Questions tagged [potions]
For questions about potions, liquids that when imbibed confer magical effects.
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Are Experimental Elixirs Magic Items?
I admittedly can't get a straight answer on a seemingly simple question. I would like to recreate Pathfinder 1e's Vivisectionist by making a Alchemist Artificer/Rogue multiclass, and I was wondering ...
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Potions crafting - homebrew ideas [closed]
I am not satisfied entirely with DnD 5e potions crafting. I am considering to implement simple system, which doesn't take so much time of downtime activity to craft, but needs specific ingredients. ...
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Would it harm game balance to allow potions to be self-administered with a bonus action?
Potion usage costs an action according to RAW, as stated in the DMG on page 139:
Drinking or administering a potion takes an action.
However, I have heard of GM's house-ruling that PC's may use a ...
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Can you have a potion of Inflict Serious Wounds?
Can you create a potion of Inflict Serious (etc.) Wounds?
If so, does it give you the ability to do a touch attack which does the Inflict, or does it Inflict the wounds on the drinker?
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Does Potion of Maximum Power maximize all damage dice of a duration-based spell?
The first time you cast a damage-dealing spell of 4th level or lower
within 1 minute after drinking the potion, instead of rolling dice to determine the damage dealt, you can instead use the highest ...
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Do you need to succeed a DC 11 flat check to administer a potion to a creature you can't see?
I'm blinded and have a health potion in hand that I want to administer to an ally in an adjacent square.
Do I need to succeed at a DC 11 flat check due to the ally being hidden from me? If yes, would ...
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What effect does a potion of giant strength have upon a monster?
An adventure module I own indicates that as soon as a fight breaks out, the villian's quasit minion will drink a potion of hill giant strength.
Looking at the quasit stat block, I am assuming its claw(...
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What are the best buff spells for a 10th level party to use on a fighter for a 1v1 arena vs a dragon?
A party consisting of a 10th level fighter, wizard, druid, and cleric are in a situation where the fighter will be planeshifted into a planar arena to fight a dragon. They don't know the nature of ...
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Does Accelerated Drinker apply to anything other than potions?
I am trying to make a Drunken Brute Unchained Barbarian, and I came across the Combat Trait Accelerated Drinker. It allows you to drink a potion as a move action, presumably still provoking AOO since ...
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Can a character draw a potion from another person's backpack and administer it in a single round?
I think it's a common question but nonetheless. If the fighter falls down, can another character move to him, find a potion in his backpack and administer it to him in a single round?
I know that you ...
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Potion Miscibility: growth and fire breath
Since our session zero we've included the Potion Miscibility variant rule but never used it 'til now.
The party (lvl 5 now) has hoarded quite a few potions - all common or uncommon level - and only ...
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When using the Mixing Potions variant rule, if a 100 is rolled on the Potion Miscibility table, does the DM choose the permanent effect?
When using the Mixing Potions variant rule, if a 100 is rolled on the Potion Miscibility table, is the choice of permanent effects up to the DM?
The rules for rolling 100 on mixing potions is:
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Potion of Protection from Arrows 15/magic?
According to the SRD:
https://www.d20srd.org/srd/magicItems/potionsAndOils.htm
It lists a Potion of Protection from Arrows with 15/magic is this a mistake? According to the spell this should not be ...
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Are potions and breakable things carried by a character broken or damaged when a character falls?
I'm referring to damage from falling from a height, but also from when a character falls on their face when they become unconscious. Does a saving throw or other mechanism exist to handle equipment ...
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Are common potions of healing considered magic items?
I just had a session, and there was an argument about this. One player said potions of healing are always magic items – but another player said that according to D&D Beyond, it isn't always a ...
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Beauty enhancing potions or oils
I am planning an NPC, that thinks herself to be not good looking to an extend, that she wants to change her appearance.
She is not a magic user, but a rather wealthy character that can afford to buy ...
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Do the effects of a Potion of Speed or Potion of Heroism disappear if the character becomes unconscious?
If a player is under the effect of a potion of speed:
When you drink this potion, you gain the effect of the haste spell for 1 minute (no concentration required). The potion’s yellow fluid is ...
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Are crafted items counted in the magic item progression from XGtE?
The term healing potions in this context refers to the ensemble of {Potion of Healing; Potion of Greater Healing; Potion of Superior Healing; Potion of Supreme Healing}, not to the item Potion of ...
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How do you determine specifications of scrolls/potions in prewritten adventures?
I'm currently GMing the Hell's Rebels campaign as my first dive into the system.
I'm currently unsure how scrolls and potions found in the adventure have to be specified. The source material does ...
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Would it harm game balance to allow the Haste action to be used to drink a potion?
The haste spell specifies:
[The target] gains an additional action on each of its turns. That action can be used only to take the Attack (one weapon attack only), Dash, Disengage, Hide, or Use an ...
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What guidelines (if any) apply to potions of various rarities?
I'd like to give my players' low-level characters (currently level 2) the odd potion as treasure. The only common potions listed in the DMG are the standard Potion of Healing, and the Potion of ...
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What happens when you double the numerical effect of a potion of giant strength?
Potions of Giant Strength give the drinker a new numerical value to their Strength score.
The DMG provides a Potion Miscibility Variant table, one of the effects being :
91-99 The numerical ...
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Can a potion be "administered" to a conscious ally in combat?
"Potions" (DMG, p. 139) says:
Drinking a potion or administering a potion to another character requires an action.
While I accept that a player can administer a potion (particularly healing) to an ...
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Can you give a potion to a beast or monster?
I'm curious about the rules regarding the administration of potions to beasts, monsters and ect.
Spells, such as healing word, work the same way they would on any humanoid/ player, so do potions ...
