An idea whose time has come.

[mrissa]

I was just getting up from a lie-down and thinking, "Well, I failed my nap roll," and it hit me: hockey maki is really good, but what we need is gamer maki. An Initiative Roll, for example, might have a slice of lemon on it, or maybe ginger, something to wake you up. A Dex Roll would of course be really hard to keep together from the plate to your mouth.

So tell me: what goes in gamer maki? What's in a Charisma Roll? How would you make an Intelligence Roll? What more obscure skill rolls need sushi to go with them?

Comments

[txanne.livejournal.com]

Damage Rolls are 100% habañeros.

[rezendi.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of talking to rysmiel about the ingredients of a Rick Roll and, er, one other type whose identity now escapes me.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Well, and what was in the Rick Roll?

[rezendi.livejournal.com]

I have a vague notion it had radish disguised as whitefish, and carrot disguised as roe? But I could be wrong.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

A piece of carrot cunningly carved to look like salmon from afar. Plus cream cheese, yoghurt, and spicy mayo.

The other notion was an honour roll, and I do not think we ever managed to come up with plausible ingredients for it.

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Hmmm.

Constitution. A constitution roll contains torture, lying to congress, warrantless wiretapping, and awarding medals for shooting up the wrong house.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I don't think I want to swallow that.

[columbina.livejournal.com]

We have these already.

Initiative roll: Contains umeboshi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umeboshi) (umeboshi/shiso leaf rolls are my favorite maki ever). Umeboshi will make sure you're awake. it is about the sourest thing on earth.

Dexterity roll: Battleship wrap with pile of small "flying fish" roe on top. If you eat sushi with chopsticks (to my mind sushi is finger food), then good luck getting it to your mouth without losing any eggs.

Charisma roll: Contains tamago. The egg omelet is the one sushi everyone's willing to eat (well, except maybe vegans). It is friendly and sweet and gets along well with folks.

Wisdom roll: Sea urchin. If you're wise, you won't eat it. (If you happen to be one of the few and the proud, okay, how about natto?)

[markgritter.livejournal.com]

*I* refuse to eat tamago, but not for diet reasons.

[columbina.livejournal.com]

Where do you stand on the matter of eel rolls? Eel is how we converted our extremely conservative Yankee eater in the extended family to gradual sushi tolerance. Gateway sushi, as it were.

[markgritter.livejournal.com]

I do like many kinds of sushi, just not egg. Not particularly fond of eel, although many rolls with "eel sauce" are good. Hmm... I'm trying to remember what my sushi gateway was. Cucumber and tempura shrimp rolls are relatively unchallenging. But I think I started with salmon and tuna nigiri and sort of branched out from there.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Where do you have them? In your heads or somewhere in real life? (We have hockey maki in real life at Sakura, which is why I ask.)

[columbina.livejournal.com]

Oh, well, I meant I had seen sushi made in those configurations, not given those names. Although it would be fun. Maybe I should try to talk someone into printing a special menu ....

[columbina.livejournal.com]

Not-quite-tangentially, we do have one restaurant that likes to give their custom sushi ideas custom names, usually locations around town. I'm sorry to say that, other than the opportunity to make bad D&D jokes, I'm not a fan of such things and I tend to avoid them. I like my sushi to go by the names of its ingredients. That gets tricky when you have more than two or three things in the middle, but that's part of the problem. I personally like very basic sushi. If you have to come up with a good alternate name because you can't call it an Eel-Takuan-Shiso-Cucumber roll, to me that means you're trying to do too much. But, eh, that's me.

What goes into hockey maki anyway?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Depends on the roll. Nick Schultz and Marion Gaborik have very different rolls.

Anyway, I am not opposed to sushi that's doing a lot, so.

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Fascinating; tamago is one of the ones I won't eat, along with uni.

And, looking ahead, I don't like the eel stuff either. (One obvious theme here is I don't like any of the sweet ones.)

My gateway was via the sashimi tuna appetizer at Legal Seafoods, back in the 1980s.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Yah, tuna sashimi or tuna nigiri is a good gateway in my experience as well.

[ysabel.livejournal.com]

I love good uni. (Bad uni is horrific.) But yeah, natto would be good for scaring me off.

[guppiecat]

The Intelligence Roll would contain tuna and salmon, wrapped in nori and rice, covered with a rainbow of tuna, salmon, yellowtail, red snapper and mackerel. Fish is brain food.

At the end of the night, you need to ask for the Sanity Check, because the prices would be so high.

