Cooking in ER DÓR

Creating and selling the results of cooking recipes that convey benefits requires training in the Rated Chef feat. You can refer to the Culinary Society article in the Encyclopedia for how to obtain the feat, the requirements for subsequent leveling and the modifiers associated with each level. The article below concerns itself with the following topics:

• Acquiring New Recipes

• Determining the Results of a Cooking Session

1. Determine the Results of Consuming a Meal

• Pricing of Recipes and Prepared Meals

• Recipes

• Ingredients

Acquiring New Recipes

Upon obtaining the first rank of Rated Chef you may add any three common recipes to your personal cookbook (customized bag of holding in your character's DND Beyond inventory used solely for listing recipes. Recipes may be added to the cookbook from the magical items portion of the inventory. The ones which produce effects are listed as wondrous items, as are the ingredients needed to make them. With each level that grants you access to an additional rank of recipes (common, uncommon, rare, very rare legendary), you may add one recipe of your choice to your cookbook. Aside from this level-based acquisition, you can purchase recipes from other rated chefs or find cookbooks. With recipes obtained by finding a cookbook, you must do a DC skill check (WIS) against the recipe's DC rating to determine whether you can transfer the recipe to your cookbook. You only get one try per recipe in the cookbook. If you fail the check, a massive food-spill stain covers the recipe and renders it forever illegible.

Determining the Results of a Cooking Session

1. Choose a recipe from your cookbook that you wish to prepare

1. Roll a skill check (d100 +WIS modifier + rated chef modifier) against the DC rating of the recipe. If you succeed, you have successfully prepared the meal

1. Look up your meal quality result (skill check result - recipe DC rating + environment modifier + ingredient modifier) in the tables below to determine the impact to the meal's benefits and to the sale price.

Example: Emeril is an 8 star chef. He attempts to cook a recipe with a DC rating of 50. He rolls a 30 on his d100. He adds his WIS modifier of +3 and his rated chef skill check of +9 for a result of 42. Subtracting the DC rating of 50 gives him a -8. Using the lookup table, this means his meal quality is "Great". It will have 150% the effect, last 150% as long and sell for 150% as much as the base values listed in the recipe. If a 5 star chef with a WIS modifier of +2 attempted the same meal, their result would have been a 30+2+5-50=-13. This would be an average quality meal, and would have all the base recipe values.

Determine the Results of Consuming a Meal

Every individual will have preferences with regards to the flavor and texture characteristics of their foods. Each character must pick (or randomly roll) a preference of each and record it on their DND Beyond character sheet. When consuming a meal, compare the characteristics of the meal against these preferences to see if there are additional benefits.

Pricing of Recipes and Meals

The costs associated with making or purchasing recipes and their associated meals can be determined by a lookup in the table below, using the base characteristics of the recipe and the quality results identified above.

Recipes