in a homebrew campaign that I DM, a player tried out a natural drug that he found and heard about: Flashberries. In my world it's believed to be a psychedelic drug and those ...
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What is the lore-based reason that the Spectator has the Create Food and Water trait, instead of simply not requiring food and water?
The Spectator has the Create Food and Water action (Monster Manual, p. 31):
Create Food and Water. The spectator magically creates enough food and water to sustain itself for 24 hours.
I don't ...
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Would the spell Purify Food and Drink remove physical hazards like bone shards from otherwise normal food?
In a session of the Hoard of the Dragon Queen adventure, our characters were sitting down to a campsite meal provided by the chuck wagon. Being aware that they were being hunted/stalked, the cleric of ...
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Can the fabricate spell create beer?
Given the raw ingredients, can the fabricate spell create beer if the caster is proficient with and has Brewer's supplies?
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Is Fabricated food hot?
If a wizard uses the spell fabricate to prepare a feast, would that food be hot?
Assumptions are that there is plenty of raw produce available. The wizard is proficient in cooking tools (has expertise ...
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How many people can be fed with the Create Food and Water spell?
The spell Create Food and Water says:
You create 45 pounds of food and 30 gallons of water on the ground or in containers within range, enough to sustain up to fifteen humanoids or five steeds for 24 ...
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How can I prevent food from spoiling?
Is there a way to remove air from a container via a spell or other means? My DM is starting a new campaign with heavy survival elements, including food spoilage. He agrees that if I could seal spoil-...
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Is it possible to eat an object affected by Allfood while in combat? If so, how is the damage handled?
I realize this is a very strange and seemingly useless question, but hear me out on this. I've recently been assessing more creative uses of spells that seem useless in combat but may be made useful ...
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How long can I go without exhaustion on 10 days' rations? [duplicate]
The rules for exhaustion from starvation are given in the basic rules (and PHB) as:
A character needs one pound of food per day and can make food last
longer by subsisting on half rations. Eating ...
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