For the Samurai who wants to be an Iron Chief..., Expanded rules for cooking, because you like this sort of stuff. Options

[BRodda]

As the SPUs and SD stuff I created was such a crowd pleaser I figured that I would put up my expanded cooking rules. These are based off of the “Using Technical Skills to Build or Repair” on pg 138 of SR4A.


Cooking Skill
Use of the cooking skill is an Intuition+Interests Skill[Cooking] or Intuition+Artisan (Cooking) check. This is not an extended check and one check is made per meal, not per dish. When having a meal of differing complexities use the highest threshold for the entire meal.

SITUATION DICE POOL MODIFIER
Utensils, Kitchen and/or Ingredients Are*:
Inadequate or inferior: –1
Unavailable or making substitutions: –2
Adequate: +1
Superior +2 or more
Prepackaged/SPU: +3
Recipes or Reference Materials:
Available: +1
Augmented Reality Enhanced: +2
Working From Memory:
Character’s Logic is 5+: +0
Character’s Logic is 1–4: –(5 – Logic)
Original Creations:
Character’s Intuition is 5-6: +2
Character’s Intuition is 3-4: +0
Character’s Intuition is 1–2: -2

*Note: These are 3 separate modifiers. You can have a superior kitchen (+1) with adequate utensils (+0), but not have the right type of spice (-2) for a total modifier of (-1).


Meal Creation Thresholds from Rotbart van Dainig
Simple/Prepackaged meals and standard SPU cooking (Mac and Cheese ): 1
Basic/Commonly prepared meals with few ingredients (Hamburgers or Egg Salad): 2
Complex/Made from scratch foods and foods from other cultures (Homemade cherry pie or Pad Tai): 3
Intricate/Gourmet meals made with exotic ingredients or cooking methods (Beef Wellington or Fugu): 5

Meal Creation Success Matrixfrom Rotbart van Dainig
Critical Glitch: Preparer burns themselves or cuts themselves for 1P damage or a utensil can be destroyed.
Glitch: Meal is over spiced or undercooked or slightly burned.
Threshold not reached: Meal is ruined and all ingredients destroyed.
Threshold reached: Good meal that tastes like it should.
1 Net hit: A very enjoyable meal cooked and displayed attractively.
2 Net hits: A pinnacle of epicurean delight. One of the best meals the eaters has ever had.
3 Net hits: An astounding feat of culinary artistry that few can match.



EDIT: Clarified the skills used in cooking checks. Lowered successes so no successes is OK meal. Added bonuses to die pool for prepackaged meals/SPU
Used Rotbart van Dainig's threshold modifications.