This comes at a perfect time. For the last month my group has been working towards a pie making contest as seen in the module "Banquet of the Damned". I was looking for a creature to add to the finale, a sort of dollop of whipped cream on top. This fits the bill nicely, thanks!
Okay crimp is really good but I think it would be better as one of their names!! A pastry-headed imp NPC called Crimp?! I would both live and die for them. Evil or not, they're my buddy now.
Idea: "Honest" Pie Fiend in Sigil. Runs a restaurant. Enter the establishment to see Pastrimps running around as wait staff. And warlocks as the kitchen staff. Acts as a party benefactor in exchange for rare ingredients and new recipes Edit: You can make the pie fiend a parody of any famous chef or baker. I'm partial to Julia Childs
Maybe a Warlock sold their soul to Pie Fiend for the knowledge of how to make the pies the Devil does, which would go well with a character with a background as a baker or something similar.
I like to imagen that instead of eldrich blast the warlock gets the ability to yeet pies just like the pie fiend, and maybe even have "animate baked goods" as a high level spell.
A struggling baker is offered a recipe by a mysterious stranger that will grant them success. Desperate to save the business that has been in their family for generations, they take the deal.
Oh, I got a fantastic idea. Extraplanar Great British Bake Off. Reef Giant, Pie Fiend, the hags from Curse of Strahd all competing in a bake off. A Brown Dragon is the primary judge, while the adventuring party are "guest" judges. Also, if there isn't one already, we need a pastry related angel of some sort, you know for angel cake.
Add some guy from the Abyss who (purposefully?) misunderstands the premise and cooks up something so vile, the dates in the crust are writhing in pain.
Perhaps Sinmaker? EDIT: search "Apothecary of Sin". to find the guy. On the flip side, a succubus baker could make "good" abyssal pies, baked with real love (that she sucks out of her victims, leaving them permanently devoid of empathy. )
Are challengers first bake of well be to make a ginger bread golem 15 points can be awarded here 5 for design 5 for flavor And 5 for how much pain it cases to the party. The winner will get an advantage in the next round
@@zimattack9994the amount of points they award directly correlate to the CR of the creature. More points, harder fight, better loot awarded for winning. If they win the competition they get the mcguffin muffin.
Like in the middle ages; the crust of the pie was just flour and water, no flavor like salt or butter; it was basically a take-away container. You could eat it if you were hungry enough, but it was meant to be discarded when you were done.
As a DM whose party uses pie as weapons, bargaining chips, and anything else to the point where it's become a meme, I THANK YOU for the karmic justice I'm about to serve up, piping hot. 😈
Ok, here’s some pie ideas: The bou meringue: deals damage as a basic pie would, pulls the enemy closer to the pie fiend, as the sticky pie drags them along as it returns to the pie fiend’s hand The peach cobbler: deals bludgeoning damage in a five foot sphere around the target as peach pits are sent flying everywhere Key lime pie: Acting as a utility tool like the sinfully delicious pie, this pie, upon being bitten into, reveals a key that opens the nearest lock, I imagine the pie fiend giving it to a minion before sending them to steal something
Flies graveyard(a Scottish pie/pie adjacent pastry made with Corinthian raisins) If the pie breaks via being stepped on or being thrown bursts into a cloud of flesh eating fireproof flies. These flies will interfere with visibility and bite at peoples eyes, they are also extremely loud and try biting the inside of ears. Heavily messes with focus, visibly and isn't effected by most armour. Them being fireproof is mainly because they survived being baked and that they don't die to the fiends own fire attacks. These can be used as traps, such as placed on the top of a door or just placed in advanced on the ground to mess with mobility. . . Lemon buttermilk Does acid damage.
I love that Dungeon Dad came up with a little pastry companion to go with the pie fiend. This is just gold. Also a baking competition over the people of Barovia between the hag and the pie fiend just sounds like a load of fun.
The most important question when implementing this Fiend: Do you disguise it as a sweet grandma, or a spunky young chef? I love the idea of a low level party doing a fetch quest for a certain ingredient for said NPC. Completely legit. Being rewarded with a Pie as a bonus. Only later, say mid level, to find out that NPC is a Pie Fiend and they are already deep in the Fiend's machinations. Also the idea of this thing being your Warlock's Patron is amazing. Especially if the player character is also wanting to be a chef and you make the fiend a parody of Gordon Ramsey. A quite literal Hell's Kitchen.
@@THEPELADOMASTER of course with some kind of contract to sign up for the competition. But much like the fiddle it was used in the contest, as a bit of a clue.
@@QuiteNephilim612 in the song, the devil offers a gold fiddle to Johnny if he can beat him. If you want to parallel that, the pie fiend would offer a gold kitchen set to the guy that can beat him.
Three way cooking battle between the Hag from Strahd with a group of dream-pied Barovian citizens, a Pie Fiend with his Baker's Dozen minions, and an otherwise normal wizard who's just really obsessed with Chocolate Golems.
While strange to use in a normal campaign, this guy is now someone I fully intend to use in my homebrew One Piece campaign. He's both goofy enough in concept, and violent enough to fit right in as someones commander, with a little reflavoring.
I know a few other creatures from Kobold Press that would fit in entirely with this guy. Can't remember the exact name, but I swear I remeber a bakery drake being a thing. I know they have booze drakes. Those guys love making weird drakes.
Imp + Pastry = Impastry I feel we could take this a step further and make some sort of devilish treat for all types of baked good. Even mix unholy combination cause fiends will have different tastes from mortals. How about seafood with cake? Crab + Cake = Crake (mix in squid legs for cake toppings and call it a Craken) The possibility is truly endless. I LOVE it!
Perhaps a Brown Dragon and Pie Fiend are partners, and travel the realm to find new and exciting ingredients, most of which are probably people. Or if you want them to not be as villainous, they could go town to town commissioning adventurers to bring them rare parts from monsters, such as dryad sap for special syrup. [EDIT:] Damn it, thought I had a creative idea XD
A few scattered ideas, mostly for flavour: - The pie fiend's stomach can open up like a fleshy oven, revealing a heated chamber from where it pulls out the pies for its throwing attack, as well as where it generates the heat for its wall of heat attack. You could also extend this by giving the fiend a Swallow Whole type ability where it grapples a creature and shoves them into its stomach-oven, and while swallowed targets take fire damage instead of the usual acid. - A variant form of the pastrimp which appears as a pie, but upon getting close, it sprouts spider-like legs and begins to attack. This proposed form swaps out the flight speed for a climb speed, and could utilize a web-like attack where it sprays hot pie contents onto opponents, burning them and restraining them as the pie-stuff cools. Sure to upset someone in the party.
