What Happens When a Devil Becomes A Pastry Chef? 

Thanks for watching! What super serious non-pastry making creature would you like to see next?

"oh these aren't homemade, they were made in a factory... a bomb factory, they're bombs"

The Crimp. Both a combination of crust and imp, but also the act of sealing a pie.

Tiefling chef bard whose devil dad is a pie fiend "You mean pit fiend?" "No."

WHEN THE FIEND HITS YOUR EYE WITH A BIG PIZZA PIE, THATS HORRIBLÉ

I would LOVE to see a Pie fiend that controls an army of chocolate golems

Hey someone has to run Asmodeus' kitchen.

Hags and Pie Fiends battling in the Great Barovian Bakeoff

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.

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.

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

Now I imagine one of these guys taking over a halfling town using its pies

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.

So... Are there sentient gingerbread men animated with the stolen souls of there victims?

The existence of a pastrimp would suggest it's possible for a pie fiend to build a pie golem.

I've heard of cooking up trouble, but this is next level diabolical.

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.

When the April Fool's special is longer than the Tungsten Dragon video What an absolutely wild monster

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. 😈

I like the idea of a devil went down to Georgia baking contest. Where one of the contestants uses a solid gold kitchen set.

Summon Quasant-- like summoning a quasit, but...well, you get it

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.

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

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.

"What are you going to do with those pies, boys?" - some security guard.

2:10 I shouldn't be angry that he mixed up palkia and dialga for representing space and time... HOWEVER

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.

Okay, so he's gonna bake me into a pie, but he looks so damn cuddly..... worth it.

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.

This is one of the best D&D monsters I've ever seen. Every single campaign needs a Pie Fiend.

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.

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!

It's lair should be a giant pie tin. One of it's lair abilities should be an area heat metal on the tin.

Pastrimp.....you mean a Pimp? Dough Imp? Dimp, Dimples, Sweet imp? Simp, Swimps, Sweeps

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

I suddenly want to make a Warlock whose patron is a Pie Fiend.

Ooh ooh, the pastry imp could be an Impanada!!

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.

Im gonna make the chef of my train campaign 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.

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

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

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...

The sweets made him turn an Italian New Yorker for a second.

Cloud of daggers, but it's jagged pieces of pie crust

The production of this video was on a higher level of manic than normal.

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.

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.

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

Catapult: Flinging Pies Web: Trapping opponents with raw dough or another sticky cooking substance Fabricate: quick and easy assembly of baked goods to animate

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

18:51 Love the implication that the mortal soul is high in carbohydrates.

...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 😊👏🏽

I'm in love with the idea of making a riff off of Sweeny Todd with a pie fiend being Ms Lovett

Players: This old woman's a witch, calling it now Me: Quit being so paranoid, i promise she's not a witch 😏

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.

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.

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'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

Someone at Dungeon Dad got paid real money to make this video (and it's was awesome)

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.

A warlock whose patron is a pie fiend would be fun too. A cooking themed subclass and a chef warlock would be really cool

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'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.

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!!!!!

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.

Missed opportunity to call them Devil's Food Cakes.

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.

Friendly Pie Fiend + Heroes’ Feast = glorious shenanigans

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!

Surely the "This On(e) Stings" should be called a Cross-ant? Great video. Thanks.

Somewhere out there a warlock got a fun New patron and the ability to summon delicious baked goods at will

Imagine a pie fiend showing up in a hardcore survival campaign where the party is literally starving to death

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.

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.

The fact you switched into a light Boston accent later in the video gave me a giggle.

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 Pie Fiend isn't a monster. He's just from Louisiana.

It’s April 5th.

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

Why do I see this devil being Jester Lavorre's greatest nemesis?

This calls for the Mithral Breadknife of Greyhawk (yes, that too is cannon WG7-Castle Greyhawk).

"One of the D&D monsters of all time." Beautiful.

They also make meat pies. 8:11 "Try the fop." -a pie fiend If I ever make an evil character, this will be the basis. Silly-evil.

i think the poison version of a pie attack would be call ( gone bie )

Earliest ive ever managed to catch a video, love your stuff, been watching for ages

Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar would absolutely have one of these as their sous-chef.

The the in-universe explanation for Devils food cake.

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.

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

The artist did great! Thanks for supporting small artists, Dad.

This fiend probably makes an amazing devil's food cake.

Dad's back and he broght pie. Careful it don't it you

Bit late for April Fool's. :P

Been running a candy witch so this is the most beautiful thing I've had the pleasure of seeing

The pie fiend could also make a deadly Transfer curse pie like from the Steven King story Thinner.