Essense chef (5e Class)
Essence Chef[edit]
A culinary alchemist who extracts the power hidden within any creature or object, the Essence Chef transforms raw essences into potent recipes that grant the user extraordinary abilities. Through careful preparation and innovative techniques, the Essence Chef channels the strengths, resistances, and special traits of their ingredients into magical effects that bolster allies and empower themselves.
Class Features
As a Essence Chef you gain the following class features.
- Hit Points
Hit Dice: 1d10 per Essence Chef level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 10 + Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d10 (or 6) + Constitution modifier per Essence Chef level after 1st
- Proficiencies
Armor: Light Armor
Weapons: Cooking Utensils (Knives, Frying Pans, Ladles, Spoons)
Tools: Cooking Utensils
Saving Throws: Constitution, Wisdom
Skills: Persuasion, Stealth, Survival, Perception, Investigation, Intimidation, Athletics
- Equipment
You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:
- (a) Essence Knife or (b) Frying Pan of Elemental Infusion or (c) Siphon Spoon
- (a) Explorer's Pack or (b) Scholars Pack
- Set of Cooking Utensils, Transmutation Cookbook, Chef's Pouch
- If you are using starting wealth, you have 7d4*10 in starting funds (if using starting wealth) in funds.
| Level | Proficiency Bonus |
Known Recipes | Features |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | +2 | 3 | Essence Extraction, Culinary Alchemy |
| 2nd | +2 | 4 | Kitchen of Conduits |
| 3rd | +2 | 5 | Siphon of Power, Magical Utensils |
| 4th | +2 | 6 | Ability Score Improvement, Adaptive Recipes |
| 5th | +3 | 7 | Interplanar Infusion |
| 6th | +3 | 8 | — |
| 7th | +3 | 9 | — |
| 8th | +3 | 10 | Ability Score Improvement |
| 9th | +4 | 11 | — |
| 10th | +4 | 12 | — |
| 11th | +4 | 13 | — |
| 12th | +4 | 14 | Ability Score Improvement |
| 13th | +5 | 15 | — |
| 14th | +5 | 16 | — |
| 15th | +5 | 17 | — |
| 16th | +5 | 18 | Ability Score Improvement |
| 17th | +6 | 19 | Ultimate Preparation |
| 18th | +6 | 20 | — |
| 19th | +6 | 21 | Ability Score Improvement |
| 20th | +6 | 22 | Master Chef of Essence |
Essence Extraction[edit]
At 1st level, you learn to extract the vital essence from any creature or object. When you defeat a creature or find a significant object, you can prepare its essence as a recipe. The resulting dish grants you a minor buff or ability for a brief period. The effect is determined by the DM based on the nature of the essence used.
Kitchen of Conduits[edit]
At 2nd level, you gain the ability to summon your Kitchen of Conduits—a mobile lab where you store and combine prepared essences. The kitchen appears in a 10x10-foot space and remains for 1 hour. The number of times you can summon it equals your proficiency bonus. As you level up, the kitchen evolves from a modest stall to a full-fledged culinary atelier. You can teleport to it as an action.
Siphon of Power[edit]
At 5th level, you can channel the power of a prepared essence during combat. As a bonus action, choose one of your stored recipes to siphon its power, granting you temporary access to a special ability or property extracted from the essence. The effect lasts for 1 minute or until expended, as determined by the DM.
Adaptive Recipes[edit]
At 9th level, you learn to blend multiple essences into a single adaptive recipe. By combining up to two essences during a long rest, you create a composite dish that grants a hybrid buff or ability for 10 minutes. The exact effect is determined by the DM, reflecting the combined attributes of the essences.
Interplanar Infusion[edit]
At 13th level, your mastery over essences expands beyond the Material Plane. You can now extract and prepare essences from creatures and objects found on other planes. The resulting recipes may grant resistances to uncommon damage types or unique effects inspired by otherworldly energies.
Ultimate Preparation[edit]
At 17th level, you gain the ability to prepare a legendary recipe that amalgamates the power of multiple essences. When consumed, this masterpiece produces an effect equivalent to a 5th-level spell or bestows a unique, powerful ability upon you or an ally. This feature can be used once per long rest.
Master Chef of Essence[edit]
At 20th level, you achieve the pinnacle of culinary alchemy. Your recipes now have lasting effects that can permanently augment your abilities. You may also store additional essences in your Kitchen of Conduits and summon it without limitation. Your prepared recipes count as magical effects capable of bypassing certain resistances.
Culinary Alchemy[edit]
From 1st level, your expertise with cooking utensils and transmutative techniques is unrivaled. Your proficiency bonus is doubled on any ability check involving your cooking utensils, which also serve as implements for your essence recipes in combat.