College of Culinary Arts

Bards of the College of Culinary Arts have spent their time perfecting the skills required to cook extraordinary meals and imbuing magical effects on the consumers of their meals. These bards have the ability to buff their companions before battles and charm those who would assail them.

You can usually find these bards roaming the world in search of exotic spices and food, buried in the kitchens of the richest of nobility, and sometimes hidden away in small villages that have yet to make their mark.

Tools of The Trade

At 3rd level you can either gain expertise with cooking utensils or proficiency with cooking utensils and advantage against ingested poison.

Home Cooked Meal

By third level you have grown as a chef, perfecting your methods as well learning to imbue magical effects within your food. Over a short rest you prepare a meal that grants a number of allies equal to your level+charisma modifier double hit points rolled on their first hit die of the rest or a number of spell levels equal to your charisma modifier.

If you have means to store this meal, it can continue to grant its benefits for up to 1d3 days after its preparation.

Spice of Life

Upon reaching 6th level, during your travels you have discovered new and exotic spices that you have learned to add to your cuisine which you can control to add one of the following effects to your meal.

-resistance to one of the following: acid, fire, cold, poison, and lightning

-gain temporary increase to your HP maximum by a number of points equal to the consuming creatures level + your Cha. Mod.

-advantage on being charmed and on magically being put to sleep

-advantage on Constitution or Wisdom saving throws

This effect lasts until the next long. This meal creates 8 portions and maintains its magical effects for 1d4 days from the day it was created.

Improved Spice of Life

14th level means you now have mastery over crafting meals. Your passion for cooking exudes into your food easily, allowing it to never spoil. When you use your spice of life features, remaining portions never spoil, and can be consumed by using an action.

Chef’s Masterpiece

By 14th level your cooking is now that of legend. You can craft a meal that if consumed by a hostile creature forces them to make a constituion saving throw. On a failure that creature is charmed by you until taking a long rest or until you or a companion make aggressive actions towards them. It takes 1 hour to craft such a meal and it can be stored for up to 12 hours.

Alternatively, you can make any meal a heroes feast once per rest and you can pick which skill has advantage on saving throws. If you use this feature in this way the meal must be consumed immediately or the magic fades.