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 ====== Cooking and Harvesting ======
-=== the flow of cooking ===
+These are detailed rules and mechanics for cooking in D&D 5th+ Edition using the cooking mechanics found in //Dragon Stew// as well as //I Cut off its Snoot!// from //MCDM Arcadia Volume 11// and // Monstrous Components// from //MCDM Arcadia Volume 8//. \\
+These rules have been combined together and then stitched with various homebrew mechanics and tweaks to make it all work together.
-I want to cook something
+The Idea Behind these rules is to give incentive for players to invest time for their characters into cooking as well as give a bonus for characters taking time to sit down and have a proper meal rather than surviving off rations and Goodberry all campaign.
-  *What do you want to cook?
-**A Normnal Dish**
+Meals offer some basic buffs such as Temporary HP. But cooking more specific meals will offer more unique and powerful buffs as well as sometimes some banes. The more powerful meal buffs are balanced by the rarity/ scarcity/ costly price of ingredients or preparation of such meals.
-You will need
-  *Cooking tools
-  *Cooking Ingredients
-  *Time
-  *Suitable location
-**A Magic/Monster Dish**
-You will need
-  *Cooking Tools
-  *Cooking Ingredients
-  *Time
-  *Suitable location
 ===== Harvesting: General =====
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 === Tools & Skills ===
-before you even think about stepping into a kitchen you should make sure you have not only the ingredients, but the tools, skills and suitable work area and any helpers you may have roped into working for you.
+before you even think about stepping into a kitchen you should make sure you have not only the ingredients, but the tools, skills and suitable work area and any helpers you may have roped into working for you. \\
+Cooking a simple meal while out adventuring isn't too difficult, A Veggie soup or Meat casserole is simple enough with a fire, a pot and basic ingredients. However if you want to make a meal that will really put a kick in the step of those who eat it, then you will need to meet some specific criteria.
+  ***Recipes:** Meeting the requirements for a recipe is the Key component to meeting a hearty moral boosting meal. Chucking whatever you vibe with works fine, but if you want some buffs and boons, Find and follow a recipe.
+  ***Work Station & Tools:** You will need access to a range of proper cooking tools as well as a place to cook. You can't be cooking in the middle of a blizzard or lost in the depths of a Abyssal nest. You also can't be cooking with any old rusted shorts word. **Cooking Utensils** and some sort of **Kitchenet**
+  ***Skills:** Many can cook, some cannot, but to really make something delicious, talent and skills are required. **Proficiency in Cooks Utensils** as well as proficiency in either **Performance Skill**, **Wisdom Stat** or **Charisma Stat** Also the **Chef Feat** Can provide bonuses to your cooking based on your DM.
 === Pantry Staples ===
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   *ingredients with a medium shelf life for one month,
   *ingredients with a long shelf life for four months.
-**Water** is always accessible unless the party is in specific environments, such as a desert or a dungeon in the depths of a castle. If water is unavailable, the DC of a Wisdom (Cooking) check increases by 4.
+**Water** is always accessible unless the party is in specific environments, such as a desert or a dungeon in the depths of a castle. If water is unavailable, the DC for the checks relating to cooking is increases by 4.
 **Spoiled Ingredients** \\
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 === How Much Food Does a Monster Make? ===
   *If you have access to the entire body of a monster ready to be cooked. The amount of food that can be prepared using one monster depends on the monster’s size. This is because usually it’s not the entirety of the monster’s body that produces the benefits the characters wish to acquire. For example, several people could be fed by cooking a young red dragon, but only one can eat the cooked fire-producing organ of the dragon. This rule is here to limit the buffs that the entire party can gain from cooking a monster, as well as add an additional layer of strategy. This way, the party will have to choose carefully who eats what.
-    *If you only have specific parts of a monster rather than the entier body then the amount of food made is based of the recipe you are using.
+    *If you only have specific parts of a monster rather than the entier body then the amount of food made is based of the recipe you are using, If nothing is specified then it is 1 serving.
-  *A character can enjoy the magical effects of eating a Monster Dish once a day; eating more than one dish a day proves to be too much for the character’s stomach. If a character eats more than one Monster Dish a day, the dish consumed last is replaced by the effect granted by the latest dish consumed. They take one level of exhaustion, and they must make a Constitution saving throw against the Monster Dish’s skill check DC. The character takes 1d12 poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. This, of course, does not apply to normal, non-magical dishes, even ones made of monster meat.
