Going on a Hunt

Primer

Your Role on a Hunt

When your party goes on a hunt or heads out on an expedition, you choose a role from the ones detailed below. Each role can be only chosen by one character, except for the spotter role.

Sometimes the party may split up. When split into groups of two the only roles available are the trailblazer and spotter.

If someone is alone, they are both the trailblazer and spotter, but they either have to choose to take disadvantage on their survival roll for finding signs or take a -4 to their passive perception.

Artisan - Primary Skill: Cooking Utensils, Three highest Ability Scores

The artisan can cook a meal for the party at the start of a hunt and during a short or long rest (if they choose to), granting all who eat it a boon to help them on their hunt/journey/day. See below for more details on cooking.

Trailblazer - Primary Skill: Survival

The trailblazer is the leader of the group and is the one who makes the final decision on which direction the group should go on a hunt. Whenever the group enters an area (new or old), the trailblazer rolls a survival check vs the creatures Carve DC to determine what type of complications or benefits the party encounters. Alternatively, if the party is not hunting anything specific or just traversing the area, the trailblazer rolls against the location's Navigation DC.

On a failure the GM rolls a d10 on the finding signs table, on a success the GM rolls a d20 instead. On a critical, the GM rolls a 2d20 and takes the highest roll, on a nat 1 the GM rolls 2d10 and takes the lowest roll.

Note that all these rolls are specifically to set the scene, and the party learns none of the results until the scout and spotters do their part.

Scout - Primary Skill: Perception, Stealth

The scout is the frontrunner of the group and the initial person who enters an area. They quietly scout the areas ahead and typically report their findings back to the group to let them know about the lay of the land, potential resources, creatures in the area, or potential hazards. Though it's not unheard of them waiting for the group to reach them instead.

When a scout notices a potential spot for an ambush it gives the spotter a +4 bonus to their perception.

Spotter - Primary Skill: passive Perception

The spotter is responsible for keeping an eye out while the rest of the group focuses on their tasks. They use their passive perception to scope out for any ambushes or dangers missed initially by the scout. If the group stated an intend to gather resources at the beginning of the hunt, the spotter is also able to spot resources with their passive Investigation; forgoing the need for manual checks, but only if it is higher than the Investigation DC of the location they are in.

There can be 2 spotters, the 2nd spotter gives a +4 perception bonus to the other, but does not provide any bonus to the original spotter's passive investigation.

Finding Resources

When a character attempts to locate resources to gather from while on a hunt, they must make an Intelligence (Investigation) check against the locations Investigation DC. On a success, the GM determines what type of resources are nearby. Typically ore will be found in caves, fish could be found in underground lakes or in rivers, etc. When you go searching for bones, you will typically find them only in lairs. You may also find them, rarely, out in the open depending on the environment you are in.

Each region has a limit on the amount of times a Resource check can be made on a Hunt.

When a character attempts to fish, mine, catch insects, or gather plants they must make a skill check against the Resources DC in addition to having the proper equipment to gather the material with. A character must have fishing tackle to fish, a mining pick to mine for ore, a bug net for catching insects, or an herbalist kit to gather plants and mushrooms. A character can attempt to gather plants and mushrooms without a herbalist kit, but does so at disadvantage. A natural 1 on the skill check leads to your tool breaking.

If the character succeeds on the check, they roll a d6 and receive the item listed in the resources table on the location stat block.

Bonepiles	Intelligence (Nature) or Wisdom (Survival) check against the locations Bonepile resource DC.
Mushrooms	Intelligence (Nature) or Wisdom (Survival) check against the locations Mushroom resource DC
Plants	Intelligence (Nature) or Wisdom (Survival) check against the locations Plant resource DC
Fish	Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check against the location's Fish resource DC
Minerals	Strength (Athletics) check against the locations Mineral resource DC
Insects	Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check against the locations Insect resource DC

Tracking down your prey

Tracking down the creature the party is hunting is the main goal of monster hunters.

So how do we find the creature? This creature is in the wilderness; it travels around, leaves signs, and acts like any animal would. That is what the hunting system is designed to represent. The party travels around the creature's territory, dealing with environmental hazards, skill challenges, and other creatures while searching for signs of their prey. If lucky, they might stumble on surprising benefits as well.

