I desire a copy of Dungeon #131 with your autograph on it!
"Prince of Redhand" ended up being a day-long dinner party event one weekend, which I spent a full day in the kitchen preparing for. I invited a number of NPC players in to fill up the table a bit, and although I took various liberties with various backgrounds to suit the campaign setting I use, it was definitively "Prince of Redhand."
My players had a fantastic time, and my only regret was that nobody brought a camera. We even did costuming.
I'll hold off my general glee at your other work for now.
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I desire a copy of Dungeon #131 with your autograph on it!"Prince of Redhand" ended up being a day-long dinner party event one weekend, which I spent a full day in the kitchen preparing for. I invited a number of NPC players in to fill up the table a bit, and although I took various liberties with various backgrounds to suit the campaign setting I use, it was definitively "Prince of Redhand."
My players had a fantastic time, and my only regret was that nobody brought a camera. We even did costuming.
I'll hold off my general glee at your other work for now.
Contact me!
Montgomery, any mention of one of my favourites so far will attract my attention! Consider yourself contacted.
Wow, that sounds great - shame you didn't have any pictures to post, I know a few good people have made food based on the events in that adventure - I didn't have the slightest idea when I wrote it that DMs would make such efforts to create a unique atmosphere. So what was the bill of fayre?
Always happy to sign anything for a satisfied customer.
Rich
I've done a lot of cooking. The menu, mundanely speaking, was as follows. I wanted to do a lot more food fabrication, but my timetable wasn't kind, so I ended up having to resort to more ...er, standard... fare.
The theme of the dinner was Things Hidden.
During the Devious Heads game (which I wrote up a rule set for, based on Bocce):
Miniature bisteeya
Quail-egg and breading/sesame seed variation on scotch eggs
At table:
First: Watercress vichysoisse
Prince: "Traditionally, the first course is a specific sort of worm we find in the region here, to celebrate the founding of My Glorious Province."
Guest: "...so there is a worm in one of these?"
Prince (laughs): "Oh no, they taste absolutely hideous. So I had the cook take a single one and blend it with all of the soup. You won't even notice."
Second: Scallops and sole baked in parchment, on julienned squash, zucchini and carrot// white wine, shallot and tarragon reduction
(Redhand is a river town, after all. The Prince made some comments about violently poisonous shellfish, which made everyone nervous. A servant muttered something to the Prime Minister about the antidote being in the parsnip-pear puree... which shortly became very popular)
Third: Smoked, tea-marinated cornish game hen quarters wrapped in green tea crepes// light port and spice reduction, finished with Earl Grey tea
(These were the cooked cockatrices from the games the day before)
Fourth: Sirloin cuts baked in puff pastry with caramelized fennel and shallots// Mushroom reduction, sauce poivrade
Prince: "Ah, now, this course is comprised of the choice cuts of various religious insurgents who decried my glorious reign."
Guests: "....!?"
Prince (laughing) "What is this? Do you think I serve GHOULS at my table! Fah, and even if I did, I would not serve them THAT fodder."
The Prince never did explain precisely what the course was.
Fifth: chocolate beignets with vanilla-amaretto sauce, ginger-mascarpone cheesecake with walnut crust
Prince: "For those of you who are new at court, behold, the victory at the end of the battle."
The Prince had ordered the poisoning of the dessert course for one person at the table.
Also, there was a vegetarian variant for each of the meat-bearing courses for the single vegetarian at the table. All of the sauces were vegetarian from the get-go. The vegetarian was playing the party cleric, and every time the Prince pointed out 'This dish is for HIM' the trepidation increased. The party did a lot of investigation about the Prince, and knew that he had a reputation for doing things like randomly pitching people off the Balcony of Expectoration (which I had as the official balcony for addressing the public used by the former rulers) and poisoning guests who annoyed him.
Splendid stuff, I love the idea of the prince singling out one party member for special attention - I wish I'd thought of that:)
Rich
Very glad you approve! There's a more complete writeup on how it went on my blog (see user profile).
Drop me a line, at montgomery.mullen at gmail, so's I can arrange to send you a magazine to sign.
Regards,
-M
