Gourmet

All gourmets have adventurous appetites. Those who chase the taste of aberrant cuisine push the palate beyond ordinary comprehension. They are fascinated by the possibilities of strange or otherworldly foods that rarely find their way onto the Material Plane. These cooks are often obsessive about recording the details of their dives into the unknown, though such recipes are unlikely to be written in a legible hand, or to be recognized as edible at all. Many gourmets of this ilk exude an unsettling, invasive air. A steady diet of foodstuffs outside of mortal comprehension can wreak bizarre changes to the tastebuds... and the mind.

You learn to trigger the panic of starvation in your foes by invading their sensory centers with psychic tastes and smells. When a hostile creature moves within 10 feet of you for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, it must make an Intelligence saving throw (DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier). On a failed save, the creature takes psychic damage equal to your Intelligence modifier.

A creature that does not need to eat or drink is immune to this effect.

Your palate has developed enough to take in psychic flavours as well as physical ones. When you are harvesting from a creature, you can forgo adding any ingredient dice to your stock and instead instantly consume part of that creature, gaining some of its recent memories. You can choose one of the creature's skill proficiencies, if it had any, and substitute its bonuses for your own for 1 hour. For up to 10 minutes after consumption, you can explore the memories of events that the target experienced within the last 24 hours. You can hone in on particular events that lasted no more than 10 minutes in detail. Otherwise, you gain a general summary of the creature's experiences. You can recall what you learned afterwards as accurately as if accessing your own memories.

When a creature that forms part of your Parasitic Delicacy network is forced to make an Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma saving throw, they can choose to use the save modifier of any other creature currently in the network in place of their own. Multiple creatures can choose the same modifier to use at the same time.

Saves can be substituted in this way a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum 0). If multiple creatures substitute a save at the same time, each creature expends a use of this feature. You regain all expended uses after completing a long rest.

Your unusual diet has wrought permanent changes upon your mind. You become immune to hostile telepathy. If a creature attempts to breach your mind or contact you telepathically without prior consent, you become aware of this, as well as the general direction and distance to the source of the signal, but are otherwise unaffected.

In addition, your Intelligence score increase by 2. Your Intelligence score maximum is now 22.

Chefs who choose this specialty favor rustic, countryside cooking: luscious roasts, thick-cut bacon butties, soups, stews, and barbeques. They are often expert hunters as well as cooks, and excel in identifying and tracking the finest game to serve as a centerpiece. Guests to such a gourmet's table leave feeling fit to burst and as strong as an ox.

You can attack twice, rather than once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Your cooking enriches the natural succulence of your protein packed ingredients. When you create a meal using your Campfire Cook feature, you can choose one effect of the enhance ability spell. A number of creatures of your choice equal to your Wisdom modifier (a minimum of 1) that partake of the meal gain this effect. The effect does not require concentration to maintain, and persists so long as a creature retains temporary hit points from your meal. If the Bear's Endurance effect is chosen, the 2d6 additional temporary hit points are rolled separately for each creature affected, and are added to the total of temporary hit points they receive from your meal.

Starting at 10th level, you can choose a different effect of the spell to grant to each creature that partakes of the meal

Your talents as hunter and cook are equally honed. When you hit a creature of a type you are able to harvest with a weapon attack, you can opt to target its vital points and prematurely expend its ingredient die, adding the number rolled + your gourmet level to your total damage for the attack. An ingredient die targeted in this way cannot be harvested later.

If the creature you target is of a type that you can harvest two ingredient dice from, instead of one, you can prematurely expend one or both dice when targeting it with this feature.

You now treat creatures as one size larger for the purposes of harvesting or prematurely expending ingredient dice. For example, Tiny creatures now offer 1d6, Small creatures 1d8, and so on. The size of an ingredient die cannot exceed d20.

