EDIT:great ideas so far. now l need to pick a race and class. any suggestions anyone? the combo needs to be ok at magic (ie some cantrips/first level stuff) and be good at useing a mace/blunt weapons,so my first thought is cleric but l dont know about the religious aspect of playing one. some spells for cooking food/enemys (ie some fire spells) are a must,as well as Create Bonfire cause that sounds usefull but sadly is not gained by any religious spellcasting classes. maybe a druid? oh and maybe l could be a woodelf? maybe...
If the character is a chef and part of the gag is that they're proficient with it, then yeah, just use the stats for a mace and call it a frying pan. (It also works if someone wants to play Rapunzel. Or Marion Ravenwood.)
Or go even more meme frying pan and have the thing be custom made for both combat and cooking
yeah...thats the idea,the same frying pan to make dinner is the one being used to turn the kobalds face into scrabbled eggs (as well as the kovald eggs are getting scrambled after the fight) ooh this gives me more ideas like the character would have high survival,maybe a fire spell to heat up the pan (for cooking and attacking) and s/he would turn dead enemys into the next meal.
maybe a cleric who worships a god of cooking or self relience to give you all your frying pan spell needs if you want the weapons to be used more go with a war cleric
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Yes, the easiest thing is just to reskin a weapon you would normally use. You can very easily customize any weapon you would get as part of your starting equipment, change the name to Frying Pan, and then roleplay using it while still having stats that make sense. You'd probably want to stick with a weapon that does bludgeoning damage to make things easier.
Also talk with your DM about other fun roleplaying options. Frying pans are the cliche weapon in movies to knock a person out with, so maybe you can go the non-violent route and get a bonus to your attack or damage if you're doing a non-lethal blow! Perhaps if the last meal you cooked with the pan is especially good, you get a little bonus fire damage the next fight from leftover hot oil!
One of my favorite character ideas was a "mama" barbarian berserker. The militant table manors type. Feel free to run with it.
Did you wash your hands? You don't like my cooking? That's not how you hold a fork!
I would say halfling or dwarf... halfling for the food and cooking background and dwarf for the one most likely to use a frying pan (that would be more like a cast iron skillet) in the first place.
I would use club as the weapon, or mace if it was a fairly large frying pan. Just based off the weights given for club and mace. If you go with club you can add a rolling pin as another club for two-weapon fighting.
I've got a kobold character as my main. He's a chef and he packs a cast-iron skillet on his back. (I believe you can see it a little in my icon picture... if I can find a hosting spot, I can put up a back view of my HeroForge mini.)
I see a lot of people referencing just using the stats for a club as an improvised weapon stand-in for a cast-iron skillet, which I think is great. But my question is about rear attacks when wearing the same skillet. What would it add to protecting him from rear attacks? The skillet covers about 1/3 of his total body. If Tucker has an armor class of 16 and an arrow were to be shot at his back, would it:
Raise the AC?
Create a Resistance to Piercing and slashing attacks from behind?
Cause the attacker to aim to avoid the pan, and lose Advantage?
Have no effect because it's a pan, dude, jeeeeeeez...
I've got a kobold character as my main. He's a chef and he packs a cast-iron skillet on his back. (I believe you can see it a little in my icon picture... if I can find a hosting spot, I can put up a back view of my HeroForge mini.)
I see a lot of people referencing just using the stats for a club as an improvised weapon stand-in for a cast-iron skillet, which I think is great. But my question is about rear attacks when wearing the same skillet. What would it add to protecting him from rear attacks? The skillet covers about 1/3 of his total body. If Tucker has an armor class of 16 and an arrow were to be shot at his back, would it:
Raise the AC?
Create a Resistance to Piercing and slashing attacks from behind?
Cause the attacker to aim to avoid the pan, and lose Advantage?
Have no effect because it's a pan, dude, jeeeeeeez...
None of the above, but you can reflavor things and DMs are generally permissive. For example, I know at my table, I'd let you reflavor a shield as a wok with an arm strap. If you want to wear cooking-themed gear, have at it.
None of the above, but you can reflavor things and DMs are generally permissive. For example, I know at my table, I'd let you reflavor a shield as a wok with an arm strap. If you want to wear cooking-themed gear, have at it.
Of COURSE! Great idea: he's using the frying pan as a shield. Standard shield stats, and same effect when wearing it in back as in wearing it front!
