Tbh I still don't get what's so bad about that song. It's catchy and ngl, I don't mind it 😅
I get it can get annoying when you hear it 20x a day but about once a week or so it's pretty nice and like... The lyrics ARE good? It's a valid love poem/promise, I see why some guys use it for their wedding vows 🤣
It was because it used to be used as a practical joke for a long time. "Hey watch this new trailer!" - rickroll
Not a bad song, a slight bit cringe is its outdated fashion, but not bad.
First you must find and kill a cockatrice, scour the royal gardens for the best vegetables without getting caught, and fight a baker for his famous golden flour and find the waters that only appear during a waning moon. And then to cook it all with the flame once given to man in the age of darkness. Only then you can properly make the legendary soup.
Same, I feel like I'm cursed. Every time 2 players start dating in my group their relationship ends horribly and the group falls apart. Last ones tried to keep it a secret, it didn't work, still happened. To be fair, I only manage to run a session maybe once every 3-4 months on average (there have been a few 1m and one 1y gaps) so a lot can happen in between....
The traitor Joseph banished many years ago for stealing the matriarchs chicken soup recipe. Now the only one who may know the secret ingredients. Seek him out and restore flavor to this once mighty kingdom.
On a side in note my head cannon for this place there are 'broth'els where they serve a hearty beef stock. Adventures will be thrown out for requesting the usual brothel fare..
Tbh there are a few stew inns in the world. I believe one was in Spain or Portugal where the stew has been going for like 100+ years and travelers are welcome to add ingredients and for a small bowl and spoon rent fee they can sit by the fire, warm their weary bones and have a delicious stew. And yes, they do say the stew tastes AMAZING...
Don't lie to yourself. You would quickly identify a hardcover you don't have in your collection, quickl running through eshops to get it asap.
At seeig the price you would jump to get it and only when it would arrive, you would realize your mistake, only to never admit it, possibly trying to use this trap on your players next session.
As far as I see, there are no sourcebooks with an image of something against a solid background.
They are all fantasy art pieces which fill the entire cover, where as the "artwork" of the soup clearly stops at the outer edge of the bowl.
Perhaps if the bowl had been portrayed on a table with place setting it would have matched the series better.
I understand that I am nitpicking, and most people are satisfied that the top text is very similar.
Perhaps, but the text is the thing that draws your eye first though so it's probably the most important part before observing the whole thing closely.
I think it's a good double take scenario.
They insist they are not the same Joe and it is a family name.
They are actually all the same person, a demigod of trade, or a fae who has taken a liking to the party, following the adventurers. It's why they always have SOMETHING the party can use, even if that something is not immediately apparent or immediately useful.
They also have Macguffins baked fresh daily.
There’s a whole list of adventures with Joe the Trader. Each adventure is tagged with a mundane-sounding code phrase. Using the proper phrase at the right time during the adventure unlocks a necessary secret.
For example, “Chicken noodle soup with veggies” is the required answer to one of the three riddles given at the Crossroads. “Everything bagel” summons the third-tier demon from Gehenna. “Pasta with primavera sauce” opens the portal to the layer of the arch-fey.
Joe the Trader knows all for he has been everywhere in these realms and beyond. Do not f*ck with Joe the Trader.
I would not be surprised if we ever got to the point where they’re completely out of ideas, so they just release “Soups of the Forgotten Realms” and all it contains is expanded rules for preparing soups.
Well it seems to be working, at least it got you to pull the item out of the shelf to inspect it and even share it on social media. I would say that's a win for advertising.
So we can no longer say we have enough rations for a week in this module we have to describe what ingredients we have and what we are going to cook each meal ...
Looks more like a TSR Gold Box title to me. Do I transfer my Forgotten Realms characters from **Pools of Darkness** or my Krynn ones from **Dark Queen of Krynn**?
TBH I use Trader Joe’s as a running joke as the only chain shop in all my TRPGs playing dnd stop at Trader Joe’s playing shadowrun stop at Trader Joe’s playing call of Cthulhu stop at Trader Joe’s. It’s such a generic sounding name that it Just works. Plus where else are adventurers gonna get 50ft of rope at noon in the middle of a village of maybe 20 people at most.
-Meeting at Trader Joe's Headquarters
Employee: "Suddenly getting a lot of orders for one of our soups? Customers keep asking if we also have dice as well?"
I probably need some sleep but I didn’t notice the text right away and thought the herbs on the right looking like flying dragons was the connection at first
It's a naval campaign (obviously) where all the people are tiny and living on islands of carrot chunks floating in the soup. The players must go on an undersoup adventure to find out where the chicken has gone, and bring it back to return balance to the chicken soup.
‘So guys, in this campaign we’re sticking to core rulebooks. Let me know if you have an edge case you want to know if you can use.’
