Baker Artisan Specialization

At the bottom of many social hierarchies are the cooks but they are most infamous for their pastry automatons.

Bonus Proficiencies

When you adopt this specialization at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with cook’s utensils. If you already have this proficiency, you gain proficiency with one other type of artisan’s tools of your choice. You also add the Vril Engine, Food material, and Dough material blueprints to your portfolio, and these additions do not count against your maximum number of blueprints owned. If you already have the engine or material in your portfolio, you learn another engine or material blueprint of your choice.

If you have a vril engine available, you can combine it with your cook’s utensils as an action to create power tools. These power tools allow you to build creations at a much faster speed than would normally be possible by a single individual.

Is it Cake?

At 3rd level, your mastery of baking is such that you can make cakes that look like anything: objects, structures, even people. They can be perfect reproductions in miniature scale, or massive structures as big as houses.

When using cook’s power utensils, you can reduce the time to create a dough structure from months to weeks (determined by dividing the total number of weeks required by 4), weeks to days, days to hours, hours to minutes, and minutes to rounds.

The cakes are inanimate unless you choose to turn one of them into a bread automaton (see the feature of the same name). If a creature uses its action to examine the cake, the creature can determine that it is cake with a successful Intelligence (Investigation) check against your artisan spell save DC. If a creature discerns the cake for what it is, it can eat it or destroy it at its leisure.

Beneficial Bread

Also at 3rd level, you can create special buns that have healing power comparable to some potions. You add the Beneficial Bread blueprint to your portfolio. You create the bread using your Is It Cake? feature. Collectively, these loaves count as one innovation, and you can bake a number of loaves equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum 1). A wounded creature who eats the loaf as an action creature regains 1d6 hit points for every two artisan levels you have (rounded up) and the loaf provides enough nourishment to sustain the creature for one day. These loaves have no effect on constructs, elementals, or undead.

Poisonous Pastry

At 5th level, you can create poisonous pastries using your Is It Cake? feature. You add the Poisonous Pastry blueprint to your portfolio. Collectively, these loaves count as one innovation, and you can bake a number of loaves equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum 1). You can make a ranged spell attack at a creature with your pastries with a range of 10/30. On a successful hit, the creature takes your Deconstruct Dice in poison damage and must make a Dexterity saving throw against your artisan spell save DC or be blinded. The blinded creature can make a new saving throw each round to end the effect. If a living creature eats the pastry, it takes your Deconstruct Dice in poison damage and must make a Constitution saving throw against your artisan spell save DC or be poisoned for 1 minute. The poisoned creature can make a new saving throw each round to end the effect.

Bread Automaton

At 9th level your baking has borne you a faithful companion, a bread automaton. You create it using your cook’s power utensils, a vril engine, and an action. It’s friendly to you and your companions, and it obeys your commands. See its game statistics in the bread automaton stat block, which uses your proficiency bonus (PB) in several places. You determine create the creature’s appearance using your Is It Cake? feature, but it can be no larger than Large size. You determine whether it has two legs or four; your choice has no effect on its game statistics. In combat, the automaton shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. It can move and use its reaction on its own, but the only action it takes on its turn is the Dodge action, unless you take a bonus action on your turn to command it to take another action. That action can be one in its stat block or some other action. If you are incapacitated, the automaton can take any action of its choice, not just Dodge. You can add some dough to it using an action and a Tiny or larger pastry you created from the Is It Cake? feature to heal 2d6 hit points. If it has died within the last hour, you can use your cook’s power utensils as an action to revive it, provided you are within 5 feet of it. The bread automaton returns to life after 1 minute with all its hit points restored. At the end of a long rest, you can create a new bread automaton if you have cook’s power utensils with you. If you already have a automaton from this feature, the first one immediately perishes. The automaton also perishes if you die.

Heroe’s Feast

At 15th level, you can create a great feast using your cook’s power utensils. You create this feast using your Is It Cake? feature and it takes one hour to eat. At the end of the hour, each creature who partook in the feast is cured of all diseases and poison, becomes immune to poison and being frightened, and makes all Wisdom saving throws with advantage. Its hit point maximum also increases by 2d10, and it gains the same number of Hit Points. These benefits last for 24 hours.