Extreme Omnivore / Tabletop Games

• Champions adventure "Bad Medicine for Dr. Drugs''. The teen superhero "The Masked Avenger" had the ability to bite through and eat just about anything, including non-living material and plants. It didn't say whether he could use it to eat living animal flesh.
• Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine: The Primordial Miraculous Arc has one power that lets you digest anything you can eat. If you can figure out a way to swallow time, clouds, anger, bricks or whatever, you can extract nutrition from it. And if all else fails there's one Arc that lets you strip traits from things, including "inedibility", and another that lets you turn into a giant monster.
• Don't Rest Your Head: One sample power from Don't Lose Your Mind allows you to eat and survive on literally anything, with the added bonus of transmuting it within your guts and crap out the result. The relationship needs not literal, so you can eat Atomic Fireballs candy and push out weapons-grade plutonium. It also allows you to devour your enemies during periods of Unstoppable Rage. It's not all fun and games though. Bring My Brown Pants is a lot more dangerous when you possibly crap out nukes, and overuse of the power would eventually result in your guts gaining sentience, vacating your body, and becoming a Nightmare known as Mr. Greedyguts.
• Dungeons & Dragons
  • In the 3rd edition, there was a prestige class called the "Flux Adept" which, among other abilities, allowed you to derive sustenance from any substance. Gold, poison, dust, anything.
  • Also, dragons are stated to be able to eat and digest just about anything, including dirt and rocks, which makes sense, given how large they are. It would be hard for a predator that size to feed itself without disrupting the ecosystem. They have preferences, of course; red dragons (the most powerful evil dragons) are the ones who are most notorious for being man-eaters and desiring the flesh of human and elven maidens.
  • In 4th Edition, and maybe others, dragons can use the magic of some items they swallow.
  • What about the Tarrasque? Once every few years/centuries, it wakes up and goes on a spree of destruction, eating EVERYTHING in its path — including entire towns, buildings and all.
  • Planescape: There is a Sensate Alchemist that personally samples all of his potions and never refuses an offer to try something new, however hazardous it may be. (It's gotten him in trouble more than once.)
  • Ravenloft: In the 3E supplement Van Richten's Guide To The Walking Dead, the Weathermay-Foxgrove twins take on an undead Extreme Omnivore: the Glutton of G'henna. This ravenous ghoul-like creature broke into houses or barns and ate every scrap of food there, whole livestock included; it could be tracked cross-country by the large bite marks it left behind in trees and boulders. It did eat people, or parts thereof, if they got between it and food, but was not a man-eater by preference.
• Exalted: The Yozi Metagaos. He's a sapient swamp who'll eat anything: Colour, individuality, time, space, himself...
• Games Workshop games:
  • Warhammer 40,000:
    • The Tyranids are the ultimate omnivores, eating everything up to and including entire planets right down to the bedrock, including the atmosphere.
    • Orks get a special mention for the sheer robustness of their physiology. For example, one "sport" Orks engage in is a face-eating contest, where an Ork and a face-eater Squig try to see who can eat the other's head first. Also, Ork Fighta-Bommas include fuel lines routed through the cockpit, in case the pilot gets thirsty.
    • Space Marines can eat pretty much anything, since their Bio-Augmentation gave them a "pre-stomach" organ called the Preomnor which neutralizes anything indigestible or poisonous to them before it enters the stomach. This can also be tactically beneficial, as other organs allow their taste to be strong enough to notice specific chemicals, allowing them to potentially track targets by tasting an area. Their bones are also extremely strong, because yet another organ allows them to digest ceramic-based chemicals put into their diet to toughen them.
    • Ambulls are primarily carnivores, but at need can feed on anything, up to and including plasma.
  • Warhammer Fantasy:
    • The Ogres are an entire race of Big Eater/Extreme Omnivore. Their whole society revolves around eating, their magic is practiced by Butchers who devour meat, rocks, or other objects to cast spells, and their god is called the Great Maw. A section in their army book describes someone autopsying one and finding fourteen kilograms of raw meat, a whole horse skeleton, rocks, bones, clothes, a sword, and a pistol, which was the cause of death (it went off when the Ogre swallowed the arm holding it, and shot into the base of the Ogre's brain). Gnoblars (small goblin-like creatures) are virtually the only thing they don't think are good for eating — they use them as pets, servants, and cannon fodder (sometimes literally). They'll still eat them, mind — they're just not going to be their first choice if other food is available. Part of the reason they view gold as Worthless Yellow Rocks is because it is one of the few things they don't like eating. One Ogre mercenary actually got offended when people thought he only ate human flesh after he ate the man who hired him (he did that because the man tried to cheat him out of payment).
    • Trolls are even worse than Ogres, literally thinking about nothing but their next meal. Their secret is having hyper-corrosive digestive enzymes, giving them lethal projectile vomit that can melt a charging knight in full armor and his horse into nothing. In the spin-off RPGs, landing attacks on their guts is potentially lethal, as it can result in their stomach acid gouting out of the wound and splashing you.
  • Warhammer: Age of Sigmar
    • The Ogors and Troggoths have retained the extreme appetites of their Ogre and Troll predecessors, both races consuming everything in their path.
    • The massive boars known as gruntas ridden by the Ironjaw orruks eat absolutely anything they can get their snouts on, including their defeated foe, armour and weapons included.
• Godforsaken: Multilimbed monstrosities as big as elephants, esecran eat anything and everything.
