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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MichaelK" data-source="post: 4843128" data-attributes="member: 60635">It's only a skill... I wouldn't let it do to much. Honestly I wouldn't go any further than Dross' suggestions which seem to be nice balanced ways of using the skill for roleplaying while still providing a tangible benefit.If he wants to derive more powerful benefits I would suggest a custom feat, class or prestige class.You could 'reflavour' (forgive the pun) the artificer from Eberron Campaign Setting. Complete Arcane suggests that scrolls don't necessarily have to be paper that you read from. Let him cook meals as "potions" and could create little spice pouches that he uses to cast spells (like scrolls).Or get him to take bard levels and replace the bardic music with chef's cooking (based off the cooking skill instead of perform). He could cook up meals that inspire courage or fascinate people by telling them a delicious recipe.Check out complete Adventurer as well for some prestige classes based around a high skill. He could be an 'Exemplar' (I think that's the one) for Cooking, gives all kinds of extra benefits for his high skill.But ultimately, as much as I respect his decision to take skills for roleplaying reasons, you're just not going to get as much mileage out of cooking as you will from craft: swords or heal. Having your character abandon his cooking "Because it's just not as useful out in the real world as it was back in the monastery" is just as good roleplaying as clinging tenaciously to it from levels 1 through 20.</blockquote>

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