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Adaptations for Anthropophagy [closed]
Let's say there are quadrupedal mammals close to around 100kg that have adapted to live in a typical medieval city and feed on predominantly human beings. The city and the animals therein have existed ...
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What are some animals a fifteen year old boy should be able to hunt, easily, in an Early Modern Setting?
Overall I am trying to show the romance between a fifteen year old boy and girl as they both grow and age over the next few years. One of the major points of attraction is his incredible hunting ...
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How much food surplus would medieval peasants have? [closed]
So, I am working on a setting. It is medieval fantasy with a focus on realism, and in my pursuits of realism, I am trying to figure out many things. One of them is the rough approximation of how much ...
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How would a person with food allergies cope in the Middle Ages?
In a story I'm working on, a character suddenly finds himself transported back to the late Middle Ages. This is completely unexpected, so he doesn't have time to prepare.
It occurred to me that a lot ...
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Medieval airship nomads
In a medieval society, an ethnic group lives most of their lives aboard airships. These airships are rudimentary, perhaps holding only enough room for a single family. They consist of slender wooden ...
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How to disguise insect meat?
The rot-weevil is a 10cm long flightless beetle (though not truly a weevil). It eats a wide variety of food, most of which is obtained from civilised settlements. If people wished to trap and sell ...
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What can you do with fungal spores? [closed]
The spores in question come from the vegetables described in this question. More specifically, the spores are like grains, with a chitinous shell, small wings, and a nutritious flesh, akin to softer ...
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Cannibal City: Part 1 - Eating your enemies
The Great City has impregnable walls. No-one has ever overwhelmed them and likely no-one ever will. The only way to defeat the inhabitants of this mighty city is to besiege them and simply starve ...
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How does 15th century beancurd delivery work?
The setting is the early 15th century C.E.
My grandmother knew how to make delicious beancurd and it has since become famous as word spread like wildfire across the land. Business is good, as many ...
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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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Feasible and rational way to give food and water to a prisoner?
There is a lord who is being kept prisoner in a castle tower by a griffin who has taken over his home, but requires the lord be kept alive for political value. Naturally this requires the griffin ...
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What plants would lizardfolk cultivate in this hostile world
Lizardfolk are sentient and sapient humanoid reptilian creatures with heights between 190cm and 180 cm. Lizardfolk are partially mesothermic, with most of the waste heat, their muscles generate, being ...
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Medieval Crop Yields
I'm the DM for a D&D campaign, set in a sort of "realistic-fantasy" setting. There's monsters and magic and stuff, but there's not enough of that for the average medieval community to see much ...
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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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Nourishment of cave dwellers? [duplicate]
My world is set in a post-thermonuclear war scenario. Most life on the surface has died, but a few humans who survived in underground shelters.
Once the radiation levels reached a non-lethal level, ...
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