6/11/2023 0 Comments Charmstone methods![]() ![]() I think it would have landed better if they decided to stick to a clearer theme. The elven cuisine is definitely a low point for me. I imagine this could bail out stumped DMs when the players ask what’s on offer at the inn. I would have loved to see more items like this that assemble well-known foods in imaginative ways.Įvery chapter ends with a menu from an iconic D&D tavern, which is a nice touch. Not only is it a pretty bold mix of flavors, I could absolutely picture a group of famished adventurers savoring these after weeks on the road. It’s an open face burger with a yogurt sauce and fig spread on a hearty, toasted piece of bread. The “tavern steak” is another bullseye for me. If nothing else, this book includes a ton of interesting ways to prepare mushrooms up to and including a mushroom tea, which I’ll touch on again later. I love mushrooms, so this is a huge plus for me. This also highlights one interesting aspect of Heroes’ Feast: it features a lot of mushrooms. I haven’t made it yet, but it looks incredible. The “vedbread” is a savory bread roll with cheese, mushrooms, and thyme. The trout stands out because it’s not a super-invogue protein right now, so it’s a more unique choice than most of the fare in the book. The most interesting picks for me are the “Knucklehead Trout,” “Vedbread,” and “Tavern Steaks.” It’s got everything from soups to potroasts, but most of the options don’t have a distinct in-world feel to them. The human selections are sort of a grab bag of different ingredients and styles. However, the book curiously doesn’t include any elvish of dwarven recipes that feature any of these methods. Heroes Feast drops an interesting anecdote about how humans in Toril tend not to have long preparation times, so no prolonged periods of brining, fermenting, or aging. ![]() As expected, humans have broad flavor preferences and have extremely varied diets. This isn’t a bad thing per se, but I was disappointed that there weren’t more adventurous ideas explored in it.Įach section starts with a little explanation of the tastes and preferences for each group. If you disregard the D&D theme, you could probably sell this as a standalone book of recipes for beginners. Most of the recipes are pretty doable even if you have zero experience preparing food. The book is broken up by a few of the playable races in the game plus a section for beverages, so I’ll break down my comments along the same lines.īut before I get into that, I want to start with one big caveat. I just got a copy and I’d like to give it a review. My mind boggled dreaming of all sorts of exotic fantasy dishes. Of course, I was very excited when Heroes’ Feast, a Dungeons and Dragons inspired cookbook, was announced. I even ate the meat pies in Curse of Strahd (even after finding out what’s in them I have no regrets). ![]() It’s impossible for me to resist any local delicacies a DM throws my way. I think food and drink have a special way of immersing players in a gameworld. I’ve written on the food chain in the underdark, where you can get a bite to eat in a fantasy setting, and we had all those D&D beer pairing collaborations. If you’ve been reading the Charmstone blog for a while, you probably picked up that I love thinking about fantasy food. Both download and print editions of such books should be high quality.Hereos’ Feast. Most newer books are in the original electronic format. Also, their file size tends to be smaller than scanned image books. These ebooks were created from the original electronic layout files, and therefore are fully text searchable. We mark clearly which print titles come from scanned image books so that you can make an informed purchase decision about the quality of what you will receive. The text is fine for reading, but illustration work starts to run dark, pixellating and/or losing shades of grey. It's the problem of making a copy of a copy. Unfortunately, the resulting quality of these books is not as high. We essentially digitally re-master the book. Also, a few larger books may be resampled to fit into the system, and may not have this searchable text background.įor printed books, we have performed high-resolution scans of an original hardcopy of the book. However, any text in a given book set on a graphical background or in handwritten fonts would most likely not be picked up by the OCR software, and is therefore not searchable. The result of this OCR process is placed invisibly behind the picture of each scanned page, to allow for text searching. Most older books are in scanned image format because original digital layout files never existed or were no longer available from the publisher.įor PDF download editions, each page has been run through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to attempt to decipher the printed text. These products were created by scanning an original printed edition. ![]()
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