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The Cook Class

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After a harrowing journey, a climactic battle, a daring escape, adventurers always find themselves resting by a hearth, in a tavern, and they eat their fill of the local cook's finest goods. But, what if the Cook joined the fray? Practitioners of the oldest form of life-giving: sustenance itself, Cooks call upon the innate flow of magical energy within a body to bolster their allies beyond the conceivable.

Each Cook keeps to their own standards, and these are what define them. Sous Chefs believe in the potential of their allies, pushing the limits of their power. Mess Sergeants study the capabilities of a body, their own body to be exact. Hash Slingers walk the line between food and poison in their cuisine, masters of debilitation. Brewmeisters get their allies literally drunk on power. Monster Mashers take the strengths of the monsters they slay and hand that strength to their friends in a dish. You must decide what path is right for your party.

Updates for v2.1

  1. You now learn your 15th morsel at 17th level instead of 18th level to better line up with when you have access to your 17th level subclass morsel.

  2. Smelling Salts has been reworked. If used on a creature, it cannot be used on that creature again until that creature finishes a short or long rest. Also, when you reach 17th level, the repeated saving throw is made with advantage. The wording has also been changed to be cleaner and more intuitive.

  3. The food created from Soul of Food no longer lasts for a week, but now has a defined worth of 100 gold pieces.

  4. Sous Chef’s We Deliver and Hash Slinger’s We Deliver Death’s ranges have both been reduced to 30 feet to add to their feasibility and to encourage Cooks to think more tactically about positioning and movement in Combat.

  5. Sous Chef’s Aromatic Sweat has been changed to Aromatic Scent to allow players to visualize it in a diversity of ways. It also now gives casters the option to use a reaction to cast an offensive cantrip with the given reaction.

  6. Sous Chef’s Monkey’s Brains now works like a legendary resistance.

  7. Clarified that Legendary Morsels don’t count against the total number of morsels that you can prepare.

  8. Hash Slinger’s Horrific Stench now subtracts 1d4 from hostile creatures’ ability checks as well as their saving throws.

  9. Brewmeister’s Boozy Yield now gives intoxicated creatures resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from nonmagical weapon attacks.

  10. Cow Innards now affect creatures that can smell the target instead of creatures that can see the target.

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Emmet Byrne has created a comprehensive Cook specific character sheet as part of his Character Sheet Bundle. You can download Emmet's Cook Character Sheet HERE!

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Nina A March 01, 2022 12:55 am UTC
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Hello!! What a fantastic class! I've been playing a Halfling Chef in my friend's Warhammer campaign. Specifically, I've been playing Sous Chef and it is such a unique and fun class. My only gripe is that once your morsels are out, you're kind of stuck attacking in normal ways (unless multiclassed) - which makes the combat part not so fun, sometimes. Great fun for everyone else with all that passive extra damage though! It could be just that these don't work too great with the Darker Dungeons ruleset we've been playing with, where long rests are few and far between. Overall great though, especially when you're a small halfling knocking prone large enemies as a reaction, lol

All in all a great class with very unique and flavorful subclasses! Please talk to your GM as well and see if you can't make your own morsels ;) Really adds to the Cook-iness! Thanks for making this!
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Damian A September 08, 2021 4:49 am UTC
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Thank you so much for this Sam! We have been using Cook for one of the main characters in the Surrealia podcast, and it's an absolute blast, very flavourful ;) While it won't show up in the show until ep.8, we added the "Big, F**k-off Fry Pan" as a standard item;
Simple weapon; 1d6 bludgeoning (1d8 versatile); Special (if the wielder did not use the Attack action on their turn, they are treated as carrying a Shield)
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Sam H September 11, 2021 2:35 pm UTC
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Oh sick, glad you're having fun with the class! I LOVE the Frying Pan, and I might steal it for my own campaign ;)
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Natalie N July 15, 2021 4:55 am UTC
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Hey Sam are you going to update the Cook Class?
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Sam H September 11, 2021 2:30 pm UTC
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Hey Natalie! Unfortunately, I've stopped updating this Cook Class. I felt like I hit a dead end design-wise, so I remade the Cook Class from scratch, and you can find that at the following link:

