#rpg things

With Dungeon Meshi being in public eye again with the Netflix series, I thought it would be a good time to shoutout again about Gourmet Street, my free (tips appreciated) Street Food Fantasy zine! Big thanks to our wonderful artist and layout man @feralindiecharlie

 A New Setting! - Gourmet Street, a collection of scattered and bizarrely connected alleyways, it seems to pop up in any settlement large enough to begin thinking of itself as a city. Stacked high in wood carts, laid out on intricate rugs, swimming in a myriad of sauces, food is the name of the game on Gourmet Street.

 ONE MILLION Food Vendors and Menus! - Never eat the same thing twice! Generate from 8,000 possible unique food vendors and LITERALLY ONE MILLION possible dishes; ranging from Soft-shelled Crabman Sandwiches with Tzatziki sauce and Egg Coffee, to Myconid Zapiekanka in Pesto with a shot of Absinthe! 

 Food Factions! - From the hyper-radical (and slightly deranged) Neuvo Gastro-Alchemists, to the fanatical and militant Vinegar Knights, the food factions each come with their own wants, goals, and boons, IF you choose to serve them...

 A One-Page Adventure: ESCAPE FROM GOURMET STREET! Help a pair (or trio) of star-crossed lovers escape from Gourmet Street in a Snake-and-Ladders inspired chase! Fend off rival lovers, food cart brawls and escaped dishes as you dash through the alleys of Gourmet Street!

Like, "a 30 foot by 30 foot room" being a basic minimum for letting players run around and stuff felt fine at first. Then I played Call of Cthulhu, which uses a yard based scale, three feet.

And it fixes so many maps

Even basic maps to decent scale in Pathfinder you end up with stuff like 5 foot wide doors, tables and chairs that look huge, Weirdly spacious rooms. You get used to the three foot scale you start realizing how much easier it is to make a normal feeling map

A thirty foot by five-sixish foot long hallway goes from 6 people people able to fit and needing to aqueeze by eachother to 20 people being able to fit squeezing by eachother, or ten people in a semi tense fit. It goes from "you need 20 squarefeet minimum room for 4 pcs to fit comfortably in a room" to "they are hiding in the walk in closet with no penalties"

One my favorite images is still the one of the person standing in a 5 foot square to show it off, because while it makes some sense in combat grids are also used out of combat. Especially if you use roll20 or foundary and like to do maps for rp, easier investigations, or just not make it obvious when a combat is happening, it feels funny.