Does your party have a cook?

[El Mahdi]

No, not for the current group I'm DM'ng for. And, other than a game in which I played a Ninja that moonlighted as a Cook, I've never seen anyone, in a game I played in or DM'd, take ranks (or a non-weapon proficiency) in cooking.

But it can be a very interesting and useful skill for players who want it. It could help with Diplomacy and more specifically, in more seduction oriented encounters (a more complex Diplomacy encounter).

 

[roguerouge]

How about a monster manual recipe book. for cooking and all other things like you mention?

This thread makes me wish that future monster manuals would include a "Uses" section for each beastie. How best to cook the creature, what parts can be used as material components for spells and potions, the value of feather, hide, and shell... and so on.

ENWorld Publishing: Make a recipe book your next pdf product please! Think of the fun! Think of the laughs! Think of the gross-outs!

And think of the sales.

 

[Bigwilly]

I am running the World's Largest Dungeon. Supplies are hard to come by in the early part of the dungeon, so one of the party took to cooking up whatever they killed - stirge stew, dire rat on a stick and one of the party, now called 'Chef', either put a few ranks into cooking it or we are fudging it with survival.

 

[El Mahdi]

[qote=ejja 1]We eat what we kill [/quote]

I don't want to be around after your group kills the poop-monster. Or a demon. Or devil, zombie, vampire, jelly, elf, dwarf, human or gnome.

This is good roleplaying if it's in Darksun, and you're a Halfling. That would be cool, stories about Darksun cooks.

 

[Shroomy]

I can't even remember the last time we ate in our campaign. But being a fastidious cook does work easily into my overall character concept.

 

[demiurge1138]

Not currently, but I ran a game where the wu-jen earned money when not adventuring acting as a short-order cook. Same game also featured a steam mephit cohort whose primary occupation was making tea, and a homonculus obsessed with waffles. That whole game was very much "banality of adventuring".

 

[Arnwyn]

In your party, does one PC have at least one rank in profession (cook)? If so, why? If not, why not?

No.

Mmmm... iron rations. Once a day, every day.

Later, gruel from the heavens.

 

[Serendipity]

Yup. Ironicly, it's the half-orc rogue/ranger (in a party with two humans and a dwarf).