The party must discover signs of the creature: distant roars, tracks, marking, fresh kills, etc. The party will need to typically find between 3 and 5 signs. Once they do, they locate the monster and the final battle of the hunt begins.

However, when you are on a hunt, the creature you are looking for is not the only one in the area. You may find signs that do not belong to the monster you are looking for – they might be similar or even completely different. Once you find 3-5 of these false signs, a hard or deadly encounter occurs.

Obtaining Monster Materials

Carving

Carving your kills is one of 2 ways to obtain materials while on a hunt. When you attempt to carve a creature, make a Dexterity (Survival) check against the creatures Carve DC. On a success, roll a d20 and compare the results to the creatures loot table. On a failed save, treat the roll as if they rolled a 1 on the loot table. When you roll a natural 20 on a Carve check, you roll an additional d20 and add that number to the loot table roll. The new number is the material found on that carve check. Any total higher than 20, counts as if a 20 was rolled.

Carve DC = 10 + 1/2 of the creatures CR rounded down

Capturing

Certain creatures can be captured. A creature that can be captured will have a Capture section of their loot table. A captured creature may provide loot that you are unable to obtain, an increased or decreased chance to obtain certain loot that you may have gotten from carving. When you capture a creature, you obtain a number of materials as labeled in the creatures loot table. No check is made, but the material is not gathered until you return to town. To capture creatures, you need Tranq Bombs or Tranq ammo.

On a hit with either, roll 5d8. If the target is below 25% of its maximum hit points and its remaining hits points are below the number rolled, it falls unconscious for 24 hours.

You can hit a creature with up to three tranq bombs or ammo. Adding the total of each tranq bomb or ammo together. If the creature does not fall unconscious after a third tranq bomb or ammo, it becomes immune to their effect for 24 hours.

A creature that does not have a capture loot table, is immune to tranq bombs or ammo.

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How to cook a Meal

Took cook a meal you need to have Cook's Utensils.

When getting ready to cook a meal as an artisan, the first thing to do is to decide on what you want to cook and ensuring you have the ingredients required for the meal. Below you will find a list of tables with meal names, ingredients, the DC required to cook the meal, and the boon they grant. More recipes will become available to you as you increase your hunter rank. You are able to cook rank 2 meals at 5th level, rank 3 meals at 10th level, rank 4 meals at 15th level.

The ingredients themselves should be easy to obtain. They might find them near the campsite as part of preparing the meal or be able to purchase them in town for for a portion large enough to prepare a meal for a party of four. However, there is always a cost when cooking a meal. Whether you use your supplies to go out and collect local foliage and fauna or purchase it in the market. The cost of preparing a meal depends on its rank. A Rank 1 meal costs 1 sp per serving (4 sp for a party of 4); Rank 2 meals 1 gp (4 gp); Rank 3 meals, 5 gp (20 gp); and Rank 4 meals, 10 gp (40 gp).

As a game mechanic, there are multiple steps in creating a meal: deciding on the recipe/what to cook, gathering ingredients, preparing the ingredients, cooking the meal, plating it properly.

Choose three of the steps from the list above and one of the six main ability scores for each step. You cannot use the same ability score on different steps. Then describe how you use that ability score for the step you chose and make an ability score check. The DM may impose disadvantage on the check if the description is wildly improbable to work or not allow the roll. A creature that is proficient with Cook's Utensils can add their proficiency bonus to one of the three ability score checks.

Once the you have made your three checks, the DM takes the average of the checks and compares them to the DC of the meal you are attempting to make.

On a successful check the meal counts as a days ration for any who eat it and they gain the boon the meal provides. If the artisan succeeds by 4 or more, roll once on the Daily Skill list. If they succeed by 8 or more, roll twice on the Daily Skill list.

On a failed check it becomes a bland meal and counts as 1 days ration. If the artisan fails the check by 5 or more, it does not count as a ration and any creature who eats the meal must succeed on a Constitution saving throw equal to the meal's DC or become poisoned for 1 hour.

