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Just took Wandering Chef in a Kingmaker campaign, and I did a lot of digging so my GM wouldn’t have to. My thoughts.
A couple points in response to the folks who say they wouldn’t include “all elixirs” as food.
1. What makes the Animalistic Fury Cocktail acceptable as food, but the Bestial Mutagen not acceptable? (Edit: Or, Firefoot Popcorn acceptable, but Energy Mutagen not?) I think any reason besides “flavor text” has to address this satisfactorily.
2. What makes the Apricot of Bestial Might an elixir at all?
3. The Seasoned skill feat seems to imply that all elixirs and potions count as drinks. This would qualify all elixirs as alchemical food, and all potions as magical morsels (a whole other “what counts as?” question)
Also, a few other items worth considering. Are they food? No, or at least debatable. Would I let a Wandering Chef make them if I were GM? Absolutely yes.
- Capsaicin Tonic. It’s literally pepper seeds, and the baseline effect allows you to eat spicy foods with ease for an hour.
- Blindpepper Tube. Basically an alchemically-weaponized pepper grinder.
- Dark Pepper Powder, and Sneezing Powder. One literally says it’s a spice, and I see no reason to exclude the other.
- Artevil Suspension. They’re dried herbs.
- Timeless Salts. Literally for food preservation.
- Emetic Paste. Food poisoning remedy++.
- Rust Scrub. Obviously not meant for eating, but made from salt and citrus juice, and chefs absolutely might need to get rust off of cookware.
- A bunch of items with the Olfactory trait (and Feyfoul, which probably should have the Olfactory trait). A bit of a stretch compared to the rest of the list. But if you can smell consumed garlic from someone’s sweat, I don’t see why alchemical smells couldn’t be produced as foods instead of perfumes.
Lastly, all the explicitly (by flavor text) food items I found that were not in the Alchemical Food category on the Archives (and thus, I assume, not published as alchemical food).
- Lastwall Soup
- Boulderhead Bock
- Bravo's Brew
- Ambrosia of Undying Hope
- Apricot of Bestial Might
- Dragon's Blood Pudding
- Moon Radish Soup
- Dark Pepper Powder
- Impossible Cake
- Brewer's Regret
- Alcohol
- Bloodeye Coffee
- Matsuki's Medicinal Wine
- Dreamtime Tea
- Alkenstar Ice Wine
- Elven Absinthe
- Fire and Iceberg
- Slumber Wine