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So, I ran the final session of Vaults of Madness yesterday. You know, the Gorilla King's tests for the party. At this point we were all dead tired of dungeon crawling, so I just had him give the crystal to the party after they passed the tests and skipped Illaghri's dungeon altogether.
Also, one party member is a demonspawn tiefling barbarian and a follower of Angazhan. Ruthazek kept referring to him as his son. Heh heh.
Anyway, there's that Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom menu in the module. It's the kind of thing that's supposed to freak out and disgust the players.
So I figured I'd cook it. Vegepygmies being off-season and hippopotamus meat illegal to import, I went with stuffed pig hearts in red wine sauce. Strange enough to elicit expressions of shock from the players but still, you know, actual food. I also thought about getting some weird and exotic fruit like rambutans, but in the end was prevented by my schedule. Fried insects were also considered, but proved too expensive.
Recipes and photos in my blog.
I think engaging the players with more than mere description is a pretty good way to keep their (and mine!) interest up beyond moving miniatures on a battlemap. The third and fourth modules are pretty heavy in dungeon crawling and set-piece combat encounters and little else, and there's a real danger of the campaign stagnating at this point.
Has anyone else fed their players weird things?
Wow! Amazing! Nice job, NiTessine!