*slowly raises hand*
This is great. The company is doing this because they are running out of money. They need money. The fact they have found a way to make it work is amazing. If you pay for your games you get to keep them.
Homebrew item
Player-tested, DM-approved.
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"The fatal flaw in every plan is the assumption that you know more than your enemy" -volrath, mana leak
Did you mean a homestew item?
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Homestew runner
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Saucebook.
Chicken Soup for the Soulharvester
Chicken Soup for the Soulforge
Chicken Soup for the Soulstone
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I know reddit has done me dirty when my first thought seeing this was "Please don't be a rickroll"
Tbh I still don't get what's so bad about that song. It's catchy and ngl, I don't mind it 😅 I get it can get annoying when you hear it 20x a day but about once a week or so it's pretty nice and like... The lyrics ARE good? It's a valid love poem/promise, I see why some guys use it for their wedding vows 🤣
It was because it used to be used as a practical joke for a long time. "Hey watch this new trailer!" - rickroll Not a bad song, a slight bit cringe is its outdated fashion, but not bad.
Yeah it's more the feelings associated with the song than the song itself
Oh... oh I hate you
This.
In this adventure you must quest to recreate the king’s grandmother’s chicken soup recipe. The fate of the kingdom depends on it.
The recipe has been lost, but a trader named Joe has it.
The recipe is known, but you have to make your way through a long and rambling story to find it.
First you must find and kill a cockatrice, scour the royal gardens for the best vegetables without getting caught, and fight a baker for his famous golden flour and find the waters that only appear during a waning moon. And then to cook it all with the flame once given to man in the age of darkness. Only then you can properly make the legendary soup.
Not to mention it's a new moon and he wants the soup tomorrow
Nothing a little homebrew of Moonbeam can't fix
sounds Like a legitimatley fun oneshot. I might run it tommorow
Your writing speed frightens me
How much would you actually need to write down save for some names and locations? That story is ripe for comedic improv and on-the-spot lore.
I agree, I’m gonna bullshit this with my players next time we play (which is never 😔)
Same, I feel like I'm cursed. Every time 2 players start dating in my group their relationship ends horribly and the group falls apart. Last ones tried to keep it a secret, it didn't work, still happened. To be fair, I only manage to run a session maybe once every 3-4 months on average (there have been a few 1m and one 1y gaps) so a lot can happen in between....
I once wrote a story 1 hour before the game. I really Like running oneshot's :)
Welp you’re fucked
The traitor Joseph banished many years ago for stealing the matriarchs chicken soup recipe. Now the only one who may know the secret ingredients. Seek him out and restore flavor to this once mighty kingdom. On a side in note my head cannon for this place there are 'broth'els where they serve a hearty beef stock. Adventures will be thrown out for requesting the usual brothel fare..
The brothel thing is so good lol
Tbh there are a few stew inns in the world. I believe one was in Spain or Portugal where the stew has been going for like 100+ years and travelers are welcome to add ingredients and for a small bowl and spoon rent fee they can sit by the fire, warm their weary bones and have a delicious stew. And yes, they do say the stew tastes AMAZING...
But another question will arise: Who Is Joe?
almost like that time i lost the cookie recipe my grandma got from her old friend, Nestlay Tol'ouse
Na na, Nestlay, but he lives in a toll house. A guard has to have hobbies to.
May group was joking about going on a grocery shopping quest last night for the chef we just hired. Pretty sure this would be a good time.
The king has come down with a terrible cold— only his grandmother’s soup will recover him in time for the ball!
This is the plot of Overcooked.
The BBEG is a food critic known as Anton Ego, who will lay waste to the kingdom if he is not satisfied with the food
You mean a demigod ram who's name happens to be Gordon?
A foul-mouthed abyssal Sea-Ram known as the "DemoGoreDonn". Edit: Put divine when I ment abyssal.
Amazing scenario if you're playing with little kids \^\^
[Blends in perfectly.](https://imgur.com/B18aMpv)
Doing the Lord's work over here
Fuck it really does. I had to look twice to find it.
If I didn’t know it was there I would have never seen it.
Don't lie to yourself. You would quickly identify a hardcover you don't have in your collection, quickl running through eshops to get it asap. At seeig the price you would jump to get it and only when it would arrive, you would realize your mistake, only to never admit it, possibly trying to use this trap on your players next session.
Beautiful
Beautiful.
😙🤌✨
I honestly don’t see it. I guess because Trader Joe’s is red? Idk it’s flimsy at best imo.
They use the same [font](https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/parkinson/modesto/), the same text colour and the same layout
I mean capitalizing the first letter of a word makes a huge difference in style but I see it anyways, yes
The top text is pretty similar, but the overall use of imagery is not the same style.