This is almost 1-for-1 of a winged tiefling barbarian character I made but haven't played. He's a baker who has to adventure to supplement his income. Guild artisan background (greedy guild heads that hate the fact he donates the unsold pastries to charity every day). In battle he wields a large wooden spatula (used in his oven) as a greatclub. His name is Raspberry Jam. He's a Storm Barbarian (Fire element of course), and his rage turns him from friendly and jovial--- ---to smoldering silence that literally sets things around him on fire.
08:40. Reminds me of the infinitely producing SCP cake that could drown the world in cake if not constantly consumed by D-Class. Drowning the world in pie sounds very CE.
A pie fiend opening a pastry shop in Sigil would be lovely. Have a chocolate golem standing in front of the entrance to serve as security. Call it the Crème Infernale! :D
22:23 - I love that I had sent this video to my friend who is running our Strahd game and I literally said "When I run this module for my other group, I think I am going to use this instead of the pastry-based encounter". 10 minutes later we get to this moment in the video...
In addition with the pastrimp, the Pie Fiend could have a hell do(ugh)g, with the stat of a hell hound, but instead of the fire breath, it's a heat breath, and it is the one actualy cooking the pies, and the heat breathing also interact with the make into pie ability
...Pie Elemental video when? No, but seriously: I'd love to give this monster a more savory twist for a horror/gory kind of adventure. Savory pastrimps made with actual revivified meat would be gross and awesome (pigs-in-a-blank-imps?)...plus it would make the poison effect more visceral. Thanks, Josiah! The vid was worth the wait 😊👏🏽
Omg this is so perfect for my game, you don't even know. I recently ran the Grammy's Country Apple Pie adventure as a light in-between. My players loved it and ended up putting in work to reopen the pie making business. I had no idea what to do with it until this
One of my players is confectioner and has traveled around gathering recipes including going to the Faye wild and getting recipes from a hack there. They opened up a shop in everlund and I think having a pie fiend with a competing shop stealing the business and souls of the customers would be a great thread
I'm def gonna have to run. One of these next campaign. It'll be the runner of an in or something similar. Danté, owner of the amazing bakery, Devil May Pie
Catapult: Flinging Pies Web: Trapping opponents with raw dough or another sticky cooking substance Fabricate: quick and easy assembly of baked goods to animate
I actually love this enemy. Like not just love, this is beloved to me now, I want to run an entire campaign with a pie fiend as the big bad, re*flavoring* other lesser devils into pastries all the way to the top.
Just had a bunch of ideas go through my head. You may not have known about them, but you mentioning the recipe books reminds me that WotC actually has released official recipe books. What an absolutely huge missed opportunity by them (shocking, I know) to know have converted the monster and put it on D&D Beyond to promote the two official books: Heroes' Feast and Heroes' Feast 2: Flavors of the Multiverse. There's also the Dungeonmeister Cookbook, but that's not WotC official. But, those books could easily be what the party strive to obtain to give the pie fiend. Also, Deborah Ann Woll released a 10th level cooking adventure last November called, Heroes’ Feast: Saving the Children’s Menu. It's directly tied to the Flavors of the Multiverse cookbook. The adventure tasks the party with gathering ingredients for magical noodles called, Kender Stumblenoodles, which is a real recipe in the book. A now want to build a pie fiend warlock with the Chef feat, and the UA only Gourmand feat. Given the fiend warlock has a lot of fire spells, that's perfect. Go Pact of the Blade for the cooking knife. Likely go human or custom lineage for the bonus feat. But, the main thing rattling around in my brain is the Care Bears episode, Grams Bear's Thanksgiving Surprise, where Grams Bear is having a pie war with an old human arch nemesis, Sour Sam, who bakes crabby apple pies vs. Grams Bear's happy apple pies. Highly recommend watching before doing an adventure with the pie fiend.
So, after reading a lot of comments - One demon with several outposts and several disguises :) 1. "The Nice Grandma" One bakery, located in an area full of half-breeds, is in a competition for the souls of the soviets with a witch who makes dream cookies. 2. "Young Elam" otherwise a restaurant where he works and collects his warlocks, a place where he can be -honest- in his action. Sending people to bring exotic items. The story around his recipe book. It is also possible for him to invite the characters to be judges in a competition between a night witch and a beach giant around an angel cake [the highest judge is a brown dragon] 3. A factory store in the dream world, a place in the style of Charlie and the chocolate factory where he also makes chocolate shells and other strange creatures [which are completely dreams and not souls baked with a little glamour]. 4. An "aging dwarf" runs a bakers guild and a [legitimate] baking school in the city, sends people to hunt down bandits who interfere with trade, sends characters to find ingredients for monsters and gives them baked goods as gifts, runs a drug empire from eating deserts with several generations of family members. In all places he has love and lust for humanity at the same time
I love the idea of this monster, I can't help but imagine a Teen Titians Mother Mae-Eye/ Cuphead Saltbaker situation wear the pie friend uses their pies to drug like effects to force the party into a deal were they have to go out and find a "special ingredients", more pure souls, for their new recipe that will give the fiend enough power to create a mini domain on the material plain, Aka Candyland. And only after the party completes this task are allowed to either join the Bakery or try to fight the fiend to undo their mistake. Bonus point if the pie fiend uses the King of the party kingdom to carry out their plan and frames the well meaning but creepy/ evil looking advisor in since they were the only one that saw through the fact the the royal baker has been acting different lately. Hell the party could even choose to side with the advisor after finding out and work to find away to expose the Fiend before it's to late.
This is wonderful. A player in my campaign is a Dwarf baker/cleric, the idea being that he traded the forge for an oven. I'm sure he'll love coming to blows with this dude.
I have an existing NPC called the Doughnamancer who’s a goblin ally/rival to the party and this is an amazing addition I can use for his stat block. This is great!!!!!
