Yoon-Suin: Food for a Yellow City

Figured I ought to update the blog. Been busy lately with some full-time teaching work, but things should lighten up by around the 23rd, at which time I can begin working on the Wildwood Manuscripts again in full. Until such a time, here's a randomizer table for weird meals that could be purchased in David McGrogan's Yoon-Suin setting. I'd say that they cost a fine copper or two and could be served up in certain ways to make them at home among the cockroach clans or the uppercrust brahmin slugmen.

Yellow City Food Randomizer Table
d20	Meats
1	Deep-fried crabman zoea on bolani flatbread
2	Velvet worm lobopod curry
3	Longpig back bacon kabob
4	Prostitute's severed sweet-meats on a mint sprig
5	Scorched axolotl on garlic naan
6	Steamed starfish stomach spread on sourdough naan
7	Salt-boiled planarian with sweet luchi
8	Pickled nudibranch pseudopods with bitter chickpeas
9	Broiled limpet tongues on panir cheese
10	Caramelized grasshopper thoraxes with dosa pancakes
11	Grilled dolphin snout stuffed with shredded mango skins
12	Oyster and prawn mash with fresh chutney
13	Fermented squids & bitter melons stuffed with cashews
14	Thrice-spiced beef chunks stuffed in an eggplant
15	Barnaclid meat stitched into a banana rind
16	Mola filet with fat and currant seasoning
17	Chunky tofu clumps drowned in spicy mustard
18	Brine-soaked fugu fish with guava jam
19	Fresh moray offal with zucchini kofta
20	Diced monkey meat served in a coconut

Yellow City Food Randomizer Table
d20	Vegetable/Fruits
1	Water chestnuts boiled in coconut milk
2	Mango spears with cinnamon
3	Peeled grapes in a shallow pool of goat milk
4	Boiled bamboo shoots with mango jam
5	Crispy puffed rice with fried cashews
6	Peanut, cashew, and almond nut medley
7	Coconut flesh with currants
8	Potato straws, peanuts and raisins
9	Carrot milk gelatin with swamp apple slices
10	Golden raisin pudding with mushrooms
11	Shredded carrot spread with pistachios
12	Lemon-lime cheese fudge with mint springs
13	Fried chickpea and bean curd kofta balls
14	Tangerine spiced with peppers
15	Broiled banana with toasted almonds
16	Raspberry stuffed grapes
17	Sliced apples with coconut cream spread
18	Honeydew, cantaloupe and blueberry with honey-lime dressing
19	Grilled ginger with cardamom seeds
20	Creamy pineapple with ghee butter and cinnamon shavings for taste

Yellow City Food Randomizer Table
d20	Rice
1	Short grain black rice with peas
2	Long grain brown rice
3	Short grain white rice
4	Sticky white rice
5	Long grain yellow rice
6	Pork fried rice
7	Limpet fried rice
8	Brown rice with radishes
9	White rice with bean curds
10	Tuna fried rice
11	Long grain red rice
12	Slimy short grain grey rice
13	Fermented white rice
14	Long grain blue-white rice
15	Short grain golden-yellow rice
16	Long grain thrice-blessed rice
17	Druk Yulian short grain silver rice
18	Long grain topaz rice with ox chunks
19	Split grain pink rice with zebra mussels
20	Long grain brown rice with green beans

d20 Artisan Confections Generator

I've been busy teaching and prepping for a move, as well as doing some game design elsewhere for some private projects. I didn't want to neglect my blog much longer than I had, so what follows is a big old generator for making some fancy candy. Your PC might buy it as a gift, receive it as a gift, buy it while drunk and trying to swoon someone, or notice that's what the rich nobles eat while they're sucking down tavern swill.

d20	Main Event...	Embellishment...
1	Savory Caramels	Sweet Custard Filling
2	Egg White Nougats	Lavishly Dusted Almond Powder
3	Blackstrap Molasses Toffee	Decadent Flan Foundation
4	Soft-balled Fudge	Syrupy Peach Rum Drizzle
5	Hard-crack Sour Drops	Fragile Chocolate Shell
6	Chewy Liquorice	Rose Syrup and Gold Flakes
7	Fluffy Marshmallow	Flaky Baklava Base
8	Jellied Lokum	Drizzled Spring Honey
9	Creamy Fondant	Drowned in Mead
10	Sugary Orange Peel	Fluffed Yeasty Doughnut Base
11	Sour Apple	Bean-Jam Cake Sticks
12	Dragée Bitter-Sweets	Spiced with Coffee Flakes
13	Caramelized Peanut Brittle	Boiled Sugar Rock Crumble
14	Gooey Wine Gums	Raspberry Starry Rock Rods
15	Sugary Milk Tablet	In a Baked Rum Brownie
16	Sea-Salt Taffy Chew	With Miniature Pampushky Crumble
17	Syrupy Jalebi	Dollop of Gianduja Paste
18	Iced Cream	Crown of Dried Ananas Chips
19	Sour-Spiced Tarts	Twisted in an Iced Fritter
20	Cinnamon-dusted Cookies	Dripped in Cream and Mango

d20	What Else?...
1	Stamped with Confectioner's Seal
2	Wrapped in Edible Ribbon
3	Sugar Flower Topper
4	Served on a Stick
5	In a Velvety Bag
6	In the Shape of a Fish
7	Served with Edible Utensils
8	Shaped like a Tiny Structure
9	Stamped with Seal of Government Authority
10	Decorated with Pictorial Icing
11	Served in a Layered Jar
12	Served in a Jug of Alcohol
13	Cut in Starry Shapes
14	Layered like a Pyramid
15	Engraved Lettering
16	Wrapped in Lavish Paper
17	Folded in Mint Leaves
18	Served on a Waffle
19	Lucky Coin Inside Confection
20	Served on Crisped Rice Grains

d20	Color	Tastes
1	Pearlescent	Heavenly
2	Metallic Gold	Divine
3	Rainbow Colors	Too Rich
4	Unnaturally Pink	Gritty-then-Smooth
5	Ocean Tones	Chunky-then-Robust
6	Earthen Tones	Silken and Savory
7	Greasy Reds	Powerful and Heavy
8	White-and-Green	Sweet-but-Earthy
9	Golden Yellow	Sour-then-Zesty
10	Natural Colors	Savory-but-Bitter
11	Freckled with Red	Lovely, but with notable hints of dairy.
12	Unnaturally Blue	Smooth-then-Spicy
13	White with Speckles	Too Powerful
14	Floral Tones	Intoxicatingly Sweet
15	Forest Greens	Sweet Enough to Make Ones Spit Hurt
16	Noble's Cote de Arms Coloration	Saltier than Expected
17	Stone-like	Surprisingly like a Well-Cooked Steak
18	Transparent and Crystalline	Sharp-but-Savory
19	Fruit Color Palette	Rough-but-Hearty
20	Seasonal Color Palette	Greasy-and-Slick

I was going to add prices, but such things ought to cost a pretty penny anyway. These are special order foods for nobles, royalty, the rich and the powerful. A single serving should cost 1d8+2 Gold, and servings are smaller than any working folk would like; about the size of ones open palm. They're hedonistic-and-decadent anyway.

You can find a shop for such things in any big city where nobles do gather, but there's always a chance a chef in some backwater knows how to make a single one of these confections. If your system uses Gold for XP, buying oneself candy should count for such things.