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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MostlyHarmless42" data-source="post: 8627983" data-attributes="member: 6845520">Obligatory mention of the Abserd build here from Puffin Forest.Craziest actual character I've played in 5e was a gestalt artificer / battle chef (a homebrew class we found online). The character was entirely focused around cooking. I was mostly an alchemist build artificer but it was heavily altered. His gimmick was being obsessed with cooking pies and pastries, and had a mechanic where he not only fought with cookware (eventually a flame tongue frying pan) and made a bunch of daily healing items called Morsels which were basically free healing potions.It wasn't exactly a damage king build or anything, especially with a party of other gestalt characters, but it was an insanely versatile support build. I themed all my spells around food, like faerie fire was a sack of flour, burning hands was eating a hot chili pepper, etc., and he had a pet homunculus named Blueberry.The idea we were going for from the game was we were isekai'd / stuck in an MMO game, and our characters were the in game character avatars for us. One of us played a min-maxing power gamer, another a hardcore "roleplayer" that rarely broke character, and my chef was the weird kid with a sh%&&y internet connection who was obsessed with all the random useless in game side professions (like pets, fishing, and cooking) and had somehow savanted his way into a build that would never be recommended by any optimization guide but somehow provided amazing raid buffs. He was tolerated despite his tendency to lag or accidentally stand in the fire during boss fights because the food buffs were "Party bound" and amazing enough to compensate for them raiding and carrying his ass, and his cafe/coffee shop was a solid money maker for the guild. T'was a fun character.</blockquote>

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