> That's scary! I mean, people do joke about english cooking,
Immediate nationalistic defence: the person in question was from New Zealand. (And, to be fair, was using an oven they'd never met before, with what must have been a very dodgy theomstat. Even so, testing before serving would have been good).
> I
> was just pointing out that treating every "fumble" as a disaster is
> rather silly. Of course the fumble is a blooper, but the
seriousness
of
> it depends on the situation.
Yes. It should stop any chance of success in the proposed action, and preferably be dramatic/amusing, but possibly quite trivial.
> > 3) Uncontrolled boiling honey splashing cook in the face (this
hurts!)
>
> Boiling honey!? That propably does hurt... way over 100 C
> Difficult and potentially dangerous undertaking. Well worth
throwing
the
> die to see what happens.
It was a bog-standard medieval pudding I'd cooked several times before. No roll needed. But I was doing three or four other dishes at once, and ran out of hands to stir with. So the honey didn't get stirred in, so it boiled, and I turned back to it... ouch. No effect on the end result, in fact. Pudding rescued (Ignore Pain roll made), nothing else burnt. Scar gone after a couple of weeks.
So if the end result was a success.. was that even a Fumble?
> > 4) Slicing fingers instead of onions
>
> Done that, once. Cut an artery on my thumb. Nothing really serious
> still.
Only gets embarrassing if the onions were going to be served to vegetarians.
> > 8) Guest acutely allergic to ingredient: cannot eat any food
> This is crummy luck and a sadistic GM... uh narrator.
This is real life. Usually they do have the sense to give advance
warning, but if they don't, producing an allergy-free meal requires a
w2 bump-up. (Or some very paranoid advance preparation. I really do
keep the ingredients on hand to feed a gluten-free vegan, but
sometimes even that isn't enough.)
> > 9) As above, but they eat the food without realising the problem.
> > Call ambulance.
> See above.
And I am still very annoyed with the person who didn't tell me they
were allergic to nuts until partway through the feast. Fortunately
the
allergy was fairly mild, and they didn't eat much of the wrong things.
> Several rather delicious mushrooms we finns eat, and Central
Europeans think are deadly poisonous.
Oh? That sounds like an interesting plot in the making!
> > 11) Set kitchen on fire, call fire brigade
> This would not happen in my game unless the person threw another 5%
> chanse fumble.
I think I'd start with "pan on fire", and see how they handled that. It would take several cock-ups in a row to burn the stead down.
> I'd say not knowing the equipment is worth at least a -5 penalty.
Agreed.
> True, but fumbles also include things like pouring too much salt on
the
> food, spilling some food/ingredients on your clothes, dropping a
cettle
> on your foot, etc.
Then what would you class as a "failure"?
I suppose a crit would be when everyone has seconds, and thirds, and asks for the recipe.
> I still back my "another roll to see how serious it was" line.
I doubt if I'd bother with dice, just use imagination, but I agree it can vary.
> :) I think cooking starts when you have the hare.
Now gut it (Butchery).
> Speak language: 30% proficiensy is equal to an uneducated native.
Although of course Language was a special case: add both dumb
natives
to get 60%, then roll against that. And I never found that rule very
convincing, either.
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