• GURPS:
  • The cosmic level of Universal Digestion allows the character to get sustenance from anything with the sole exception of antimatter. Surviving what you eat is a different matter entirely, but easily covered by a couple of other Advantages. The advantage of not requiring any kind of sustenance is actually cheaper than Universal Digestion, presumably because of the potential practical utility in being able to destroy anything that is small enough to swallow.
  • GURPS also has the "can eat things that were edible but not anymore" variation with the "Reduced Consumption" advantage with the limitation "Cast Iron Stomach", which says "you require the same amount of food and water, but the quality is irrelevant". It comes with the side advantage of being more able to resist poison and disease that would require to be ingested to contaminate you.
• In Nomine, a game about war between Heaven and Hell, includes Haagenti, the Demon Prince of Gluttony. Not only does Haagenti eat pretty much anything, his servants can get an attunement to eat anything they can bite through. According to the game's entry about Haagenti:
  "The world is starving — it must be fed. Just don't stand too close, or you might lose an arm. (Mmmm. Arm.)"
• Magic: The Gathering:
  • The flavor text for the Enormous Baloth lists the creature's diet as consisting of "...fruits, plants, small woodland animals, large woodland animals, woodlands, fruit groves, fruit farmers, and small cities."
  • The atog is a creature that eats magical artifacts. There are also atogs that eat dead bodies, enchantments, other atogs, and even time.
• New Horizon: Grim Stalkers are perfectly happy chowing down on humans OR (or rather, AND) Wafans. And can digest and use the materials from both. They also happen to be the planet's top predator.
• Paranoia: Matter Eater mutants can eat anything (including evidence of their treason), while those with Toxic Metabolism can eat poison and exude it through their skin. (This being Paranoia, sometimes these powers don't work right. Ow.)
• Pathfinder:
  • Goblins treat anything that isn't another goblin as a source of food. Even the most obviously inedible of organic matter will be given an exploratory nibble.
  • The fires that burn within the bodies of red dragons allow them to process and digest almost anything they can fit down their gullets — there are very few types of animals, plants or mineral substances that a red cannot, in a pinch, digest and gain nutrition from.
  • Kirrixes eat diseases, usually by eating them off objects or out of the air. They can harmlessly digest and destroy them or save them for later use.
• Rocket Age: Iotes, a race used to living on a post-apocalyptic cesspool of a moon, have to be this. They're utterly immune to poisons as a result and can gain nourishment from a bin full of wood-chips.
• RuneQuest: Trolls are cannibalistic (and will eat other intelligent species), and they can eat things like leather boots, wax candles, and even rocks for food. They do have preferences, however — their favorite foods of all are dwarf and elf, and their least favorite are hair and feces.
• Shadowrun:
  • Juggernauts are house-sized Awakened, fifty-foot long armadillos that will eat anything — meat, plants, rocks, scrap meatal, anything. They're walking ecological disasters, as they simply devour anything in their path and strip the land bare as they go.
  • Hellcows are mutated cows transformed into voracious omnivores. Like juggernauts, they'll eat anything — grass, meat, wood, metal, their own mothers...
• The World of Darkness:
  • Changeling: The Dreaming features the Redcaps, a group of faeries who can eat anything they can fit in their mouths. Given they have big mouths, sharp teeth, and nearly endless appetites, that covers a lot.
  • Dragon: The Embers: Characters refill their energy pool (Breath) by eating things to burn in their "Furnace". Most often, they just need to eat more of the food a normal human would, but in a pinch, they may need to resort to more efficient sources of calories, such as firewood, coal, gasoline, and rocket fuel, though these require a roll to simply keep them down, and can impose losses of willpower and health.
  • Princess: The Hopeful:
    • Darkened with the Roteater Umbrum can eat anything, up to and including broken glass or jagged bits of metal, and take no more than one point of bashing damage getting it down. They can digest anything even vaguely organic without difficulty, while stone, glass, and metal come out the other end (again doing no more than a single point of bashing damage).
    • Princesses of Clubs have a charm that (among some other effects) lets them eat raw meat and uncooked or indigestible-by-humans plants without getting sick while transformed, though it explicitly does not help with the taste.
  • Promethean: The Created: Prometheans are also capable of eating practically anything organic — mounds of dead leaves are specifically cited as perfectly valid sustenance.
    • Developing an extra gallbladder or the Acid Stomach Merit expands this to include anything that the character can swallow, though the book does point out that it only reduces the obvious consequences of consuming such things as shards of broken glass, and does not increase the Promethean's jaw strength for chewing the matter in question. Gulping down small pellets of, say, titanium would work; trying to eat one's way out of a thick-barred iron cage is another question entirely.
    • First edition's Unfleshed, Ridiculously Human Robot Prometheans, can even eat such things as rubber tires and drink motor oil by default... but this actually hurts their Karma Meter. The reason? The 1e Promethean Karma Meter is Humanity, which represents how well they mimic humans, and human beings, as a rule, don't eat rubber tires — doing something like this is a blatant reminder that you aren't a human being, which damages the illusion.
  • Werewolf: The Apocalypse: In the 20th anniversary edition, it's revealed that the now-extinct Grondr were this. Given that they were werepigs (a magically infused combination of human and swine — note that the mundane versions of both components are on the Real Life tab for a reason), it's not a surprise that they had gifts specifically for eating, including the ability to eat anything afflicted by the Wyrm without ill effect. Unfortunately, the other Fera — the Garou in particular — couldn't believe that they were immune to Wyrm-taint, suspecting that they must have been corrupted somehow... and, when the Grondr stood up for the Gurahl against the Garou, the werewolves wiped the Grondr out, having convinced themselves they'd fallen to the Wyrm.

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