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Would the diet described below sustain a human?
In my world I need to feed a colony of Kobolds. I'm modeling my Kobolds' dietary requirements on humans. My question is whether or not the following foodstuffs would meet the dietary needs of human ...
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Could a newborn baby survive on a paleo diet?
Background Info
One of my stories features the classic isekai trope of a person being reincarnated into a baby's body while still retaining their full cognitive abilities. The world they are ...
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How would a medieval society look if food was not a factor to consider? [closed]
The Context
To give a short context of the question, my world is called Atmos, and it's a world where continents float above a layer of clouds. They aren't just floating islands, there are landmasses ...
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Food With Life: Reacting To Humans
This is the sequel, per se, of Effects of Food With LIFE. After coming up with the initial premise and getting a very good idea of how humans would interact with living food, a problem came up: Would ...
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Effects of Food With LIFE
Okay, I know I'm posting a really implausible question, please be understanding....
Many years ago, a powerful mage went mad (occupational hazard; one does encounter eldritch horrors and reality-...
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Dungeon-fed civilization - what are the consequences?
So, I'll start with a short summary:
I wanted to have magic world with other-than-agriculture based civilization. I gave them magic dungeons. I'm afraid that there are many problems I didn't take in ...
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Food ingredients in the medieval ages compared to their modern counterparts?
One of my characters (who comes from Earth) wants to open a restaurant in a fantasy world. This world is currently in its medieval era.
The restaurant would serve all sorts of modern food; deep fried,...
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The eating habits of metabolic wizards
If wizards had to draw energy from their bodies, using only existing biological processes and bound to vanilla human metabolism rates, how would they be inclined to maintain their bodies and diets to ...
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Is magical humanoid by-product allowed in restaurants by the FDA?
What steps should a monster take to make good of their ability to create food, without getting shut down by the Food and Drug Administration in America? For instance, a dryad summoning her own leaves ...
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In what ways would cryomancy affect the food eaten by medieval people?
Cryomancy is magic involving the removal of heat from an object by converting thermal energy into magical energy, thereby cooling the object. The conversion to magical energy is not perfect (some ...
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Liquor making with Time related magic in an ancient-medieval world
So you can accelerate or reverse time of an inanimate/non sentient object within a limited space.
Despite having such powers, you don't want to rule the world. Instead you want to make alcoholic ...
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Get trapped for a long time without food [closed]
A group of people get trapped in an unknown construction. Uninhabited. Nobody takes care of the place. There are no living creatures around.
They were prepared to go inside and spend some time there, ...
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What can I cook/create to convince a medieval person that I'm a magician? [closed]
Time reference: 16th-ish century. Magic does not exist, and the story is well-grounded in real laws of physics.
Backstory:
I want to convince the king of my country that I'm a magician (for reasons ...
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How would a group of floating medieval kingdoms sustain themselves
I started creating a world where benders exist - people who can control the elements earth, air, fire and water. All benders control their element by using their "mana" to control it. They can't ...
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Spices and Foods to Trade [closed]
Assuming a medieval setting, what kind of spices, foods, seasonings etc. . . are available to trade. Handwave transporting them and assume any and every possible biome to choose from.
EDIT: Okay so ...
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