-  *Cooking a Monster Dish takes half an hour in a proper kitchen, or 1 hour in an outdoor kitchenette.
-  *Once a Monster Dish is cooked, it lasts for 1 day before it goes bad. The players can prolong the life of a dish by clever use of spells or equipment to the discretion of the GM, but we advise to never allow the extension of a dish’s shelf life for more than one week. This is to prevent the party from constantly cooking dishes and keeping them indefinitely in a bag of holding.
-**Immunities and Resistances:** When a character successfully cooks a Monster Dish, they gain one Damage Immunity or Damage Resistance that the monster possessed. There are only two rules to determine what a character gains when eating a specific Monster Dish, and they are very simple:
-  *A Monster Dish gives the player only one Immunity or Resistance, not several and not one of each. If a monster has several Immunities or Resistances, the GM either chooses, randomly selects one, or leaves it up to the players to choose which one they want the dish to give.
-  *Damage Immunities take precedence over Damage Resistances. If a monster has both Damage Immunities and Resistances, the GM chooses one Damage Immunity that the dish will grant (or randomly selects one Damage Immunity).
-**Size:** The Size of a Monster determines the amount of time that the magical effect of a Monster Dish lasts once eaten, and how many magical Monster Dishes can be prepared from said monster. Any creature that is of size Tiny or smaller, including swarms, cannot be cooked into a useful Monster Dish.
-  ***Time: Size Effect Duration**
-  *Small 1 minute
-  *Medium 5 minutes
-  *Large 10 minutes
-  *Huge 1 hour
-  *Gargantuan 1 day
 **Amount:** The number of dishes that can be cooked depends on the size of the monster. One must remember that it’s not the entirety of the body of a monster that produces the desired magical effect, but only one or a few organs. Therefore, even creatures that are considered Huge only produce four servings of food. A creature of a Gargantuan size could probably produce enough Monster Dishes to feed an entire town or more because of their extreme rarity and the campaign-boss nature of these creatures. So, we leave the specifics of how many Monster Dishes (if any at all) can be cooked to the GM.
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 | Colossal | 16 serves | 1 Week |
 | Titanic | 32 serves | 1 Month |
+=== Magical Effects from Monster Meals ===
+  *A character can enjoy the magical effects of eating a Monster Dish once a day; eating more than one dish a day proves to be too much for the character’s stomach. If a character eats more than one Monster Dish a day, the dish consumed last is replaced by the effect granted by the latest dish consumed. They take one level of exhaustion, and they must make a Constitution saving throw against the Monster Dish’s skill check DC. The character takes 1d12 poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. This, of course, does not apply to normal, non-magical dishes, even ones made of monster meat.
+**Size:** The Size of a Monster determines the amount of time that the magical effect of a Monster Dish lasts once eaten, and how many magical Monster Dishes can be prepared from said monster. Any creature that is of size Tiny or smaller, including swarms, cannot be cooked into a useful Monster Dish.
+  ***Time: Size Effect Duration**
+  *Small 1 minute
+  *Medium 5 minutes
+  *Large 10 minutes
+  *Huge 1 hour
+  *Gargantuan 1 day
+=== Prep Time & Actually Cooking ===
+  *Cooking any Monster Dish takes an 30mins - 1 hour in a proper kitchen, or 2-3 hours in an outdoor kitchenette.
 **Challenge Rating:** The Challenge Rating of a monster determines the difficulty of cooking a Monster Dish using that monster. The higher the Challenge Rating, the harder it is to cook that dish successfully. The Challenge Rating of a monster gives us the Original Skill Check DC of a Monster Dish. \\
 It’s extremely simple to calculate the Original Skill Check DC of a specific Monster Dish: (10 + CR of Monster) \\
 In the section below we will explain exactly what the players need to do to cook a Monster Dish.
+  ***Additional Ingredients:** The Chef has the option to add a specific monster Component/Ingredient (Found in the References Bellow) which will add new buffs and/or banes to the meal. __This process increases the DC of cooking a meal by 2__.
+**Cooking a Dish:** The process of cooking a dish can start once the ingredients have been obtained and the players have access to a kitchen. We recommend that the GM tell the players the DC they’ll have to beat. Cooking a dish is done in two parts. A maximum of four players can work together to cook, three in Part 1 and one in Part 2.
