Wines, Ales, and Other Drinks for D&D and RPGs

[@thaisahickey8374]

That’s a great video, my love. Even in your birthday you took some time to produce this. Thank you for all work you do and for put so much passion on it. I wish everyone could see how much effort you put in everything you do here. For this birthday I wish you a lot healthy, happiness and success, starting with your kickstarter that I know you believe so much in this project and you are doing your best to make this book a great one like you did with the Emporium. Enjoy your day. We love you!❤

[@Haphollowdays]

Happy birthday! Discovered your videos in 2020. Wanted to say you are part of what got me back into D&D after a decide. Now, I've been playing with the same group for a little over a year now. Thanks for what you do, especially love your rated lists😊

[@esperthebard]

Muito obrigado minha amor! Thank you so much for your encouragement and support!

[@esperthebard]

@@Haphollowdays Thank you Henry, I'm glad I could pass some inspiration along to you!

[@rachdarastrix5251]

Me: "Thank you for the beautiful shinny goblet." Host: "You mean the wine?" Me: "No."

[@valois6846]

Elf takes the wine Dwarf takes the ale Rogue takes the goblet

[@dragonblood223]

maggot brew is definitely what i imagine being served at a bar corrupted by nurgle

[@chrisbridges4885]

Dude- your descriptions are awesome Your ideas are awesome Your voices are awesome This video - is awesome I guess that means that, YOU are awesome!

[@esperthebard]

Oh my, I am truly honored and humbled! Thank you Chris!

[@imabirdo]

This reminded me of a plot device drug I homebrewed (pun intended). Cannibals Crux is a vial of dark bourdux oil thick liquid with a sulfur smell, but on ingestion, it tastes like pastry cream? those that indulge themselves in the crux get a mild high, stronger and faster after a certain amount they become berserk and start biting other humanoids on sight with the intent to satiate a sudden maddening primal hunger. Basically, mad man makes demon blood liqueur makes money, and watches chaos reign as homicidal junkies run amok.

[@Titan360]

"from a Gibbering Mouther. Against your better judgement, you toss it back, and you are ASSAULTED BY-" *screen abruptly goes black and silent from a bandwidth hiccup* Me: ".........The drinker died. Yep. Yep. ....That makes absolute sense."

[@couchcommandoiv5528]

Top tier alcohol is Ambrosia. In Faerun, it was first crafted by a dwarven king that obtained the ingredients from hill giant allies. After it was made the giants asked to partake and were refused, as the king thought of them as slaves. While the king and his cohorts were drunk on the brew, the giants broke their bonds and devoured the greedy king and his subjects, cursing the hill giant race to be savage, and acquiring a strong taste for dwarven flesh. Credit to AJ Picket for relevant lore

[@zacharywood3182]

Love the idea of local "challenge" drinks just like many bars have, but with a fantasy and magical twist.

[@stefanomirabella8770]

I love details like these. To be honest the Dabjib it's the greatest idea: using magic for smaller utilitarian purpose or, in this case, tricking unaware customers and make them pay more than what's deserved!

[@ethankly12]

This reminds me of the 1920's mafioso magi-punk game I ran a while back. One of the world building things I did was replace every common magical potion with the "gold label" version of a made up fantasy alcohol brand...but being that it was still alcohol, each potion had a draw back. So things like "you can only tell the truth for the next hour". If anyone is curious I can try to dig them back up.

[@danielstohr6391]

Describtions seem to be one of the most concrete ttrpg building blocks that we all should train to improve. Thank you for your video.

[@johnarnold8485]

Would love more exactly like this. Just cool flavor stuff that really adds to a small section of a session.

[@brianmoyachiuz905]

This would be cool for a drunken fist monk who's also a drinks connoisseur traveling the world for the best drinks

[@purple_menace6604]

I love stouts and other dark beers and I must say that you made the dwarven feast ale sound wonderful. Kudos!

[@BLynn]

I have a drink in my campaign worlds called, "Dragon's Piss", a full tankard can knock a Dwarf on his/her butt. CON save on 1st drink to potentially become unconscious. It is still up in the air if it is actually from a dragon or that is just a name that it is labeled with. An alchemist can use an existing sample to develop more, though some fools have created an endless bottle of "Dragon's Piss".

[@salgarellius7434]

This is one of this best work so far

[@lihanchai154]

Only 4k views? That's a dang shame. It's videos like this that dive into the world of Faerun or D&D in general that has me listening for hours on end!