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Does a Thief rogue's Fast Hands allow you to drink a potion as a bonus action?
A recent D&D Beyond article, Epic House Rules: Potion Toxicity and Quick Drinking, mentioned this houserule:
Variant: Quick Potion Drinking
You can use a bonus action, instead of an action, to ...
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Identifying non-edible potions like Oil of Sharpness
Potions identification can be usually made by tasting a bit of a potion and the drinker can fully know the properties of the potion. However it's not rational to be able to tell the properties of a ...
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Can potions of Magic Missile be made useful?
As I asked in a past question, when you drink a potion of magic missile you end up getting hit by the spells effect. Depending on the effect in the potion, this is fine to not fine.
But is there any ...
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Do potions affect undead?
Do potions affect undead?
Specifically, I am looking at whether a zombie ettin can benefit from Amaranth Elixir (from the Shackled City adventure path), which provides an enhancement bonus to ...
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What is a balanced version of this magical vending machine? [closed]
One of my players (lvl 7) wants to buy/commission a magical vending machine that produces healing potions. I like the idea, but don't want it to break the game. For 1000-1500gp, what are some ...
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Does the Beacon of Hope spell maximize the HP regained from any Potion of Healing?
I’m really looking for validation as to how I think this would work.
The Beacon of Hope spell description states (emphasis mine):
This spell bestows hope and vitality. Choose any number of ...
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Does 5e have any restrictions in place for the creation of potions like in Pathfinder?
Answers from official sources are preferred.
Specifically I want to create a potion of Alter Self D&D 5e seems to be a little light on the details for such things.
In the DMG section for ...
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How does a Potion of Poison work?
A compatriot of mine and myself are in a disagreement about the way Potion of Poison works.
He is a bit of a rules lawyer, and I trust his judgement, but I don't agree with his assessment of this ...
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Can you stack the effect of the Crafter's Fortune spell by drinking potions of it?
If you were to craft potions of crafter's fortune, could you stack the effect by drinking multiple potions to get a +10 or +15 or your next Craft check?
The description of crafter's fortune states ...
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Is it possible to reduce the cost of brewing potions?
The cost of brewing a potion is 25 \$\times\$ caster level \$\times\$ spell level. Is it somehow possible to reduce this cost by collecting rare herbs or in some other way?
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Can an unconscious PC or NPC reject healing from a potion?
After examining the 5e PHB on healing (pg 197) and perusing through various healing spells, I have found no reference to willingness as a required component for HP to be restored. The context for this ...
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Adventurers League: Brewing Potions of Healing vs. Purchasing Them
The Adventurers League Player's Guide v8.2 states that characters may purchase potions of healing for 50 gp, potions of greater healing for 100 gp, potions of superior healing for 500 gp, and potions ...
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Can you only gain the benefits of a healing potion by drinking it?
My PCs will find in a body of a half-orc an unmarked bottle with a potion of healing. What if they think that this is a poison which drows often use in my campaign? They would pour the bottle on their ...
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Administer healing potion to an unconscious creature as a full-round action
How does the drinker of a potion whos unconscious benefit from a healing potion since they are unable to make choices about the spell and it should behave like a held touch spell? I ask because ...
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What does the bonus on a potion mean?
I couldn't find it anywhere, can someone help me understand what potion bonus in D&D 3.5 actually means? For example I can find in the example potions Shield of Faith +2.
It says:
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Is drinking a potion an action, a supplemental action, or a free action?
In the Dresden Files RPG, a character can, under normal circumstances, take one action (attack, maneuver, block, etc.) on their turn in an exchange (YS 199). If the character wants to perform a minor ...
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How do you use a Dispel Magic Oil/Potion?
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You can create a potion of any 3rd-level or lower spell that you know and that targets one or more creatures.
So Dispel Magic is a 3rd level spell that can target either the spellcaster, a ...
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Can Constructs use magical potions?
We assume that Constructs have "guts of gears" or magically infused stone, clay, or other materials.
It is unclear if they even have a mouth or digestive systems.
We found other SE answers showing ...
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Is there any other effect that induces sleep other than the Sleep spell?
Well, I can't simplify more than the title.
This question came from KorvinStarmast's answer and is related to Viishnahn's question. The sleep spell states
This spell sends creatures into a magical ...
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Are these good rules for throwing a potion of healing?
One of my players decided, on the fly, to throw a potion of healing at an ally as they ran past. I had nothing planned so I improvised this rule
A potion of healing has a thrown range of (20/60). ...
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Can you give health potions to Polymorphed companions?
If a fellow adventurer gets turned into a beast using the Polymorph spell can you administer first aid using a Health Potion?
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What happens if you feed a potion to a dead (not unconscious) creature?
What happens if you feed a potion to a dead (not unconscious) creature?
Specifically, could you shrink a corpse by force feeding it a Potion of Dimunition?
My gut says there's a reason potions ...
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Administering a potion to a conscious enemy [duplicate]
Potions (DMG, page 139): Drinking a potion or administering a potion to another character requires an action.
Here it says "to another character", not "to an ally". Does this mean that by RAW you ...
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Poisons and potions, what class? [closed]
Okay, I want to make a person who creates poisons and potions. You ask for a strength potion, and they might give you a strength potion, or they could give you a potion of rage. Or you get something ...
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Can you drink part of a potion?
If a character drinks part of a potion, what happens? I assume it depends on the potion...or does it? Is alchemy divisible?
E.g.:
Can two characters share a healing potion, for half healing each?
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What actions to retrieve and drink a stowed potion?
In order to drink a potion do you have to first retrieve the item as a move action and then drink it as a standard?
I am assuming one could have a potion on say a belt and then it would only take a ...
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