Prepare Food

It’s not difficult to create something edible from good ingredients, but you need this skill to serve guests really fine meals. Prepare Food can be used to fry, bake, and even cure food. You also possess all the know-how to produce alcoholic beverages.

Check: INT/DEX/DEX
New Application: Distilling (see page 214)
Applications: Baking, Brewing, Frying & Boiling, Gutting, Preserving
Encumbrance: yes
Tools: ingredients, field kitchen, cooking utensils
Quality: the food tastes better than usual.
Failed Check: the food is burned or inedible.
Critical Success: the dish is exquisitely tasty, the crafted wine of award-winning calibre.
Botch: the food tastes terrible, and consuming it leads to indigestion, diarrhea, or vomiting (1D6 DP, ignoring PRO).
Improvement Cost: A

• Boil an egg +5
• Fry a sausage +3
• Cook a hearty stew for ten people +1
• Cure the meat of a rabbit +/-0
• Brew a strong beer -1
• Bake a wedding cake -3
• Prepare delicious dishes for a banquet -5