Re: Pirates - Was: Places: Dragon Rock Map

In <URL:news:local.spelljam> on Sun 06 Mar, Danton May wrote:
> There is a breed of animal I use in my campaign called
> "pog."  A pog is a magical cross between a pig and a
> dog that eats anything and breeds uncontrollably, like
> the tribbles from star trek.  They only grow about the
> size of a chihuahua, and look like a dog with pig
> hooves, a pig nose, and a pig tail.  They breed them
> in pits large cities and throw their garbage in the
> pits, to get rid of it.  On spelljamming ships some of
> the more savage races put them in barrels and use them
> as both waste disposals and food sources.  Throw in
> that bone you got sick of chewing on and it will feed
> one pog enough for it to reproduce and produce ten
> pogs, which will eat each other if you don't 'weed'
> them out by eating a couple.  It's an exponentialy
> increasing food source on par with animals such as
> carp or rats.  Goblins love them.

Are you suggesting that these actually produce food from nowhere,
as long as they are fed? Or, do they just have very high
efficiency metabolisms?

So, they don't produce any waste at all?


> --- David Shepheard <david_shepheard@???????.com>
> wrote:
>
> > One thing not covered much in Spelljammer stuff,
> > probably because it is stuff that is
> > irrelevant to gameplay, is food and cooking. Real
> > ships used to carry livestock and also
> > had cooking fires (these were in ovens rather than
> > open fires). Neither is the sort of
> > thing that gets mentioned in fiction. Livestock
> > could cause problems on a spelljammer by
> > carrying disease especially as sailors and animals
> > used to share the same deck. Cooking

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