Zelda Custom Rules
We are playing 5E D&D Zelda by u/ninjabreadbear. You can read the rules here. We are also using the monster manuals by Caleb Wichman and u/gowronatemybaby7
Cooking and Alchemy
A character with Proficiency in (and access to) Alchemist's Supplies, a Herbalism Kit, or Cook's Utensils can use them to create food or elixirs using ingredients, animals, and monster parts.
Foraging
| Ability Check Result | Number of Ingredients |
|---|---|
| 5 or below | 0 ingredients |
| 6-10 | 1d4 common ingredients |
| 11-15 | 2d4 common ingredients |
| 16-20 | 1d4 rare ingredients |
| 21+ | 1d6 rare ingredients |
To forage, spend a long rest (or 1 day) and test Nature or Survival (as appropriate).
If foraging during a short rest, collect half as much.
If foraging at sea, you must have a fishing kit.
If foraging from a corpse, gain advantage if you have Butcher's Tools.
Harvesting
Some bastion facilities can harvest monster parts or special ingredients, using a Harvest order. When you issue a Harvest: Materials order, the facility harvests 1d8 common or 1d6 rare ingredients (your choice), rolling on the approrpiate foraging tables.
- Adventurer's Guild
- Roll on the Monster Butchery table.
- Fishing Shack
- Roll on the River or Ocean forage table, depending on where the shack is located.
- Garden
- Roll on the forage table for the area in which the garden is located.
- Greenhouse
- Pick a region of Hyrule when you create the Greenhouse. When you harvest, harvest from that area. You can change the area by telling its hierling to change it from one region to another. This work takes 21 days, during which time no other activity can occur in the Greenhouse.
Cooking
Cooking allows you to create normal food, tasty meals, and food with special effects. Food with special effects requires one or more special ingredients (such as Mighty Bananas or Voltfin Trout).
During a rest you can make a meal with one or more ingredients. Make a Cook's Utensils check as follows:
| Special Ingredients | DC |
|---|---|
| 1 | 10 |
| 2 | 15 |
| 3 | 20 |
A meal feeds 1 person. For each additional copy of the same special ingredient, or additional normal ingredient, add 1 serving. A portion of rations counts as one normal ingredient. Increasing the serving size does not raise the DC.
The effect of the meal depends on the ingredients used. Adding additional, different, ingredients, with the same effect, stacks those effects, for example a meal containing a Chillshroom and a Cool Safflina gives two stacks of Chilly. An effect marked does not stack means that only the highest bonus applies.
See Also: List of Ingredients, Zelda Wiki Foodstuffs
Types of Meal
| Chilly | Reduce fire damage taken by 1 per stack | |
| Cooling | Reduce DC of hot weather checks by 5 per stack | |
| Electro | Reduce lightning damage taken by 1 per stack | |
| Enduring | Ignore one level of Exhaustion per stack | |
| Energising | +1 HP per stack recovered per Hit Dice used | |
| Fireproof | Confers fire resistance | does not stack |
| Hasty | Confers +1ft movement speed per stack | |
| Hearty | Confers 1 temporary HP per stack | |
| Lucky | Gives inspiration | does not stack |
| Mighty | Confers +1 bonus damage per stack | |
| Restorative | Gain this many HP when eating | |
| Sneaky | Confers +1 stealth per stack | |
| Spicy | Reduce cold damage taken by 1 per stack | |
| Sticky | Confers +1 althetics per stack when climbing | |
| Swimming | Confers +1 athlethics per stack when swimming | |
| Tasty | +1 HP per Hit Dice spent while eating | no special ingredient required |
| Tough | Reduce physical damage taken by 1 | does not stack |
| Warming | Reduce DC of cold weather checks by 5 per stack | |
| Water-Breathing | Can breathe under water |
Spices
Spices (such as Rock Salt or Chickaloo Nuts) can be used as a special ingredient that gives +1 stack of another ingredient in the meal without increasing the DC to cook it. For example a meal containing a Chillshroom and Rock Salt gives Chilly 2. Only one spice counts in this way for any meal.
Elixirs
Elixirs are one-shot potions with short term enhancing effects. Each elixir requires a minimum of 1 monster part (such as Octorok Eyeballs or Bokoblin Horns) and 1 effect-conferring material (such as a Restless Cricket). Additional effect-conferring items each count as 100 rupees worth of materials for figuring the cost for each point of effect they confer, or can enhance the produced result. (In the case that an additional item increases the effect, it does not also reduce the cost.)
Elixir materials weigh 1 pound for each 500 rupees worth of materials.
During a long rest, you can use Alchemist's Supplies and materials to make one Elixir, or alchemical item (acid, alchemist's fire, antitoxin, oil, perfume, or soap), spending materials equal to one half the item's cost. Materials from more powerful monsters give access to longer-lasting Elixirs.
During a long rest, you can use a Herbalism Kit and plant-based materials to make an Enduring, Energising, or Healing Elixir, spending materials equal to one half the item's cost. Materials from more powerful monsters give access to longer-lasting Elixirs.
