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He's cooking
this comment is dedicated to Friends at the Table's Uncle Nicky
This Class Sounds Amazing
"Food is Life". The world needs more cooking mechanics in TTRPG.
Also, I love how you included Max Miller's hard tack clacking meme. I recommend his Tasting History videos to anyone wanting to add some food culture to their fantasy world.
Max tasting history hardtack jumpscare
Just Floralist left out of the Atlas classes now. Did we do all the free downloads ones already?
Throw surströmming into enemies. Laugh. But don't forget to pinch your nose.
This might be the class with fewest total ranks of skills on its list at a mere 13. You still can't quite max out everything as you achieve Mastery, but you sure don't have to skip anything if you don't want to just to have effective levels in the skills you do take. Even Cooking can be skimped on a bit without crippling your options – having a maximum of only 20-30 ingredients will feel tight, but Salt & Pepper and a hefty supply of IP through your other classes can make up for a lot by turning your limited ingredients into wild cards. It's an interesting twist in terms of class design, and you can't Master Gourmet without taking at least three different skills – which will contrast nicely with Floralist when we get to that one, since there's a valid case to be made for just maxing out the signature skill to ten ranks when Mastering that class.
Couple of other thoughts:
Knife & Fork really isn't an auto-take, despite only costing one rank. If the rest of your classes and your attribute array don't lend themselves to making attacks (as opposed to casting spells, using invocations, lobbing damaging potions, or some other oddball way to deal damage when needed) then you just may not use the offensive option on Cooking very often, if at all. Odds are your cookbook will give you some recipe that encourage force-feeding, but it's not guaranteed and if you've got better out-if-class options for hurting or debuffing foes you might prefer to conserve your ingredients for buffs and healing – in which case Knife & Fork is just deadwood.
Made With Love maxes at three ranks, not five, so you'll never spend more than 30 MP on it, not 50. Which is still you and three allies getting buffed off one set of ingredients, so plenty of targets for most parties. Maybe not the best skill to max out if your other classes are drawing heavily on MP as well, though.
Travelling Cook and Wayfarer's Resourceful will both trigger with each travel roll, so you could be earning both ingredients and IP at once without needing to rest in a settlement – and with Salt & Pepper, those IP are making all your ingredients more useful in the long run to boot. Somewhat similarly, Rogue's Soul Steal will let you pillage IP from enemy soldiers – who knew man-eating bee people carried around so many seasonings with them?
There are a number of rare items that greatly impact the way a Gourmet plays, so it's worth looking at the possibilities before firming up any builds.
Of the Heroic skills:
Skillful Dosage is pretty amazing for overcharging PCs, but it can also be accessed by so many other classes you might want to take it through one of them rather than burn your first Gourmet heroic on it. Really depends on how you're sequencing your class masteries and what heroics you prioritize versus which you delay taking.
All You Can Eat is highly dependent on what your cookbook looks like. If you actually have some amazing array of effects where triggering 4 or 6 of them at once will be truly useful, congrats, this heroic is great. If not, well, maybe pick something else. The once per scene limiter is a bit of a negative too, but note that it doesn't say it only works in a conflict. If you can find a good use for a massive slew of effects in a narrative scene, all the better.
Specialty of the House might be the most generally useful of the Gourmet-specific heroics, since it can act as a strong fix for gaps in your recipe list, making less useful ingredient combos better as well as offering some new tricks you can't roll randomly. If you plan to take this one, Salt & Pepper is almost a must since it makes applying the heroic skill so much easier even when you've run dry on some specific ingredients. You might get incredibly lucky on the way your cookbook shapes up and not see a real use for this, but most of the time I suspect this will be the go-to heroic for Gourmets.
Phagomagus is much like Skillful Dosage only more so. You'll need some ranks in either Entropist or (with some luck) Chimerist to even get Dispel, and if you plan to master either of those then maybe use your Gourmet heroic for something else and take Phagomagus through the caster class. It's a little corner-case if you're just dabbling in one or both of those classes, since Gourmet has fairly light MP use unless you're going hog wild on Made With Love and copying NPC buffs is fun, but unreliable in terms of how often it will come up.
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The one i have been WAITING FOR.
The JOY I had with the Monster Hunter cats and then cameo of Max Miller.
So would an Gourmet party be, too many cooks?
one of my players is being brain overwhelmed by playing floralist + gourmet
Specifics shoutouts to Zephyr as the only TTRPG to make its cooking mechanic into a sociology lesson
patissier job from bravely second!!!!!!! including force-feeding nefarious sweets action!
I need to make a cooking system now.
Either be the best damn chief this realm has ever seen, or the deliberately worst with all assassins of the realm envious of your poisons.
I do love the random development of the Gourmet – I’m imagining someone making a happy, homely character who is meant to fill everyone’s hearts and bellies, but they keep rolling damaging recipes. Would lead to fun improve
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I feel like there needs to be a gourmet move where you go on a smoke break mid battle then come back and put your cigarette out of the enemy, as your milk create throne falls upon them
Man I have to go back to Fabula and look into getting my hands on these other books. I don't even think Natural Fantasy was out yet back when I got my hands on the core rules.
As always, thank you for the great video and talking about all different kinds of TTRPGs 😀
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