BlogNomic: Nothingburger

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Proposal: Nothingburger

In “Dishes”, replace “up to three Ingredients” with “one to three Ingredients”.

Zero-ingredient food does seem difficult to work around, in terms of both narrative and gameplay.

Comments

Josh: he/they

29-07-2025 08:27:20 UTC

I don’t see it.

Kevan: Yard he/him

29-07-2025 09:12:19 UTC

Narratively players are going to be giving their own private interpretations of what a zero-food item is when writing their menus: it’s a glass of water, it’s a branded T-shirt, it’s an experience economy interaction with the vendor. The storytelling creaks when a customer decides to buy a T-shirt instead of a glass of water.

For gameplay, drinks and merch could be good additions to the game, but disparately filing them as zero-ingredient “Dishes” means that any future Dish rule has to remember to work around them. It’ll be a shame to see new mechanics being voted down because they forgot to take into account that some food has no food in it.