🥫 Pre-War Food 🔳 (stack of 3)
Packaged, processed food from before the Great War. Sealed packaging and industrial preservatives have kept these items technically edible for over two centuries — though the radiation that’s seeped into everything hasn’t done them any favors. Not nutritious, not tasty, but enough to keep you going.
Consumed during 🛌 Rest:
- Heal +5 to HP
- Gain 2 RAD
- Counts as eating during 🛌 Rest (prevents Exhaustion)
Cannot be consumed in combat.
Examples
Item Description BlamCo Brand Mac and Cheese Powdered cheese and irradiated noodles Dandy Boy Apples Dried apple slices in a cheerful box Canned Dog Food It’s food. Technically. Cram Canned mystery meat, heavily processed Fancy Lads Snack Cakes Cream-filled cakes, still oddly moist Gum Drops Colorful gelatin candies InstaMash Just add water. Or don’t. Pork ‘n’ Beans Canned beans with bits of pork Potato Crisps Pre-war potato chips, mostly crumbs Salisbury Steak Frozen dinner, no longer frozen Yum-Yum Deviled Eggs Sealed deviled eggs. Don’t think about it. The GM chooses which specific food item is found. All Pre-War Food items are mechanically identical.