User Guide

Generates authentic medieval feast menus with 3-7 courses based on authentic historical English dishes as well as those inspired by historical and fantasy fiction. Creates complete feast menus with proper course structure, seasonal availability, and social hierarchy considerations.

The intent is not for the Referee to read the entire menu to players. That would be tedious. Instead, generate the menu as part of your prep and use it too sprinkle authentic flavors into your feasts, or too answer those pesky questions that might otherwise catch you flat-footed.

Example 1: Rolling for a random Feast Event during a winter feast, the Referee rolls a 2 — Spilt Wine. He consult his pregenerated list to discover it Mulled Wine. Ouch! The spilled hot drink may add an additional dimension to the standard result.

Example 2: Next time, the Referee rolls a 6 — Entertainer’s Jest. The Referee announces, “You’re three courses into the marvelous feast and thoroughly enjoying your roasted mallard, when the lord’s jester suddenly appears behind you comically mimicing your enthusiastic and somewhat unrefined way of attacking the duck, to the amusement of those across the table from you. Do you join in the laughter? Respong with self-deprecating wit? Or angrily throw a piece of the duck at the impudent knave?

Key Features

• Host Level: Knight (3 courses) → Banneret → Baron → Duke → King (7 courses). This determines the number of course, and the number of dishes per course.
• Protein Balance: Adjustable slider from All Fish to All Meat. Certain settings will benefit from using All Fish for holy days that forbid the consumption of meat. Referees can also fine tune this setting based on location and other factors. Note that sea mammals are counted as fish!
• Seasonal Filtering: Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn availability
• Social Hierarchy: High Table, Above the Salt, Below the Salt, Back of the Hall (servants). See the map of Brackenwold Castle’s Great Hall available in The Duke’s Tourney Premium Map Set.
• Fish Filtering: Toggle saltwater and freshwater fish separately. Coastal strongholds will have better access to saltwater fish, while freshwater fish may be more common for landlocked holds far from the sea. Island realms like England, will have easy access to both types of fish.
• Entertainments: One per course (minstrels, jongleurs, fools, troubadours). These can repeat over the course of the feast,
• No Duplicates: Each dish appears only once per feast.
• Auto-Generate: Creates feast automatically on page load with default settings

How to Use

• Adjust sliders for Host level and Protein preference
• Select Season, Realm, and Hall Section from dropdowns
• Check/uncheck Beverages, Entertainments, Saltwater Fish, Freshwater Fish
• Click “Generate Feast” (or it auto-generates on page load)
• Copy menu as plain text or Markdown format to your favorite note-taking app

That’s it. Simple interface, historically-informed results. We plan on expanding the database in the future, so check back ever so often.