Doug's Guide to Cooking and Brewing

# Cooking
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While adventuring in the wilderness, more often than not, adventurers will completely forget about all those rations they've been eating for the past week when they stop to take inventory. Which is perfectly fine! Rations aren't the tastiest of things and can become even blander when eaten every day.
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A healthy and varied diet though, with fresh vegetables and meats can make quite the difference in an adventurer's lifestyle. What they say is true; you are what you eat. So be interesting and colorful, instead of just being nutritive.

#### Cook's Utensils

XGtE gives you a single mechanical use for cook's utensils (1 extra hit point per hit die rolled on a short rest), but along with that, meals can also give other beneficial lingering effects to a party with a decent enough cook.
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Whenever a survival check is made within the past 24 hours to scavenge and hunt for food, a cook's utensils check can be made using Wisdom or Intelligence to prepare a meal. Usually this is done at the end of a long rest, as other party members are preparing spells, armor is being donned and weapons are being repaired.
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If game and vegetation is ample (and bodies of water are nearby), the main cook can take their pick of ingredients, otherwise, they have to make do with what's available.
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**After finishing a long rest, make a Cook's Utensil check using Wisdom or Intelligence.**
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Compare the roll's result with the table below, then roll a d4 to see which effect your meal will grant the party for the next 16 hours (usually until the next long rest).
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**You can attempt to prepare one specific meal you have done before, choosing a specific effect and making the test with disadvantage.**
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The Difficulty class for this test has a base number the cook has to beat, and for every person other than the cook that benefits from this meal, a modifier is added to the DC. The following examples assume a party of 5 characters.

### Secret Recipes

Aside from the examples above, some recipes are more unique, granting specific benefits, and using ingredients that aren't readily available. A cook can find these recipes by traveling the world. Here are some exemples of how different proficiencies might give you new secret recipes.
- **Proficiency in Nature** might allow a cook to discover recipes that use certain vegetables with magical properties.
- **Proficiency in History** might allow a cook to discover recipes by visiting different cities and cultures.
- **Proficiency in Medicine** might allow a cook to discover recipes to bolster someone's health.
- **Proficiency in Sleight of Hand** might allow a cook to discover recipes with ingredients that are hard or dangerous to handle.

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> ## Royal Jelly Quiche
>*Prequisites: History discovery DC 18* 
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> - **Ingredients** Northern Blue Honey (100 gp/meal)
> - **Cook DC** 14 + 2 per person
> - **Benefit** Advantage on Wisdom Saving Throws

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## Tea Brewing
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In a world without mass-produced beverages, adventurer's will relish in drinking a refreshing fruit juice, or an aromatic herbal tea, or whatever else you fancy dilluting in water as you travel.
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By having another character brew tea or prepare beverages, the party can gain small, momentary benefits that makes their journey easier.
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**During a Short or Long rest, make a Herbalism Kit test using Wisdom.** 
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Compare the roll result with the table below, then roll a d4 to see which effect your beverages will have until they are used or the next short or long rest.
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The Difficulty class for this test has a base number the Brewer have to beat. Then, a modifier for every person beyond the brewer. The following examples assume a party of 5 characters.

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> ## Tart Rolls
>*Prequisites: Sleight of Hand discovery DC 16* 
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> - **Ingredients** Refined Pufferfish Poison (25 gp/meal)
> - **Cook DC** 10 + 1 per person
> - **Benefit** 60 ft of Darkvision

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> ## Steamed Algae
>*Prequisites: Nature discovery DC 18* 
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> - **Ingredients** Fey Seaweed (30 gp/meal)
> - **Cook DC** 10 + 1 per person
> - **Benefit** Can breathe underwater

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> ## Eldritch Mead
>*Prequisites: Arcana discovery DC 24* 
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> - **Ingredients** Illithid Milk (250 gp/brew)
> - **Brew DC** 16 + 3 per person
> - **Benefit** Teleport back to the place where you brewed this tea.

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> ## Salty Beer
>*Prequisites: Medicine discovery DC 14 or Persuasion discovery DC 22 (vs. Onell Clarken)*
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> - **Ingredients** Briney Hops (10 gp/brew)
> - **Brew DC** 12 + 2 per person
> - **Benefit** The next cantrip you cast deals extra 1d6 psychic damage. If the affected creature succeeds their saving throw, they suffer half damage for the cantrip.