College of Cuisine

All bards are, in one way or another, artists. Some bards express themselves and carry their magic through their voice and music. For others, it is with fluid movements of dance or the powerful expression of a brush on a canvas. Those that enlist within the College of Cuisine move their magic through the art of cooking. 

 

Signature Dish

Starting at 3rd level when you join the College of Cuisine, you can cook meals filled with so much flavor, they pull from The Weave and enhance those who eat them. You may spend 10 minutes and expend an Inspiration Die to cook a magnificent meal for one creature. When you cook the meal, you choose one key flavor to stand out in the dish. The meal lasts until your next long rest and it takes an action to consume. When you or another creature eats your meal, they gain specific benefits based on the key flavor, as shown below. These benefits last for 1 minute.

• Savory - Add 1d4 to Strength saving throws. Add 1d4 to all attack rolls.
• Sweet - Add 1d4 to Dexterity saving throws. Gain +10 movement speed.
• Spicy - Add 1d4 to Constitution saving throws. Add 1d4 fire damage to all damage rolls.
• Sour - Add 1d4 to Intelligence saving throws. Add 1d4 to all Intelligence skill checks.
• Salty - Add 1d4 to Wisdom saving throws. Gain advantage on perception checks.
• Umami - Add 1d4 to Charisma saving throws. Advantage on saves and checks against the charmed and frightened conditions.

As you become a higher level Bard, you're capable of cooking larger meals in the same period of time. As a 6th level Bard, you now cook two meals of the same flavor instead of one, and as a 15th level Bard, you can cook up to three meals of the same flavor.

Recipes for Disaster

Also at 3rd level, your time in the kitchen has granted you knowledge of culinary tools, both mundane and magical. You gain proficiency in both Cook's Utensils and Brewer's Supplies and can use them as a spell focus.

Additionally, you gain Bard spells at the Bard levels listed in the Recipes for Disaster Spells table. The spells added this way are thereafter always prepared. Once per long rest, you may cast one of the spells listed in the Recipes for Disaster spell table without material components or consuming a spell slot.

Recipes for Disaster Spells

Bard LEVEL	SPELLS
1st	goodberry, burning hands
3rd	protection from poison, scorching ray
5th	create food and water, fireball
7th	control water, wall of fire
9th	mass cure wounds, immolation

Inspirational Cooking

Starting at 6th level, your hearty meals leave your companions energized and ready for anything. When you or another creature eats one of your meals, they gain a number of temporary hit points equal to your Bard level plus the roll of the Inspiration Die.

While a creature has temporary hit points this way, they are immune to the poisoned condition and diseases, and gain resistance to poison damage.

Master Chef

By 14th level, your cooking is world renowned. Your meals leave people speechless, invoking feelings of bliss and bolstering the spirit.

Whenever you or another creature eats one of your meals through your Signature Dish feature, they also gain the benefits of the heroes' feast spell. The benefits of this spell can only occur for that creature once per long rest.