All gourmets have adventurous appetites. Those who chase the taste of aberrant cuisine push the palate beyond ordinary comprehension. They are fascinated by the possibilities of strange or otherworldly foods that rarely find their way onto the Material Plane. These cooks are often obsessive about recording the details of their dives into the unknown, though such recipes are unlikely to be written in a legible hand, or to be recognized as edible at all. Many gourmets of this ilk exude an unsettling, invasive air. A steady diet of foodstuffs outside of mortal comprehension can wreak bizarre changes to the tastebuds... and the mind.

Creatures that you feed gain an enhanced appetite for violence until the start of their next long rest. Once per turn, when a creature that has partaken of your most recent Campfire Cook meal misses an attack against a target within 30 feet and the target is missing any of its hit points, the creature can reroll its attack against that target.

Try though you might, sometimes your predilections can be hard to hide. It is evident when you have hunger on the brain. If you have not eaten for 4 hours or more, you gain advantage on Charisma (Intimidation) checks against humanoids.

Your mind is by now completely dissociated from the horrors you see inflicted by your own blades. When you deal damage to a creature with an attack, you gain resistance to psychic damage and gain a +1 bonus to your Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma saving throws until the start of your next turn.

Your hunger for blood has become equal to that of a berserker. If the second attack granted by your Personal Chef feature is a critical hit, you can expend an ingredient die to make a third attack against the same target as part of the same action. If necessary, you draw a new weapon or piece of ammunition as part of this attack. This attack is a critical hit on a roll of 18 or higher.

The power to charm, to manipulate, is a tempting reward for the years required to learn a fine craft. Some gourmets seek just such opportunities. They use their culinary skills to practice a kind of black magic, constructing alluring feasts and blending potions of ill intent. These cooks know that the fruits of the conniving fey are the secret to many doubleedged delights. They also emulate the tricky nature of such creatures: drawing in, pampering, and deceiving their patrons with the subtle spice of sylvan magic... always ready to turn on them the moment a tantalizing advantage presents itself.

If you spend at least 1 minute studying two or more conversing creatures, you gain temporary fluency in the language they are speaking, so long as it is one you are able to physically reproduce. You retain this fluency for 1 hour. After the hour expires, the fluency is lost when you cease conversing with another creature in the language for longer than 1 minute.

You feed off of the delight and delirium your food evokes. Your attacks now deal an additional 1 damage for each creature that has partaken of your Campfire Cook or Witches' Brew meals in the last 12 hours.

You can touch a creature as an action to extend your hospitality to it. An unwilling creature must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your Witches' Brew DC to resist the effect. The targeted creature immediately becomes invisible and hidden to the senses of all creatures other than you that do not possess truesight. Any conditions currently affecting the target are transferred to you, and any temporary hit points you have are transferred to the creature. If you are under the effects of a beneficial spell of 5th-level or lower, such as the haste spell, you can also choose to transfer the spell and its benefits to the target creature. Your hospitality lasts for 1 hour, or until you choose to withdraw it as a bonus action.

When your hospitality is withdrawn, the target creature immediately loses any benefits you have granted it. Any temporary hit points the target creature has remaining return to you, and any conditions currently affecting you are transferred to the target creature. In addition, the target creature becomes vulnerable to all damage until the start of its next turn. The next attack roll made against the creature before the start of its next turn has advantage.

Once you use this feature, you must complete a short or long rest before you can use it again.

You can expend an ingredient die as part of a Charisma (Deception) or Charisma (Persuasion) check to grant yourself advantage on the check by offering a small treat of the target's liking. If the target consumes the offering within the next hour, you can choose to have it immediately fall under the effects of your Witches' Brew feature. The value subtracted from the target's maximum hit points equals the number rolled on the expended die + your gourmet level.

Gourmets of this persuasion have been inspired by the way that the ingredients of the universe can be broken down into their most basic parts and endlessly recombined in new recipes. Experimenters and inventors at heart, they have an affinity for the study and manipulation of the elements - the very building blocks of all flavor, matter, and power - that elevates their molecular gastronomy to a method not unlike alchemy. With accompaniments of arcane magic, these curious cooks create burning spices, silky-smooth sauces, airlight pastries, and deep textures unlike any other. When called to action as part of an adventuring band, they can use these lessons in fusion to enhance the effects of their spellwork, as well.

