Fans of Ryoko Kui’s popular manga and anime series Delicious in Dungeon (Dungeon Meshi) who have been craving a similar culinary twist for their tabletop adventures are in for a treat. Popular tabletop creator Pointy Hat has launched Wild Hearth, an ambitious two-volume 5E supplement currently shattering funding goals on Kickstarter. Centred around high-stakes monster cooking, foraging, and settlement management, this expansion shares that same delightful fantasy concept: turning terrifying dungeon encounters into mouth-watering, stat-boosting feasts for your adventuring party.
Slay, Chop, and Flambé Your Way Through the Bestiary
Just as viewers watch Senshi and Laios whip up gourmet meals from dungeon beasts, Wild Hearth brings those exact gameplay fantasies straight to the table. Across two core rulebooks—Recipe for Heroes and Blueprint for Adventure—players gain access to a deep monster-harvesting and cooking ecosystem. Alongside fifteen culinary-themed subclasses, including the College of Hospitality Bard and Butcher Barbarian, the supplement introduces an entire Necromancer class. Preparing harvested monster parts into gourmet dishes provides party members with crucial magical boons and stat buffs for upcoming battles.
Build Your Dream Settlement Between Dungeon Crawls
The tabletop mechanics extend well past the kitchen, featuring comprehensive town-building systems that capture a similar cozy, community-driven spirit. Players can establish their own sanctuary, cultivate magical crops, and build up a frontier hub using physical screen-printed wooden tokens and papercraft structures. To make monster-hunting adventures even richer, Pointy Hat partnered with Loot Tavern for full cross-compatibility with Heliana's Guide to Monster Hunting, ensuring every slain creature yields prime ingredients for the cooking pot.
Join the Feast on Kickstarter
Digital PDF bundles start at roughly £45 ($60), with physical dual-book collector tiers available around £75 ($99) before the campaign wraps up on 19 October 2026. The overwhelming response from the TTRPG community proves there is a massive appetite for blending survival mechanics with culinary flair. If you have ever wanted to run a campaign where fighting monsters goes hand-in-hand with running a gourmet dungeon kitchen, Wild Hearth is a must-have addition to your 5E library.
Your Fantasy Kitchen: Much like the legendary monster-cooking scenes in Delicious in Dungeon, Wild Hearth incorporates a balanced nutrition mechanic where combining different creature types and harvested ingredients grants unique, stackable buffs to your party members!
