Cook

Whether it’s your life’s boiling passion or the result of drawing the shortest spoon, your battlefield is behind the counters and stoves of taverns, inns, and palaces alike, armed to the teeth with knives and ladles. As a cook your motivations are as various as the names of the seasonings and spices on a shelf in a herbal shop, but in the end, you’re good at keeping people fed and (mostly) satisfied. So throw some more wood on the fire and stoke the flames of your culinary skills because your fellow adventurers are hungry, and they’re going to need your cooking to pull them through failure and fortune.

Skill Proficiencies: Nature, plus one from among Survival, Performance, and Medicine. 

Tool Proficiencies: You are proficient with Cook's Utensils.

Equipment: Cook's Utensils, a cooking pot, a small knife, 2 full waterskins, 10 rations, a book of your recipes, and a pouch containing 10 gp.

Suggested Characteristics

Food is love, food is culture, and, in almost every instance, food is food. What drives one into a life behind stewing pots and searing pans is anyone’s guess. You may have experienced a hungry childhood, dreaming of the luxuries of royalty and nobility, spent afternoons helping a beloved family member in a kitchen, or had been given the job as a random assignment. Everyone has a story that connects them to food, and for you, that story is often an integral slice of your life. You might be a traveling chef de cuisine, hoping to bring your recipes and smiles to a new home and new faces. You may have inherited an old family cookbook with recipes that require odd and rare magical ingredients to complete, or perhaps food is simply a means to an end for your character, where sustenance comes before flavor. Regardless of what motivates you, your party can expect to be fed a little better, wherever they go.

d8	Personality Trait
1	If the grub puts a grin on your face, it’s a good day for me.
2	I hum or dance while cooking. My food has a rhythm and so do I.
3	I’d never create dishes I wouldn’t eat myself.
4	Well-meaning criticism is welcome, but complain too much about my food and I may boil you alive.
5	Sometimes I like to save the best of a dish for myself.
6	Quantity over quality. Being a cook is all about feeding the most people; flavor comes second.
7	I prefer to serve those in need over nobility and royalty.
8	There’s value in good friends; I treat them to delicacies when I can.

d6	Ideal
1	Charity. There are so many hungry who can’t afford a good meal now and again; I want to change that. (Good).
2	Adventurous. Creating new recipes and trying new foods is the spice of life. (Chaotic)
3	Creative. Cooking is an art and the plate is a canvas. (Any)
4	Perfection. A masterful recipe has no margin for error and must be followed to the exact measurement. (Lawful)
5	People. Food is really about connecting with those you serve; everything else is ephemeral, fleeting. Cherish those connections. (Neutral)
6	Education. Find teachers wherever you go. It’s the best way for your own skills to grow. (Any)

d6	Bond
1	My family passed these recipes down to me; I only hope I can share them with someone important one day.
2	I can’t wait to be out from under the heel of the chef I work for.
3	One thing I can always look forward to is sitting down and sharing a good meal with new faces.
4	Someday, I’m going to catch the kid stealing cookies from the windowsill and bake them into my next cake… or make them work off their debt.
5	My sibling always seems to drop by around the time of their birthday, looking for a special meal, and I always oblige.
6	Many of my best memories with others are over food prepared with care and love.

d6	Flaw
1	When others distract me from my work, I often chase them out of the kitchen with my temper.
2	Cooking is a passion but also fuels my vice. I can’t help but sneak a few “morsels” before each meal.
3	I will sometimes throw out food if the flavor is even slightly less than satisfactory.
4	I’m scared to alter established recipes and that indecision bleeds into my adventuring life.
5	I argued with too much with my chef instructor, so they kicked me out until I could prove that I’m more disciplined and dedicated to my work.
6	Sometimes too much bacon IS too much bacon.