With the Cook Special Meal activity, a character can prepare servings of a wide range of meals that have longer-lasting and more significant effects than simple nourishment. These special campsite meals must be eaten during the same camping session that they are prepared, as the benefits one gains from them are as much from the morale-boosting effect of enjoying a delicious meal in the wild as they are from the food itself. A character can only be under the effect of one special campsite meal at a time—that of the first one they eat during a camping session. The effects of the meal itself are determined by a skill check rolled by the cook when the meal is eaten, and they apply equally to all characters who eat servings of that particular meal.