https://homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/share/ZIeGH7PNK8vK
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Jevan V September 29, 2021 9:18 pm UTC
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Looking forward to seeing this progress. Have played and DM the cook and always felt like something was off about it, especially when my actual cook friend comments about some of the morsels haha. This new version looks very promising and excited to see it once you are finished.
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Dexter C November 03, 2020 11:24 pm UTC
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Hello! I'm just getting started here on DMsGuild as a creator and I was going to start a project creating a book of NPCs. Would I be allowed to make one of these NPCs as the Cook Class? Credit of course to you.
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Sam H January 24, 2021 3:59 am UTC
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You would be more than welcome to make one or more of your NPCs members of the Cook class!
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Christopher V September 12, 2020 1:15 am UTC
Hi! There is confusing wording for the Autonomous Bag section in Monster Masher. It reads, "You can't have more than one morsel of this type in your bag at a time. Your Cook's bag can season and cook the following morsel a number of times equal to your Constitution modifier (minimum of once). You regain expended uses when you finish a long rest."

So can I only have one Fresh Cut? Or can I have an amount equal to my CON modifier? The wording is almost opposite.
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Sam H January 24, 2021 3:58 am UTC
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The intention is that you can only have one Fresh Cut in your bag at any given time, but once you feed that Fresh Cut to a creature, you can add another one to your bag. The limit is meant to keep you from stockpiling Fresh Cuts.
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Alex M February 14, 2020 7:56 pm UTC
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Hey Sam! I am currently playing in a game that is planning to go beyond level 20 either through multi-classing or through a book on the DMsGuild known as Epic Characters. Would it be possible for you to help me determine material for levels 21-30 for the cook? I’m seeking the material for personal use and any ownership of our final product would remain with you.
Thanks!
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Sam H February 23, 2020 3:58 pm UTC
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First off, I apologize for the late reply! I have never played an “epic-level” campaign, so I don’t really have experience for that level of design. I don’t think I would be very helpful at designing materials for that level of play, but if you have any specific questions about the guidelines I used for the class or about any materials you may have worked on with your DM, I would be happy to answer those questions!
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Morten M November 19, 2019 8:34 pm UTC
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Hello! so i am making my first cook for a campaign one of my friends are making and cant figure our how to find the Morsel Save dc! Plz help me :D
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Sam H November 25, 2019 1:15 pm UTC
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Hey! Sorry for the late reply, but the Morsel Save DC is at the Top Left of the third page, right before the Smelling Salts feature.
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Étienne C August 05, 2019 9:55 pm UTC
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Hey just in general you don't write the H on half-orc. Because there already a freaking big H on the top right counter and it seams like there a to big spece between tools profenciency and the saving throwes
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Sam H August 06, 2019 1:41 pm UTC
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Hey! The “H” is actually a stylized “A” so the sentence begins “A half-orc throws...” That’s just how the program I use begins the first paragraph.

And there’s a space between the Tool and Saving Throw proficiencies because that’s the convention used in the PHB.

I’ll see if I can’t get rid of the stylized “A” in a future update. Thank you for the comments!
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Jo J July 27, 2019 8:21 am UTC
WARNING TO DMs: This class CAN break your campaign as is! Beware
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Trevor P June 28, 2019 8:42 pm UTC
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What is the max number of morsels you can carry?
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Sam H July 10, 2019 4:26 pm UTC
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You can carry as many morsels as you can prepare.
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Trevor P July 13, 2019 12:57 am UTC
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Thank you for the reply! I just wanted to be sure! I just introduced my new cook to the party and we are all having a blast!
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Sam H July 17, 2019 3:20 pm UTC
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No problem! I’m so glad y’all’re having a good time
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Daniel C May 02, 2019 5:47 pm UTC
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Big fan of this homebrew, have you considered making a brewmaster-type subclass as well?
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Sam H May 07, 2019 12:41 pm UTC
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So currently the Brewmeister subclass is meant to fill that role. Is there something else you were looking for in a Brewmaster subclass?
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Kris A April 20, 2019 3:33 am UTC
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Do you need to roll to land the morsels in their mouth with Hash Slinger?
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Sam H April 24, 2019 5:44 pm UTC
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You can throw the morsel into a hostile creature’s mouth without rolling. They must then make a saving throw against the morsel’s effect. If their mouth is blocked by total cover, you cannot throw your morsel into their mouth.
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Pedro C March 08, 2019 5:13 pm UTC
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Hey there! I'm absolutely in love with this class, the creativity involved, the tematic research. There are a couple of things I'd like to ask you about:

1 - The Monster Masher description states that "you can harvest meat from the body [of a recently killed hostile creature] for a special meal if it is of a type you know how to cook (described below)." Does that imply you learn how to cook a kind of meat at some moment? If so, when and how? Or are all the types of creatures already available to be prepared from the get-go?