Tika Wayland from Dragonlance was a barmaid. She had this huge heavy pan she served Spicy Potatoes with, and at one point, she one-shotted a Draconian with it. She joined the party and kept using that thing. I think it lost some of the damage though, it only did a d8, and to one-shot someone usually takes more than that. Those potatoes much have had some serous spice in them. I'm sure she didn't have any skill with poisons, so maybe the cook did, but the Draconian didn't get to eat the potatoes themselves, so I'm unclear on where the extra damage came from. :-) Me, I don't see risking damaging my cooking pan. I'd use my rolling pin, and that's an improvised Club. Grab the Tavern Brawler feat, and you're all set.
None of the above, but you can reflavor things and DMs are generally permissive. For example, I know at my table, I'd let you reflavor a shield as a wok with an arm strap. If you want to wear cooking-themed gear, have at it.
Of COURSE! Great idea: he's using the frying pan as a shield. Standard shield stats, and same effect when wearing it in back as in wearing it front!
Not to bust on your enthusiasm, but is he using the frying pan as a shield or a weapon? Without the Shield Master feat, he can't do both. If this frying pan is statted both as a shield (+2 AC when wielded, really forget about the front/back stuff as mentioned, if it's just stowed, it's not literally integrated armor and folks could start claiming AC bonuses for having sacks of coin etc otherwise) and a weapon, every other weapon wielder at your table should demand some sort of AC credit for wielding a weapon. If I was the DM, without the Shield Master feat, I'd insist you do one or the other, not both.
Of course, the obvious solution would be to dual wield two frying pans, one as your shield and one as a weapon (shield master feat I'd say would give you dual wielding in this one weapon). After fights, and when you're cooking you can cook dishes giving the party options of cooked in pan seasoned by weapon strikes, and one seasoned by your enemies' injuries.
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l want to make a chef character that uses a frying pan as a weapon,but l dont know how that would work,so l am posting this to brainstorm.
the first thing l need to figure out is if it should be a improvised weapon,or count as a mace.
(inspired by this video)
EDIT:great ideas so far. now l need to pick a race and class. any suggestions anyone? the combo needs to be ok at magic (ie some cantrips/first level stuff) and be good at useing a mace/blunt weapons,so my first thought is cleric but l dont know about the religious aspect of playing one. some spells for cooking food/enemys (ie some fire spells) are a must,as well as Create Bonfire cause that sounds usefull but sadly is not gained by any religious spellcasting classes. maybe a druid? oh and maybe l could be a woodelf? maybe...
Probably an improve weapon but mace could work
Marvarax and Sora (Dragonborn) The retired fighter and WIP scholar - Glory
Brythel(Dwarf), The dwarf with a gun - survival at sea
Jaylin(Human), Paladin of Lathander's Ancient ways - The Seven Saints (Azura Claw)
Urselles(Goblin), Cleric of Eldath- The Wizard's challenge
Viclas Tyrin(Half Elf), Student of the Elven arts- Indrafatmoko's Defiance in Phlan
If the character is a chef and part of the gag is that they're proficient with it, then yeah, just use the stats for a mace and call it a frying pan. (It also works if someone wants to play Rapunzel. Or Marion Ravenwood.)
Or go even more meme frying pan and have the thing be custom made for both combat and cooking
Marvarax and Sora (Dragonborn) The retired fighter and WIP scholar - Glory
Brythel(Dwarf), The dwarf with a gun - survival at sea
Jaylin(Human), Paladin of Lathander's Ancient ways - The Seven Saints (Azura Claw)
Urselles(Goblin), Cleric of Eldath- The Wizard's challenge
Viclas Tyrin(Half Elf), Student of the Elven arts- Indrafatmoko's Defiance in Phlan
yeah...thats the idea,the same frying pan to make dinner is the one being used to turn the kobalds face into scrabbled eggs (as well as the kovald eggs are getting scrambled after the fight) ooh this gives me more ideas like the character would have high survival,maybe a fire spell to heat up the pan (for cooking and attacking) and s/he would turn dead enemys into the next meal.
maybe a cleric who worships a god of cooking or self relience to give you all your frying pan spell needs
if you want the weapons to be used more go with a war cleric
Marvarax and Sora (Dragonborn) The retired fighter and WIP scholar - Glory
Brythel(Dwarf), The dwarf with a gun - survival at sea
Jaylin(Human), Paladin of Lathander's Ancient ways - The Seven Saints (Azura Claw)
Urselles(Goblin), Cleric of Eldath- The Wizard's challenge
Viclas Tyrin(Half Elf), Student of the Elven arts- Indrafatmoko's Defiance in Phlan
I'd go with Mace or club depending on weight.
