Question for DMs
What flavour do you have your healing potions? I have mine tasting like strawberry medicine so not amazing but not terrible. However the next place my group is going to is Undead controlled so they’ll get the worse tasting potions ever just bitterness.
Posted Apr 1, 2022, 12:57 AM UTC
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I’m not DMing this campaign, but I have talked to my DM about potions. My character is an Alchemist Artificer so it’s his job to make the party’s potions.
My artificer was also a bartender in his backstory and experimented with potions and drinks. I discussed with my DM what I would put into the potions based on recipes I found on the web with a few things added onto it.
The taste and smell would depend on what I put into it (well that’s obvious but let me finish). For health potions I made it like a berry blast with raspberries and blackberries and strawberries and whatever added onto the other base components. Which made it very sweet and taste like a fruit punch.
I think the Undead region could provide for a really unique opportunity. Using some Minecraft logic. Healing potions could hurt the undead and Poison could heal. If the vendors themselves are undead, they would probably label their poison potions as healing because if the logic used before. I think it could be cool if they had to add a component to the undead healing potions to invert the effects.
For example the undead healing potion would need 1 pint of pure/distilled water boiling in a kettle, then add 2 necroroots (idk some sort of brush) or necroberries or whatever local flora you made up that just sounds bitter. And that would heal the undead, but have the inverse effect on the living. Maybe you could add some sort of leaf or gem/stone that could be added to the kettle as well to flip the effect (kind of like Minecraft’s fermented spider eye).
Sorry for the ramble but I hope this helps!