Also, would it be possible to cook the meat of a creature you have encountered dead, or just saw dying from something other than being murdered? One who died from trap damage, falling a cliff or struck by a tree?

2 - I'm from Brazil and I've translated all your content for personal use, I've also included some pictures from Devian Art to flavor the pdf. Would you be interested in publishing it in Portuguese as well? I could send you the pdf...See more
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Sam H March 08, 2019 9:23 pm UTC
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That’s incredibly kind of you to say! And I’m so happy that you’re having a good time with it! As for your questions:

1. So the purpose of that line is to state that there are some types of creatures you don’t know how to cook (such as humanoids because gross). But every type of creature listed in the feature is available as soon as you reach 3rd level!

If you find a dead creature, you cannot harvest it. RAW every other example doesn’t work because the creature needs to be in a fight/flight state when killed to be able to harness their essence. BUT RAI, that state can be achieved in ways besides combat. It would be up to your DM to decide what would put a creature in that state, but if killed in that state, then yes, you could harvest the meat, even if you did not kill it.

2. That is an incredible offer. Unfortunately I don’t have the funds right now to pay you for your translation, and I would not feel right ethically speaking to just take it and publish it....See more
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Pedro C March 13, 2019 11:32 pm UTC
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Thanks for the clarification! Cooking constructs or undead would be disgusting as well. Don't worry about payment, we could publish it here on DM's Guild as a pay what you want product. I just wanna people to play this amazing class, their joy is my reward :)
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Sam H March 14, 2019 3:44 pm UTC
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How about this.

You can publish your translation on DMs Guild as a Pay-What-You-Want product, and I will put a link on my page directing Portuguese-speaking folk to your product (I'll need your help writing that). That way you get credit and compensation for your work, and I get to reach out to a different group of people.

You would have to remove any unlicensed art and follow the DMs Guild legal guidelines, but this would also allow you as a Portuguese-speaker to answer any questions people might have about the translation or the rules in general.
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Lukas B March 01, 2019 7:46 pm UTC
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Love it! However I have a question about the Combat Bag that Monster Mashers get. How does it work, fantasy-wise? Is it like a small catapult afixed to the bag, or a more intricate device? I'm asking because I'm really having a hard time figuring out how it would work from a pure flavour perspective.
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Sam H March 05, 2019 4:45 am UTC
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So the way I’ve always envisioned it, it’s like the bag’s opening is animated like a mouth, and it is literally spitting the morsels at your enemies, so it’s more magical than mechanical.

BUT, I didn’t get too detailed with the feature description because I want players to flavor their bags in whatever way works best for their character!
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Lukas B March 05, 2019 4:16 pm UTC
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Ah, I understand. Thank you for clarifying! It didn't really feel magical at first, but I guess it can be whatever I want. Nice to have a starting point though!
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Sam H March 06, 2019 8:36 pm UTC
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No problem! I hope you have a good time with the class!
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Kiefer R February 24, 2019 8:03 am UTC
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So if I am level 1 then I have access to 3 types of morsels. If I were for some reason to have only 14 constitution which would give me a 2 modifier, does that mean I can only have 2 morsels with me?
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Sam H February 25, 2019 10:05 pm UTC
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Correct. The number of morsels you can prepare each short or long rest is equal to your CON modifier.
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Tyler R January 18, 2019 12:26 am UTC
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I have a question I have only been playing the game for about a year so I am pretty new. How does the cook make enemies in direct combat eat the morels or is it more of a place it in the food they are already eating. Then that is when the save DC comes into play. I understand how the morels for willing creatures works but how does it work for unwilling creatures?
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Sam H January 25, 2019 11:52 pm UTC
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The cook force feeds the morsel to the enemy, and once in the enemy's mouth, the morsel's effect occurs. Hash Slingers can throw the morsel with such force and precision that they send it directly down the enemy gullet!
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