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Making a cook character (lemm.ee)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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One if my players wants to make a character that's all about beig a master chef. I was wondering if anyone has suggestions on how to do that. He found a custom cook class online, but it's very convoluted and not beginner (which we all are) friendly. Now we're thinking how we could just take a normal magical class and (quite literally) flavor its abilities (having verbal components food-related maybe replace certain material components with, like, truffles and caviar or whatever).

I'd also be open to give him one or two fitting special abilities that could be useful under certain conditions, as long as it's still balanced, or use feets or something. Does anybody have ideas and suggestions?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'd say to treat it like a profession and not a class. Like you would a Blacksmith or Barmaid.

Maybe there are some custom profession stuff available somewhere you can build off, but yeah, most of it would be flavor (pun intended).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Agreed.

If you want to do a custom class, take the stats of something that already exists and just flavor it as something new with a new name. Maybe a bard but their performances are cooking meals for people or something.

Maybe come up with a few homebrew spells for them that are cooking related (or something functionally identical to a spell, even if it isnt). Pick an existing spell that's close to what you want and flavor it as food related and give it a new name.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ohhh, I like food bard. They make snacks for bardic inspiration.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

And every spell works like goodberry (the food is infused with the magic and anyone can consume it to complete the spell).

And all material components are food ingredients.all somatic components are cooking steps, and all verbal components are Gordon Ramsay insults.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I'll look into that, thank you!