+**Part 1:** Up to three players must explain how their character helps with the cooking process—taking care of the fire, cutting the ingredients, mixing, watching the fire to ensure an even heat distribution, etc. The GM then asks each character to make an ability check (d20 + ability score modifier), using the ability score that works best with the task they have described. More than three players can roleplay their participation in the cooking process, but only three may make ability checks. \\
+**Example:**
+  *Player 1: “I’m going to watch over the fire to ensure an even heat distribution.”
+    *GM: “Perfect, I need you to make a straight Intelligence check; roll a d20 and add your Intelligence modifier.”
+  *Player 2: “I’m going to cut everything up, so it’s diced before we boil it.”
+    *GM: “Okay, please roll a straight Dexterity check. Once again, roll a d20 and add your Dex modifier.”
+  *Player 3: “I’ll mix every dry ingredient, so they’re ready for the wet ingredients.”
+    *GM: “Awesome, please roll a straight Strength check.”
+However, The Head Chef can take complete control of the cooking and conduct all the skill checks themselves if they wish for greater control. A Player with the **Chef Feat** Gains advantage on all checks needed for part 1.
+If a player asks, “If I wanted to do X, what kind of check would that be?” we suggest you tell them and help them find an action that would suit their individual strengths. The way to calculate the DC for these tasks is also simple: (10 + CR of Monster - PC’s level) On a success, the overall Skill Check DC is reduced by 3; on a failure, it increases by 1. A critical success reduces the overall Skill Check DC by 6,
+and a critical failure increases it by 3.
+**Part 2:**
+Once the other players have made their rolls, and the new Skill Check DC for the dish has been established, the last player rolls a d20 and adds either their Strength, Dexterity, Wisdom, or Intelligence modifier. This is to ensure that anyone in the party can be part of the cooking process. If you would rather have that player roll, for example, a Dexterity check and not let them pick what ability they get to use because you want this to be more challenging, you are welcome to do so. If the roll is higher than the Skill Check DC, the Monster Dish has been cooked successfully! \\
+**Example:**
+  *A group of 4 level 10 adventurers has defeated a CR 13 creature.
+  *The creature has Fire Immunity,
+  *its creature type is Beast,
+  *and its size is Large.
+Original Skill Check DC: 10+13 = 23
+of the adventurers roll ability checks to help in the cooking process. Since they are level 10 and the CR of the creature is 13, this is
+their skill check DC: Skill Check DC for the three tasks before the final roll: 10+13-10 = 13 \\
+They need to clear a DC of 13 for each task. After rolling, they have 2 successes and 1 failure, which means that the original Skill Check
+DC goes down by 6 and up by 1: Final Skill Check DC: 23 - 6 + 1 = 18
+The last of the adventurers can now attempt to cook the dish. They decide to do a straight Strength Check to cook it, and they roll a 19. Success!
+The party manages to cook two Monster Dishes, and now two of them can eat it to have Fire Immunity for 10 minutes—perfect for that pesky red dragon they’re preparing to fight.
+=== Eating, Effects & Shelf-Life ===
+  *Once a Monster Dish is cooked, it lasts for 1 day before it goes bad. The players can prolong the life of a dish by clever use of spells or equipment to the discretion of the GM, but we advise to never allow the extension of a dish’s shelf life for more than one week. This is to prevent the party from constantly cooking dishes and keeping them indefinitely in a bag of holding.
+  ***Time To Eat:** Eating a meal such as this requires time to properly enjoy it. Players take __1 hour__ to properly eat a Monster meal to gain its affects.
+**Boons & Banes of Eating Monsters** \\
+Monster dishes are offten made to provide people with buffs or unique effects, But eating strange creatures can all be glitter and gold. Be warned when eating a dish made of monster flesh. it could be too much for your stomach to handle. \\
+  ***Basic: Immunities and Resistances:** All monster meals provide a basic buff to the one who eats it. this comes as a damage resistance or in rare cases an immunity. When a character spends proper time to eat a Monster Dish, they gain one Damage Resistance or Damage Immunity that the monster possessed. There are only two guide-lines to determine what a character gains when eating a specific Monster Dish, and they are very simple:
+    *A Monster Dish gives the player only one Immunity or Resistance, not several and not one of each. If a monster has several Immunities or Resistances, the GM either chooses, randomly selects one, or leaves it up to the players to choose which one they want the dish to give.
