Professional Chef (Eth v2)

The professional chef is a progressive feat. The chef is focused, well trained, disciplined, creative and dedicated to their craft. Inspiration form Lockwood followers of Garrakg Battle-Cook.

Rank 1: Apprentice Chef (Prerequisite: Dexterity, Intelligence, and Wisdom 10)

Ability Score Increase. Increase your Dexterity or Wisdom score by 1, to a maximum of 20.

Cook’s Utensils. You gain proficiency with Cook’s Utensils if you don’t already have it.

Create custom skill: Cooking (Wis)

Recipe Book: The creativity aspect of your profession can incorporate a wide verity of ingredients such as fish, shellfish, insect, poultry, red meats, grains, nuts, vegetables, fruits, dairy, spices, confectionery, and alcohol. You may have a number of recipes recorded into your recipe book equal to your Intelligence Bonus plus your Proficiency Bonus. Tier 1: +2, Tier 2: +1, Tier 3: +0. There are four recipe categories: Recovery, Resistance, Resilience, and Augmentation. The three tiers of recipes: Uncommon, Rare, and Exotic. When preparing a meal from your recipe book you have advantage on the skill check. Consult with your DM for any special or unique added ingredients and the increased difficulty and modified effects. Your recipe book is a well crafted Leather bound book with 50 pages, costing 3-5 gp. Recipes contain ingredient list, preparation instructions, cooking instructions, serving instructions etc. Tier 1 recipes 2 pages, Tier 2 recipes 5 pages, and Tier 3 recipes 15 pages.

Meal Crafting & Research: With 1 hour of work before you finish a Long Rest, you can prepare a meal infused with Culinary Arts for number of creatures equal to 2 plus your Proficiency Bonus with ingredients on hand (meat, vegetables, spices, water/broth etc.) and a sufficient heat source such as a campfire or kitchen stove. For smaller portions food such as a soup or candies multiply the base quality by 2 for small portions and multiply the base quantity by 5 for tiny portions. Researching a new recipe is investigation DC 15 per day of successful research preformed reduce the new recipe DC by 2. This can be repeated a maximum of thee times and consumes 1/4 materials each.

Rationing, Cooking DC 12: During a Short Rest or Long Rest with 10 minutes of work, you can prepare simple food ingredients (hardtack, dried meat, dried fruit, nuts, cheese, crackers etc) equaling 1lbs you have converted into rations with Cook’s Utensils. You can prepare enough rations for a number of creatures of small to medium size equal to 2 plus your Proficiency Bonus. Example 1lbs of simple food items converted with a proficiency bonus of 1 equals 3 rations. Rationing is not eligible for research.

Recipe Tier 1/Uncommon, Cooking Base DC 21

Recovery: Hearty Meal: Additional hit points gained on short rests equal to 1 plus your Proficiency Bonus for 4 hours (LR). Grilled Meats: Recover additional hit points equals your Proficiency Bonus for 2 hours (SR). Finger Food: Restores 1 hit point (BA).

Resistance: Hearty Meal: Add your Proficiency Bonus to a Constitution, Strengthen or Intelligence saves for 4 hours (LR). Savory Soups: You gain advantage on saves versus poison or disease for 2 hours (SR). Confectionery: Consumed as an action and gain resistance to poison or disease for 2 rounds (BA).

Resilience: Hearty Meal: Gain a number of temporary hit points equal to 1 plus your Proficiency Bonus (LR). Hearty Breakfast: Consumed after a long rest gain damage reduction bludgeoning or cold equal to 1 plus your Proficiency Bonus for 2 hours (ALR). Fresh Juice: Gain 3 Temporary hit points for 1d4 rounds (A).

If you failed to craft the meal properly anyone who consumed the meal has indigestion suffer -1 to all skill checks and speed reduced by 5ft for 4 hours.

