Does your party have a cook?

[Aeolius]

The first 3e PC I ever created was Nok, a half-orc bard with skills as a chef and taxidermist. He wore a bloodied leather apron and attacked with meat cleavers.

 

[the Jester]

Yes, but he's a dwarf.

The old halfling campaign had all the cooks you'd ever need in it.

 

[drothgery]

We've had a lot of PCs that would spend a lot of money (relatively speaking) and time to ensure that they had good food (especially once fast travel magic became available so we didn't have to 'rough it' for extended periods). But I don't think I've seen any that put skill ranks in cooking.

 

[Scarbonac]

Either 1) we depended on an NPC Hobbit, 2) ate cold iron rations or 3) someone would take a stab at roasting steaks of whatever impaled on sticks over an open fire.

We once had a kender "chef" who used ingredients that he'd "find" (bees' wings & raspberries, mule liver)...who was about as good at it as you might expect...

 

[exile]

No cooks in the party right now, but my halfling wizardess has 1 rank in profession (servant); she may not know how to cook, but at least she can set the table.

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

We usually got delivery.

Brad

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I voted "Yes," even though that's not strictly true.

I often play PCs with ranks in things like "Cook," but I'm currently playing in a campaign in which this is not the case. I even played one halfling whose sole reason for adventuring was coming up with recipes for anything and everything remotely edible.

And for a halfling, many things are "remotely edible."

(And no, it wasn't in a DarkSun campaign- though come to think of it...)

Next campaign- Who knows?

 

[GreyWizard77]

One of our local Living Arcanis players has an old lady cleric with a LOT of ranks in Cooking (I her bonus is like +30 or something). She's always handing out cookies to the various NPC's we meet. We've avoided several combats that way. She also has a frying pan that doubles over as a mace. It's also made of a special material so that it can self-heat. It's really quite an interesting and fun concept.

 

[I'm A Banana]

The cook is a great subskill for the "team mom" style PC who is the glue that holds the party together and the person who makes sure everyone is happy. It's like the cleric, but with more flavor than "heals you."

In the typical Five Man Band (Leader, Lancer, Smarty, Big Guy, and Softy), cooking falls to the Softy, and it's a great thing to do. Nothing perks up the spirits in a dark dungeon quite like a hot meal. A few of my games even had "food effects" that went into play if you rolled high enough (temp HP, attack/damage bonuses, etc.).

 

[Wicht]

I voted yes, even though its really Craft: cook. Cooking creates something and thus is more properly a craft, not a profession.