The Way of the Chef is an ancient group of monks that are culinary geniuses. They often go on a pilgrimage as a coming-of-age to travel the world, and create a recipe using foreign ingredients. These pilgrimages often seem to result in enlightenment through friendship and great peril.

Bonus Proficiencies

When you choose this tradition at 3rd level, you gain proficiency in the Survival skill if you don’t already have it. You also gain proficiency with cook’s utensils if you don’t already have it. You may use a set of cook’s utensils as your monk weapon, use 2d4+DEX for damage rolls.

Hearty Snack

Starting at 3rd level, you can create delicious and healthy snacks.

Hearty Snack: During a short rest, you can spend a hit die to create an amount of snacks equal to the roll of the die plus your cook’s utensils bonus. These snacks behave the same as berries made by the spell Goodberry, except creatures can use a bonus action to eat one of them. You may choose to infuse these snacks with various spells including Bless, Aid, Heroism, Longstrider, Dragon's Breath, [Tooltip Not Found]

Baker’s Dozen/Solid Smack

At 6th level, your inclination to make more than necessary, combined with your increased capacity for food causes your ability to generate Ki to increase. You have an additional amount of Ki points equal to half of your proficiency bonus rounded down.

Solid Smack: Whenever you use your Stunning Strike feature, you may spend an additional Ki point to instead cause the maximum possible rolled damage for that attack(for example, you rolled 1d8, this feature would instead of rolling, cause 8 damage plus modifiers).

Jalapeño Poppers

Starting at 11th level, you gain the ability to make versatile, ki-infused foods. You may make a cook’s utensils/alchemist’s supplies check, spend 5 gp per, and 1 hour(during a short rest or otherwise) to craft edible bombs. These bombs heal 1d8 hit points if consumed, and 1d4 points of bludgeoning damage, and 1d6 points of fire damage if activated when thrown at an enemy. You may activate a bomb for 2 ki points, and activation lasts 10 hours.

Culinary Mastery

At 17th level, you gain total mastery over all things culinary.

Food Enthusiast: Whenever you make a check involving cooking, baking, or telling what food is, and whether or not it is poisonous, you may treat any dice roll 9 or lower as a 10.

Warm Soul: Your control over your Ki has created control over your own body temperature causing a few bonuses. You can now heat a surface to looking temperature without any external assistance. Your unarmed strikes now deal an additional 1d6 fire damage. You now have resistance to cold and fire damage.