The second you mentioned adding spells to this monster, a hilarious idea occured to me. Give it Catapult, this way it can launch the pies even further, make them deal even more damage, plus you could then use it for all kinds of comedic (or serious) purposes. The random pie in the face gag could be a hidden Pie Fiend that just randomly catapultes pies in peoples faces, or an entire backline artillery of Pie Fiends all hurling pies like cannonballs down into a city, or onto an approaching army. Watch as your ranks fall into complete disarray as they are burned, chilled, and baked into delicious pies!
I'm picturing a party blowing through gold on transportation to visit everyone's grandmother begging for secret pie recipes. If your back story isn't detailed enough it adds to the travel time as you struggle to find Grandma's house.
They also used to put out full 2e adventure books with a guide to convert them into 3e for free. There were dozens of them. It was truly a great time for the game.
I would give a Pie Fiend this ability... "(Un)Heroes Feast" ...which basically DEBUFFS the adventurer's in the same way that the normal Heroes Feast buffs... gain disadvantage on everything, become poisoned, reduce your max hitpoints by 10 for 12 hours. Maybe, also, "Villains Feast"... Not sure what it would do, but I feel like it should be good for the Fiends that eat it, and bad for anyone else...
Imp of Chocolat, Imperial Rolls, Pie Rats, Gelatinous Turkish Delight, don't limit yourself to puns only ... seriously tempting to try and ... infuse this fiend into a scenario just to crack totally serious jokes for an entire evening.
I know devils are ment to be evil manipulators, but I just hearing the concepts just makes me want to create one as a friendly NPC. Like imagine a devil who tries to use pastries as a tool for getting souls, realized how much of a better/relaxing job baking was compaired to his old job, and just decided to to become a baker full time.
24:15 could also add that the pie fiend learns the person wiþ whom they made this deal has out sourced the work to the party and offers them a reward for bringing recipe to him directly So he can have the recipe and keep the person's soul So now the party has to choose between either siding wiþ the pie fiend but screw over the other guy or side wiþ the other guy and possibly have an fiend upset wiþ them
The mark of professionalism is giving serious treatment to even the most unserious topics--both the original fiend and your video. I love this channel!
It's so great that pastry is the red thread throught so many different Monsters of the week. It almost looks like it was all part of the master plan all along
Now to figure out how pie half-fiends would work. Cus with pie fiends being inherently a pretty sociable type of entity, as not even their demonic nature can overcome the inherent community building values of cooking not only to feed yourself but to feed other people. I expect pie fiends, as with many other artisanally inclined beings, would be especially susceptible to seeking artistic validation for their craft and be more willing to make the concessions it takes to maintain a community in order to get that ego boosting validation. Making for a bit more unique a cult situation around pie fiends compared with regular demonic entities, where it can more become about joining up with the fiend in pursuit of a shared goal of cooking rather than the fiend centering themselves for worship. Like developing artists to be the best they can be takes investment and support and protection, and pie fiends might have to face this reality more than most of their evil aligned peers due to the sheer practical necessities of cooking. And what it takes to have more than one person working a kitchen. I could see this leading to a pie fiend tending to accumulate community around them for more than just exploitation like livestock, but for the pie fiend to invest in and basically build artistic enclaves of cooks so it can have peers who share in its interests. And thus doing stuff like developing relationships with especially talented and ruthless bakers of shorter lifespan humanoids, which then spirals out into absurd Italian mafia style crime family's performing a criminal activities like fencing, money laundering, drug trading, and then moving into loan sharking with the wealth that gets accumulated. But which much like those kind of mafias, always having a very strong cultural affiliation with and loyalty to their families food and recipes, and thus developing some surprisingly strong familial bonds and a pretty strong sense of culture from teaching each other to cook and eating together regularly. Like it could even be part of the reason why pie fiends could be so rare. Not only because high ranked demons probably wouldn't want to give up their cooks to go travel the realms, but that pie fiends are often too much in rivalry with one another in a "too many cooks in the kitchen" sense, and if given the chance often quickly dilute their bloodlines among sociable and shorter lived, but technologically advanced enough for advanced cooking styles races in order to basically create a cooking fandom with themselves at the top rather than creating more pie fiends they would be in competition with. With this in mind, I expect a humanoid with pie fiend ancestry would probably blend in much more with their non-fiend parent's race practically from the first generation, either simply looking normal, or quickly developing a milder form of the alter self ability. But they would probably grow to be taller than average with a heavier build. So potentially, becoming kinda like stereotypical batman style mafia goons. So like if you get this crime family with a bunch of huge knuckle cracking goons who are fiercely loyal to their family and like to sit around bragging about how incredible grandmas dumplings or whatever are to the other criminals. Like that could just kinda be what happens when someone manages to get a pie fiend smitten with em through making like, just the best lasagna or something. Plus like, opening up a bakery as a genius baker is a pretty sure fire way to get the interest of eligible bachelors and bachelorettes in the restaurant business. Starting a family business is often just kinda part and parcel with the practical necessities of restaurant ownership. So why not settle down and bake cupcakes with a bunch of chubby little half-demon spawn? Though that would also be a double edged sword for pie fiends, because if they invest in family and community, they're gonna be less willing to destroy their investment in pursuit of other goals. Like a farmer unwilling to reduce the quality of their produce out of pride for their craft regardless of if they could make more money with reduced quality. Which could also make them much sneakier and harder to find out in the wild, as communities have a tendency to naturally temper pie fiends goals and expectations by slowly incorporating them into the community, such that their desire for baking often becomes at odds with their desire to spread evil. As sacrifices must be made to maintain a communities culinary ecosystem. And they can often gradually acclimate a pie fiend to making these sacrifices. Like sure they COULD take that guys soul, but if they did, there wouldn't be a traveling merchant to transport the grapes from the vineyards to the town to produce the jams used for pastries, and it could take weeks for a replacement to be found to make the journey! Is one soul worth cutting off access to their baking ingredients for?? If anything, it would be MORE in their self interest as a baker to protect the vineyard and the transportation of the grapes to the city to be processed into jam. And then b4 ya know it ya got a pie fiend who is in too deep with their restaurant business and running an agricultural mafia style protection racket where they're sending out big burly goons to rip through bandit camps who dared to try and steal the fancy carefully cultivated grain from one of the farms under the pie fiends protection.