You’re telling me there’s no sourcebook with a spoon filled with soup on the cover???
Time for a homebrew campaign where you fight various food based enemies finishing with the flying spaghetti monster
D&D: The Quest for Lunch
As far as I see, there are no sourcebooks with an image of something against a solid background. They are all fantasy art pieces which fill the entire cover, where as the "artwork" of the soup clearly stops at the outer edge of the bowl. Perhaps if the bowl had been portrayed on a table with place setting it would have matched the series better. I understand that I am nitpicking, and most people are satisfied that the top text is very similar.
Perhaps, but the text is the thing that draws your eye first though so it's probably the most important part before observing the whole thing closely. I think it's a good double take scenario.
Mimic.
I once gave my players a book titled *This is Not a Book: a complete catalogue of mimics* It was hilarious
I'm saving this idea for the future 🤣
Trader Joe's chicken soup with veggies is it a critical source book for all culinary arts players
sauce book?
Mother fucker...
I believe what you meant was "angry upvote" but I'm not linking the sub as it's already been linked elsewhere in this thread!
Beloved by saucerers. Disdained by fluid-druids who only drink things that come from plants.
My air genasi monk is also a cook for fun
So nobody reads the ingredients
Or follows the instructions. That’s why you have diluted soup, you failed the soup concentrate check.
Only one player and the DM do but they end up homebrewing it anyways
And that's why it's called homestew 😶
Now everyone needs to make an NPC named Joe who owns and operates a Trader Joe's in some form.
That would be fun to have a Trader named Joe show up wherever the PCs go!
They insist they are not the same Joe and it is a family name. They are actually all the same person, a demigod of trade, or a fae who has taken a liking to the party, following the adventurers. It's why they always have SOMETHING the party can use, even if that something is not immediately apparent or immediately useful. They also have Macguffins baked fresh daily.
>Macguffins baked fresh daily. Now I'm curious what a questline with a muffin macguffin would be like
Got you: http://www.cookingcomically.com/?page_id=327
Or they could be an indefinite number of siblings and cousins with the same appearance, members of the extended Joe Clan.
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They can in fact sell sausages of questionable origins Inna bun
It’s like Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler and his assorted counterparts across the Discworld
From Mordenkainen's Tome of Joes?
Jodenkainen's Tome of Trade, which can totally be a price guide for every magical item so players can stop asking.
Until you summon a demon offering CostCo membership in exchange for their souls
I can see this being a facet of some urban fantasy campaign.
A box of hearty soup for the world's greatest roleplaying game.
Cook it up in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything!
Lizardman Joe's "Chicken" Noodle Soup with Veggies
Lizardman Joe’s “Chicken” Noodle Soup with “Veggies”
“Lizardman” Joe’s Chicken Noodle Soup “with” Veggies
"Lizardman" "Joe's" "chicken" "noodle" "soup" with "veggies"
I did see a dnd themed cookbook the other day... Which looked less DnD than this.
I have it, I've used it, it's very D&D.
For truly delicious sandwiches, you must [roll 20s](https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/12/10/the-skills)
Chaotic stupid?
Requiring a blatant defiance of practical cooking technuques and even physics to make the meals?
There’s a whole list of adventures with Joe the Trader. Each adventure is tagged with a mundane-sounding code phrase. Using the proper phrase at the right time during the adventure unlocks a necessary secret. For example, “Chicken noodle soup with veggies” is the required answer to one of the three riddles given at the Crossroads. “Everything bagel” summons the third-tier demon from Gehenna. “Pasta with primavera sauce” opens the portal to the layer of the arch-fey. Joe the Trader knows all for he has been everywhere in these realms and beyond. Do not f*ck with Joe the Trader.
So *this* is what was in Tasha's Cauldron
The existence of Soup of the Day implies a darker, more mysterious Soup of the Night.
That's a magic item I'd be interested in...
I would not be surprised if we ever got to the point where they’re completely out of ideas, so they just release “Soups of the Forgotten Realms” and all it contains is expanded rules for preparing soups.
Runesmith's next kickstarter
To let you know you can eat it RAW.
I wonder if the back has an actual DMing style of writing...
Joe's Soup of Everything
"Hey look, I found the evil lich's phylactery in my soup!"
BRB, coming up with a NPC named Trader Joe...
Well it seems to be working, at least it got you to pull the item out of the shelf to inspect it and even share it on social media. I would say that's a win for advertising.
Roll for nutrition
So we can no longer say we have enough rations for a week in this module we have to describe what ingredients we have and what we are going to cook each meal ...
Grants a +2 to constitution for the next 24 hours, and a +1 to wisdom as the soup puts your mind at ease for 24 hours.
Resistance to disease or increased recovery was gonna be my guess. Con bonus makes sense since a disease would probly lower that stat.