[@carlborneke8641]

I would love to create my own book of recipes for drinks and snacks for DnD. Beverages perfectly suited to make you believe you are yourself sitting in a tavern with your friends laughing and drinking while remembering past and awaiting adventures.

[@WallyDM]

This was a lot of fun! Creative and inspiring. Well done!

[@esperthebard]

Thank you Wally! You just might be seeing something with a little tie to this soon ;)

[@stuffstuff6932]

Great content as always. I find it hard to think of what you could be doing differently as I personally feel there's a great discrepancy between the quality of your work with the attention it gets on KZbin.

[@esperthebard]

Many thanks for the kind words! I too often wonder why it is that my work is better than ever, yet gets far less views than stuff from years ago 🤷‍♂

[@raytheerudite5252]

I was thinking about the small touches like these recently. I’ve been neglecting them a bit. When I was young I used to spend my, more abundant, free time designing the food and cultures a great deal.

[@justinwhite915]

It must be an experience to be at your table

[@brettonalwood4173]

One of players is playing a huge party animal so this will be a lot of fun getting them to try this.

[@couchcommandoiv5528]

Many of the bottom tier drinks would actually be quite popular in Ravenloft, would be a fun surprise for the players

[@georgethompson913]

Half of them sound like they were invented at frat party.

[@Yeldibus]

This is just awesome. Your combination of creativity and passion is unique and striking!

[@RoninCatholic]

In one campaign me and my cousins did in our early teens, there was a drink his bartender NPC sold called "The Sip", which is served by the teaspoon and almost always results in immediate unconsciousness. My anthro dragon PC would drink it out of a beer stein and manage to finish the whole mug before passing out.

[@driitzshepard2234]

How dare ye put elvish swill above the obviously superior dwarven ales! Great video as always!

[@esperthebard]

Ah but if I would have included all the amazing dwarven ales, the video would have been hours in length!

[@driitzshepard2234]

@@esperthebard Sounds like you're promising me a good time with another ale video!

[@nathanex5122]

@@esperthebard now I'm waiting for this 3 hour dwarven mead menu review

[@mdalsted]

Me with Pizza Tower brain rot, listening to the description of Fire Bolt...

[@Gargantupimp]

Thanks, that was surprisingly touching for a list of drinks. The Astral one gave me a sense of wonder about the depth and majesty of the cosmos.

[@davidthebarbarian6851]

I have the weirdest thing that compels me to make Inn menu's with crazy fantasy food

[@dragonminz602]

Great video, thanks for all this wonderful liquids. Will definatly use them in my campaign :D The voices realy set the stage for the drinks, well done.

[@justinwhite915]

This was a true treat.👌🏾 I need more videos that take my mind as well as my palit on a trip through fantastical lands.

[@jonathanstern5537]

I love this! Could/did you do one for different meals? I'd love it for my homebrew campaign. I think I'll print out menus for different taverns, pubs, and the 413 Union Hall's bar.

[@mmardh799]

thank you for this experience!

[@adamxei9073]

This video makes me want a drink 🥃

[@AzazelCain]

Omg .. I've got new goals for my game. This adds a depth I never thought of. Nice!

[@595moore]

This is a great video! If there is more drinks, please continue. If not, maybe foods or meals next?

[@aquaticcatfey]

I'm currently working on some things for _Starfinder_ (a science-fantasy spin-off of _Pathfinder,_ which itself started out as a sort of D&D 3e retroclone). And Feast Ale sounds like some of the microbrewed barrel-aged breakfast stouts that I've tried.

[@valois6846]

Nice video, brings back memories of my campaign's downtime where I introduced *some fine drinks to some fine customers* aka My players tasted some local specialties.

[@kathyevans3251]

They are wonderful.

[@esperthebard]

Thanks Kathy!

[@wheelooze4655]

I was looking for something like this, thanks.

[@esperthebard]

I was too, which I why I made it 😁 A character was drinking a rare elven wine in a D&D game I was running, and I wanted something more to describe than just "you drink the wine and it tastes amazing"

[@dennisthornton4434]

Birthday? 🎂 Happy birthday. How old? Love the accents. how about potions next. Like healing, giant strength, invisibility.

[@esperthebard]

Thank you Dennis! I'm 41 now, at the crossroads between young bro and old fart.