At Rank 1 the meal's DC is increased by 1 for each serving over 4. Beginning Rank 2, the meal's DC is increased by 2 for each serving over 4.

Let's look at an Example:

Zuri the half-orc fighter has taken on the role of artisan on a hunt in the Verdant Hills. As the group wakes up in the early morning she begins preparing a meal for all of them. The following is what the player describes:

Zuri looks around and spies some fruit high up in a tree that she thinks she could turn into a sauce. She climbs up the tree (Strength) plucking the fruit as she goes. Back at the campfire with fruit in hand, she thinks about the type of meal she wants to make (Intelligence). Deciding on the meal, Zuri spends the rest of her time over a sweltering hot fire (Constitution) cooking the meal to perfection.

This example doesn't go into excruciating detail, and in some cases allows the player to make some things up. I didn't have Zuri make a perception check to find the fruit, instead the Strength check either allowed her to gather as many as she wanted for the meal or perhaps on a failed save, they aren't ripe, already rotting when she gets to them, or they are on small thin branches preventing her from getting more than few of them. Most importantly, passing or failing on a single check does not matter. What matters is if Zuri succeeded well enough overall to pass the meals check DC.

On a successful check, Zuri was able to create the meal even though she may have experienced a few hiccups along the way and could be narratively described based on the checks that scored below the meals DC. Say she failed on her strength but succeeded on both the intelligence and constitution checks. Narratively it could be described as Zuri struggling to find enough fruit for the meal, but made up for its missing component by adjusting the recipe and taking the meal off the fire a little earlier than normal to deal with this challenge.

On a failed check, Zuri was unable to create the meal as she had planned, this could be due to a lack of fruit she was able to obtain, her recipe was incorrect, or perhaps she removed it from the fire too soon. Depending on how badly she failed the check, it could still be edible, but bland, or it could cause someone some stomach issues for a bit.

