Chef

Chef is a character subclass of Bard. Over many years of training, they have learned the ability to tell the slightest differences in taste and smell, discerning poisoned food and liquid nearly immediately. Chefs often seek out the rarest ingredients in the most dangerous situations, all to perfect their art. In the heat of battle, they can quickly create dishes which heal, inspire, and enpower others and themselves. They can also effectively wield a number of kitchen utensils as makeshift weaponry, including knives, cleavers, mezzalunas, graters, mallets, and skewers.

Operations

Tools

Feats

• No Kitchen Required — Starting at the 1st level, you can cook just about anywhere, as long as you have the right tools and ingredients.
• Chopped — Starting at the 3rd level, you are able to keep your knives sharper than ever, cutting through just about anything very quickly. If you attack with a knife as your action, you can attack again as a bonus action.
• Fast Food — Starting at the 5th level, you can use your bonus action to feed a meal to a creature. You cannot use both your action and your bonus action to feed meals to a creature on the same turn. If the creature is hostile, they can roll a DC dexterity saving throw above the chef's level to avoid eating the meal.
• Anyone Can Cook — Starting at 7th level, your abilities as a cooking instructor soar. You can walk any willing creature through creating any one of your many dishes.
• Glutton for Punishment —
• Cutthroat Kitchen —
• Kitchen Nightmares — At the 13th level, your ability to discern tastes allows provides you the powers of cibopathy and clairgustance. By consuming material you can gain information about the material's past (or the past of the creature to which the material belonged), or predict information about the material's future (or the future of the creature to which the material belonged). Using this power completely disintegrates the material in question; you cannot consume any poisons or other material which would harm you. You can use this ability once per long rest. When this power is used, you roll 1d100. If the number is 1 - 49, you see the past; if it is 51 to 100, you see the future. 50 represents the present (and will therefore fail). 1 represents the far past (and 49 the very recent past likewise, 100 represents the far future (and 51 the very recent future). The exact timeframe seen is up to the DM's discretion.
• Epic Meal Time —
• You Are What You Eat — Starting at the 17th level, you become so attuned to your digestive system that you can discern and replicate some of the properties of what you consume, through brief digestive assimilation. As an action, you can consume material from a monster, beast, etc. and gain one of its abilities (outside of conflict) or one of its attacks (in conflict) at random. You cannot replicate legendary actions. Using this power completely disintegrates the material in question; you cannot consume any poisons or other material which would harm you. You can use this ability once per long rest.
• Master Chef —

Baker Feats

• Let's Get This Bread — Your bread becomes known as one of the best throughout the land. It sells for 1 gp per loaf instead of 2 cp.
• Cake Camouflage — Your cake decorating skills become legendary. You can use them to camouflage yourself, others, or items.
• Breadwinner — Your skills in baking bread are second to none. Your bread sells for gp equal to your level per loaf.
• Cupcake Wars — You gain the ability to create a small Cupcake Construct using the spell Create Construct.
• Baker's Dozen — At the 13th level, your baking skills continue to become more and more efficient. During the amount of time you could make 1 baked food item, you can now make as many baked food items as equal to your level.
• Cake Wars — You gain the ability to create a large Cake Construct using the spell Create Construct.
• All of These Are Cake — You can unsettle others by creating cakes that look like other objects, you can also make your cake constructs take on any form.
• Baguette B*tch —

Grillardins & Frituriers Feats

• Hell's Kitchen — At the 5th level, you learn to use the very flames of Hell in your pursuit of fine cuisine. You learn the spell Hellfire.

Materials

Chefs are usually divided into specialties based on the ingredient types they are most familiar with, although generally chefs are competent in all areas of cooking, baking, and other food preparation. Because of this, it is not uncommon to see a chef with two or three areas of focus. These combined effects can have a number of results. For instance, a baker who is also a dairy farmer could imbue garlic bread with some intense magics.
Rotisseurs, often mistakenly called butchers, are chefs that work with meat from terrestrial and aerial creatures. They know the ins and outs of most, knowing what is safe to eat, and what might be dangerous. This knowledge also helps to provide knowledge during combat in regards to taking such creatures down.
Poissoniers work with aquatic creatures. They know the ins and outs of most, knowing what is safe to eat, and what might be dangerous. This knowledge also helps to provide knowledge during combat in regards to taking such creatures down. Poissoniers are used to being underwater, having trained their lungs (if they can't breathe underwater already) and knowing spells related to experiencing the underwater world.
Entremetiers tend to work with vegetables and fruits. They know a wide variety, both on land and in the sea, and can carefully pick out which are nutritious and which are dangerous in a pinch.
Grillardins and frituriers commonly use various types of grills, frying techniques, and heat magics to prepare all kinds of foods.
Sauciers process sauces that can have any of various uses, being extremely flexible in a pinch. They can imbue any dish with a variety of flavors, even to cover up other tastes, such as that of poisons.
Bartenders tend to have well-leveled speech and perception based on having more direct contact with patrons that other chefs, and they can create a number of different cocktail elixirs.
Dairy farmers focus on, naturally, various dairy products, such as milks, cheeses, butters, and yogurts. These can be harvested from creatures they've domesticated, providing a steady source of healing if necessary on longer journeys.

Type

Culinary