Cooking

Cooking lets you turn gathered ingredients into useful food. Every ingredient belongs to one of five categories, each with its own Innate Benefit. The way you prepare those ingredients determines how their benefits are applied.

Ingredients Fruit | +0.5 Speed Vegetable | +1 Hit Die Grain | +2 Max HP Protein | +3 Temp HP Dairy | Heal 2 HP

Preparing a Dish To cook a dish, choose the ingredients and a Cooking Method, then make a Check against the recipe's Cooking DC based on a dish's complexity. On a success, the dish provides its full benefits.

Cooking Methods Basic A Basic dish cooks a single ingredient category by itself. It provides that ingredient's Innate Benefit and can be prepared in ways that improve or enhance that benefit.

Preserved A Preserved dish prepares a single ingredient category to remain edible for a long period of time. It retains the ingredient's Innate Benefit while making the food suitable for extended travel and storage.

Meal A Meal combines two or more ingredient categories into a single dish. It can combine their Innate Benefits, improve an existing benefit, or create a new benefit based on how the ingredients are prepared together. A recipe determines the benefits of a Meal. Different combinations of ingredients can therefore produce different effects, allowing cooks to prepare food suited to recovery, endurance, mobility, combat, or other needs.