(Material Refining)
Requires: Chef Tool Proficiency
During your downtime you can prepare consumable food items that grant bonuses and boons to those that would partake in them.
For 2 DT you can perform the Cooking DT activity. To start a new meal, you must choose one Base, but you can use as many additional Ingredients as you desire as long as your Meal’s combined ingredients does not surpass a combined ingredient tier value (including the tier of the Base) of 16. To continue cooking a meal make a Chef Tool's check and note the result. You determine the Stars of the meal by dividing the total ingredient tier value by 3, rounding down. Depending on the stars of the meal, you grant a base bonus, listed below, to those who would partake in it, including your Base Ingredient bonus and some Ingredient Bonuses (depending on the meal tier) granted by the ingredients you used to prepare the meal. You can feed a number of creatures equal to your proficiency bonus with a meal.
- 1 Star Meal: Grants 1d10 + your Constitution modifier temporary hit points that lasts until you complete a long rest. You can add 1 additional Ingredient bonus to the dish.
- 2 Star Meal: Grants an extra 2d10 + your Constitution modifier temporary hit points that lasts until you complete a long rest. You can add up to 2 Ingredient bonuses to the dish.
- 3 Star Meal: Grants an extra 4d10 + your Constitution modifier temporary hit points that lasts until you complete a long rest. You can add up to 3 Ingredient bonuses to the dish.
- 4 Star Meal: Grants an extra 6d10 + your Constitution temporary hit points that lasts until you complete a long rest. You can add up to 4 Ingredient bonuses to the dish.
Just having the right amount of ingredients is not enough to successfully cook a high tier meal. When cooking, you must make a successful skill check using your Cooking Tool proficiency. A failed check results in a lower Star meal. If it goes below 1, the meal is a failure, and becomes known as a **Dubious Dish.** The DC for creating a successful meal is listed below, in addition to the subtractions to the Star total on failures.
- 1 Star - 9 or Lower = Failure | 10 or Higher = Success
- 2 Star - 9 or Lower = Failure | 10 - 14 = 1 Star | 15 or Higher = Success
- 3 Star - 9 or Lower = Failure | 10 - 14 = 1 Star | 15 - 19 = 2 Star | 20 or Higher = Success
- 4 Star - 14 or Lower = Failure | 15 - 19 = 1 Star | 20 - 24 = 2 Star | 25 - 29 = 3 Star | 30 or Higher = Success