The powerful pizza pantheon — including Blaze, Caesar the Small, Cici, Father Gino, Marco, Russo, and Sbarra  — have arrived. You may have heard their call while baking bread for the homeless, shelving bottles of fresh milk at the temple, or sharing dried meats with passing adventurers. No matter the means of the calling, you heard it, and learned the first fragments of knowledge that would set you upon the pepperoni path. Some of the gods would whisper to you techniques of quick cookery, while others impressed upon you quality toppings above all things. Some even promised to show you the true art behind the crispiest crust. One thing is clear, however. In order to unlock the secrets of the Perfect Pizza, you must dedicate yourself body, soul, and pizza paddle to their cheesy cause.

Proliferate Pizza

At 1st level, you learn one language of your choice so that you may converse with potential pizza recipients. You also become proficient with Cook's Utensils and your choice of one of the following skills: Arcana, History, or Nature. Draw deeply from the well of knowledge and use it to infuse exotic flavors into your creations.

Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses Cook's Utensils. Refer to Xanathar's Guide to Everything for complete usage of Cook's Utensils.

Channel Divinity: Crust is Risen

Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to bring forth a speck of flavorful power from the pizza pantheon. As an action, you choose a 10-foot-diameter area on the ground you can see within 30 feet of you, causing it to bubble and bake into a pizza until the end of your next turn. When a creature moves into the affected area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, that creature must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or take 2d8 fire damage, shout "Mama mia!," and must move up to its speed so that it may shake off any remainders of the fiery dough. On a success, the creature may choose to stand in the dough, sample any toppings that arise from it, and is restrained.

At the end of your next turn, a complete Large pizza will appear in the 10-foot-diameter area, replete with vegetable or meat toppings of your choice. The pizza is magical and can provide enough nourishment to sustain up to thirty creatures for one day.

Fresh, Never Frozen

Starting at 6th level, your aptitude with pizza preparation and dedication to using only the freshest ingredients has bolstered your very body with special abilities.

• You gain resistance to cold damage.
• You gain resistance to necrotic damage.

One member of the pizza pantheon has bestowed upon you the secret of "fast-fired" pizza. When you are within five feet of any nonmagical flame, you may conduct an instantaneous ritual to produce a Small pizza with up to three types of toppings and a plain, herb & parmesan, or cheese-stuffed crust. The pizza takes 10 minutes to consume and disappears at the end of that time, and the beneficial effects don't set in until this period is over. Up to eight creatures can partake of the pizza. A creature that partakes of the pizza gains several benefits. The creature is cured of all poison, its hit point maximum increases by 1d10, and it gains the same number of hit points. This benefit lasts for 8 hours.

You can use this feature once per long rest.

Tool of the Trade

At 8th level, a mysterious entity from the pizza pantheon bestows upon you a wondrous pizza paddle. The pizza paddle has the game statistics of a quarterstaff. You are proficient with it while you wield it. The pizza paddle counts as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage. If the pizza paddle is lost or destroyed, you can pray to the pizza pantheon over the course of a short or long rest to receive a replacement, destroying the previous paddle if it still existed.

You also gain the ability to infuse your pizza paddle strikes with the sizzling power of peppers and gastrointestinal gusto of garlic. Once on each of your turns when you hit a creature with the pizza paddle, you can cause the attack to deal an extra 1d8 acid or fire damage (your choice) to the target. When you reach 14th level, the extra damage increases to 2d8.

Ideal Ingredient

Starting at 17th level, the gods of the pizza pantheon have parted the crusty curtain and revealed the secret to the perfect pizza: You. As the wholesome and whole-grain gift from the heavens:

• You gain resistance to acid damage.
• You gain resistance to fire damage.

 In addition, those who cannot comprehend your delicious delights will shrivel and burn under the flavorful combination of you and your allies. If you deal your Spicy Strike damage to a creature on your turn, you can curse that creature until the start of your next turn. The next time one of your allies hits the cursed creature with an attack, the target takes 2d8 acid damage and grows a single pepperoni slice on their body. The pepperoni slice can be removed as an action by the creature or one of its allies, ending the curse. If it is not removed by the start of your next turn, the target takes 2d8 necrotic damage, and the curse ends. The pepperoni slice expires and becomes foul-tasting regardless of whether or not it is removed. You can curse a creature in this way only once per turn.