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Meal Recipes

Rank	DC	Food Name	Boon
1	10	Aged Cheese	You count as if you were one size larger for the purpose of determining your carrying capacity.
1	10	Carefree Yogurt	You gain the same benefits as if you drank a cool drink.
1	10	Cube Steak	You can doff or don your armor as an action.
1	10	Fruity Jam	You have advantage on Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) checks to catch insects.
1	10	Furahiya Cola	You gain the same benefits as if you drank a hot drink.
1	10	Hardtack	Reduces the casting time of rituals by half.
1	10	Mild Herbs	Once per meal, you can roll a d4 and add the number rolled to one saving throw of your choice. You can roll the die before or after making the saving throw.
1	10	Moofa Butter	Once per meal, when you fail a Constitution saving throw to maintain concentration, you can reroll the d20, taking the new result.
1	10	Northern Orange	Your passive Perception is increased by 1.
1	10	Sliced Cactus	As a bonus action, you can make a DC 15 Dexterity (Acrobatics) check. If you succeed, difficult terrain doesn't cost you extra movement until the end of the current turn.
1	10	Snake Salmon	You have advantage on Wisdom (Athletics) checks to catch fish.
1	10	Snowy Rice	While holding your weapon in darkness it sheds moonlight, creating bright light in a 15-foot radius and dim light for an additional 15 feet.
1	10	Spicy Sausage	Once per meal, you can roll a d4 and add the number rolled to one ability check of your choice. You can roll the die before or after making the ability check.
1	10	Spotted Onion	You have blindsight out to a range of 5 feet.
1	10	Tuna Head	Your swim speed is increased by 5 feet.
1	10	Wild Bacon	Your walking speed is increased by 5 feet.
1	10	Young Potato	If you do not expend any hit die on a short rest, you regain one instead.
1	10	Zamtrios Caviar	One creature that eats this meal (artisan's choice) adds an extra 1d4 to Intelligence (Investigation) checks to find resources.
2	13	Buffalo Butter	Once per meal, you may ignore the verbal and/or somatic components of a spell you are casting.
2	13	Chili Cheese	When you would take fall damage, you reduce the damage you take by your proficiency bonus.
2	13	Cudgel Onion	Your life signs become imperceptible by nonmagical means.
2	13	Curved Shrimp	You can breathe underwater.
2	13	Frozen Apples	Your passive Perception is increased by 2.
2	13	Great Mutton	You gain the same benefits as if you had the Athlete feat, but it does not increase your ability score.
2	13	Juicy Rib Roast	You gain the same benefits as if you had the Actor feat, but it does not increase your ability score.
2	13	Meatwagon	You can sense the presence and location of poisons, poisonous creatures, and diseases within 30 feet of you.
2	13	Panish	Once per meal, when you fail a carve check, you can reroll the d20 and take the new roll.
2	13	Mosswinechops	You have advantage on Intelligence (Nature) checks to gather plants and mushrooms.
2	13	Rare Onion	You can use a bonus action to conjure two earplugs in the shape of your choice. While using these earplugs, you are considered deafened. You can dispel the ear plugs as a bonus action ending the deafened effect.
2	13	Spicy Carrots	When you take the dodge action on your turn, until the start of your next turn, any damage you take is reduced by an amount equal to your Dexterity modifier.
2	13	Spicy Herbs	Choose a rank 1 meal that has a once per meal effect. You gain that meals effect and it can now be used twice per meal.
2	13	Spiky Blowfish	Ranged weapons can be fired underwater at no penalty.
2	13	Succulent Rice	A creature that eats this meal gains the same benefits as if the aid spell was cast on them. This meal can be cooked at a higher rank (+2 to the DC for each rank higher), increasing level of the spell cast by 1 for each rank.
2	13	Velklondike Bar	Once per meal when you roll on a creature's loot table, you can choose to reroll it and take the new roll.
2	13	Western Parsley	You have advantage on Strength (Athletic) checks to mine ore.
2	13	Wild Mushrooms	The artisan receives an omen as if by the augury spell. The omen they receive is about all who eat the meal, not just the themselves.
3	14	Ancient Beans	You gain the same benefits as if you had the Tavern Brawler feat, but it does not increase your ability score.
3	14	Burning Mango	Your passive Perception is increased by 3.
3	14	Cannon Lettuce	If your Dexterity score is over 15, you have advantage on Initiative rolls.
3	14	Dragon Foot	You can understand any spoken language you hear, but you cannot speak it.
3	14	Emperor's Strudel	You have advantage on intimidation and persuasion checks when interacting with lynians for 8 hours.
3	14	Empress' Strudel	You have advantage on intimidation and persuasion checks when interacting with wyverians for 8 hours.
3	14	Gator Ribmeat	You ignore difficult terrain if it was not created by a magical effect.
3	14	Horseshoe Crab	Your walking speed is increased by 10 feet.
3	14	King Squid	You have advantage on ability checks made to resist being grappled.
3	14	Kokoto Rice	You automatically succeed on all Strength (Athletics) checks when mining.
3	14	Lifejam	Once per meal, when you must make a saving throw, you can choose to do so with advantage.
3	14	Megabagel	You have advantage on all carve checks.
3	14	Pink Caviar	You can breath underwater and you have a swim speed of 60 feet.
3	14	Princess Pork	A single creature that eats this meal gains the same benefits as if they had the Inspiring Leader feat.
3	14	Queen Shrimp	You have darkvision out to 60 feet for 24 hours.
3	14	Royale Cheese	You gain the same benefits as if you had the Dungeon Delver feat.
3	14	Scented Celery	A single creature (artisan's choice) that eats this meal gains the ability to cast the earthbind spell once within the next 8 hours and they do not have to concentrate on the spell. The spell save DC is 15 or their spellcasting save DC, whichever is higher.
3	14	Tasty Rice	You gain the same benefits as if you had the Keen Mind feat, but you can only recall anything you have seen or heard since your last meal.
4	16	1000-Year Crab	Once per meal, when you miss with a melee weapon attack, you can choose to hit instead.
4	16	Bigmeat	Once per meal, you can use your action to teleport yourself back to the location where you ate this meal, so long as it is within 1 mile of where you are at.
4	16	Crimson Seabream	Once per meal, as an action, you can cast the misty step spell, without using a spell slot or any components.
4	16	Demonshroom	You have advantage on Constitution saving throws.
4	16	Dragon Head	You can speak telepathically with any creature who ate this meal so long as they are within 60 feet of you.
4	16	Dragon Tail	When you would take fall damage, you reduce the damage you take by half your character level.
4	16	Emerald Durian	Your passive Perception is increased by 4.
4	16	Fatty Tomato	Once per meal, when you take damage from any source, you can reduce that damage to 0.
4	16	Gold Rice	You have advantage on saving throws against the poisoned condition.
4	16	Gold Rice	You have advantage on saving throws against the poisoned condition.
4	16	Goldenfish Brew	Dim light doesn’t impose disadvantage on your Wisdom (Perception) checks relying on sight.
4	16	Hairy Tuna	Once per meal, you can add a d10 roll to any ability check, attack roll, or saving throw you make.
4	16	Heaven Bread	Once per meal, you can use a bonus action to regenerate a number of hit points equal to 10 + your character level.
4	16	King Truffle	Roll two daily skills.
4	16	King Turkey	You gain a flying speed of 30 feet.
4	16	Kirin Cheese	You gain inspiration.
4	16	Soul Beans	You are able to find the most direct physical route to a specific fixed location that you are familiar with on the same plane of existence.

