What Campaign Setting for your Module?

[Uatu]

Hmmm - wow, I've never seen those last two for sale - I'd love to try it if I did! (And any other cheese - okapi cheese, capybara cheese, platypus cheese, etc...)

They should make hard goat cheese... It should be possible...

[manikus]

They should be able to make any kind of cheese from whatever mammal's milk they're using, but they don't for some reason. I guess it's all about finding a market for it.

When we were in Minneapolis, I tried yak cheese. It was good. It tasted just like a nice medium-sharp white cheddar. I also had yak meat (and buffalo) which was a lot like beef, just a bit stronger.

[Uatu]

Well, not sure about platypus cheese (might be possible, though)

As for meat... Every mammal/reptile/amphibian/bird meat tastes like either beef, pork, or chicken. I guess that giving up meat could thus be done in phases by "type" (i.e. beef-venison-yak-etc., pork-capybara-etc., chicken-frog-etc....).

I have heard of qigong causing children to automatically become vegetarians (vegans) (they can no longer tolerate meat and barf it back out), but it is just hearsay...

[manikus]

The book "Beyond Beef" has the same effect. After I read that in college, I was vegetarian for a number of years. Now, I guess I've sold out my ideals. Well, more correctly, I've forgotten the horrible imagery that the book evoked.

I do only eat organic, free-range poultry when I'm buying it for home. I should pay better attention when I'm out at restaurants. Portland is pretty cool in that there are a lot of restaurants that sell only organic, free-range meat.

[Uatu]

Japan is very bad at this, to say the least - I tried to be a vegetarian for a few weeks here, but that didn't end up well (there just isn't any vegetarian food here, unless you cook everything yourself).

[manikus]

There are several vegetarian restaurants in town, and everything else has vegetarian options. Though, for the record, I do cook the vast majority of meals for us. I think I eat out about twice a month and my wife about a half dozen to to 10 times a month.

I just talked to my neighbor. She's working as a nanny, and the kid she's nannying is having a Lord of the Rings themed birthday party (it's a girl none the less) where everyone comes in costume. Being that she is going to be towering over all the 12-year-olds at the party, my neighbor decided that she's going as an Ent.

[Uatu]

Ha ha - can they invite me? Wow - sounds like a nice girl, she.

[Uatu]

Ha ha - can they invite me? Wow - sounds like a nice girl, she.

[manikus]

She's cute, single and just turning 22 this week. Too bad, I'm old, ugly and married.

Seriously, why won't my wife ever dress-up as something form Lord of the Rings? (I know what you're thinking, I have been known to dress as one of the dunedain. )

[Uatu]

Hmm - guess if I ever bump into you guys I will have to wear a (large) hobbit costume or maybe a nice Gandalf robe-with-hat... (An ent costume might get me arrested...)