You are someone who knows the value of a hearty meal and can tell the difference between ingredients by sight, taste, scent, and even their texture. From the soldiers marching in the fields, to the warm haven of an inn, to the bowls of the largest keeps, to the homes of the common folk you know that food and need of food is what brings together everyone of every nation, religion, race, and creed. Food is your passion, it is your mission, it is your religion.
- Skill Proficiencies: Choose two from History, Medicine, Nature, Survival
- Tool Proficiencies: You are proficient with Cook's Utensils.
- Languages: One of your choice
- 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
Source: Tasha's Cauldron of Everything
Time and effort spent mastering the culinary arts has paid off. You gain the following benefits:
- Increase your Constitution or Wisdom score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
- You gain proficiency with cook’s utensils if you don’t already have it.
- As part of a short rest, you can cook special food, provided you have ingredients and cook's utensils on hand. You can prepare enough of this food for a number of creatures equal to 4 + 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.
- With one hour of work or when you finish a long rest, you can cook a number of treats equal to your proficiency bonus. These special treats last 8 hours after being made. A creature can use a bonus action to eat one of those treats to gain temporary hit points equal to your proficiency bonus.
Suggested Characteristics
Many things can influence a person's life long love affair with food. Maybe you were starving and lost and rescued by a traveling chef. Perhaps are inheriting your love from your grandparent who showed you tried and true recipes passed down the generations. You might even have been a beggar that dreamed of dining on the choice cuts of meat in decadent sauces that only the rich were privy to and decided to only dine on the best. Whatever the reason food is your passion!
| d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | Cooking is like a dance and the kitchen is my dance floor. |
| 2 | My knowledge of flavor combinations can make even the most joyless eater smile. |
| 3 | If I make a mistake or even slightly burn it I through it out. Thankfully I am great enough that I almost never have to. |
| 4 | Once you step into the kitchen you step into my kingdom, and regardless if you are king or serf I will have obedience within it. |
| 5 | Food is meant to make you smile. Food is my passion and my life, so I am always smiling. |
| 6 | If you cause me to make a mistake in my cooking I am liable to try to put you in the pot next. |
| 7 | Do not call me a cook. I am a chef, a gourmet! To say otherwise is to invoke my wrath. |
| 8 | Recipes are meant to be passed down, so any chance I get to teach another to cook I do it with zeal. |
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | Adventurous. The only way to know if something tastes good or bad is to taste it. (Chaotic) |
| 2 | Fame. I will sabotage and undercut other chefs to boost my own status and spread my fame faster. (Evil) |
| 3 | Empathy. I don't care who you are, if you are hungry I will feed you in a heartbeat. (Good) |
| 4 | Showmanship. I will turn the whole cooking process into a show to create smiles before the meal and serve them good food to make them smile after the meal too. (Any) |
| 5 | Respect. The reputation I have created has been no small feat in the making. I believe I am due a certain amount of respect for it. (Any) |
| 6 | Perfection. If I see one small misstep in the cooking process at the hands of a lesser chef or cook I will berate for them. (Evil) |
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | I must pass on my recipes before I die. |
| 2 | The person that taught me to cook is always foremost in my mind when preparing food or making new recipes. |
| 3 | I am the last bastion of hope in a bland world. I will bring flavor. |
| 4 | My tools were inherited so every nick, dent, and scratch is a fond memory for me. |
| 5 | I wish to feed the masses. Starvation is an abomination and I will slay it with tasty treats. |
| 6 | I will become the best. I have to. |
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | I have a tendency to taste all my recipes multiple times, sometimes eating the whole thing before it's even done. |
| 2 | I add bacon to EVERY recipe and believe it makes everything better. |
| 3 | I do not trust food or drink not prepared by me, and must check it for poison or worse too much salt. |
| 4 | Sometimes in an effort to make a perfect dish I throw out perfectly fine dishes and end up wasting food. |
| 5 | I cannot hold my wine very well and often do things I regret after drinking it. |
| 6 | I secretly look down on the filthy masses that greedily eat sub par food as if it were the finest of dishes. |
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