Feast of the Fallen

Harvesting the Fallen

To cook, you need Cuts — magically potent body parts such as heart meat, marrow, brains, or liver.

Harvesting Rules

• The creature must be slain within 2 hours.

• Requires Cook’s Utensils and 10 minutes per attempt.

• Make a DC 10 Dexterity (Cook’s Utensils) check to harvest.

  • +2 if the creature is Large or larger.

  • -5 if the corpse is heavily damaged or burnt.

• Each creature yields Cuts based on its size:

a creature may only be harvested once.

Storage & Spoilage

• Cuts spoil after 8 hours unless magically preserved.

• You may carry up to Proficiency Bonus × 2 Cuts on your person.

Meal Preparation & Limits

All food must be prepared during a long rest. You must spend the listed time per meal in addition to 6 hours of sleep.

Meal Prep Limit

You may prepare up to a number of meals equal to your Proficiency Bonus during each long rest (not including a Feast).

Only one Feast may be prepared per long rest, instead to your normal meal limit.

to create a meal the cuts have to be form the same spesies of creature exept a feast witch requires creatures of the same tipe (fiend, fae, dragon)

cannot harvest inedible matierials like stone from constructs or rotten flesh from undead

Buff Rules

• Only one of each meal type may be consumed per creature per day.
  
  Even if the effect is used up, the meal’s duration must expire naturally before another of that type can be consumed.
  

• Eating a new food of the same type has no effect until the previous one ends.
  
  
  

Meal Effects

Snack (Bonus Action to eat)

Duration: 3 turns
A bite-sized essence infusion.
Examples:

•  reduce the next damage taken by 1d6 once (type-based).

• +5 ft movement speed for 3 turns.

• Advantage on next Stealth, Perception, or Survival check.

Appetiser (Action to eat)

Duration: 1 minute
A quick dish granting a mild boon.
Examples:

• First failed save vs poison or fear counts as a success.

• You gain tremorsense 10 ft.

• • reduce the next damage taken by 1d8 for the duration (type-based).

 Main Course (1 minute to eat)

Duration: 1 hour
A full meal channeling core traits.
Examples:

• Resistance to a damage type.

• Once, you may auto-succeed a Strength or Dex check.

• Drop to 1 HP instead of 0 (once).

Dessert – Aura of the Fallen (30 min prep)

Requires consuming an Appetiser + Main Course from the same speties beforehand.
Radiate a visible creature-themed aura that can enhance your allys or weaken foes.

Duration: 1 minute

Examples:

• Have creature tipe effects like a holy healing aura or and puddle of slime serounding you causing difficult terraine.
  
  Your creature tipe changes
  
  Give phisical features potentially giving mechanical abilities sutch as a breath wepon
  
  

Feast – Ritual of Consumption (2 hours or short rest)

A powerful shared meal for up to 6 creatures. All Cuts must come from a single creature or a consistent type (e.g., all fiends).

Duration: Until next long rest
Effect:

• Each participant gains two combined meal effects:

  • two Appetiser-type effect

  • Two Main Course-type effect
    
    One dessert effect

• Effects must be thematically consistent with the source creature(s).

Tools of the Trade

• Gain proficiency with Cook’s Utensils, or expertise if already proficient.

• Learn Purify Food and Drink, castable once per long rest for free.
  
  

  Diluted Power Rule (Weakened Effects for the DM)

  The effects granted by meals are diluted echoes, not full powers of the devoured creature. When designing effects:

  • Immunities become advantage or limited use resistance
    → e.g. immunity to fear = advantage against fear for 1 minute

  • Resistances become partial resistance
    → e.g. resistance to fire = reduce fire damage by 1d6 once or for duration

  • Senses are scaled down
    → e.g. blindsight 60 ft = blindsight 10 ft
    → tremorsense 30 ft = tremorsense 10 ft

  • Extra damage traits become flat bonuses or once-per-effect
    → e.g. multiattack = one extra attack on a turn, or +2d6 damage once

  • Legendary or magical effects never transfer directly — instead, use flavourful interpretations (e.g. “phase step” becomes a 10 ft teleport once)