Mysterious Stranger wrote:
I think what the OP is complaining about is there not being rules for cooking. Somethings are so self-evident that they do not need rules. Pathfinder is complex enough without adding in rules for things like eating drinking and going to the bathroom.
If you don’t understand the difference between trail rations and a real meal I really feel sorry for you. Most people get bored eating the same meal every day. Imagine how much worse it will be if your meal is dried jerky and moldy bread. Call it fluff if you will but unless you have some sort of compulsive disorder most people are going to want more than trail rations whenever they can.
In reality having cooking gear is going to often be less encumbering than relying on trail rations. One day’s worth of trail rations weigh a pound. An Iron pot weighs 4 pounds and a cooking kit weighs 16 pounds. Survival allows you to forage for food and water so you do not need to carry it with you. If you are traveling more than about two weeks a cooking kit will be less encumbering than trail rations. A trip of six months would mean you need to carry 180 pounds of food with you. Unless you have a 20 STR chance are you are not going to be able to carry that much.
I think its a bit less that they are complaining about a lack of rules as it is they haven't really met a Gm/Dm that is on the fly enough to actually use some of the rules in the game.
Cooking has rules in the same sense as Artist has rules its just in the general rules and not the actual set in stone "yeah this is cooking rules".
looking at climb for example
DC Example Surface or Activity
0 A slope too steep to walk up, or a knotted rope with a wall to brace against.
5 A rope with a wall to brace against, or a knotted rope, or a rope affected by the rope trick spell.
10 A surface with ledges to hold on to and stand on, such as a very rough wall or a ship’s rigging.
15 Any surface with adequate handholds and footholds (natural or artificial), such as a very rough natural rock surface or a tree, or an unknotted rope, or pulling yourself up when dangling by your hands.
20 An uneven surface with some narrow handholds and footholds, such as a typical wall in a dungeon.
21 A typical buildings upper-story wall
25 A typical buildings lower-story wall
25 A rough surface, such as a natural rock wall or a brick wall.
30 An overhang or ceiling with handholds but no footholds, or a typical city wall
— A perfectly smooth, flat, vertical (or inverted) surface cannot be climbed.
So if we turn that to cooking its now
DC Example fare or technique
0 Bits and pieces of an animal or creature not fit enough to feed a mouse and hardly satisfying.
5 A Meager fare, probably mostly burnt and just barely edible.
10 A common fare, The type of things you'd see thrown together like a trail stew.
15 A fine fare from a new cook, Relatively easy to make but otherwise uneventful
20 Resturant level Fare, Such a meal is hearty and filling something you'd probably find regularly in a good tavern or market.
21 A Two star meal, Filling satisfying and usually marginally expensive the type of fare that you would eat with a commander or high level knight.
25 A Four star meal, Satisfying and exotic, this fare is something that you would eat with a minor noble and is expensive.
30 A Five star meal, The type of fare people equate to the gods. Supple and filling this fare has meats that melt in your mouth and seasoned sides that bring you to a rapturous world. Expensive and only made by the top chefs in the world a delicacy that one rarely sees in their life.
— Charred and inedible fare, Would not be filling in the slightest.