By combining magic and food, you create new recipes greater and stranger than the sum of their separate components. When you cast a spell of 1st level or higher, you can expend an ingredient die to prepare one of the effects listed below as part of the spell.

You can use this feature twice. You regain all expended uses at the end of a short or long rest.

The fusions are presented in alphabetical order.

You have trained your body to subsist on and savor elemental energy. When you are targeted by or included in the area of effect of a spell, attack, or other effect that deals acid, cold, fire, lightning, thunder, or bludgeoning damage and you have resistance to that damage, you can expend an ingredient die to absorb the resisted element instead, taking no damage from the triggering effect and instead regaining a number of temporary hit points equal to the number rolled on the expended die. These temporary hit points do not replace those granted by your other gourmet features, but instead are added to them. When you absorb damage in this way, you gain advantage on Intelligence (Arcana) checks related to the corresponding damage type for 1 hour.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Constitution modifier (a minimum of 0). You regain all expended uses at the end of a long rest.

You learn the create or destroy water spell. The spell doesn't count against the number of gourmet spells you know, and you can cast it without a material component. You can also cast the create food and water spell once without a spell slot, and you regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest.

In addition, you can expend one gourmet spell slot as an action to create an ingredient die. A 1st-level spell slot creates 1d8. The ingredient die's size increases by one for each slot level above 1st. For example, a 2nd-level spell slot creates 1d10.

Your understanding of the way the elements combine and recombine has reached a near-innate level that allows you to draw their power directly from your own sustenance. When you cast a spell with a casting time of an action that deals either acid, cold, fire, lightning, thunder, or bludgeoning damage, you can choose to convert any temporary hit points you have, up to a maximum equal to twice your gourmet level + your Wisdom modifier, as part of the same action. For every temporary hit point you convert, the first damage roll of the spell deals an additional 1 damage of the corresponding damage type.

Delectable jellied desserts are a classic of the kitchen, and demon-spawned gelatinous killers, a classic of the dungeon. To see the two combined in the imagination of a gourmet was inevitable. Some chefs seeking their signature style will discover it on the walls of the dank, deep crawls their travels take them to, and set their mind to whipping up their own sweet and sour oddities in the dessert mold. Gourmets gifted with the tastebuds to withstand the acidic burn of these foods can concoct incredible, technically-edible, wobbling wonders just oozing with flavor. Their own biology may, regrettably, lose its cohesion along the way.

Your viscous victuals wobble and warp to absorb energy. A creature that retains temporary hit points from your gourmet features has resistance to bludgeoning and lightning damage.

Your biology undergoes several changes as a result of your daring diet. You gain the following benefits:

Repeated experiences with your unruly ingredients have made you a fine judge of acidic elements that you both sample and serve. You gain immunity to acid damage.

Moreover, once per turn when one of your oozes deals damage, you add an additional 1d4 to the acid damage dealt.

You can truly boast of breaking the mold with your culinary creations. As an action, you can expend an ingredient die to create a gelatinous cube. The cube swells into being around you, and you are Engulfed by the cube at the centre of its space. The cube uses its statblock from the Monster Manual, with the following changes:

The cube is friendly to you, and will obey your mental commands (no action required by you). In combat, the cube shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately before yours.

If it is reduced to 0 hit points, or is still intact after 1 hour, the cube dissolves into a puddle of ooze. The remains can't be harvested for ingredient dice.

At any time whilst the cube is within 5 feet of you, you can use an action to break the cube down into a number of batches of sickly trifles of your choice, which appear in or immediately adjacent to the space vacated by the cube. You allocate each batch hit points as usual from the cube's remaining hit point total.

Once you use this feature, you must complete a short or long rest before you can use it again.

