Questions tagged [potions]
For questions about potions, liquids that when imbibed confer magical effects.
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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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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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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.
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Potion of Longevity and a 9 year old character
Due to some wild magic fun, one of my characters is now 9 years old. To be a nice, kind DM, I decided it would not impact any of his combat stats, only affect social situations [mostly for the sake ...
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Does every potion require an Action to consume?
The PHB description of a Potion of Healing states:
A character who drinks the magical red fluid in this vial regains 2d4+2 hit points. Drinking or administering a potion takes an action.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Can Skeletons/Zombies benefit from potions?
Technically skeletons and zombies can be ordered to imbibe fluids (in the case of skeletons the fluid would flow over the bones), so: can skeletons or zombies can use and benefit from potions?
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Drinking Bless Weapon Oil
A player picked up a bottle of bless weapon oil and is wanting to know what happens if he drinks it, and I cannot find any specifications on this.
I would guess that nothing would happen but was ...
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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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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 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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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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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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Is there a Potions list for Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition?
I have many publications (Starter Set, Players Handbook, DM's Guide, Monster Manual and a couple other Story Books). But I can't seem to locate a table or list of different potions, which I find ...
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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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What would be required in order for a character to craft Potions of Invisibility?
I am DMing the D&D 5e Starter Set campaign, Lost Mine of Phandelver, for a group of my friends. They recently searched the Redbrand Hideout in Tresendar Manor in Phandalin, and searched through ...
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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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How fast can you drink a potion?
Pathfinder material appears to have some conflicts over how long it takes to drink a potion.
From the PRD page on Potions:
Drinking a potion or using an oil is a standard action. (...) Using a potion ...
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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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How to learn new potion's formula?
I am currently a player - druid lvl 5 with Nature, Medical and Survival skill proficiencies and I have proficiency with the Herbalism kit - and we had such a discussion with our GM, and we don't have ...
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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 I drink more than one potion in one round?
One of the players I play with said that it is not allowed by the rules that you drink more than one potion in one round, but he could not find the rule anymore.
Let us say I have the Potion Glutton ...
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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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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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Why is there a break in the potion brewing times?
I was looking over the rules for brewing potions in Pathfinder, and noticed something peculiar. The Brew Potion feat says that if the base price is 250 gp or less, the potion only takes 2 hours to ...
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Best Healing Potion Possible
I have built a lvl 20 fighter with the ability to chug potions/Drinks as a swift action. I don't remember how I got that power, but as best as I remember it applies to all drinkable substances. What ...
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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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What happens to the flask that a potion is contained in after the potion is used?
The D&D themed Star Wars fan webcomic Darths & Droids has recently published a footnote about magic flasks and what happens to the flasks that contain the potions:
Imagine a magic potion ...
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Welcome to the potion shop. What do we have for sale, again..?
Preparing a game and I've got a few NPCs with some undefined loot: "first level potion," It got me to wondering - is there a consolidated list of potions, maybe oils too, for DnD 3.5? I found the ...
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Does being Cloned reset the failure chance on longevity potions?
Let's assume a mage has been drinking longevity potions for a while, and after finally coming across a clone scroll, he decides to kick back to his youth.
Does the chance of failure for the potions ...
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Can I brew a Lightning Bolt potion? What does it do?
If I brew a potion of lightning bolt, what happens when someone drinks it?
Lightning bolt strikes them?
They can cast a lightning bolt?
They emit lightning that strikes where they point?
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