Incorporating Food With Actual Play

jeff37923 · July 27, 2017, 05:09:29 PM

Bouncing off of this thread, have any of you incorporated food/snacks into the game itself? Like instead of stopping the game for a dinner break, having the players play their characters while having a dinner break while the players have an actual dinner break?

Last game I ran, my girlfriend wanted to get involved. Not with the game as a player, but as a hostess for the game itself. We were doing d6 Star Wars, so the snacks were appropriately science fictiony (mostly with the help of food coloring) and we just did a cantina scene where the snacks were brought out to introduce the main NPC of the night. It worked pretty seamlessly. Have any of the rest ever done something like that?

AsenRG · July 27, 2017, 05:15:52 PM

I've tried to do similar, yeah - I tend to serve food that's at least compatible with the setting and genre. And we bring it out when the characters reach an inn;).

And then on the next session one or another of the players suggests making pancakes for all of us, and we surrender genre authenticity, because pancakes are tasty:D!

K Peterson · July 27, 2017, 05:31:34 PM

The one time I tried running Dune: Chronicles of the Imperium I baked a "spice"(melange) cake, to kind of set the mood. (In this sense, it was a normal spice cake with a fuckton more cinnamon added). Even with additional ingredients, one of the players complained that it "needed more cinnamon". Bastard.

This was about 16 years ago, and I vaguely recall tying it into the events of the session.

Moracai · July 27, 2017, 05:58:52 PM

I once was a player in a game where cake functioned as a game mechanic. If you want your character to succeed at something, eat a piece of cake. After a few pieces you don't want your character doing pretty much anything that requires eating more cake.

Skarg · July 28, 2017, 12:13:57 AM

Occasionally, though mainly just using drinks or food that happens to already be at hand IRL as props to add a pinch of physicality to acting in character.

Though one time the party slew a giant snake and ate it, and we decided to go on a lunch break road trip to the local exotic meat shop which advertised snake meat, and get some to try... but we got there and the shop had closed. :-P

Spinachcat · July 28, 2017, 02:46:33 AM

Not since high school. And our D&D characters had pizza.

Its a great idea and I'd love to do it seriously.

Tiffany001 · September 01, 2017, 05:40:05 AM

I tried similar thing before. :(never succeed.

Spike · September 01, 2017, 06:03:51 AM

There is some sort of Monster Hunter's game I have that used M&Ms as the primary mechanic. Eat yer M&Ms if you want candy, 'spend' them (Give them to the GM) to do stuff, save them to the end for XP. No dice.

I never tried to play it, mostly because the 'mechanics' were laughable, and, frankly, I as the GM would undoubtedly eat all the M&Ms, rather than give them to my players.

On the other hand, I have a long tradition of feeding my guests, including gaming guests. I've never tried to integrate it to the game, but I find most of these meta-gaming tricks (mood music, props and so forth) don't seem to work for me. Maybe props... I think I've gotten props to work once in a great while. Like: Here is the Gem of Plot! , Don't lose it, Its important.

rgrove0172 · September 01, 2017, 08:00:54 AM

We don't allow food or uncapped drinks at the gaming table so sorry, nope. Might try it during our regular kitchen breaks though.

ffilz · September 01, 2017, 12:14:08 PM

The closest we ever came was in college when playing my friend's home brew, there was a joke about "Cookie Crit Pro" where the GM would grant basically fate points to use if your character got hit with a critical for doing him favors. You can guess what sort of favor inspired the name...

Frank

Dumarest · September 01, 2017, 12:41:19 PM

Q: Incorporating Food With Actual Play?

A: No, but if anyone ever wants to play Toon I can see getting some banana cream pies and such...

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RPGPundit · September 04, 2017, 03:36:30 AM

I've done a lot of crazy shit over the years, but I can't say I've ever done this.

AsenRG · September 04, 2017, 06:27:27 PM

Quote from: Justin Alexander;988512Pancakes date back to at least the 5th century BC. They probably actually date back to Mesopotamia and the invention of the frying pan, because once you have a frying pan the easiest thing in the universe to do, of course, is to pour some batter into the frying pan and cook it.

Thank you, I admit I didn't know that, but I still wonder whether pancakes were appropriate to a Roman-inspired game we were running;)!

RPGPundit · September 06, 2017, 04:05:32 AM

Actually, this reminded me of something I had a real intention to do for a long time, involving my wild west campaign and serrano ham.