Your most cherished dream was to be a cook of incredible skill. Perhaps you had the talent, but not the work ethic. Perhaps you had neither. What you found was an opportunity. A deal with a devil of the Nine Hells has granted you your heart's desire, and your once idle hands now flash with preternatural speed and precision to create dishes that are, well, almost too good to be true. The price for your ability is service to your "tutor" as a peddler of devilish delights and a gatherer of wayward souls. The adventuring life is ripe with chances to broker such deals over breaking bread. Whomsoever you owe for your livelihood down in the circles of dread Baator, your life's work has now become a scramble to offset the heavy interest of that debt before your final bell rings, and your soul is claimed by contract.

Your powers of culinary commerce now further enable the spread of your tutor's influence. Whenever you create a meal using your Campfire Cook feature, you gain resistance to damage of the type associated with your hellish tutor. Theresistance lasts until the start of your next long rest.

One willing creature that partakes of your meal can choose to give up resistance to a damage type it permanently benefits from and gain the benefits of this resistance instead. If you agree to the exchange, you lose the benefits of this resistance and gain the benefits given up by the other creature. The exchange lasts until the start of your next long rest.

If you later grant the same creature temporary hit points again with a gourmet feature, you can choose to swap back the exchanged resistances at the same time.

You learn to perform a ritual that exchanges one weapon you carry for another crafted in the forges of your hellish tutor's circle. You perform the ritual over the course of 1 hour, which can be taken during a short rest. The weapon must be within your reach throughout the ritual, at the conclusion of which the weapon vanishes, and is replaced with an exact copy that was spawned in the Nine Hells.

The hellforged weapon is magical for the purposes of overcoming resistances and immunities while you wield it. If you deal additional damage with a weapon attack using the hellforged weapon due to your Robust Blows, that damage becomes the type associated with your hellish tutor.

You can exchange a number of weapons in this way equal to your proficiency bonus. If you try to exceed your maximum number of exchanged weapons, the oldest exchanged weapon immediately vanishes to be replaced by its mundane counterpart, and then the new exchange takes place.

As an action, you offer your own temporary hit points as a sacrifice to attract the appetite of a powerful fiend associated with your tutor. Expend a number of your own temporary hit points of your choice to summon a black portal that forces its way through the planes in a 15-foot-radius, 60-foot-high cylinder centered on a point you can see within 60 feet of you. The inside of the portal is in complete magical darkness that cannot be dispelled, and from within it emanates the hungry calls of some powerful denizen of the Nine Hells. Its space is considered difficult terrain. The portal holds a well of hit points equal to 3 x the number of temporary hit points you sacrificed. It has an AC of 8 + your Charisma modifier and automatically fails all saving throws. It is immune to all conditions, as well as damage of the type associated with your hellish tutor.

A creature that can see the portal within 120 feet of it must make a Wisdom saving throw (DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier) when it attempts to make an attack or cast a harmful spell. On a failure, any attacks or harmful spells it makes must be directed at the portal. Creatures that are bonded with you through your Pact Lunch feature are immune to this effect.

The portal persists for 1 minute, or until its well of hit points is depleted.

Once you use this feature, you must complete a long rest before you can do so again.

A small slice of the soul exchange is now yours to barter. Whenever a creature that forms part of your Pact Lunch kills another creature, or dies itself, within 1 mile of your location, you feel the rush of its passing as a ringing in your own being. When this happens, you can expend an ingredient die as a reaction to trap the deceased creature's soul, as if by the soul cage* spell. When it is cast this way, the spell can capture the soul of any creature of a type that can be harvested using your Stock Up feature. The spell traps the soul inside a small item of food created by the casting, and it remains trapped there for up to 24 hours, even once it has been fully exploited by the means of the spell.

At any time while the soul is trapped, you can expend a number of ingredient dice equal to the deceased creature's total class level (if it has one) or CR to restore it to life in a new copy of its body. The restored creature appears unconscious in an empty space adjacent to you with 1 hit point. Otherwise, when the 24 hours are up, the soul is sent on to the appropriate level of the Nine Hells to be claimed by your tutor.

You can have a number of souls trapped equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of 1). If you attempt to trap a new soul while at your maximum, the attempt fails.

