Halfling wizard cook

[nordsturmking]

Hello everyone,
i want to make Halfling wizard who loves to cook and eat. Aside from the role playing aspect is there any thing to represent the cooking eating part? I have the cook profession but i have not found anything else, i am looking for feats, traits, or maybe even a class.
all advise is appreciated.

[VoodistMonk]

Worship Cayden Cailean, take Brew Potion at level 3... enter Brewkeeper at level 6. If you use ranks in Craft Alchemy for entry into Brewkeeper, you can keep Chef/Cook as your Profession.

Or you could be an evil Wizard VMC Witch, take Cauldron at 7, and Cook People at 19... there is just no better way to be a chef, than to Cook People. And I dont know how else to get Witch Hexes on a Wizard... particularly a Witch's Major Hex, like Cook People. Spirit Whisperer Wizards look like they could almost pull it off, but just can't.

[Mark Hoover 330]

Alchemist, either the Mixologist or Concocter; both of these focus on unique potions and extracts with Mixologist adding alcohol to them. Then there's the Reckless Epicurean Investigator that invents weird versions of potions or extracts to try on themselves. In any of these you could ask the GM to change your Extracts on some or all of your Formulae to food instead of liquids.

What is a potion? It is nothing more than a 1-time use spell contained in a consumable medium. Any PC that takes 2 hours to put a spell into a liquid could just as easily put that spell into, say, a large communion wafer or a brownie (the dessert kind, not the fey creature).

Specifically for halflings, you get Dex and Cha as bonus stats with a penalty to Str. This suggests you pick a spellcasting class with a Cha based casting stat. Just choosing an oracle with no archetype could give you a kind of homespun cook that suffered a Curse but also had a Mystery revealed to them, all gifts from Halcamora, The Lady of the Ripe Bounty.

Going deeper there's an oracle archetype called Divine Herbalist that uses Cha instead of Wis when dealing with Profession Herbalism. You get to heal kind of like laying on hands, but using acupuncture, herbs and positive energy. Reflavored another way, your PC uses a standard action to heal others with a hug, a cookie and a juice box.

Anyway, those are just some thoughts and ideas. IMO, cooking mixes with Arcane spellcasting is the purview of Witches; they even get the archetype Gingerbread Witch, the Cualdron hex and as VM mentioned, the Cook People grand hex.

If you're thinking of Divine spellcasting, there's a few things to think about. Druids have a couple different food spells and are natural masters of beasts and plants, so that's an obvious way to go. If not druids, Domains or Blessings that deal with Community, or Revelry often provide Heroe's Feast as a spell or something.

[Mudfoot]

Cayden's not about eating. You want Urgathoa. And as a wizard, you want to be the next Runelord of Gluttony, obviously. So Thassilonian Specialist (Gluttony) is the way to go.

[Tim Emrick]

In a 3.5 campaign I ran ages ago, one of the PCs was an evoker/eldritch knight who flavored his potion brewing as magical baked goods.

When he was introduced to Pathfinder a few years later, he saw the alchemist class and exclaimed that if he'd had that as an option, his cook would have been one--elixirs for himself, infusions for allies, all of them baked goods. And the class's bombs feature fit his pyromaniac blaster tendencies well enough.

I think he finally got an opportunity to play that version of the character in a PF2 PBP this past year.

[nordsturmking]

Thank you for all the great ideas and help :)

" In any of these you could ask the GM to change your Extracts on some or all of your Formulae to food instead of liquids."
This in combination with taking the Alchemist as a second class is a great idea, and it is exactly what i was looking for :D

I am not sure if i will take an archetype for the alchemist. i think i is not necessary
I will take the spell sage archetype for the wizard.

[Derklord]

nordsturmking wrote:

Aside from the role playing aspect is there any thing to represent the cooking eating part?

Does your character merely like cooking and eating, or are they obsessed with it? If it's not the latter, I'd refrain from investing feats or even class levels into the concept, as doing so would likely turn your character into a caricature, or at least one-dimensional.

There is a trait that would fit well, although it's for a dwarven deity - maybe ask the GM to refit it to a halfling deity.

[nordsturmking]

I would not say he is obsessed, but it is a big part of the character i want to create. Are you familar with the halfings in the warhammer fantasy universe?

That trait looks good thanks :)

[Taja the Barbarian]

Sounds like your character needs to be an Athasian Halfling: They LOVE to eat...

[Mark Hoover 330]

Chef NPCs that have made it into my games as actual villains, over the years:

Bobby of the Flay, an evil inquisitor who likes to "grill" his victims metaphorically and sometimes literally

Boyardee, AKA, The Chef, an alchemist whose "bombs" were pasta shells stuffed with explosives

The Ginger Prince, a fey (corrupt Brownie) with levels of NPC Adept and Warrior and whose familiar was Mauler dwarf caiman he called Croc

The Iron Chef, a unique Iron Golem

Rachael of the Ray - this one got kind of weird. I gave her levels in Sorcerer and Fighter, but said that all her spells were "powers" she got from a variety of burgers she makes and consumes (IRL, Rachel Ray is famous for a massive library of burger recipes).

Have fun w/your character and maybe circle back, if you think of it, with the final build.

[VoodistMonk]

Besides Urgathoa, I think Kabriri may also be somewhat fitting... nothing hungers like a Ghoul. Lol.

Outside of Wizard, something I really like for this theme is the Gingerbread Witch... now there's a chef! My personal Gingerbread Witch, Gramma Nutt, is a Drider, because there are few things more creepy than a giant spider-person cooking kids.

I do have a Halfling Bard that is all about tea parties, if that counts. I know it's not a Wizard, but she cooks up her little tea party to dish out buffs to the party... it's kinda cute. Arcane Healer-Geisha Bard
VMC Monk can abuse the Ki Channel feat and the Tea of Transference alchemical item to essentially have infinite Bardic Performance, Channel Energy, and spells of 4th-level (and lower)... it's a neat trick, me-thinks.

Also worth noting, although not at all a Wizard, is the Tyrant Totem Barbarian/Primalist Bloodrager... get in my belly! The Tyrant Totem/Swallow Whole thing is more about eating than it is about cooking, which may further disqualify it from being relevant to this thread. I know it's probably a Halfling's worst nightmare, but have you heard of the Jotund Troll? It's a 9-headed Giant with Grab and Fast Swallow... talk about "get in my belly". Lol.

I have special interest in building a Monk of the Empty Hand that uses cooking implements, but I have been too lazy to put it together.