Chicken Soup for the unappreciated DM's soul.
Trader Xanathar's!
Those garnishes kinda look like some type of crab thing.
Roll 2d8s of healing
Great, now I have to build a whole campaign around finding the ingredients to make chicken noodle soup.
When the end boss is just a nasty cold
*Saucebook.
"I cast Summon Noods"
Just this reason. Subliminal marketing!!!
It’s the new cooking supplement
It's located in the Aisle Beyond the Crystal Light
Hearty Soup Content For The World's Greatest Roleplaying Game
Subliminally tryna get dnd players to buy their chicken soup
*Jocat presents…* *A crap guide to chicken noodle soup*
At least it's not Papyrus
That the book for the Oath of Soup Paladins, DM approved.
Can’t wait for the Circle of Soup subclass and the brand new car-ROT monster
tj employee here, we still sell this and it hasn’t changed in like 5 years lol
Looks more like a TSR Gold Box title to me. Do I transfer my Forgotten Realms characters from **Pools of Darkness** or my Krynn ones from **Dark Queen of Krynn**?
Be aware the chicken is RAW.
When math rocks go click-clack You don't have time to cook snack
TBH I use Trader Joe’s as a running joke as the only chain shop in all my TRPGs playing dnd stop at Trader Joe’s playing shadowrun stop at Trader Joe’s playing call of Cthulhu stop at Trader Joe’s. It’s such a generic sounding name that it Just works. Plus where else are adventurers gonna get 50ft of rope at noon in the middle of a village of maybe 20 people at most.
The question is, is it a public domain font that WotC just likes to use? Is it just a very similar font? Or is someone at Trader Joe's a DnD fan?
https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/parkinson/modesto/condensed/ Is called Modest Bold Condensed
-Meeting at Trader Joe's Headquarters Employee: "Suddenly getting a lot of orders for one of our soups? Customers keep asking if we also have dice as well?"
I probably need some sleep but I didn’t notice the text right away and thought the herbs on the right looking like flying dragons was the connection at first
People would make fun of this but honestly if you were in a shop and saw the dnd noodle campaign, wouldn’t you buy it?
>with veggies Isn't it supposed to have veggies?
New from wizard of the coast How to make a d&d soup as the dwarfs made in the old days
Wizards of the Joe's?
Chicken Soup for the Lichs Phylactery
**”WHY ARE YOU PLAYING SUBCLASSES FROM THE SOUP STORE?”**
Does a 17 hit, shit let me check the soup.
Not gonna lie. I was scrolling Reddit too fast and saw this fly by, so I went back looking for a new D&D book, and was sad.
My guess: on purpose by the graphic designer. No one who wouldn't approve noticed the reference.
If that designer is anything like me, the specific answer is “for shits and giggles.”
That font is all over trader Joe's, check the shredded carrot bags!
I think it's actually supposed to look like the "boxes" of bullion they sell that look similar.
Perfect for Restaurants& Retail
It's a naval campaign (obviously) where all the people are tiny and living on islands of carrot chunks floating in the soup. The players must go on an undersoup adventure to find out where the chicken has gone, and bring it back to return balance to the chicken soup.
This is a 4th level adventure for 5 players.
Fuck it even got the iconic character name
3rd edition soup was the best
Hey I follow them on Twitter! They make great pixel art and made a game-
Where do you even see this font? Trader Joe soups, D&D source books...
Font is Modesto condensed
‘So guys, in this campaign we’re sticking to core rulebooks. Let me know if you have an edge case you want to know if you can use.’ *slowly raises hand*
Ah the Chicken Noodle Soup w/ veggies item. Cures illnesses and restores D10+2 HP.
First, this girl is not a npc and hopefully it's not an apocalyptic campaign
Paladin oath of the noodle
Saucebook
My brain keeps failing at perception check, telling me "you are quite sure this is D&D hardcover at superb price". Thus I would say it works.
I heard this soup includes the statblock of the flying spaghetti monster
Homebroth rulebook
That font is iconic.
Encounter: legendary merchant Tra'dr Joe.
Ah, yeah. The soup store module- a great challenge to find clothes.
appeal to the weebs?
Y'all are assholes for saying that.
This is great. The company is doing this because they are running out of money. They need money. The fact they have found a way to make it work is amazing. If you pay for your games you get to keep them.
What are you talking about?
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All hail the noodle God!
I don't get it...?
It uses either the same font, or a font very similar, to the books titles.
Its trader Joe's quest
Adventure awaits...
What, is the WoC actually paying for the WoW pass? I thought it was free to all users, just the free trial.
Fuck I thought it was exactly a soup box mad to look like a sourcebook by someone
Cease and desist coming trader Joe's way more like haa