Your most cherished dream was to be a cook of incredible skill. Perhaps you had the talent, but not the work ethic. Perhaps you had neither. What you found was an opportunity. A deal with a devil of the Nine Hells has granted you your heart's desire, and your once idle hands now flash with preternatural speed and precision to create dishes that are, well, almost too good to be true. The price for your ability is service to your "tutor" as a peddler of devilish delights and a gatherer of wayward souls. The adventuring life is ripe with chances to broker such deals over breaking bread. Whomsoever you owe for your livelihood down in the circles of dread Baator, your life's work has now become a scramble to offset the heavy interest of that debt before your final bell rings, and your soul is claimed by contract.

The fires of your assistant carry hope as well as heat, even where you are absent. You may use your reaction to allow your oven golem to use your Guts feature, instead of you, if it is in a position to do so.

Your interdisciplinary approach pays dividends in technical knowledge. You learn one cantrip and one 1st-level spell of your choice from the artificer spell list. Both choices must require a material component. A set of tools you are proficient with can act as your focus for these spells. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

You can cast your chosen 1st-level spell at its lowest level a number of times equal to your Meal Multiplier. You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Thanks to the proprietary additives in your recipe, creatures who partake of your Campfire Cook meal gain the effects of the death ward spell.

You have perfected your on-the-go cooking methods to a degree of rigor that any food regulator would be proud of. When rolling more than one of the same size of ingredient die for your Campfire Cook feature or for any of your oven golem's actions, you may pick one of the dice rolled and count all other dice of the same size as if they had rolled the same number.

In a world filled with strange and dangerous monsters, it only took so long for someone to ask: if you survived eating the sting of a manticore, what would it taste like? Gourmets who specialize in monster cuisine are tough (and often heavilyscarred) cooks who are as ready to wrestle gorgons as they are to knead dough. They are the first to try untested, possibly poisonous, ingredients, and dive into the lairs of local horrors without hesitation to source their meat. For them, the price of life or limb is no object in the pursuit of bold cooking.

Size to you has always been a matter of perspective; different from table to table and guest to guest. As a bonus action, you can expend 2 ingredient dice to cast the enlarge/reduce spell on yourself. When the spell is cast in this way, it does not require material components.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Constitution modifier (a minimum of once). You regain all expended uses at the end of a long rest.

You have advantage on Wisdom (Perception) and Intelligence (Investigation) checks that rely on smell when detecting humanoids of at least one size category smaller than you.

As your physicality begins to rival that of giants, you gain the following benefits whenever your size is increased via the effects of the enlarge/reduce spell:

You can finally step out of the shadow of your former masters and meet them eye-to-eye. Whenever you are targeted by the enlarge option of the enlarge/reduce spell, you can expend an ingredient die to enhance its effects. When you do so, the spell is altered in the following ways:

In a world filled with strange and dangerous monsters, it only took so long for someone to ask: if you survived eating the sting of a manticore, what would it taste like? Gourmets who specialize in monster cuisine are tough (and often heavilyscarred) cooks who are as ready to wrestle gorgons as they are to knead dough. They are the first to try untested, possibly poisonous, ingredients, and dive into the lairs of local horrors without hesitation to source their meat. For them, the price of life or limb is no object in the pursuit of bold cooking.

You can attack twice, rather than once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Your training in supply solutions comes to the fore in a tight spot. As a bonus action, you can make a Wisdom (Survival) check on an area of terrain you can see that fits within a 150- foot cube, contested by a d20 rolled by the DM. If a spell within the area is affecting the terrain, the spell's level is added to the contesting roll. If you succeed, you ignore difficult terrain within the chosen area, and you gain advantage on Strength (Athletics) checks related to climbing, swimming, jumping, or otherwise traversing the environment within the chosen area. These benefits last for 10 minutes. You must concentrate on them as if concentrating on a spell. Creatures of your choice share these benefits while they are within 60 feet of you and can hear you.

Once you use this feature, you must complete a short or long rest before you can do so again.