See Also: List of Monster Parts
Types of Elixir
| Beast Elixir | You have the effects of Animal Friendship | Any three animal parts | 1,000 rupees |
| Bright Elixir | Confers necrotic resistance | Glowing 4 | 1,000 rupees |
| Chilly Elixir | Confers fire resistance | Cooling 4 | 1,000 rupees |
| Chuchu Elixir | As Oil of Slipperiness | Any three chuchu jelly | 2,000 rupees |
| Electro Elixir | Confers lightning resistance | Electro 4 | 1,000 rupees |
| Enduring Elixir | Temporarily ignore Exhaustion | Energizing 4 (+1 level / additional 5 energising) | 2,500 rupees |
| Energising Elixir | Replenish a Hit Dice | Energizing 3 (+1 HD / additional 5 energising) | 1,000 rupees |
| Firebreathing Elixir | Bonus, 30ft fire attack DC13 or 2d6 damage | Fire Fruit (+1d6 / additional 5 spicy) | 1,000 rupees |
| Fireproof Elixir | Confers fire immunity | Fireproof 2 | 2,000 rupees |
| Hasty Elixir | Confers +10ft movement speed | Hasty 3 (+1ft / additional hasty) | 1,000 rupees |
| Healing Elixir | Heal 2d4+2 HP | Restorative 3 | 250 rupees |
| Greater Healing Elixir | Heal 4d4+4 HP | Restorative 6 (+1HP / additional restorative) | 1,000 rupees |
| Healthy Elixir | Cures diseases, blinded, deafened, paralyzed and poisoned | Hearty 10 | 20,000 rupees |
| Hearty Elixir | Confers +1d6 temporary HP | Hearty (+1 HP / additional hearty) | 500 rupees |
| Icebreathing Elixir | Bonus, 30ft ice attack DC13 or 2d6 damage | Ice Fruit (+1d6 / additional 5 chilly) | 1,000 rupees |
| Invulnerable Elixir | Confers resistance to all damage | Tough 10 | 20,000 rupees |
| Lightning Elixir | Bonus, 30ft lightning attack DC13 or 2d6 damage | Shock Fruit (+1d6 / additional 5 electro) | 1,000 rupees |
| Lucky Elixir | Add +1d4 to each ability check or saving throw | Lucky | 10,000 rupees |
| Mighty Elixir | Confers +2 bonus damage | Mighty 2 (+1 damage / additional 5 mighty) | 1,000 rupees |
| Sneaky Elixir | Confers +5 stealth | Sneaky 5 (+1 stealth / additional 2 sneaky) | 1,000 rupees |
| Spicy Elixir | Confers cold resistance | Spicy 4 | 1,000 rupees |
| Sticky Elixir | You gain a climb speed equal to your movement spead | Sticky (increase duration one step / additional sticky 2) | 500 rupees |
| Tough Elixir | Confers physical damage resistance | Tough 2 | 4,000 rupees |
Durations
The default duration of an elixir is 1 minute. More powerful monster parts can create longer effects. Only the highest tier ingrredient counts for duration, but you must use an additional part of that tier for each full 1000 rupees of the elixir's cost. For example, to extend a 4000r elixir to ten minutes, you must use four tier 2 parts.
- 1 minute — 10-20 rupees to buy
ancient screw, bokoblin horn, chuchu jelly, keese wing, lizalfos horn, octo balloon, construct horn - 10 minutes — 40-60 rupees to buy
ancient gear, ancient shaft, bokoblin/moblin fang, elemental keese wing, hinox toenail, lizalfos talon, octorok tentacle, chuchu jelly, captain construct horn, horriblin horn - 30 minutes — 150-200 rupees to buy
ancient core, lizalfos tail, hinox tooth, moblin guts, bokoblin heart, lynel horn, octorock eyeball, gleeok wing, frox guts, silver bokoblin parts - 1 hour — 400-1000 rupees to buy
giant ancient core, hinox guts, moblin heart, lynel guts, lynel heart, dragon parts, elemental gleeok parts
Alternatively, additional monster parts can reduce the elixir cost as follows: 50 rupees, 100 rupees, 500 rupees, 2000 rupees.
Example
In the following example, an Octo Balloon, and many Mighty Bananas are used to make a Mighty Elixir.
- Octo Balloon — base material, confers 1min duration.
- Mighty Bananas x2 — give the base Mighty 2 required.
- Mighty Bananas x6 — additional Mighty materials used to reduce the cost by 600 rupees.
- Mighty Bananas x5 — additional Mighty materials used to add +1 damage.
The final recipe is:
- 1x Octo Balloon
- 13x Mighty Bannana
- 400 rupees
- Effect: +3 damage for 1 minute
Bastions
Branch Post Office
Level 9 Bastion Facility
Prerequisite: Contact with the Rito Postal Service
Order: Trade
A branch of the Rito postal service is located in your base. When you take a Bastion Turn while away from your base, but in a place with a Rito postal office, you can send an order to one of your facilities instead of having it take the Maintain order.
Trade. When you issue the trade order, the branch post office accepts deliveries of parcels and letters and collects the appropriate delivery fees. At the end of the seventh day, roll 1d10 and consult the following table to determine your portion of the fees collected.
| 1d8 | Income |
|---|---|
| 1-7 | 200r (20GP) |
| 8-9 | 400r (40GP) |
| 10 | 600r (60GP) |
Fishing Shack
Level 5 Bastion Facility
Prerequisite: Located on a body of water
Order: Harvest
The fishing shack the base of operation for a fisherman who catches fish on a regular basis.
Harvest: Ocean's Bounty. When you issue the harvest order, the facility catches enough fish to make 50 pounds worth of dried fish. Each pound of dried fish counts as 2 pounds of rations. The work takes 7 days and costs no money.