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<blockquote data-quote="MichaelSomething" data-source="post: 4838210" data-attributes="member: 51168">The sequal to a <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/243960-what-edition-use-forked-thread-when-did-i-stop-being-wizards-coasts-target-audience.html" target="_blank">question</a> I asked a couple of months ago on these very forums!&nbsp; What edition would you use for a certain situation?&nbsp; In the first installment, the situation was a poetry contest and 4E was the most popular option.&nbsp;Now, I want to ask, which edition of D&amp;D would be best for enacting something from the show Dinner Impossible?&nbsp; To sum it all up,&nbsp; you get a chef and have him cater an event, except it's a lot harder then it would normally be due to a bunch of factors like little time/having no food to start with/having only non-chef to help cook/etc.&nbsp; Let me get some YouTube clips so you can see how it works.&nbsp;[ame=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWvA64bL5Xo&quot;]Here's one![/ame]&nbsp;[ame=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2541rVvRD9A&amp;feature=channel_page&quot;]Here's another one![/ame]&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Some the issues you would deal with is getting the supplies you need (like food, things to cook with, and plates), figuring out how to deal with weird things the event requires (cooking for a culture/in a situation you don't really know), and keeping whatever counts as your &quot;sous-chefs&quot; in line.&nbsp;This could be the set-up for a silly one shot or as part of a campaign (&quot;The Kingdom wide peace conference will be ruined if we don't get lunch up there RIGHT NOW!&quot;)&nbsp;What Edition would this be best for?&nbsp; &nbsp;For 4th Edition, it's yet another Skill Challenge!&nbsp; I could ask this question a thousand times, and a skill challenge would be 4th Edition's answers almost every time.&nbsp; Either the skill challenge system is really fexible or really repetitive.&nbsp;For 3rd Edition, this can be considered one of those situations where casters rule, fighters drool.&nbsp; Hero's feast, Create Food and Water, and Unseen Servent are just some of the endless tools casters have at their disposal.&nbsp; Bards, Rouges and the like can pitch in via skills and certain special abilites.&nbsp; Fighters get to chop stuff. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/erm.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":erm:" title="Erm&nbsp; &nbsp; :erm:" data-shortname=":erm:" /> If the Fighter made a good case that a certain feat he has would make him a better chopper, I would say he chops more/better.&nbsp; Of course, any character who happened to have a lot of ranks in Profession: Cook would be quite useful.&nbsp; If you want to boil it all down to a signle roll, you would have to take a -4 or -6 to the roll due to all those negative factors mentioned above.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;For the earlier editions, you can't assume that a party would have spells/character abilities that would be useful here.&nbsp; I'm sure they exist but I think it's not very likely.&nbsp; Since there are few rules to apply to such a situation, it would depend largly on DM Fiat, Improv, and maybe some die rolls just because.&nbsp; I'm not sure how it would turn out exactly.&nbsp; It would be highly DM depedent.&nbsp; &nbsp;I ask this because I'm intrested in how to resolve conflicts that are not fights.&nbsp; Dinner Impossible is pretty close to an adventure where you don't kill anything for XP.&nbsp; It's easy to figure out how to stab a pig, but harder to figure out how to turn it into pulled pork BBQ...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MichaelSomething, post: 4838210, member: 51168"] The sequal to a [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/243960-what-edition-use-forked-thread-when-did-i-stop-being-wizards-coasts-target-audience.html"]question[/URL] I asked a couple of months ago on these very forums! What edition would you use for a certain situation? In the first installment, the situation was a poetry contest and 4E was the most popular option. Now, I want to ask, which edition of D&D would be best for enacting something from the show Dinner Impossible? To sum it all up, you get a chef and have him cater an event, except it's a lot harder then it would normally be due to a bunch of factors like little time/having no food to start with/having only non-chef to help cook/etc. Let me get some YouTube clips so you can see how it works. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWvA64bL5Xo"]Here's one![/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2541rVvRD9A&feature=channel_page"]Here's another one![/ame] Some the issues you would deal with is getting the supplies you need (like food, things to cook with, and plates), figuring out how to deal with weird things the event requires (cooking for a culture/in a situation you don't really know), and keeping whatever counts as your "sous-chefs" in line. This could be the set-up for a silly one shot or as part of a campaign ("The Kingdom wide peace conference will be ruined if we don't get lunch up there RIGHT NOW!") What Edition would this be best for? For 4th Edition, it's yet another Skill Challenge! I could ask this question a thousand times, and a skill challenge would be 4th Edition's answers almost every time. Either the skill challenge system is really fexible or really repetitive. For 3rd Edition, this can be considered one of those situations where casters rule, fighters drool. Hero's feast, Create Food and Water, and Unseen Servent are just some of the endless tools casters have at their disposal. Bards, Rouges and the like can pitch in via skills and certain special abilites. Fighters get to chop stuff. :erm: If the Fighter made a good case that a certain feat he has would make him a better chopper, I would say he chops more/better. Of course, any character who happened to have a lot of ranks in Profession: Cook would be quite useful. If you want to boil it all down to a signle roll, you would have to take a -4 or -6 to the roll due to all those negative factors mentioned above. For the earlier editions, you can't assume that a party would have spells/character abilities that would be useful here. I'm sure they exist but I think it's not very likely. Since there are few rules to apply to such a situation, it would depend largly on DM Fiat, Improv, and maybe some die rolls just because. I'm not sure how it would turn out exactly. It would be highly DM depedent. I ask this because I'm intrested in how to resolve conflicts that are not fights. Dinner Impossible is pretty close to an adventure where you don't kill anything for XP. It's easy to figure out how to stab a pig, but harder to figure out how to turn it into pulled pork BBQ... [/QUOTE]

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