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Daily Skills

If the skill doesn't specify a duration, the effect lasts for 24 hours, until you finish a long rest, or until you eat another meal. When you roll on the daily skill list below, roll a 1d20 + 1d6 - 1.

1	Felyne Weathercat. Foul weather occurs more often during a quest (Heavy rain, blizzards, sandstorms, etc).
2	Felyne Swimmer. Your swim speed is increased by 15 feet.
3	Felyne Fur Coating. You take half as much damage from environmental hazards and blight effects.
4	Felyne Gatherer (Lo). Increase the number of resources you can gain on a hunt by 2.
5	Felyne Backer. Prevents being knocked prone when transporting items.
6	Felyne Provoker. When a creature within 5 feet of you is hit by a melee weapon attack, you can use your reaction to redirect the damage to you.
7	Felyne Researcher. You are able to immediately identify any materials effects as soon as you touch them. Additionally, you can add both your Wisdom and Intelligence ability modifiers to any one History or Nature check.
8	Felyne Escape Artist. You have advantage on Strength (Athletics) and Dexterity (Acrobatics) checks when attempting to escape from a creature or object that has you grappled or restrained.
9	Felyne Insurance. The first time you or an ally drops to 0 hit points on the hunt, they instead drop to 1 hit point.
10	Felyne Crafter. You have a +2 bonus to crafting checks.
11	Felyne Medic. Health recovery items add 1 extra die.
12	Felyne Fisher. You have advantage on skill checks when fishing.
13	Felyne Sprinter. When you take the dash action, you can move an extra 10 feet.
14	Felyne Gatherer (Hi). Double the amount of resources you can gain on a hunt.
15	Felyne Cliffhanger. You have a climbing speed of 20 feet.
16	Felyne Lander. You always land on your feet when falling from a height greater than 10 feet. This does not prevent the damage you would still take.
17	Felyne Parting Gift. The first time an ally drops to 0 hit points during a hunt, they can choose up to 6 creatures in a 30-foot radius of them. Those creatures are healed for 2d6 hit points.
18	Felyne Dungmaster. A creature hit by a dung bomb must succeed on a DC 12 Constitution saving throw or immediately use its reaction, if available, to move as far as its speed allows away from you. The creature doesn't move into obviously dangerous ground, such as fire or a pit.
19	Felyne Inspiration. You gain inspiration.
20	Felyne Foodie. The food bonus lasts for 48 hours, you cannot become inebriated during this time, and you can cast the thaumaturgy spell at will.
21	Felyne Courage. If you are frightened, you can choose to repeat your saving throw at the start of your turn instead of the end.
22	Felyne Rider. You have advantage on checks to stay mounted on monsters.
23	Felyne Cleats. Your movement is unaffected by the first 15 feet of difficult terrain (magical or otherwise) you move through on your turn.
24	Felyne Bomb Expert. Barrel bombs and thrown bombs gain a +1 bonus to their range attack roll or save DC.
25	Felyne Oracle. Hunt begins with one sign found.

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