I've been working on a homebrew setting called the "9 Hells Kitchen" so this couldnt possibly have come out at a better time. Love it and definitely using it.
One of your best episodes. The 70+ year-old coworker I showed it to, who has never heard of TTRPGs, is now fascinated with them. He REALLY likes the concept. Huzzah!
What about blackbirds or toads in a pie and you throw them out and you create a a. Flock of birds or a horde of toads to muck up the battlefield. Historically, it was a practical joke for the rich
I am SO happy that our DM didn't know about this devil when we started playing CoS. He already added so much there, another devil would be too much... but I definitely WILL add this one to my world! Thanks :D
Would have also been appropriate to March 14. At least to us Americans -- take that all you Europeans with your logically superior systems of measurement! We've got Pie Day!
Thanks for watching! What super serious non-pastry making creature would you like to see next?
An ooze/slime monster of some sort plz.
The tulani eladrin would be cool! We see so few comparatively powerful celestials/fey compared to the fiendish lords.
This comes at a perfect time. For the last month my group has been working towards a pie making contest as seen in the module "Banquet of the Damned". I was looking for a creature to add to the finale, a sort of dollop of whipped cream on top. This fits the bill nicely, thanks!
Baelnorn, the Elven Lich guardian
Spell-Weaver!!
"oh these aren't homemade, they were made in a factory... a bomb factory, they're bombs"
If you dont have home made bombs, store bought will do just fine.
I guess that means they have an… explosive flavor!
May cause explosive gas and or diarrhea.
@@thecrimsonfuckeralucard9500 Do not eat if you are Pregnant or trying to become pregnant
WHEN THE FIEND HITS YOUR EYE WITH A BIG PIZZA PIE, THATS HORRIBLÉ
WHEN YOU CAN'T DODGE OR RUN 'CAUSE YOU ROLLED A NAT 1, THAT'S HORRIBLÉ
Or even worse, with ananas on a pizza
WHEN THE CRUST STARTS TO DRY AND YOU BEGIN TO FRY, THAT'S HORRIBLÉ
WHEN THE GROUND STARTS TO SHAKE AND YOU FACE A FIRE DRAKE, THAT'S HORRIBLÉ
BELLS!!!
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Tiefling chef bard whose devil dad is a pie fiend
"You mean pit fiend?"
"No."
... *stealing t his for later thank you* >_>
Pie
How would a hard be turned into a chief?
I mean, pie fiends already have a dadbod.
The Crimp. Both a combination of crust and imp, but also the act of sealing a pie.
Somebody upvote this. Crimp is so good!
Okay crimp is really good but I think it would be better as one of their names!! A pastry-headed imp NPC called Crimp?! I would both live and die for them. Evil or not, they're my buddy now.
The sPIEder or just Pieder, the Red Velvet Cap, obviously Devil’s/Angel’s Food Cake, theres so many options
Amazing name
Love the name, but I prefer to think of it as a crêpe and imp.
Idea: "Honest" Pie Fiend in Sigil. Runs a restaurant. Enter the establishment to see Pastrimps running around as wait staff. And warlocks as the kitchen staff. Acts as a party benefactor in exchange for rare ingredients and new recipes
Edit: You can make the pie fiend a parody of any famous chef or baker. I'm partial to Julia Childs
Guy Fire-y.
@@theimperviousfirecracker7934 yes, I love it
Gordon Raum-sey (Raum is a demon from the Ars Goetia)
Yes.... More
Platescape.
Maybe a Warlock sold their soul to Pie Fiend for the knowledge of how to make the pies the Devil does, which would go well with a character with a background as a baker or something similar.
I like to imagen that instead of eldrich blast the warlock gets the ability to yeet pies just like the pie fiend, and maybe even have "animate baked goods" as a high level spell.
A struggling baker is offered a recipe by a mysterious stranger that will grant them success. Desperate to save the business that has been in their family for generations, they take the deal.
I love this
Eldritch pie throw lol
Sounds like they'd be Jester's best friend.
So... Are there sentient gingerbread men animated with the stolen souls of there victims?
I would say so
This brings a new meaning to knowing the Muffin Man
Run run run as fast as you can, but when you get caught you'll be gingerbread man
There will be soon
@@grobanlover292 The Muffin Man?
I would LOVE to see a Pie fiend that controls an army of chocolate golems
Or what about "House of Wax", but with chocolate and the undead damned?
raw dough oozes ?
@@marcusc9931 They would no doubt have their ACs rise whenever they receive bludgeoning damage.
I mean, chocolate is poison to most creatures. Humans are just weird.
Hey someone has to run Asmodeus' kitchen.
more like hell’s kitchen
"You F****** DONKAYYYY" and polymorphs you into a donkey
@@Chazder.MP3 Came here to comment this exact thing.
...the pie dough...IS RAW!
The real reason Levitus and Geryon got on Asemodeus' shitlist is they poached some his best Pie Fiends.
Oh, I got a fantastic idea. Extraplanar Great British Bake Off. Reef Giant, Pie Fiend, the hags from Curse of Strahd all competing in a bake off. A Brown Dragon is the primary judge, while the adventuring party are "guest" judges. Also, if there isn't one already, we need a pastry related angel of some sort, you know for angel cake.
Add some guy from the Abyss who (purposefully?) misunderstands the premise and cooks up something so vile, the dates in the crust are writhing in pain.
Perhaps Sinmaker? EDIT: search "Apothecary of Sin". to find the guy.
On the flip side, a succubus baker could make "good" abyssal pies, baked with real love (that she sucks out of her victims, leaving them permanently devoid of empathy. )
Whay they where invaaited ? The pc i meen :)
Are challengers first bake of well be to make a ginger bread golem
15 points can be awarded here
5 for design
5 for flavor
And 5 for how much pain it cases to the party.
The winner will get an advantage in the next round
@@zimattack9994the amount of points they award directly correlate to the CR of the creature. More points, harder fight, better loot awarded for winning. If they win the competition they get the mcguffin muffin.
Old cook books had doughs that were called coffins that when baked wasn't really for eating, just to have a structure to cook with.
Like in the middle ages; the crust of the pie was just flour and water, no flavor like salt or butter; it was basically a take-away container. You could eat it if you were hungry enough, but it was meant to be discarded when you were done.
@@nephicus339 yup, exactly this.
Hags and Pie Fiends battling in the Great Barovian Bakeoff
a satyr called gordon ramsy is judging
Mrs Lovette from Sweeny Tod makes a cameo as a Pie Fiend cultist.
As a DM whose party uses pie as weapons, bargaining chips, and anything else to the point where it's become a meme, I THANK YOU for the karmic justice I'm about to serve up, piping hot. 😈
You are contractually obligates to at least to turn one of them into a pie
Please tell us how this goes!
Improvised Weapon specialists. I had a dwarven paladin, who's "chosen" weapon was a beer mug... Made of mithrill, and enchanted by our Artificer.
@@timebrain3188 They're currently on a pirate ship in the middle of the ocean, but next time they make port... I'll post here. 😈🥧
…how did your party get to that point…I kinda want to join XD.
Now I imagine one of these guys taking over a halfling town using its pies
Oh man, the Halflings are EASY targets for this thing
@@DungeonDad exactly the shire population becomes cultists over night
Ok, here’s some pie ideas:
The bou meringue: deals damage as a basic pie would, pulls the enemy closer to the pie fiend, as the sticky pie drags them along as it returns to the pie fiend’s hand
The peach cobbler: deals bludgeoning damage in a five foot sphere around the target as peach pits are sent flying everywhere
Key lime pie: Acting as a utility tool like the sinfully delicious pie, this pie, upon being bitten into, reveals a key that opens the nearest lock, I imagine the pie fiend giving it to a minion before sending them to steal something
crabapple pie: summons a giant crab to fight for the pie fiend.
pasty: summons a succubus wearing pasties to fight for the pie fiend.
Flies graveyard(a Scottish pie/pie adjacent pastry made with Corinthian raisins)
If the pie breaks via being stepped on or being thrown bursts into a cloud of flesh eating fireproof flies.
These flies will interfere with visibility and bite at peoples eyes, they are also extremely loud and try biting the inside of ears. Heavily messes with focus, visibly and isn't effected by most armour. Them being fireproof is mainly because they survived being baked and that they don't die to the fiends own fire attacks.
These can be used as traps, such as placed on the top of a door or just placed in advanced on the ground to mess with mobility.
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Lemon buttermilk
Does acid damage.
I love that Dungeon Dad came up with a little pastry companion to go with the pie fiend. This is just gold. Also a baking competition over the people of Barovia between the hag and the pie fiend just sounds like a load of fun.
Yes, was immediately trying to figure out of I could still work this into Curse of Strahd.
The most important question when implementing this Fiend: Do you disguise it as a sweet grandma, or a spunky young chef?
I love the idea of a low level party doing a fetch quest for a certain ingredient for said NPC. Completely legit. Being rewarded with a Pie as a bonus. Only later, say mid level, to find out that NPC is a Pie Fiend and they are already deep in the Fiend's machinations.
Also the idea of this thing being your Warlock's Patron is amazing. Especially if the player character is also wanting to be a chef and you make the fiend a parody of Gordon Ramsey. A quite literal Hell's Kitchen.
Since they can change shape, why not both? "Oh yeah, grandma works every other day"
Both! Grandma wasn't always a bubuska, she used to be hot, and that is WHY she has grandkids.
2:10
I shouldn't be angry that he mixed up palkia and dialga for representing space and time...
HOWEVER
SAME, I'M SORRY
Came looking for this comment lol
I like the idea of a devil went down to Georgia baking contest. Where one of the contestants uses a solid gold kitchen set.
Wouldn't the devil offer a solid gold kitchen set to whoever beats them in a pie baking contest?
@@THEPELADOMASTER of course with some kind of contract to sign up for the competition. But much like the fiddle it was used in the contest, as a bit of a clue.
@@QuiteNephilim612 in the song, the devil offers a gold fiddle to Johnny if he can beat him. If you want to parallel that, the pie fiend would offer a gold kitchen set to the guy that can beat him.
Pie Fiend used Heat Wall against Golden Cookware. It's super effective!
Golden Cookware has melted and ruined the food 😢
@@Sphendrana magical cookware lol really hard to destroy an enchantment
Three way cooking battle between the Hag from Strahd with a group of dream-pied Barovian citizens, a Pie Fiend with his Baker's Dozen minions, and an otherwise normal wizard who's just really obsessed with Chocolate Golems.
Cosmic baking competition
While strange to use in a normal campaign, this guy is now someone I fully intend to use in my homebrew One Piece campaign.
He's both goofy enough in concept, and violent enough to fit right in as someones commander, with a little reflavoring.
No one can beat the captain of the Pasteleer Pirates/Marines :p
It occurs to me that if you settled this fellow in Totland he'd be running the place before the day ended. Interesting thought, that.
I know a few other creatures from Kobold Press that would fit in entirely with this guy. Can't remember the exact name, but I swear I remeber a bakery drake being a thing. I know they have booze drakes. Those guys love making weird drakes.
Oh Lord it would be PERFECT for One Piece. They could be gunning to find a Devil Fruit to make the ultimate pie
Sort of like commander Cracker?
Imp + Pastry = Impastry
I feel we could take this a step further and make some sort of devilish treat for all types of baked good. Even mix unholy combination cause fiends will have different tastes from mortals.
How about seafood with cake?
Crab + Cake = Crake (mix in squid legs for cake toppings and call it a Craken)
The possibility is truly endless. I LOVE it!
Or just call the squid one a "caken" :)
Impastry sounds like the long-forgotten eighth deadly sin.
with how they basically disguise themselves as normal baked goods, “impastry” also works for a pun on imposter
The existence of a pastrimp would suggest it's possible for a pie fiend to build a pie golem.
Consider: gingerbread golem
It's lair should be a giant pie tin. One of it's lair abilities should be an area heat metal on the tin.
That's absolutely brutal and I love it. The secret 0 layer of hell
Also stove golems. Whatever that is.
@@heathharris2545 stone golems with a dash of wickerman stat block
I mean stone kiln
Breadnoughts, or Bread Golems.
@@side-beeetaloniswolfwolfac4179Hell yeah!! (No remorse for the pun)
When the April Fool's special is longer than the Tungsten Dragon video
What an absolutely wild monster
Im seeing a hidden war between a Pie Fiend just trying to make a living and a Angelic food critic trying to tank the business.
Perhaps a Brown Dragon and Pie Fiend are partners, and travel the realm to find new and exciting ingredients, most of which are probably people. Or if you want them to not be as villainous, they could go town to town commissioning adventurers to bring them rare parts from monsters, such as dryad sap for special syrup.
[EDIT:] Damn it, thought I had a creative idea XD
Dungeon Meshi intensifies
Summon Quasant-- like summoning a quasit, but...well, you get it
Okay, so he's gonna bake me into a pie, but he looks so damn cuddly..... worth it.
"What are you going to do with those pies, boys?" - some security guard.
Pastrimp.....you mean a Pimp?
Dough Imp? Dimp, Dimples,
Sweet imp? Simp, Swimps, Sweeps
Dimplings?
@@ShiKaiNan oooooo yeah
Biscuimp -a twice cooked imp
Croissant = Croissimp
Biscuimp a bimp if you like
Baked Macabre
Muffiend
Fiendish Piespawn
Devilish Confiectionary
I've heard of cooking up trouble, but this is next level diabolical.
I’m absolutely running this for my players. You gave me Kythons for 5E and I couldn’t be more pleased. Thank you for doing what you do.
Happy to be of service!
This is one of the best D&D monsters I've ever seen. Every single campaign needs a Pie Fiend.
A few scattered ideas, mostly for flavour:
- The pie fiend's stomach can open up like a fleshy oven, revealing a heated chamber from where it pulls out the pies for its throwing attack, as well as where it generates the heat for its wall of heat attack. You could also extend this by giving the fiend a Swallow Whole type ability where it grapples a creature and shoves them into its stomach-oven, and while swallowed targets take fire damage instead of the usual acid.
- A variant form of the pastrimp which appears as a pie, but upon getting close, it sprouts spider-like legs and begins to attack. This proposed form swaps out the flight speed for a climb speed, and could utilize a web-like attack where it sprays hot pie contents onto opponents, burning them and restraining them as the pie-stuff cools. Sure to upset someone in the party.
could name the second one idea's monster Spieder
I suddenly want to make a Warlock whose patron is a Pie Fiend.
"Guys, I SWEAR I didn't know at the time, I just wanted another pie."
"What did you even get out of it?!"
"A cantrip and some recipes."
This is almost 1-for-1 of a winged tiefling barbarian character I made but haven't played.
He's a baker who has to adventure to supplement his income. Guild artisan background (greedy guild heads that hate the fact he donates the unsold pastries to charity every day).
In battle he wields a large wooden spatula (used in his oven) as a greatclub.
His name is Raspberry Jam.
He's a Storm Barbarian (Fire element of course), and his rage turns him from friendly and jovial--- ---to smoldering silence that literally sets things around him on fire.
This idea is half-baked, but I'm sure something could be done with a goodberry filled turnover that is called The Goodbury.
Also adding the Terror-misu to the list.
08:40. Reminds me of the infinitely producing SCP cake that could drown the world in cake if not constantly consumed by D-Class. Drowning the world in pie sounds very CE.
Pie Fiends vs. Dalmosh of the Infinite Maws.
Im gonna make the chef of my train campaign a Pie Fiend
Make the brown dragon raid the train for the fiendish pie
I was gonna do the same thing with caravan campaign it's such a fun idea
A pie fiend opening a pastry shop in Sigil would be lovely. Have a chocolate golem standing in front of the entrance to serve as security. Call it the Crème Infernale! :D
22:23 - I love that I had sent this video to my friend who is running our Strahd game and I literally said "When I run this module for my other group, I think I am going to use this instead of the pastry-based encounter". 10 minutes later we get to this moment in the video...
Ooh ooh, the pastry imp could be an Impanada!!
In addition with the pastrimp, the Pie Fiend could have a hell do(ugh)g, with the stat of a hell hound, but instead of the fire breath, it's a heat breath, and it is the one actualy cooking the pies, and the heat breathing also interact with the make into pie ability
Someone at Dungeon Dad got paid real money to make this video (and it's was awesome)
this donation is tax deductable happy April Fools to me
Thank you so much man! I will be sure to send a pie to your room at the next convention 👍🏽
And it definitely will be just a normal and cool pie
7:30 "...the ability to change their shape..." uh sir your eyes are all sparkly... coincidence ?
Last time I was this early, it was because it was the Purple Dragon caught my eye.
...Pie Elemental video when?
No, but seriously: I'd love to give this monster a more savory twist for a horror/gory kind of adventure. Savory pastrimps made with actual revivified meat would be gross and awesome (pigs-in-a-blank-imps?)...plus it would make the poison effect more visceral.
Thanks, Josiah! The vid was worth the wait 😊👏🏽
Omg this is so perfect for my game, you don't even know. I recently ran the Grammy's Country Apple Pie adventure as a light in-between. My players loved it and ended up putting in work to reopen the pie making business. I had no idea what to do with it until this
Watching this video in chunks but that Reef Giant would fit shockingly well based on a previous set of seafaring adventures in this campaign
The sweets made him turn an Italian New Yorker for a second.
The production of this video was on a higher level of manic than normal.
One of my players is confectioner and has traveled around gathering recipes including going to the Faye wild and getting recipes from a hack there. They opened up a shop in everlund and I think having a pie fiend with a competing shop stealing the business and souls of the customers would be a great thread
I'm def gonna have to run. One of these next campaign. It'll be the runner of an in or something similar.
Danté, owner of the amazing bakery, Devil May Pie
Catapult: Flinging Pies
Web: Trapping opponents with raw dough or another sticky cooking substance
Fabricate: quick and easy assembly of baked goods to animate
I actually love this enemy.
Like not just love, this is beloved to me now, I want to run an entire campaign with a pie fiend as the big bad, re*flavoring* other lesser devils into pastries all the way to the top.
If you ever do, please post a summary here!
Players: This old woman's a witch, calling it now
Me: Quit being so paranoid, i promise she's not a witch 😏
Cloud of daggers, but it's jagged pieces of pie crust
18:51 Love the implication that the mortal soul is high in carbohydrates.
I'm in love with the idea of making a riff off of Sweeny Todd with a pie fiend being Ms Lovett
I actually made a arcane trickster rogue who want's to make baked goods infused with magic. The pie devil might be a perfect antagonist for him.
Just had a bunch of ideas go through my head. You may not have known about them, but you mentioning the recipe books reminds me that WotC actually has released official recipe books. What an absolutely huge missed opportunity by them (shocking, I know) to know have converted the monster and put it on D&D Beyond to promote the two official books: Heroes' Feast and Heroes' Feast 2: Flavors of the Multiverse. There's also the Dungeonmeister Cookbook, but that's not WotC official. But, those books could easily be what the party strive to obtain to give the pie fiend.
Also, Deborah Ann Woll released a 10th level cooking adventure last November called, Heroes’ Feast: Saving the Children’s Menu. It's directly tied to the Flavors of the Multiverse cookbook. The adventure tasks the party with gathering ingredients for magical noodles called, Kender Stumblenoodles, which is a real recipe in the book.
A now want to build a pie fiend warlock with the Chef feat, and the UA only Gourmand feat. Given the fiend warlock has a lot of fire spells, that's perfect. Go Pact of the Blade for the cooking knife. Likely go human or custom lineage for the bonus feat.
But, the main thing rattling around in my brain is the Care Bears episode, Grams Bear's Thanksgiving Surprise, where Grams Bear is having a pie war with an old human arch nemesis, Sour Sam, who bakes crabby apple pies vs. Grams Bear's happy apple pies. Highly recommend watching before doing an adventure with the pie fiend.
So, after reading a lot of comments - One demon with several outposts and several disguises :)
1. "The Nice Grandma" One bakery, located in an area full of half-breeds, is in a competition for the souls of the soviets with a witch who makes dream cookies.
2. "Young Elam" otherwise a restaurant where he works and collects his warlocks, a place where he can be -honest- in his action. Sending people to bring exotic items. The story around his recipe book.
It is also possible for him to invite the characters to be judges in a competition between a night witch and a beach giant around an angel cake [the highest judge is a brown dragon]
3. A factory store in the dream world, a place in the style of Charlie and the chocolate factory where he also makes chocolate shells and other strange creatures [which are completely dreams and not souls baked with a little glamour].
4. An "aging dwarf" runs a bakers guild and a [legitimate] baking school in the city, sends people to hunt down bandits who interfere with trade, sends characters to find ingredients for monsters and gives them baked goods as gifts, runs a drug empire from eating deserts with several generations of family members.
In all places he has love and lust for humanity at the same time
I love the idea of this monster, I can't help but imagine a Teen Titians Mother Mae-Eye/ Cuphead Saltbaker situation wear the pie friend uses their pies to drug like effects to force the party into a deal were they have to go out and find a "special ingredients", more pure souls, for their new recipe that will give the fiend enough power to create a mini domain on the material plain, Aka Candyland. And only after the party completes this task are allowed to either join the Bakery or try to fight the fiend to undo their mistake. Bonus point if the pie fiend uses the King of the party kingdom to carry out their plan and frames the well meaning but creepy/ evil looking advisor in since they were the only one that saw through the fact the the royal baker has been acting different lately. Hell the party could even choose to side with the advisor after finding out and work to find away to expose the Fiend before it's to late.
This is wonderful. A player in my campaign is a Dwarf baker/cleric, the idea being that he traded the forge for an oven. I'm sure he'll love coming to blows with this dude.
I have an existing NPC called the Doughnamancer who’s a goblin ally/rival to the party and this is an amazing addition I can use for his stat block. This is great!!!!!
The second you mentioned adding spells to this monster, a hilarious idea occured to me. Give it Catapult, this way it can launch the pies even further, make them deal even more damage, plus you could then use it for all kinds of comedic (or serious) purposes. The random pie in the face gag could be a hidden Pie Fiend that just randomly catapultes pies in peoples faces, or an entire backline artillery of Pie Fiends all hurling pies like cannonballs down into a city, or onto an approaching army. Watch as your ranks fall into complete disarray as they are burned, chilled, and baked into delicious pies!
I'm picturing a party blowing through gold on transportation to visit everyone's grandmother begging for secret pie recipes. If your back story isn't detailed enough it adds to the travel time as you struggle to find Grandma's house.
They also used to put out full 2e adventure books with a guide to convert them into 3e for free. There were dozens of them. It was truly a great time for the game.
I would give a Pie Fiend this ability...
"(Un)Heroes Feast" ...which basically DEBUFFS the adventurer's in the same way that the normal Heroes Feast buffs... gain disadvantage on everything, become poisoned, reduce your max hitpoints by 10 for 12 hours.
Maybe, also, "Villains Feast"...
Not sure what it would do, but I feel like it should be good for the Fiends that eat it, and bad for anyone else...
I mean, a token that allows the user to call upon a fiend for a heroes' feast could be a potencial part of a soul deal.
So it would be a Zero's Feast
A warlock whose patron is a pie fiend would be fun too. A cooking themed subclass and a chef warlock would be really cool
Somewhere out there a warlock got a fun New patron and the ability to summon delicious baked goods at will
Surely the "This On(e) Stings" should be called a Cross-ant? Great video. Thanks.
Imp of Chocolat, Imperial Rolls, Pie Rats, Gelatinous Turkish Delight, don't limit yourself to puns only ... seriously tempting to try and ... infuse this fiend into a scenario just to crack totally serious jokes for an entire evening.
I know devils are ment to be evil manipulators, but I just hearing the concepts just makes me want to create one as a friendly NPC. Like imagine a devil who tries to use pastries as a tool for getting souls, realized how much of a better/relaxing job baking was compaired to his old job, and just decided to to become a baker full time.
Friendly Pie Fiend + Heroes’ Feast = glorious shenanigans
24:15 could also add that the pie fiend learns the person wiþ whom they made this deal has out sourced the work to the party and offers them a reward for bringing recipe to him directly
So he can have the recipe and keep the person's soul
So now the party has to choose between either siding wiþ the pie fiend but screw over the other guy or side wiþ the other guy and possibly have an fiend upset wiþ them
Missed opportunity to call them Devil's Food Cakes.
Earliest ive ever managed to catch a video, love your stuff, been watching for ages
The mark of professionalism is giving serious treatment to even the most unserious topics--both the original fiend and your video. I love this channel!
This calls for the Mithral Breadknife of Greyhawk (yes, that too is cannon WG7-Castle Greyhawk).
It's so great that pastry is the red thread throught so many different Monsters of the week.
It almost looks like it was all part of the master plan all along
i think the poison version of a pie attack would be call ( gone bie )
Been running a candy witch so this is the most beautiful thing I've had the pleasure of seeing
Now to figure out how pie half-fiends would work.
Cus with pie fiends being inherently a pretty sociable type of entity, as not even their demonic nature can overcome the inherent community building values of cooking not only to feed yourself but to feed other people. I expect pie fiends, as with many other artisanally inclined beings, would be especially susceptible to seeking artistic validation for their craft and be more willing to make the concessions it takes to maintain a community in order to get that ego boosting validation. Making for a bit more unique a cult situation around pie fiends compared with regular demonic entities, where it can more become about joining up with the fiend in pursuit of a shared goal of cooking rather than the fiend centering themselves for worship.
Like developing artists to be the best they can be takes investment and support and protection, and pie fiends might have to face this reality more than most of their evil aligned peers due to the sheer practical necessities of cooking. And what it takes to have more than one person working a kitchen.
I could see this leading to a pie fiend tending to accumulate community around them for more than just exploitation like livestock, but for the pie fiend to invest in and basically build artistic enclaves of cooks so it can have peers who share in its interests. And thus doing stuff like developing relationships with especially talented and ruthless bakers of shorter lifespan humanoids, which then spirals out into absurd Italian mafia style crime family's performing a criminal activities like fencing, money laundering, drug trading, and then moving into loan sharking with the wealth that gets accumulated. But which much like those kind of mafias, always having a very strong cultural affiliation with and loyalty to their families food and recipes, and thus developing some surprisingly strong familial bonds and a pretty strong sense of culture from teaching each other to cook and eating together regularly.
Like it could even be part of the reason why pie fiends could be so rare. Not only because high ranked demons probably wouldn't want to give up their cooks to go travel the realms, but that pie fiends are often too much in rivalry with one another in a "too many cooks in the kitchen" sense, and if given the chance often quickly dilute their bloodlines among sociable and shorter lived, but technologically advanced enough for advanced cooking styles races in order to basically create a cooking fandom with themselves at the top rather than creating more pie fiends they would be in competition with.
With this in mind, I expect a humanoid with pie fiend ancestry would probably blend in much more with their non-fiend parent's race practically from the first generation, either simply looking normal, or quickly developing a milder form of the alter self ability. But they would probably grow to be taller than average with a heavier build. So potentially, becoming kinda like stereotypical batman style mafia goons.
So like if you get this crime family with a bunch of huge knuckle cracking goons who are fiercely loyal to their family and like to sit around bragging about how incredible grandmas dumplings or whatever are to the other criminals. Like that could just kinda be what happens when someone manages to get a pie fiend smitten with em through making like, just the best lasagna or something.
Plus like, opening up a bakery as a genius baker is a pretty sure fire way to get the interest of eligible bachelors and bachelorettes in the restaurant business.
Starting a family business is often just kinda part and parcel with the practical necessities of restaurant ownership. So why not settle down and bake cupcakes with a bunch of chubby little half-demon spawn?
Though that would also be a double edged sword for pie fiends, because if they invest in family and community, they're gonna be less willing to destroy their investment in pursuit of other goals. Like a farmer unwilling to reduce the quality of their produce out of pride for their craft regardless of if they could make more money with reduced quality. Which could also make them much sneakier and harder to find out in the wild, as communities have a tendency to naturally temper pie fiends goals and expectations by slowly incorporating them into the community, such that their desire for baking often becomes at odds with their desire to spread evil. As sacrifices must be made to maintain a communities culinary ecosystem.
And they can often gradually acclimate a pie fiend to making these sacrifices. Like sure they COULD take that guys soul, but if they did, there wouldn't be a traveling merchant to transport the grapes from the vineyards to the town to produce the jams used for pastries, and it could take weeks for a replacement to be found to make the journey! Is one soul worth cutting off access to their baking ingredients for?? If anything, it would be MORE in their self interest as a baker to protect the vineyard and the transportation of the grapes to the city to be processed into jam.
And then b4 ya know it ya got a pie fiend who is in too deep with their restaurant business and running an agricultural mafia style protection racket where they're sending out big burly goons to rip through bandit camps who dared to try and steal the fancy carefully cultivated grain from one of the farms under the pie fiends protection.
I've been working on a homebrew setting called the "9 Hells Kitchen" so this couldnt possibly have come out at a better time. Love it and definitely using it.
It’s April 5th.
April Fools!
If it were April 1, people would expect it.
Or is it?????
Astute observation
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The fact you switched into a light Boston accent later in the video gave me a giggle.
Dad's back and he broght pie. Careful it don't it you
We are having demon-fighting theme campaign right now, and I've immediately sent this to my DM
Thanks, Dad
The Pie Fiend isn't a monster. He's just from Louisiana.
I’m pretty sure that’s not the equivalent of not being a monster!
This is a fantastic option for the Flames card in the Deck of Many Things! THANK YOU!
Why do I see this devil being Jester Lavorre's greatest nemesis?
One of your best episodes. The 70+ year-old coworker I showed it to, who has never heard of TTRPGs, is now fascinated with them. He REALLY likes the concept. Huzzah!
What about blackbirds or toads in a pie and you throw them out and you create a a. Flock of birds or a horde of toads to muck up the battlefield. Historically, it was a practical joke for the rich
I am SO happy that our DM didn't know about this devil when we started playing CoS. He already added so much there, another devil would be too much... but I definitely WILL add this one to my world! Thanks :D
Would have also been appropriate to March 14. At least to us Americans -- take that all you Europeans with your logically superior systems of measurement! We've got Pie Day!
Imagine a pie fiend showing up in a hardcore survival campaign where the party is literally starving to death
I too love Cake Boss.!
I'm now thinking of a pie fiend warlock patron, or a tiefling descended from a pie fiend :O