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Travelling
Anyone preparing for a journey will take some food to eat on the road come dinnertime. Rich knights* will have servants and carts accompanying them; the simple roadside meal of a great lord may be almost as grand an affair as dining in his castle. But most travellers will be carrying much plainer fare; the referee can use the Simple Rations table to see what they have gathered together or were given that morning by their hosts of the night before. If the roll is an even number, they have a loaf of bread as well.
Supper is different. Most people who travel the roads of Albion* plan their journeys so as to reach a hall, monastery, or hostel by nightfall, there to partake of the food of their hosts. Those who find themselves out in the wilderness come sunset must survive as best they can; hopefully they have done some foraging that afternoon and have something for the supper pot.
Monasteries, as a work of charity, receive guests. Poor travellers will be billeted in among, and dine with, the novices. Most orders impose a very plain diet upon their brothers, so guests will be served simple dishes of vegetables and fish. Use the humble table, with fish replacing the meat.
However, wealthy and influential guests will be received by the abbot himself, and lodged either with him in his private house, or — if the abbey is a large one — in the guest house. That night they will likely dine as well as if they were in their own house.
Monasteries tend to take in the poor and the rich; the middling sort stay in one of the hostels that are set up along most highways and in every large town.
| 1d20 | Simple Rations |
| 1 or less | A plain loaf of bread. |
| 2-4 | Bacon. |
| 5-6 | Beans. |
| 7-8 | 1d6 eggs. |
| 9-10 | A cheese. |
| 11-12 | Oat cakes. |
| 13-14 | 1d3 apples. |
| 15-16 | Salted fish or sausages. |
| 17-18 | Cold roast meat. |
| 19 | Roll again, adding a pastry of sweetmeats. |
| 20 | Roll again, adding a skin of wine. |
| Modifiers | |
| A poor household | -2 |
| A wealthy household | +2 |
| Bael-monath* – Yeol-monath* | +2 |
| Forst-monath* – Thawian-monath*; Waed-monath* | -2 |
Supper is different. Most people who travel the roads of Albion* plan their journeys so as to reach a hall, monastery, or hostel by nightfall, there to partake of the food of their hosts. Those who find themselves out in the wilderness come sunset must survive as best they can; hopefully they have done some foraging that afternoon and have something for the supper pot.
Monasteries, as a work of charity, receive guests. Poor travellers will be billeted in among, and dine with, the novices. Most orders impose a very plain diet upon their brothers, so guests will be served simple dishes of vegetables and fish. Use the humble table, with fish replacing the meat.
However, wealthy and influential guests will be received by the abbot himself, and lodged either with him in his private house, or — if the abbey is a large one — in the guest house. That night they will likely dine as well as if they were in their own house.
Monasteries tend to take in the poor and the rich; the middling sort stay in one of the hostels that are set up along most highways and in every large town.
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