+    *Damage Immunities take precedence over Damage Resistances. If a monster has both Damage Immunities and Resistances, the GM chooses one Damage Immunity that the dish will grant (or randomly selects one Damage Immunity).
+  ***Unique: Boons and/Or Banes:** Some Monsters or specific monster parts can offer additional buffs to those who eat such a meal. These effects are based around the effects granted by the unique mechanics around Monster Component spell casting detailed in the __Unique Reference Section__ bellow. Many specific parts offer unique benefits and each one will be applied on a case by case base as it comes up based on the DM
 ===== Reference: Ingredients =====
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 ===== Reference: Recipes =====
-===== Arcadia: Cooking & Harvesting =====
+==== Summary of the Cooking Process ====
-==== General Cooking and Harvesting ====
-Volum 11 i cut off its snoot
-=== Cooking ===
-==== Magical Harvesting ====
-Volum 8 Monsterious components
-===== Dragonstew Cooking: Basic Monster Cooking =====
-**Cooking a Dish:** The process of cooking a dish can start once the monster has been defeated, and the players have access to a kitchen. We recommend that the GM tell the players the DC they’ll have to beat. Cooking a dish is done in two parts. A maximum of four players can work together to cook, three in Part 1 and one in Part 2.
-**Part 1:** Up to three players must explain how their character helps with the cooking process—taking care of the fire, cutting the ingredients, mixing, watching the fire to ensure an even heat distribution, etc. The GM then asks each character to make an ability check (d20 + ability score modifier), using the ability score that works best with the task they have described. More than three players can roleplay their participation in the cooking process, but only three may make ability checks. \\
-**Example:**
-  *Player 1: “I’m going to watch over the fire to ensure an even heat distribution.”
-    *GM: “Perfect, I need you to make a straight Intelligence check; roll a d20 and add your Intelligence modifier.”
-  *Player 2: “I’m going to cut everything up, so it’s diced before we boil it.”
-    *GM: “Okay, please roll a straight Dexterity check. Once again, roll a d20 and add your Dex modifier.”
-  *Player 3: “I’ll mix every dry ingredient, so they’re ready for the wet ingredients.”
-    *GM: “Awesome, please roll a straight Strength check.”
-If a player asks, “If I wanted to do X, what kind of check would that be?” we suggest you tell them and help them find an action that would suit their individual strengths. The way to calculate the DC for these tasks is also simple: (10 + CR of Monster - PC’s level) On a success, the overall Skill Check DC is reduced by 3; on a failure, it increases by 1. A critical success reduces the overall Skill Check DC by 6,
-and a critical failure increases it by 3.
-**Part 2:**
-Once the other players have made their rolls, and the new Skill Check DC for the dish has been established, the last player rolls a d20 and adds either their Strength, Dexterity, Wisdom, or Intelligence modifier. This is to ensure that anyone in the party can be part of the cooking process. If you would rather have that player roll, for example, a Dexterity check and not let them pick what ability they get to use because you want this to be more challenging, you are welcome to do so. If the roll is higher than the Skill Check DC, the Monster Dish has been cooked successfully! \\
-**Example:**
-  *A group of 4 level 10 adventurers has defeated a CR 13 creature.
-  *The creature has Fire Immunity,
-  *its creature type is Beast,
-  *and its size is Large.
-Original Skill Check DC: 10+13 = 23
-of the adventurers roll ability checks to help in the cooking process. Since they are level 10 and the CR of the creature is 13, this is
-their skill check DC: Skill Check DC for the three tasks before the final roll: 10+13-10 = 13 \\
-They need to clear a DC of 13 for each task. After rolling, they have 2 successes and 1 failure, which means that the original Skill Check
-DC goes down by 6 and up by 1: Final Skill Check DC: 23 - 6 + 1 = 18
-The last of the adventurers can now attempt to cook the dish. They decide to do a straight Strength Check to cook it, and they roll a 19. Success!
-The party manages to cook two Monster Dishes, and now two of them can eat it to have Fire Immunity for 10 minutes—perfect for that pesky red dragon they’re preparing to fight.
-==== Dishes and Recipes ====
-Combining Dragon Stew base with Arcadia Monstrous Components
-=== General Meals ===
-=== Monster Meals ===