[@dennisthornton4434]

@@esperthebard still a fresh faced kid to me. I'll be 61 this year. Got a nephew that age and one five years younger. Just wait till you get grey hairs. 😃

[@jamiemcdonough6548]

I wonder if I ought to call this video "exquisite?" Thanks for amusing me with a fun and sometimes tasty video, Esper. I know so little about dark elves, but if I was playing a trivia game and took a gamble on a guess, I would have guessed that dark elves would not want to make a spider blood wine, because it would be blasphemy to them? I guess I am mistaken?

[@esperthebard]

Thanks Jamie! That is a good question. I could certainly see the wanton killing of spiders to provoke the wrath of Lolth, but utilizing spiders to craft a fine wine must certainly garner her favor.

[@jamiemcdonough6548]

@@esperthebard thanks for the heart and the explanation, Esper. Appreciate that you saw the point of my concern. Not saying you and me can't make wine out of spider blood. I just was surprised a dark elf would, because I didn't know better until you explained.

[@sw33n3yto00]

Hbd and thank you for these. They're going in the menu lidts.

[@thedipshi5917]

Now that's some quality content!

[@LordDany]

Amazing, i love this vídeo i would love more of those with more kinds of itens

[@ken1234580]

Such a good video, vivid explanations!

[@cutecobra9696]

I've had korean spicy ramen that was a bit like Fire Bolt.

[@larryspro]

Wonderful video!!!

[@LordDany]

Also Im gonna use the tomb Shade on My world for shure

[@PalleRasmussen]

Pilluarit on your birthday Esper.

[@mineshafter85]

hello i really want to buy the monstrous heroes book but im not sure if i will get the full product before november. I wanted to do a campaign for my players but the races in the kickstarter are very cool.

[@esperthebard]

Thanks Vic, whichever way you go, I hope you and your players enjoy the monstrous adventures!

[@zimattack9994]

My conjuration wizard prestidigitation bar well over flow with the greatest magic well water

[@thedipshi5917]

Ah ues, alcohol, my beloved! Expecialy rum

[@Stratplayer05]

I wonder what Greg from How to Drink would make of something like these

[@esperthebard]

Has he ever drank Bailey's from a shoe? Oh wait, wrong Gregg ...

[@Stratplayer05]

@@esperthebard He's not a scaly man-fish, but crossover video when?

[@owlthemolfar4690]

Thank you for the video! Well... That was unexpected. For some reason I do not want to drink my tea now ))))))

[@indiana47]

Nice flavor for the.. flavors. I'm probably going to incorporate some of them in my DOTMM game. I already know where to include the swill. I like describing the food since it helps with the roleplay and often the worldbuilding as well. The book has a stirge loaf meal in Skullport. I describe as being more like a bread loaf appetizer than meat loaf meal with stirge bodies being dry and powdery with their fragile bodies easily ground into a fine grain and made into a flour that makes for an exotic powdery sour bread. I also recently got Tome of Beasts 3 which has monkey's bane vine which is a plant monster that makes an extremely sweet fruit too sweet for humans, but monkeys love to eat which the plant tries to eat in turn. The book says the fruits can be made into wine, but in my campaign I have a catoblepas farm and the potent fruit juice is used to treat the disgusting meat that reeks of death and results in a sweet marbled mango tasting beef delicacy that oozes juices as you bite into it. The natural acids and high sugar content react with the molecules and ptrotein in the meat to balance out. I wanted a fantasy farm where everything wants to kill you. Also, happy birthday.

[@internetcatfish]

I'm surprised there wasn't anything that was based on cave fisher blood. Maybe something to strengthen it or make it more potent.

[@jamiemcdonough6548]

Thank you to whomever for the like you gave my comment. Thanks.

[@nettlesandsnakes9138]

I like these, but they all seem to be somewhat alcoholic. I think I would like to come up with some fantasy drinks that are nonalcoholic; looking to some real history for it. These drinks could be vinegar base drinks, tea, coffee, hot chocolate, a glass of milk and fruit juices along with modified fruit juices like lemonade.

[@nettlesandsnakes9138]

I’m going to give a few links to tasting history for references for own fantasy nonalcoholic drinks. The first one is room temperature chocolate, as prepared by the Aztecs, the people who originally cultivated it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/g5K8gXisedqiZ6ssi=GiitF163ZF627zyj

[@danc6167]

would it be corny to call these descriptions "flavourful"?

[@esperthebard]

Go for it, I'm all *ears*

[@jamiemcdonough6548]

Thanks to whoever for my last like from you.