Why don't more party's have cooks/chefs in them?

>>55295638

I played a ship's cook in a Firefly game once when I was in college. I recall fighting Reavers with a frying pan; was not super effective, but we didn't die.

Because that leads to two scenarios. The first is the party hauling all kinds of different ingredients with them, slowing them down and filling pouches that could be filled with coin. The second is dungeon meshi

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Because food doesn't do anything mechanically. Unless you are a vanillaware game.

>>55295638
I played a druid that doubled as the party mom. He was always being a huge mother hen, making sure everyone was eating right and maintaining their equipment. He was also responsible for treating wounds and keeping everyone healthy. I roleplayed him as a soft-hearted good neighbor type. Like a Native American Ned Flanders.

He died alone trying to stop a horde of bandits from reaching the party while they were recovering from a fight and the party got split up, and our bard actually cried a little when they found everyone's favorite healthy snacks in his inventory. He actually got kinda mad at the DM for killing my character.

Then my next character was a dusty, alcoholic old pervert wizard and it was way more fun.