afallenwolf:

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parisianqueen:

Guys. I’m about to do a rant about D&D things. Because I’m so frustrated about dumb DMs who undermine an out of the box character.

From now on when playing Prianna, I’m giving her a frying pan as her weapon. DMs freak the hell out on me about 90% of the time if she doesn’t have a “normal regular weapon”, but I never use it because she stays in the back? Also… frying pan is going to be her focus for her magic. It’s her tool. It’s her craft. It’s how she, as a bard, performs. So of course the frying pan would be her magical focus item as well. BUT WHO THE HELL CARES IF I DO THIS?! Does anyone actually check in with their bard every single attack and be like “okay are you playing your lute right now what song are you playing?!” - no, it’s just assumed they’re using their instrument as focus. SO I WILL DO THIS BUT WITH FRYING PAN SHE’S ALREADY HOLDING.

AND FUCKING HELL ON THAT NOTE

I’m tired of having to write up this character as being a musician because some people struggle to see cooking as an artistic skill, when it 100% totally is. I’ve had DMs in the past tell me that her cooking something is a dexterity skill, or a intelligence skill, and I HAVE WITNESSED THE BEST CHEFS BE CLUMSY AS FUCK AND NOT VERY SMART BUT STILL CREATIVE ENOUGH TO MAKE IT GOOD. I will not accept this dumb “cooking is not a performance skill” anymore.

Frying pan is her focus. She has proficiency with cook’s utensils. She performs her craft by cooking amazing feasts to delight the masses. I’m making her a glamour bard and she will be the Gordon Ramsey of the tabletop universe, gathering fans and cooking for powerful NPCs. I’m 100% done with this lame attempt at trying to over-complicate a simple mechanic just because it’s not a “traditional art form” - just treat it like a musical instrument, it’s literally no different, and I already get a disadvantage because I actually NEED ingredients instead of handwaving that I have them like a lot of magic classes already do. 

JUST LET ME HAVE FUN, DAMN IT. I’m not breaking the game by doing any of these things. Most of the time her cooking doesn’t even come into play anyway, it’s just a dumb little thing she uses to charisma the fuck out of things when she’s dealing with NPCs - LIKE A BARD WOULD DO ANYWAY.

I’m going to damn well keep my frying pan mechanic.

Originally posted by totallytangled

Hey, to all you Dungeon Masters out there, new and old…

IT’S
NOT
HARD
TO
RESKIN
A
FRYING PAN
AS
A
MELEE WEAPON
AND
A
BARDIC FOCUS!

Being a DM often means knowing when to bend the rules of the game to accommodate interesting and good ideas your players have, or adjusting/reskinning class features for your players so they best suit their characters.

If you get bent out of shape over a player using a cast-iron skillet (which weighs almost as much as a small mace or hammer), you lack imagination and are probably a weenie. 

Be a better DM than that. Please and thank you. 

If Samwise Gamgee can do it (3:18), so can your player characters.

Please come play with us.

Seriously though, if you need proof for cooking = performance, just refer to ANY cooking video.

Also, if you were to argue that some sort of skill shpuld require dexterity or some other thing because it’s not cooking but it’s using a cooking technique to complete a task– why not give the player advantage or their proficiency bonus to the roll?

There are ways to play this and, honestly, a bard that uses cooking to be inspirational or a frying pan as their focus is not even that hard to work into a game.

Frying pan melee weapon stats:

Frying pan (cast iron), versatile, 1d8+STR or 1d10+STR If wielding 2 handed.

On a critical hit, the target must make a dc 15 constitution saving throw or be stunned for one round.

I’d honestly LOVE a player to use a frying pan as a center point for their character. That sounds fun and creative. And if that’s not what DnD is about I don’t wanna play.

Don’t tell ppl their fun is wrong