At - Home Parent

You spent a good portion of your life raising a family and managing a household. Your words can comfort, inspire, or strike terror in the hearts of miscreants and shop clerks alike.  Your hands can heal, nourish, and even renew worn clothing. Ever alert, no object that you have seen is ever lost & your tenacity in defending those you choose as your family is second only to the fiercest bear. 

Now, your children are grown and gone, your home is too quiet and you finally have the freedom to explore the wide world as you always dreamed.

Ability Scores: Wisdom, Dexterity, Charisma

Feat: Home Cook:

You gain the following benefits.

Cook’s Utensils. You gain proficiency with Cook’s Utensils if you don’t already have it.

Replenishing Meal. As part of a Short Rest, you can cook special food if you have ingredients and Cook’s Utensils on hand. You can prepare enough of this food for a number of creatures equal to 4 plus your Proficiency Bonus. At the end of the Short Rest, any creature who eats the food and spends one or more Hit Dice to regain Hit Points regains an extra 1d8 Hit Points.

Bolstering Treats. With 1 hour of work or when you finish a Long Rest, you can cook a number of treats equal to your Proficiency Bonus if you have ingredients and Cook’s Utensils on hand. These special treats last 8 hours after being made. A creature can use a Bonus Action to eat one of those treats to gain a number of Temporary Hit Points equal to your Proficiency Bonus.

Skill Proficiencies: Choose two: Perception, Insight, Medicine

Equipment:  A Healer's kit, Cook's utensils, a set of common clothes, a token or memento of your children, and a pouch containing 10 gp. 

Suggested Characteristics

Personality Traits (pick two) d8

1. Are you playing nice?
2. Is anyone hungry? I can make a snack.
3. Charity begins at home.
4. Live, Laugh, Love
5. You can accomplish anything you set your mind to. 
6. Wherever we are together, is home.
7. A stranger is a friend you haven't met yet.
8. Fake it til you make it.

Ideals (choose one) d6

1. Make good choices. (Good)
2. That's the way we do it in our family. (Lawful)
3. Be nice. (Neutral)
4. Bless this mess. (Chaotic) 
5. Not under my roof. (Evil)
6. I'm raising adults, not children. (Any)

Bonds (choose one) d6

1. My companions are my new family & I will defend them with my life.
2. I fear I was too harsh raising my own children, so I indulge all the little ones I meet.
3. I hope to make my children proud of me one day.
4. My child was killed by bandits. I won't allow another parent to feel that pain.
5. My spouse cheated and lied to me. I will never be dishonest with the people who rely on me.
6. I defend children first, adults second

Flaws (choose one) d6

1. My children are perfect.
2. You may be an expert in your filed, I am an expert in my kids.
3. Walk it off, you're fine.
4. It's five o'clock somewhere.
5. Don't talk to me before I've had my coffee
6. I am a busybody and meddle in the lives of others