Bard Archetype: College of Cuisine

Whether they are traveling the world to collect foreign recipes or just perfecting their meat pie and ale pairing for the local tavern, bards who join the College of Cuisine are dedicated to pursuing the culinary arts.

The bards of this college shape the food and drink they create with the inspirational magic of song and speech. Have you ever heard a halfling baker sing a folk song while she rolled out dough, or listened to the bartender whistle a tune while he worked? You might have already met a member of the College of Cuisine!

Bonus Proficiencies

When you join the College of Cuisine at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with cooks utensils.

Inspirational Feast

Also at 3rd level, you have discovered your talent for preparing feasts of heroic magnitude. When you take a long rest you can spend an hour preparing an Inspirational Feast for up to a number of creatures equal to your Charisma modifier. The creatures that consume the food you prepare during this rest gain 1 Inspirational Feast die at the end of the rest.

An Inspirational Feast die has the same value as your Bardic Inspiration die, and is used in the same way. However, an Inspirational Feast die can be used once within the next 12 hours. A creature that has an Inspirational Feast die cannot have a Bardic Inspiration die as well.

Bountiful Chorus

At 3rd level, you have learned how to weave a song of creation which summons forth magical food for you and your allies.

You learn the Goodberry spell, which counts as a bard spell for you but doesn't count against the number of bard spells you know. In addition, you can cast it by expending a use of your Bardic Inspiration or by expending a spell slot.

When you expend a use of Bardic Inspiration to cast Goodberry, no berries appear. Instead, a number of small fruit filled pastries equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of one) appear in your hand. A creature can use its action to eat one of these "goodberry tarts". When a creature eats one of these pastries they regain 1d4 hit points, and the pastry provides enough nourishment to sustain the creature for one day. Once a creature regains hit points from eating one of these pastries, the creature can’t do so again until it finishes a long rest. These pastries lose their magical potency if they have not been consumed within 1 hour of being created.

The number of hit points regained increases when you reach certain levels in this class, increasing to 1d6 at 5th level, 1d8 at 10th level, and 1d10 at 15th level.

Bardic Cookbook

At 6th level, you have started compiling recipes, notes, and ingredient lists into your personal Cookbook. The recipes that you add to your Cookbook as you adventure should reflect the personal flare you bring to the kitchen, as well as the cuisine you experience and the ingredients you gather on your travels. You might find other recipes during your adventures. You could discover a recipe recorded on scrolls in a court wizard's kitchen, for example, or in a dusty tome in an ancient Library.

When you create your cookbook at 6th level, you can choose 3 effects from the Cookbook Effects table and add them to your cookbook. Whenever you create an Inspirational Feast you can choose to apply one of the Cookbook Effects in your Cookbook to the feast. The effect is applied to all creatures who partake in your Inspirational Feast. The Cookbook Effect fades after 6 hours.

You can add one additional Cookbook Effect from the table to your Cookbook at 9th Level, 13th Level, and again at 17th level.