Culinarian

The culinarian will be responsible for the meals the group consumes and will also have the ability to prepare beverages, check food/beverages for poisons, and prepare special meals from certain meats, plants, fungi and so on. Their advanced levels of gastronomy have lead them to having the ability to resist most poisons from foods and drinks, though they can still be poisoned from things that pierce their flesh, are inhaled, or make contact in other ways.

Perception

Purpose

Culinarians go beyond your average cook or chef as they tend to be the ones that are actively researching ingredients, how ingredients interract with each other, and how a recipe could be improved with the most subtle of changes. Culinarians tend to seek out particularly rare ingredients to create dishes that might provide healthy benefits for their customers beyond just calories and nutrients.
Brewing provides not only alcholic beverages like beer or potato-lilac wine but also the ability to purify water for those that are on the road without the aid of some show-off magic user.

Social Status

Culiarians are usually regarded with high esteem and almost treated as celebrities after they've been in a town for a small amount of time. The effects of their cooking and brews via whatever popup gastropub they may be utilizing become readily apparent and more and more people become interested. Though most don't stay in one place for very long as their endless journey for a full recipe book is one that consumes their lives.
Some culinarians do settle down, or amateur culinarians may stay in one area their whole lives if they like a particular ingredient or recipe they found there.
Particularly skilled Culinarians can heal even the deadliest most uncurable of diseases...though this sometimes requires traveling far away from those they'd like to help or collecting ingredients that are incredibly challenging or illegal to harvest.

Operations

Tools

Culinarian supplies are a combination of cook's utensils and brewer's supplies.
Cook’s utensils include a metal pot, knives, forks, a stirring spoon, and a ladle.
Brewer's supplies include a large glass jug, a quantity of hops, a siphon, and several feet of tubing.

Provided Services

A culinarian is assumed to be carrying supplies to create one tasty, hot meal a day for either themselves or a group of adventurers. They, of course, know how much to prepare and would do so accordingly for the situation.

Basic, though tasty, Meal

Creating a tasty meal is done as part of a long or short rest and occurs during the downtime at the end of said long rest or during the short rest. This hot meal is "basic" in nature in that it provides nutrients such as calories, vitamins and the like.

Improved Tasty Meal

After a long rest, a culinarian can spend a portion of their allotted downtime to also search for more rare ingredients to provide additional benefits depending on how well they roll that morning. (Survival) The Culinarian would need to roll the required check, then the DM determines what benefits could be provided based on the number rolled and the area that the group is in. The Culinarian may create a new recipe which they can then record and could spend some time harvesting the necessary ingredients if they want to make more of it away from this area.
If a particularly good roll is made then the Culinarian can specify the effect they were hoping to achieve within certain parameters. If the culinarian is having a hard time with it they can always ask their friends for help in this endeavor. Surely the expedition has some kinda botanist or anatomist tagging along...
The full list of recorded recipes and where they were made can be found on the Spirit World Cookbook document.

Checking for Poison

Any skilled culinarian knows how a meal or a drink should taste and whether or not it is just prepared poorly, spoiled, or even poisoned. Their seasoned gullets also protect them against any ingested poison, and if the poison is found in a drink (such as a naturally occurring contaminant in a stream or lake) they can remove it with their brewer's supplies.

Dangers & Hazards

There are all sorts of wacky things out there that culinarians tend to eat or experiment with, and they are frequently at risk of trying something new that leads to disaster. Testing meals is essential if they are traveling with a group as there could be problems beyond just the turkey being a little dry.

Related Document:
Spirit World Cookbook

Alternative Names

Chef, Gourmand

Type

Culinary

Famous in the Field

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