As a ship's cook, you spent years at sea, cooking for hungry sailors and keeping them fed on long voyages. Your experience has made you an expert in the culinary arts, and you know how to make the most of even the most meager provisions. You are someone who knows the value of a properly seasoned stew and can tell the difference between spices by sight, taste, scent, and even their texture. A ship’s cook works with the limited ingredients aboard a ship to make meals. A skilled cook keeps the crew’s morale in top shape, while a poor one drags down the entire crew’s performance. A talented cook has a high Constitution score, as well as proficiency with brewer’s supplies and cook’s utensils. Food is your passion, it is your mission, it is your religion.

Skill Proficiencies: Performance, Survival

 

Tool Proficiencies: Choose one of either Cook's utensils or Brewer's Supplies

Languages:  One of your choice

 

Equipment: A staff with a mop and bucket used to clean, a set of Cook's utensils or Brewer's Supplies, a Book of recipes, a set of traveler’s clothes, a Cooking Pot, and a pouch containing 10 gp

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 throw 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 royalty or servant my word shall be followed here
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.