I was curious to see what everyone likes to drink or snack on while playing D&D. I grew up on Mountain Dew and Doritos during sessions, usually with pizza if we playing through dinner (which we almost always did).
I similarly remember lots of pizza and chip snacks with soda in my youth, but these days it’s often hummus and crudite and beer or wine. Though the DM has asked us to wait until the session feels half over before uncorking the wine…
We functionally switched to stuff that won’t muck up sheets or dice. Also, as a group in our 30’s and 40’s, more people have various dietary concerns, so veggies and bean dips help solve a lot of that.
The DM and I love to cook, so sometimes we’ll make themed dinners. Roasted, spiced mushrooms and asparagus and a kale salad for when we stayed with the druids, beer, bread and root veg for a Dwarven section of the campaign, grilled fish (that I caught earlier that day) when we started at a port village, that kinda thing.
Saw a post a long time ago about someone using gummy worms and bears etc as their minis, and players get to eat the ones they kill.
Food for thought. Literally.
My main crew typically goes with vodka and sushi on our biweekly session.
When we have a younger/new player we go with seltzer and mixed veg/fruit/nuts.
Vodka and sushi! What a combo! Where’d y’all get the idea for that?
I had a lot of family gatherings with vodka and pickles where we’d eat fish later, but never sushi. I’m not saying it’s a bad pairing or anything, just an unexpected and unheardof one to me
Vodka is the typical option cause you can take it near, on the rocks, or used with a mixer. People know their limits at this point and can adjust safely.
As far a sushi we used to rotate getting takeout, but overtime we started to default to sushi. There tends to be enough variety to mix up the type of sushi each week, it keeps people from getting too full/hungry, and typically is contained enough to fit with all our play supplies.
Vodka‽ If you can find shochu (not soju), please try it once instead of vodka. It pairs nicely with sushi too.
Soda or another liquid that is bad for me. For food, I was generally in charge of food so if I made food, it was themed! I have the Song of Ice and Fire cookbook, and when we played that system I made food from there.
Our table always drinks coffee during a session regardless of time of day. As for snacks, whatever looks appealing from the local dollar store.
