Questions tagged [potions]
For questions about potions, liquids that when imbibed confer magical effects.
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Can a character grab a potion from a pack and drink it without using their action?
In the Player's Basic Rules, it says
Interacting with objects around you: Here are a few examples of the sorts of thing you can do in tandem with your movement and action:
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withdraw a potion ...
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Can one force-feed an opponent a potion in combat?
Is there a check by which a combatant can force-feed an unwilling target a potion?
The question stems from several magic items, including the Potion of Diminution and Potion of Poison. I am seeking ...
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Can you drink a potion one-handed underwater?
I have a player who wants their PC to drink a potion underwater while one-handed, and as a DM I'm not sure how to rule it.
Ask for a Dex check? What DC? Is it even possible? I couldn't find anything ...
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Can an unconscious person drink a potion?
PHB 153 reads:
Potion of Healing. A character who drinks the magical red fluid in
this vial regains 2d4 + 2 hit points. Drinking or administering a
potion takes an action.
By my interpretation,...
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Do potions use concentration for their effects?
For example, is it possible to drink a flying potion and cast greater invisibility spell on myself (both spells would require concentration), so I can fly around invisible?
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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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Can an Unseen Servant administer a potion during combat?
If I have a Unseen Servant, could I leave a bucket of potions of healing in the back and direct him to administer them to people?
For example, could an unseen servant execute the command "Pour this ...
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How does one craft Potions of Healing?
The Basic Rules/PHB say that an Herbalism Kit is required to create potions of healing. However, the crafting rules only allow you to make nonmagical items, and the description under Potion of Healing ...
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How can I make realistic looking potions as handouts
I'd like to give my group some realistic looking potions as handouts. Does anyone have tips on how I could make these look awesome?
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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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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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Can you brew a potion with "you" as a target?
The Brew Potion feat states that:
You can create a potion of any 3rd-level or lower spell that you know and that targets one or more creatures or objects.
Does that includes spells with a personal ...
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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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Can a potion affect others?
When an imbiber is the target of a spell effect because he consumed a potion, is only the imbiber the target of that spell's effect, no matter the spell's usual target entry?
The section on Creating ...
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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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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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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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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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Identifying potion by tasting them. How *should* it work?
A classic method of identifying potions (especially in OSR games) is by sipping them. This method is attractive to me for the potential fun involved in experimenting with unknown effects. However, I ...
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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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What does "10% cumulative chance" mean in the description of a potion of longevity?
The DMG description of Potion of Longevity says:
When you drink this potion, your physical age is reduced by 1d6 + 6 years, to a minimum of 13 years. Each time you subsequently drink a potion of ...
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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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Does a potion of growth stack with the Enlarge spell?
If I drink a potion of growth, and a wizard casts enlarge/reduce on me, do they add together as separate effects to give me 2 size increases, or do they simply override each other and give me the ...
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Mixing potions via ingestion & critical failures on potion miscibility
Edit: Would it be absurd to consider 6d10 of force damage, originating in the gut of a PC, as described below from the PHB to be immediately fatal? As-written it does a fair amount of damage (avg. 33)...
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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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How does finding herbs work?
A druid in my game wants to pick herbs as they spend the day walking. How do I DM this? Should I pick a DC based on the environment (high in the desert, lower in a meadow), and have him roll for it? ...
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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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House rules for making specific components matter for spells, magical and mundane item creation? [closed]
I started getting back into D&D edition 3.5 a few weeks ago as a DM. I do not like the generalizations in which are written into the magical item creation. I am trying to make a more specific ...
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What are the limits to the potions a Master Alchemist can make?
I found the Master Alchemist prestige class in the 3rd edition book Magic of Faerûn (p. 34-35), whose main shtick is making potions of up to level 9 with full casting progression (without type!).
The ...