Comments on: Chatty’s Random Thoughts: Potions

By: jason

jason — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:22:04 +0000

But Chatty, they already have that potion. It’s a wonderful little elixir called…beer!

By: ChattyDM

ChattyDM — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:59:35 +0000

@ Hal: LOL! Welcome to the blog… So you’re also living through a Shamus flood huh? Wee!

@Jason: Heaven forbid someone creates a potion of Stinking Cloud!

By: jason

jason — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:56:32 +0000

Depends on who you’ve been with, and what potions you’ve been drinking. I’m sure a potion of firebreathing kinda…ends like eating a jalapeno.

By: Hal

Hal — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:44:16 +0000

So, if it burns when you pee, is that the potion working itself out, or something that you’ve gotta see a cleric about?

By: Twenty Sided » Blog Archive » Thanks for coming, now go someplace else

Twenty Sided » Blog Archive » Thanks for coming, now go someplace else — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:03:58 +0000

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By: ChattyDM

ChattyDM — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:07:36 +0000

As much as I’m a crunch guy, I love this Rules contradiction $#17!

So basically, a Fly potion sould be a lot cheaper eh?

Edit: I can see it Gazza…

Ye old Alchemist’s Bulk shop… bring your containers!

By: GAZZA

GAZZA — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:05:03 +0000

What I found interesting is if you look at the weight of Alchemist’s Fire (flask) and Acid (flask), and compare it the weight of an empty flask…

Those alchemists, huh? Anti gravity was such a trivial thing to them that they included it in their products without even explicitly mentioning it.
This did actually come up. In one of my buddy’s current games, I’m playing a Psion Shaper, and I was intending to use Minor Creation on occasion to create this sort of thing. Since Acid, at least, can be plant based and therefore last hours, I figured I’d grab myself some empty flasks to store it in. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that filling them lowered my encumbrance…

EDIT: I suppose it’s possible that they intend to imply you don’t get the flask along with the Acid - that it’s like a service station, where you bring your flask, and they fill it for you - but I can’t remember ever playing with that assumption. I mean, if you say “The price of a flask of Acid is 10gp” I would NOT assume an implicit “… (but you must provide the flask)” went along with that.

By: Ripper X

Ripper X — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:35:18 +0000

I once drank a potion that was over three thousand years old, and it still worked, NOW THAT my friends, IS CRAFTSMANSHIP!! No sir, they just don’t make potions like that these days.

I have had lots of bad experiences with potions, namely because I’m too cheap to pay somebody to tell me what it is, and too much of a looter to show anybody that I actually found something, because . . . you know, they might take it away then.

I don’t recommend drinking lamp fuel, the only thing that hurts worse then when it goes down is when it finally leaves.

You’d think that I’d learn my lesson, especially about drinking oils, but it’s just so exciting! Makes me feel like I’m on the Price is Right and get to spin the great big wheel. WEEEEEEE!!!! That and you can make a killing by betting with your party on if you’ll do it or not, give me 100 gold and the Price is Definitely Right THEN, if you know what I mean!

RIP

Ripper X’s last blog post..Making the most of Modules

By: ChattyDM

ChattyDM — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:38:47 +0000

Weee! It’s like Retro-Stupid meets with Improv Night!

More more!

By: Lanir

Lanir — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:36:40 +0000

Last time I drank a potion my psionic tattoo started weaving around my arm and looking drunk.

I was disturbed.