College of Cuisine

Bards of the College of Cuisine are Chef's whose love for food and the process of preparing it exceeds that of normal cooks, granting them the ability to infuse their dishes with magic. Whether they are the dedicated cook of a small tavern, the personal Chef of a noble family or travelers looking for new ingredients and interesting tastes around the world, they put their heart and mind into every dish they prepare to please anyone who might come to the pleasure of eating it .

Being a Bard of the College of Cuisine is a symbol of pure dedication for the artful craft that cooking is, with most Bards dedicating their life to it. But with the endless knowledge of dishes, ingredients and techniques that exists around the world, many Bards come to the conclusion that they should master only a few types of Cuisine. 

To combat the evils that want to hide the wonderful ingredients and recipes these Bards search, they learned to infuse their spells with the different flavours they master. Due to this ambition, and the incredible food they voluntarily prepare for others, they often find themselfs getting invited and joining adventurer guilds.

In hopes of proving and improving themself, Bards of this college often invite each other to their homes, hoping to impress other top class Chef's. If they succeed, the occasion often ends with the Bard that send out the invites sharing his recipe and technique with the others, often requesting the secret of one dish of each of the guests in return.

Chef's Focus

3rd-level College of Cuisine feature

In learning your craft, you became able to use your magic through your tools. You gain proficiency with cooks utensils and can use them as a spellcasting focus. You can also add your Charisma modifier to any skill check related to cooking.

At 6th level, while holding cooks utensils, you receive a bonus of 1 to the DC of your tasteful innovations.
At 11th level, the bonus increases to 2 and again at 17th level to 3

 

Tasty Innovations

3rd-level College of Cuisine feature

3rd level tasteful innovations You learn to imbue your spells with the five key taste profiles, letting them strengthen your allies or weaken your foes. When you cast a bard spell using a spell slot and while holding your cooks utensils, you can expend a use of your bardic inspiration to imbue the spell with a flavour. The effect of the flavour takes place before any effect of the spell that was cast. You learn two flavours of your choice from among the flavours described below, and each time you gain a level in this class, you can replace one flavour you know with a different one from this feature. Each time your Bardic Inspiration die changes, you learn one additional flavour. If a flavour requires a saving throw, the DC equals 8 + your proficiency bonus + your charisma modifier.

Sweet: You give your spell a sweet note, bringing comfort into those affected by it. One creature targeted by your spell regains hit points equal to one roll of your bardic die and you can end one of the following conditions if the creature is afflicted by it: blinded, deafened, paralyzed or poisoned.

Sour: The weapon of one creature targeted by your spell gets coated in a dangerously acidic fluid. Until the start of your next turn, the weapon deals extra acid damage, equal to one roll of your bardic die, and the first enemy hit by it needs to make a constitution save. If it fails, the creature has disadvantage on the next attack roll it makes until the end of its next turn.

Salty: You imbue your magic with fluid absorbing, pure saltiness. All Creatures targeted by the spell need to make a constitution saving throw, as the saltiness sucks the water out of their bodies. If they fail, their movement speed gets halved and they have disadvantage on strength and dexterity checks until the start of your next turn.

Bitter: You flavour your spell with pure bitterness, trying to bring out that exact emotion in your enemies. If you target one or more creatures with a spell that forces them to make a saving throw: one targeted creature has disadvantage on the save.

Umami: The savouriness of your spell brings out the strength in those affected by it. Each creature affected by your spell can add a D4 on all attack rolls they make until the end of your next turn and receive one roll of your bardic die+your charisma modifier as temporary hit points.

Bitter

You flavour your spell with pure bitterness, trying to bring out that exact emotion in your enemies. If you target one or more creatures with a spell that forces them to make a saving throw: one targeted creature has disadvantage on the save.

Salty

You imbue your magic with fluid absorbing, pure saltiness. All Creatures targeted by the spell need to make a constitution saving throw, as the saltiness sucks the water out of their bodies. If they fail, their movement speed gets halved and they have disadvantage on strength and dexterity checks until the start of your next turn.

Sour

The weapon of one creature targeted by your spell gets coated in a dangerously acidic fluid. Until the start of your next turn, the weapon deals extra acid damage, equal to one roll of your bardic die, and the first enemy hit by it needs to make a CON save. If it fails, the creature has disadvantage on the next attack roll it makes until the end of its next turn.

Sweet

You give your spell a sweet note, bringing comfort into those affected by it. One creature targeted by your spell regains hit points equal to one roll of your bardic die and you can end one of the following conditions if the creature is afflicted by it: blinded, deafened, paralyzed or poisoned.

Umami

The savouriness of your spell brings out the strength in those affected by it. Each creature affected by your spell can add a D4 on all attack rolls they make until the end of your next turn and receive one roll of your bardic die+your charisma modifier as temporary hit points.

Fruits of Magic

6th-level College of Cuisine feature

Your body gets used to the dangers your craft brings with it, granting you resistance against fire and non-magical slashing damage and the mastery with your tools gets honed further by your experience using them, granting you expertise with cook´s utensils.

Furthermore, you learn to substitute your magic for a ingredient. You can expend a 2nd level or higher spell slot as a bonus action on your turn: the next time you use tasty innovation this turn, you don´t need to expend a bardic inspiration for it. You can use this feature a number of times, equal to your proficiency bonus. You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Chef de Cuisine

14th-level College of Cuisine feature

You embody the pinnacle of your art, being able to effortlessly combine different flavours to make a wonderful meal. You learn the heroes feast spell. It counts as a bard spell for you but doesn’t count against the number of bard spells you know.

Furthermore, if you imbue your spell with a flavour, you can instead imbue it with 2.