Did you ever make cooking an important part of your games? How did you do it?

Did you ever make cooking an important part of your games? How did you do it?

Food is magic. Instead of a potion or ritual, you cook and enjoy a good meal.

I wish I had.

A Ring of Sustenance is only 2,500 gp.

Eating? No need.
Drinking? No need either.
Peeing and pooing? Nope.
Sleep? Only two hours.

It's a massive quality of life improvement.

Our party monk is channelling Senshi. After our battle with goblin gang he butchered them, cooked them and forced us to eat them.

It was delicious.

Since my character is new at adventuring I played her assuming this is normal for adventurers, no one has told me otherwise yet.

I've always wanted to run a halfling cook character, one bubbling with excitement for ADVENTURE, whose greatest joy is to see friends enjoying a good meal he (or she, I think it would work well with a housewife-ish sort of aesthetic) created. Also, donkey companion, channeling Bill, carrying a small kitchen and larder.
Never found a rules set that supports that type of character, though. I'll probably have to hash out a homebrew eventually.

Oh hi Alton.
Have fun with that Blue Dragon.

My most recent campaign is in a modern (the specifics are difficult to explain) setting, and the party often meets up to hang out, talk, and have a cooking lesson from one of the characters. I actually have an amateur interest in cooking, so I employ that knowledge there.

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I have a seperate cooking skill, which is

cooking = 0.5*survival + 0.25*nature + 0.25*medicine,
and requires it's own proficiency.

Players then explain what they want to cook, and edible materials are consumed in the process, the total mass remains the same (for simplicity) and if it exceeds about 300g for each PC they have a satisfying meal.

To cook something, the PC rolls d20 + cooking + profiency bonus against a DC, which is determined by how many positive/negative effects the PC wants the food to have, and the quality of the edible materials used. For instance, trying to cook up a filet mignon of con +1 from a leather boot, is a DC 25.

I had one of the PCs buy his freedom from goblin slave traders by impressing their chieftain with some excellent dire bat pie and kobold egg soufflé.