Dragon Stew – A 5E Cooking Supplement

Stir some magic into your next adventure.

What happens when dinner becomes the quest?

Dragon Stew is an illustrated 5th Edition cooking supplement written and illustrated by Antonio Demico of Pointy Hat Studios, bringing culinary adventures, character options, fantastical ingredients, and cooking mechanics to the tabletop.

Designed to fit into an existing 5e game or become the foundation for an adventure of its own, Dragon Stew gives players and Game Masters tools for making food part of the story—not simply something the party eats during a long rest.

Cook together. Compete. Experiment with ingredients. Acquire an unusually adorable kitchen assistant.

Presumably someone should keep an eye on the stove.

Put Cooking on the Character Sheet

Dragon Stew introduces rules and character options that make cooking something your adventurer can actually do.

Its modular mechanics can be incorporated into an existing campaign when food becomes part of the adventure or used more extensively for a game where culinary exploits take center stage.

Use the material to create cooking challenges, competitions, crafting opportunities, and character moments around the table—or send the party on an adventure where acquiring dinner is considerably more complicated than visiting the market.

Cooking Classes

For characters who take their culinary ambitions seriously, cooking-focused character options bring food directly into character creation and development.

These options give players ways to build adventurers whose relationship with food is more than backstory flavor, integrating the theme into the mechanics of the game.

Meet the Dessert Familiars

Because apparently regular familiars weren't delicious enough.

Dessert Familiars bring a particularly whimsical corner of Dragon Stew to the table, introducing magical companions inspired by sweet treats.

Helpful?

Potentially.

Adorable?

Much more reliably.

What’s Inside

Cooking rules for bringing culinary challenges into your 5e adventures

Cooking-focused character options

Dessert Familiars and other fantastical companions

Rules for competitions & culinary challenges

Crafting and food-related mechanics

Illustrated lore & setting material

Modular content that can be incorporated into an existing campaign

Adventure inspiration for building food-centered stories of your own

Add Dragon Stew to Your Campaign

You don't need to turn your entire campaign into a cooking competition to use Dragon Stew.

Bring out its mechanics when your characters enter a culinary contest.

Make a particular ingredient the reason for an expedition.

Let a character's interest in cooking become part of their identity.

Build a one-shot around food, hospitality, or a particularly difficult dinner service.

Or lean all the way in and discover just how much trouble an adventuring party can create when somebody gives them access to a kitchen.

Why We Love It

It turns flavor into mechanics. Rather than simply telling you that your character loves to cook, Dragon Stew gives the table systems for actually making cooking part of play.

You can use as much as you want. The modular approach means a campaign can borrow a culinary mechanic or character option without needing to reorganize itself around dinner.

Food creates excellent stories. Gathering ingredients, cooking together, competing, sharing meals, and inevitably making a mess give characters reasons to interact that have nothing to do with defeating the next monster.

It has a sense of humor about itself. Dessert Familiars. That's really all the evidence we require.

Book Details

Title: Dragon Stew
Written & illustrated by: Antonio Demico / Pointy Hat Studios
Format: Hardcover
Dimensions: 11.25" × 8.75" × .75"
System: 5th Edition fantasy roleplaying
Type: Cooking rules & character supplement
Includes: Cooking mechanics, character options, Dessert Familiars, culinary challenges, crafting & setting material
Use: Modular supplement for existing campaigns or food-focused adventures
Publisher: Hit Point Press

Please note: Dragon Stew is a 5th Edition tabletop roleplaying supplement, not a standalone RPG. A 5e-compatible core ruleset is needed to use the game material.

About Antonio Demico

Antonio Demico, creator of Pointy Hat Studios, writes and illustrates imaginative tabletop RPG material with a distinctive visual style and a fondness for finding unexpected corners of fantasy gaming to explore.

About Hit Point Press

Hit Point Press creates tabletop games, settings, adventures, and accessories built around imaginative worlds and collaborative storytelling, giving players and Game Masters new ways to bring creativity, character, and occasionally dessert to the table.

Save the world. Make dinner. Order of operations is up to you.