Rank 2: Expert Chef (Prerequisite: Level 4, Dexterity, and Wisdom 13)

Scraps to Snacks: Through countless hours of working with the basic fundamentals of your craft you have developed a comprehensive understanding of combining ingredients. You may create a snack from a previously made meal leftover Ingredients and uneaten parts of a created meal not longer that 8 hours ago. You must add from your supplies any missing components to complete the item. 1 missing ingredient Dex DC 14 (5 minutes), 2 missing ingredients Wis DC 15 (15 minutes), 3 missing ingredients Dex and Wis DC 17 (30 minutes). The snack will have a diminished property from the original meal’s benefit. 

Recipe Tier 2/Rare, Cooking and Dex Base DC 24

Recovery: Heavy Stew: Additional hit points gained on short rests equal to 4 plus your Proficiency Bonus for 8 hours (LR). Sea animal Bisque: Gain a number of temporary hit points equal to 4 plus you Proficiency Bonus (LR). Fruit Chutney: Added effect Regeneration 1 hit point/hour (R). Fruit Infused Spirt: Gain advantage on saves vs Fear and advantage on Charisma based skills for 1 hour. Note if more than 2 are consumed in a 2 hour period the user must make a Con save vs the craft DC. On a failed save the user gains the condition Poisoned, disadvantages on all physical skills and checks and reduced to half speed until a long rest is completed (A).

Resistance: Roast Beast: Add your 4 plus your Proficiency Bonus to a Constitution, Strengthen or Intelligence saves for 4 hours (LR). Beast Steak & Sautéed Vegetables:  You gain advantage on saves vs poison and disease for 4 hours (LR).

Resilience: Steamed Sea Animal: Gain a number of temporary hit points equal to 4 plus your Proficiency Bonus (LR). Brined Vegetables: Gain damage reduction bludgeoning and cold equal to 4 plus your Proficiency Bonus for 4 hours(ALR/R). Critters in Confectionery: Gain burst of speed, add Proficiency Bonus to AC once as a reaction. Duration 1 minute (BA).

Augmentation: Smoked Monstrous Beast: Increase melee damage and Strength saves equal to your Proficiency for 4 hours (LR). Charred Reptile: Gain temporary natural armor 5 for rounds equal to your Proficiency Bonus. This does not stack with worn armor (A). Baked Small Wing: Remove half the penalty from difficult terrain (A).

Rank 3: Master Chef (Prerequisite: Level 9, Dexterity 16)

Monsters et two: A chef welcomes a challenge and will always push the culinary envelope. Only a true master can dive into the exotic ingredients for a unique experience. Utilizing exotic monster ingredients will bring you to new levels of knowledge, notoriety or infamy. 

Gain Expertise in Cooking

Recipe Tier 3/Exotic, Cooking and Dex Base DC 30

Recovery: Braised Carnivorous Plant: Additional hit points gained on short rests equal to 4 plus your Proficiency Bonus for 8 hours (LR). Rock Golem Salts: Add advantage to saves based on the creature subtype equal to your Proficiency Bonus for 4 hours (R)

Resistance: Chilled Demon Tartar: Resistance to Fire, Cold, and Lightning damage for 4 hours (LR). Luminous Salad: Gain dark vision 30 feet and Resistance to Necrotic damage for 4 hours (ALR). 

Resilience: Evaporated Elemental Essence:  Based on the creature type gain that creatures favored terrain and increased 20 feet of movement (R). Crispy Dinosaur Bacon: Gain Rage for rounds equal to Proficiency Bonus (Rage rules apply)(BA). 

Augmentation: Poached Aberration: Gain Telepathy 30 feet with all other members who consumed the same meal for hours equal to Proficiency Bonus (LR). Fried Subterranean Creature: Gain Blind Sight 30 feet and a damage type from the creature subtype for 2 hours (SR). Ooze Pudding: Gain Acid Resistance and unarmed melee attacks Acid damage of users attack die for 2 hours (ALR). Fey Floss (Cotton Candy) Confectionery: Gain a flying speed equal to half your land movement for 1 minute (BA).

Note to DM: This is a short list and a frame work for you to expand upon.
Key: LR: Long Rest, ALR: After Long Rest, SR: Short Rest, A: Action, BA: Bonus Action, R: Regent.