Ogre Head Chef by The Toadstool Weaver

The smells coming from the castle kitchen are either mouth-watering or deeply suspicious — and the ogre wielding a cast-iron pan the size of a shield isn't taking complaints.

• ✔ 32mm scale resin miniature, printed fresh to order in the UK
• ✔ Supplied unpainted and ready to prime
• ✔ Compatible with D&D, Pathfinder, and all tabletop RPGs
• ✔ Equally at home on the gaming table or the display shelf

The Head Chef is a gloriously characterful sculpt that sits right at the crossroads of comedy and genuine menace. This barrel-chested ogre stands wide-legged and ready for confrontation, a large frying pan raised in one hand and a sharpened skewer gripped in the other. Pots and ladles hang from his belt alongside a leather apron, and his chef's toque sits jauntily atop a face that has seen both battlefields and banquets. The braided hair, stitched tunic, and sandalled feet all speak to a creature that has carved out an unlikely but entirely believable niche in your world's food service industry.

For Dungeon Masters, this mini brings something rare to the table: a monster that tells a story before a single dice is rolled. He's the volatile kitchen tyrant of a goblin warband's stronghold, the extorted head cook of a corrupt lord's feast, or a surprisingly dangerous encounter in a subterranean inn. He could be played straight as a brute — or leaned into for a session that your players will quote for years.

Suited to adventurers who:

• Need a distinctive ogre NPC beyond the standard cave-dwelling brute
• Are running tavern, castle, or urban fantasy encounters
• Want a boss monster with immediate personality and visual storytelling
• Are building a painted display piece with genuine character and comic gravitas
• Play or run campaigns where food, feasts, or hospitality encounters are a feature

Encounter Hook:
The party has been hired to retrieve a stolen spice shipment — but when they trace it to the kitchens of Lord Harwick's estate, they find the Head Chef mid-service, furious, frying pan already in motion, and absolutely not interested in being questioned during the dinner rush.

Details

Printed at 32mm scale. Available with or without a plain black base — the base ships unattached and can be fixed with a small amount of glue. This is a digital render of the sculpt; your mini will arrive unpainted and ready for priming, painting, or straight to the table as-is.

Sculpted by The Toadstool Weaver — visit their page to see more of their work.

A studio where the short rests are scheduled around the cats and the long rests are whenever the cats decide.

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Ready to add this adventurer to your collection? Order today and we'll print it fresh for you here in the UK. 🐾🐈‍⬛🎲