Delicacies (Cooking Skill)
When you use the Cooking Skill, you combine two or three ingredients to generate a special delicacy with powerful effects that will be applied to its targets.
Rules of Creation
- Every different combination of two tastes (even if it’s the same taste used twice!) will add an effect to the delicacy.
- When you combine two tastes you never combined before, determine the effect of that combination by rolling a d12 and consulting the chart on the next page; most entries also require you to make a choice (such as a specific damage type or status effect). Once you’re done, record the resulting effect on your cookbook sheet: from this moment on, that taste combination will always produce that exact effect when you use it.
- No two combinations of tastes in your cookbook sheet can have identical effects. When you determine the effect of a new combination, you must make your choices in such a way that the resulting effect has no precedents (for instance, by selecting a different damage type or status effect); if you can’t, reroll the d12.
- When completed, your cookbook sheet will feature a total of 15 effects, one for each possible pair of tastes.
Example Usage
Consider the following scenario:
You combine three ingredients, one of them salty and two of them bitter. The resulting delicacy features two combinations (bitter + bitter and bitter + salty), which means it will have two different effects.
In the past, you combined bitter + bitter and rolled a 4, meaning the effect allows for MP recovery; conversely, you never combined bitter + salty before, so you must determine this combination’s effect by rolling dice.
You roll a 1, and must choose a status effect for this effect; since you already chose recovery from weak for the sour + sweet combination in the past, you decide to opt for dazed. From now on, the bitter + salty combination will always allow you to heal the target from dazed.
Now that you’ve done this, you know that your delicacy allows every target to heal from the dazed status effect and also recover 40 Mind Points.
Important Notes
- Delicacies created through the Cooking Skill have an immediate effect and are then destroyed; if you want to prepare foods with unique effects and use them later, you must instead use the rules for Projects (see Core Rulebook, page 134).