Field Provisioner

Eating a Meal (Healing Rules)

A creature can consume a meal in one of three ways:

Action (Full Meal)

• Regains hit points equal to:

  Culinary Die + Wisdom modifier

• May immediately end one of the following on themselves:

  • Poisoned

  • Diseased

  • One level of exhaustion (once per long rest per creature)

Bonus Action (Trail Ration)

• Regains hit points equal to:

  Culinary Die

• No additional effects

Short Rest Consumption

If a creature eats one of your meals during a short rest:

• They regain:

  Culinary Die + Wisdom modifier

• AND regain one additional Hit Die (no roll required)

Level 3: Culinary Dice

• Starting at 3rd level, you gain Culinary Dice, which represent prepared meals, broths, tonics, and trail food.

  • You have a number of Culinary Dice equal to your Wisdom modifier + Proficiency bonus (minimum 1)

• Dice size scales:

  • d6 at 3rd level

  • d8 at 7th level

  • d10 at 11th level

  • d12 at 15th level

• All expended Culinary Dice are regained on a long rest

• You regain 1 Culinary Die on a short rest (starting at 7th level)

Level 3: Field Kitchen

You gain proficiency with Cook’s Utensils and Herbalism Kit. If you already have them, gain expertise in one.

Preparing Meals

At the end of a long rest, you may prepare a number of Meals equal to:

Wisdom modifier + proficiency bonus

Each meal is single-use and counts as a nonmagical item.

Meals require:

• 1 abstract Base Ingredient (1 gp worth of supplies or equivalent foraging)

• Optional Special Ingredients (monster parts, rare herbs)

Level 3: Field Dressing

When you help slay a creature of Small size or larger, you may spend 10 minutes harvesting it.

You gain Special Ingredients based on CR:

• CR 0–2: 1 ingredient

• CR 3–8: 2 ingredients

• CR 9+: 3 ingredients

Ingredient Types (Examples)

• Protein: enhances healing

• Catalyst: grants conditions or resistances

• Essence: creature-type bonuses (fiends, undead, dragons, etc.)

Ingredients spoil after 3 days unless preserved (salt, smoke, alchemy, etc.).

Level 7: Trail Medicine

Your healing becomes combat-viable.

• When you use your bonus action to eat or administer a Trail Ration, you may:

  • Also allow one creature within 5 ft to regain 1d8 + Wisdom modifier HP

• You regain 1 Culinary Die on a short rest

Additionally:

• Opportunity attacks do not trigger against you when you move to administer food

Level 11: Adaptive Cuisine

Your experience with monsters now directly enhances healing.

When a creature consumes one of your meals, you may choose one:

• Gain resistance to one damage type dealt by a creature you have harvested

• Gain advantage on the next saving throw made this minute

• Increase the healing by one additional Culinary Die (once per turn)

You may also:

• Replace one prepared meal during a short rest

Level 15: Apex Feast

Once per long rest, if you have harvested a creature of CR 8 or higher, you may prepare a powerful feast (10 minutes).

Up to 6 creatures who eat the feast gain:

• Hit points equal to:

  2 Culinary Dice + Wisdom modifier

• Temporary HP equal to your ranger level

• Advantage on saving throws for 1 hour

• Immunity to exhaustion for the duration