Those who bond over food are better bonded as a unit on the field. A creature that partakes of your Campfire Cook meal gains advantage on saving throws against being frightened until the start of its next long rest, or until it is incapacitated. Whenever a creature with this benefit succeeds on a saving throw and is within 10 feet of an ally it can see, it gains the benefits of half cover until the end of its next turn.

Through the trust you have earned among your comrades, you can to call on them to dig deep to push for victory. As a bonus action, you can expend an ingredient die and bellow an order. A creature within 60 feet of you that can hear you and retains temporary hit points from your gourmet features can use its reaction to expend all of its remaining temporary hit points and immediately take an extra action following the end of your turn. Actions taken by multiple creatures in this way are resolved according to

Once a creature completes its additional action, it must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, it gains one level of exhaustion.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

In a world filled with strange and dangerous monsters, it only took so long for someone to ask: if you survived eating the sting of a manticore, what would it taste like? Gourmets who specialize in monster cuisine are tough (and often heavilyscarred) cooks who are as ready to wrestle gorgons as they are to knead dough. They are the first to try untested, possibly poisonous, ingredients, and dive into the lairs of local horrors without hesitation to source their meat. For them, the price of life or limb is no object in the pursuit of bold cooking.

You can now concoct recipes that mimic the rare taste of dragon cuisine. When a creature partakes of a meal created using your Campfire Cook feature, it gains a stored version of the 2nd-level spell dragon's breath* that remains stored for 8 hours, or until the creature is knocked unconscious. Wisdom is your spellcasting modifier for this spell.

As a bonus action, a creature can release this spell to instantly cast it upon themselves. The stored spell is then consumed. When the spell is cast in this way, it does not require material components or concentration.

Nothing you serve to friend or foe would be complete without some added draconic flair. Whenever you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you deal additional damage equal to your Wisdom modifier. The additional damage dealt is your choice of acid, cold, fire, lightning, poison, or thunder damage.

Your high-end diet has nurtured magic in your blood that you can use to rebalance a situation moving out of your control. When a creature that retains temporary hit points from one of your gourmet features is within 60 feet of you and rolls a 1 on an attack roll or saving throw, you can use your reaction to expend an ingredient die and imbue it with a sudden wealth of energy. Translucent, colored scales bloom on its body, granting it a +2 bonus to AC until the end of its next turn. The next attack roll or saving throw it makes before the end of its next turn is automatically a 20.

Your appetites are now practically indistinguishable from those of a true dragon. You gain proficiency in Charisma saving throws, and you can now consume gold as if it were ordinary food. For every 1000gp that you eat, your hit point maximum and your Charisma score increase by 1. You can gain a maximum of 50 additional hit points in this way. Your Charisma score maximum is now 22.

In a world filled with strange and dangerous monsters, it only took so long for someone to ask: if you survived eating the sting of a manticore, what would it taste like? Gourmets who specialize in monster cuisine are tough (and often heavilyscarred) cooks who are as ready to wrestle gorgons as they are to knead dough. They are the first to try untested, possibly poisonous, ingredients, and dive into the lairs of local horrors without hesitation to source their meat. For them, the price of life or limb is no object in the pursuit of bold cooking.

The number of ingredient dice you can expend when making your Lunch Rush increases to a maximum of two. At 14th level, it increases to a maximum of three.

In addition, when you move at least 15 feet straight towards a creature and then make an attack against it on the same turn, the creature takes bludgeoning damage equal to your Robust Blows bonus, regardless of whether the attack hits or misses.

Also starting at 6th level, you can expend 4 ingredient dice to cast the plant growth spell as if it were a ritual.

You must complete a long rest before you can use this feature again.

Your cooking equally thrills and enhances the senses. A creature that partakes of your Campfire Cook meal gains darkvision out to a distance of 60 feet until the start of its next long rest. If it already has darkvision, its range increases by 60 feet. While a creature retains temporary hit point from your gourmet features, it adds your Wisdom modifier to initiative rolls, and it cannot be surprised.

You have become a boundless dynamo of energy. Your lively constitution affords you the following benefits: