Interest Check: Pathfinder Fast Food Game

Some free time has opened in my schedule, so I've put together another concept for a campaign. It will be in Pathfinder this time, and will center around the party opening a successful restaurant instead of roaming around aimlessly. In between managing affairs back at the restaurant, which has been opened in a highly advanced locale called Starmetal City (where many modern or modern-adjacent amenities have been made available amidst an otherwise medieval world), the party will venture out to hunt exotic meats and raid monster dens for valuable supplies (and cool trinkets to bring in customers!).

Any questions? Takers?

Bumping this so it's easier for a potential new player to see. Unknown, this is the game I mentioned in your thread.

Your idea here piques my interest! My last Pathfinder character owned a restaurant, and it was a fun bit of flavor trying to balance that work life with adventuring.

What can I do to pique your interest further?

Sounds like a ranger-centric game... :D

No need for further interest piquing on my part. I would totally play a game like this. How much would the city leadership and other citizens get involved in the restaurant? Competition from across the street, health inspectors, taxes, an arcane form of Yelp?

Rangers would do well in this game, yes (not to say other classes like alchemist, fighter, or wizard wouldn't). Interested, kalajel?

@Falible, it will be starting as an experiment. There are food stalls and vendors in Starmetal City, but your restaurant would be the first real sit-down sort of place with a great atmosphere and the whole package. So competition may arise if you prove the model works. Health inspectors likewise won't be ready for you, but they will make ready in time. Taxes will definitely jump on it, and arcane Yelp is absolutely a thing, because the city has a form of internet that relies of tech-conscripted divination magic. The demographics and dignitaries you draw in will depend on what you can offer and how popular you are with the commoners.

Yeah. This is certainly an interesting premise and I'm definitely curious to see how it would unfold... Since the player group would be in a capitalist venture together, I feel more communication between the group during character creation would help making a cohesive group for which it would make sense to have gone into business together.

I agree. I'm hoping to drum up at least 5 supporters before I set up the game.

I've been following this thread with interest, and hesitated to jump in (leaving room for new players), but I love me some Pathfinder. I really like the intended incorporation of resource management. Count me in, WalkerOfSorrow!

The ethical implications of Necromancy and food service.

Those are implications I am DYING to uncover, HuginnMuninn. If you and Qralloq are both in, that would give me enough for an average-size party!

I see what you did there.

Reminds me of an old Nodwick cartoon where they go hunting to feed a village. They start with a dire boar but think it's not enough to feed the village so use the carcass to attract something bigger. Next panel was a bulette... long story short they ended up attracting and killing the tarrasque to feed the village...

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Here's a link to the new forum. I'll be working out invitations soon.

Applied!

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I'm gonna apply for your little idea a bit late, but I sadly always miss these calls for interest when they're new. This sounds like a whole lot of fun!

...So during our Halloween-equivalent event, we should totally have some summoned skeletons as waiters...

Sounds like fun! Happy to have you aboard.

Great! I'll theory craft a few concepts when I get home. I'm thinking Sorcerer or Gunslinger, maybe. Starting at level 1 I assume?

Well ive got to say, I joined this site with the specific goal of finding a shadowrun game - but this does seem really interesting and fun. One thing is, I have never played Pathfinder before. But i feel like I have enough free time in my life to do both. I will apply, but it mught take me a minute to fix up this character, i will have to dl the pathfinder book(s)

All the Pathfinder material is available at their website: Pathfinder PRD

Yes I have given it a once over, it seems very similar to dungeons and dragons, I aught to be fine with it. A half-orc sorceror with a draconic bloodline? Guess it helps to be fire resistant in a kitchen! (Can you tell im a chef irl?)

Sorcerer's unite! :p

If I end up making a Sorcerer I'll be sure to pick a different bloodline so we have some variety. Though a melee Oracle could also be fun to play... Not an easy choice.

So, so far a draconic sorceror cook, a potential gunslinger to hunt our prey, well, I guess I could do the tracker/hunter with a ranger...

I'm thinking of making an asimar or elven sommelier. That's a class, right?

I would also be open to going Bard, either way i think my character will drop a lot into the profession skill and be a cook. We should all figure out what our nine-to-five gig in the restaurant is as well. There should be both a kitchen and front of house manager, a cook/chef, a server/bartender, and either a dishwasher / busser or a general manager - these are just ideas, but most restaurants would have to have all of these positions covered

Servers and front of house persona's should at least be kinda charming, which is not a requirement for back of house at all, so if charisma is your dumpstat your probably gonna end up the dishwasher. At least that's how it works in REAL life lol.

Some of those could be filled up with NPC hirelings. I was thinking that if we're going to hunt monsters to collect their meat, might as well start a side-business of tanner/furrier and collect their pelt, teeth, claws, etc. as well...
I'm looking at the Skirmisher right now, a spell-less ranger.

This is true, but since our characters will gain experience at a much faster rate, it would be nice if we could sacrafice a little bit of dungeoneering might for some skills that work for our business - being that our characters will be able to become masters of their chosen craft, and don't require us to pay wages. Perhaps you should be the butcher.

Hmm, not a bad idea...

I will go ahead and make an OOC folder in the game so that this area can be reserved for interest-related discussion.

I've been following this thread since it went up. Half of me has been wanting to join but the other half wants to run far, far away. As a chef and business-owner IRL (Hey there, HuginnMuninn!) this would feel like my day job to me (I love making food but the runnng of the business is something I curse every waking moment as well as in my sleep!) and would probably just stress me out haha!

@Jabes.plays.RPG, I'll let you in on a little secret. Works for this but also practically any other game. You don't have to set foot in the restaurant. Ever. That is the premise, and a bunch of these people want to spend a lot of time there, but all that means is that the group will need people going out and exploring. My universe isn't restaurant-themed, just the campaign. So make a cool character you think would be fun to play, and go explore my world! Leave your day job to the people who want that kind of gameplay. Fair?

Person 1: "There's no way you can get people to play Farmville with Pathfinder!"
WalkerOfSorrow: "Hold my beer."

Honestly i just came here for some shadowrun and somehow you tricked me into this with the promise of tasty fried treats...

My only regret is that there is no way to upvote posts on here...

I’m in a similar boat. I’m a major foodie so this theme works for me on so many levels. But then I worry about becoming too invested...

@Moofsalot, I can't really help you with being too invested, but if you begin to have problems, just talk to me.

@kalajel, I very much agree. Good lord that was funny.