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Yes, the easiest thing is just to reskin a weapon you would normally use. You can very easily customize any weapon you would get as part of your starting equipment, change the name to Frying Pan, and then roleplay using it while still having stats that make sense. You'd probably want to stick with a weapon that does bludgeoning damage to make things easier.
Also talk with your DM about other fun roleplaying options. Frying pans are the cliche weapon in movies to knock a person out with, so maybe you can go the non-violent route and get a bonus to your attack or damage if you're doing a non-lethal blow! Perhaps if the last meal you cooked with the pan is especially good, you get a little bonus fire damage the next fight from leftover hot oil!
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Marvarax and Sora (Dragonborn) The retired fighter and WIP scholar - Glory
Brythel(Dwarf), The dwarf with a gun - survival at sea
Jaylin(Human), Paladin of Lathander's Ancient ways - The Seven Saints (Azura Claw)
Urselles(Goblin), Cleric of Eldath- The Wizard's challenge
Viclas Tyrin(Half Elf), Student of the Elven arts- Indrafatmoko's Defiance in Phlan
ooh l like this. maybe l can use prestidigitation threw the pan to dry people off? like use it as a mace/sometimes wand?
Needs the Create Bonfire cantrip.
One of my favorite character ideas was a "mama" barbarian berserker. The militant table manors type. Feel free to run with it.
Did you wash your hands? You don't like my cooking? That's not how you hold a fork!
I would say halfling or dwarf... halfling for the food and cooking background and dwarf for the one most likely to use a frying pan (that would be more like a cast iron skillet) in the first place.
I would use club as the weapon, or mace if it was a fairly large frying pan. Just based off the weights given for club and mace. If you go with club you can add a rolling pin as another club for two-weapon fighting.
I've got a kobold character as my main. He's a chef and he packs a cast-iron skillet on his back. (I believe you can see it a little in my icon picture... if I can find a hosting spot, I can put up a back view of my HeroForge mini.)
I see a lot of people referencing just using the stats for a club as an improvised weapon stand-in for a cast-iron skillet, which I think is great. But my question is about rear attacks when wearing the same skillet. What would it add to protecting him from rear attacks? The skillet covers about 1/3 of his total body. If Tucker has an armor class of 16 and an arrow were to be shot at his back, would it:
D&D doesn't use "front" and "back" facing.
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None of the above, but you can reflavor things and DMs are generally permissive. For example, I know at my table, I'd let you reflavor a shield as a wok with an arm strap. If you want to wear cooking-themed gear, have at it.
Of COURSE! Great idea: he's using the frying pan as a shield. Standard shield stats, and same effect when wearing it in back as in wearing it front!
Tika Wayland from Dragonlance was a barmaid. She had this huge heavy pan she served Spicy Potatoes with, and at one point, she one-shotted a Draconian with it. She joined the party and kept using that thing. I think it lost some of the damage though, it only did a d8, and to one-shot someone usually takes more than that. Those potatoes much have had some serous spice in them. I'm sure she didn't have any skill with poisons, so maybe the cook did, but the Draconian didn't get to eat the potatoes themselves, so I'm unclear on where the extra damage came from. :-) Me, I don't see risking damaging my cooking pan. I'd use my rolling pin, and that's an improvised Club. Grab the Tavern Brawler feat, and you're all set.
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Not to bust on your enthusiasm, but is he using the frying pan as a shield or a weapon? Without the Shield Master feat, he can't do both. If this frying pan is statted both as a shield (+2 AC when wielded, really forget about the front/back stuff as mentioned, if it's just stowed, it's not literally integrated armor and folks could start claiming AC bonuses for having sacks of coin etc otherwise) and a weapon, every other weapon wielder at your table should demand some sort of AC credit for wielding a weapon. If I was the DM, without the Shield Master feat, I'd insist you do one or the other, not both.
Of course, the obvious solution would be to dual wield two frying pans, one as your shield and one as a weapon (shield master feat I'd say would give you dual wielding in this one weapon). After fights, and when you're cooking you can cook dishes giving the party options of cooked in pan seasoned by weapon strikes, and one seasoned by your enemies' injuries.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
i think a club would be more appropriate than a mace - just imo.
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