[columbina.livejournal.com]

And if you don't eat all your sushi, you can take the rest home, as long as you make a Saving Throw.

[txanne.livejournal.com]

A Jeeves Roll!

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Bertie Wooster says so.

[markgritter.livejournal.com]

Alas, D20 uses mainly "checks" not "rolls', but I'd imagine a Spot Roll would consist of (spotted) eel and fish eyes.

[guppiecat]

I suspect that using fish eggs would be a bit more appetizing.

[evangoer.livejournal.com]

I'm curious, what edition is M'ris, anyway? Maybe she has a pretty strong saving throw vs. Petrification, Polymorph, and Naps.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I wanted the nap. I didn't get it. Sigh.

But I have never once been turned to stone. Although behaving as though I had was my first solution when a recently-ex-boyfriend kept trying to kiss me.

[temporus.livejournal.com]

You rule. This idea is made of awesome! Must find sushi chef who is also a gamer to make this happen.

[reveritas.livejournal.com]

what is hockey maki? there are too many "rolls" going on here, the worst being the rick roll.

here we have the 49ers roll, giants roll, raiders roll, etc.

i'll tell you something. jd and i think we invented sushi checkers. we played it at "his" sushi bar a few years ago and got nothing but accolades, man.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Hockey maki is the special menu at our favorite sushi place in downtown St. Paul. They have rolls named after past and current Wild players. The Nick Schultz, the Marion Gaborik, etc. You order them by numbers, mostly.

Sushi checkers, though? Uff da!

[timprov.livejournal.com]

OK, serious love for the sushi checkers.

[mamapduck.livejournal.com]

"sushi checkers"?

'Splain, please!

[reveritas.livejournal.com]

OK so you order two-three tuna rolls and two or three negihama rolls (that's our favorites anyway -- just make sure they contrast and can be told apart! could do tuna and cucumber, or whatever). bring your own (clean) checkerboard. depending on how many pieces the roll is cut into, eat the extras or set them aside. set up your checkerboard! play checkers! when a piece is jumped, you eat it. when a piece is kinged, you stack them. then when that one is jumped you eat 'em both. i can't remember how or if we kept score but it didn't seem to matter since SUSHI! i guess if one player is hella better than the other, someone ends up without enough dinner. but that's a good incentive to get better at checkers. ;)

[mamapduck.livejournal.com]

You are hereby forbidden to speak to my husband who will over-engineer this into a way to coax me into learning chess.

[magentamn.livejournal.com]

My gateway to sushi was tuna rolls and cucumber rolls. I still haven't tried eel.

Bagu, on Chicago Avenue, has cheesecake rolls. Cheesecake filling in filo dough, I think. They were delicious. (And the rest of the meal was excellent as well.)

[songwind.livejournal.com]

The dex roll would have to be one of those horn-of-plenty shaped hand rolls.

Fortitude Save: Spicy tuna or the like

[prettymuchpeggy.livejournal.com]

Dex roll really should involve thai lettuce wraps.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

The Green Onion Chinese Pancake Wraps at Rice Paper in Linden Hills (which I commend unto those who have not yet tried it -- seabream and alecaustin got taken there before 4th St. and can back me up here) are also Not Tidy.

[prettymuchpeggy.livejournal.com]

I found the link based on your description.

http://www.ricepaperrestaurant.com/Site/Home.html

oooo sounds yummy, but -yes- I will have to remember to bring a sacrificial scarf (ie an adult bib). As I have found that I fail my saving rolls when it comes to playing dexterity and food game. Now that I have passed the age of "caring about it too much" I actually kind of find "failing rolls" entertaining.

[aedifica]

I think the Int roll is a rainbow roll (many kinds of fish) because of the fish=brain food association, but the Wis roll involves the Not Eating Stuff What Might Be Poisonous. Not sure how you make a negative into an actual roll, though. Maybe you square it so you get a positive result?

I think I'm too out of it for my geeking to make much sense, but I hope not. :-)

(And my icon is D&D but my fondness is for GURPS 3rd ed!)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I have eaten square sushi rolls before, so that might be okay.

[careswen.livejournal.com]

Among the skill rolls D&D characters can make are various Knowledge areas. My current character, a shaman who transforms into a black dog psychopomp, recently gained the skill "Knowledge: Death." I wish I knew enough about sushi to recommend an appropriate roll.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

We will teach you, grasshoppah.

[careswen.livejournal.com]

Okay, but if anybody dies from the experience, my soul retrieval abilities are (thus far) strictly limited to fantasy gaming.