At 12:05 AM 10/11/2001 -0500, A. E. Naughtie wrote:
>food time sets a certain mood for gaming
>do most people break for food
>or do they have food before or after the session?

We usually break for food, simply because we start in the afternoon.  We 
start around 2ish, and some people bring their lunch over.  Then we break 
for dinner, and usually keep talking over it, except for the part where the 
GM (me) is busily munching.

>we have thought about some silliness with food.
>one of our GMs wants to have a wedding cake
>(homemade)
>with figurines for the two PCs marrying.
>
>too silly?  or mood enhancing?

Heh... we've done it.  We did a big semi-formal dinner with costumes for a 
session of AoW once.  The session was to be a wedding of one NPC to another 
(the former being the somewhat adopted sister of a couple of PCs and the 
other being the son of another).  The meal helped set the mood, and we 
placed it at the right time and then went right into the session.  I 
thought it worked well.

I've considered doing it other times as well.  Maybe in my next game I can 
do something, but given the different set of players, probably without the 
costumes!

D.

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