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From Across the Table - Potions

Started by Kellri, September 24, 2008, 05:58:04 AM

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Kellri

Here's the first in a (hopefully) ongoing themed series of posts offering interesting results from my private reserve of random tables. Here's 20 potions to get started. Feel free to snag them for ideas or even add some more.

     
  • The potion of Agility is kept in a clay jug. It is a viscous, vibrant livid pink in color and tastes a bit like Paint.

  •      The potion of Delusion is kept in an alabaster phial. It is bubbling, dull mauve in color and tastes like a blend of trout & toffee.

  •      The potion of Bug Repellent is kept in a leather wineskin. It is oily, dusty sanguine in color and tastes a bit like syrup.

  •      The potion of Flying is kept in a stone narrow-mouthed Jar. It is lipid, glossy charcoal in color and tastes like flowers with a hint of yoghurt.

  •      The potion of Swimming is kept in a terra-cotta phial. It is very thin and watery, deep dingy gray in color and tastes at first like walnuts and then like coconut.

  •      The potion of Speech is kept in a clay horn. It is oily, ivory in color and tastes like a revolting melange of sour cream, Lucozade & sulphur.

  •      The potion of Elasticity is kept in a glass carafe. It is viscous, revolting leaf-green in color and tastes pleasantly like rum.

  •      The potion of Heroism is kept in a clay tube. It is very thin and watery, vivid robin's egg blue in color and tastes like a revolting melange of urine & vinegar.

  •      The potion of Strength is kept in a glass horn. It is frothy, vivid bistre in color and tastes suspiciously like cinnamon.

  •      The potion of Invisibility is kept in an alabaster horn. It is limpid, bright robin's egg blue in color and tastes like a revolting melange of hot sauce, flowers & marzipan.

  •      The potion of Healing is kept in a glass jar. It is frothy, dark chestnut in color and tastes a bit like mead.

  •      The potion of Undead Control (Ghouls) is kept in a glass pitcher. It is very thin and watery, revolting argent in color and tastes like a revolting melange of stout, prune & pina colada.

  •      The potion of Gaseous Form is kept in a clay decanter. It is viscous, vivid primrose in color and tastes like potato with a hint of whiskey.

  •      The potion of Plant Control is kept in a glass canteen. It is nearly transparent, tinted kelly green in color and tastes at first like noodles and then like lime.

  •      The potion of Polymorph Self is kept in a clay phial. It is translucent, pure soot in color and tastes exactly like horseradish.

  •      The potion of Animal Control (Amphibians and Reptiles) is kept in a terra-cotta jug. It is swirling, watery hunter green in color and tastes like varnish with a hint of urine.

  •      The potion of Poison Antidote is kept in a crystal beaker. It is bubbling, clear purpure in color and tastes like peppermint with a hint of corn.

  •      The potion of Ethereality is kept in a wood flask. It is thin, clear bat gray in color and tastes like a revolting melange of eucalyptus leaves, egg yolk & peppermint.

  •      The potion of Freedom is kept in a glass tube. It is stagnant, blotched flaxen color and tastes like water.

  •      The potion of Fire Resistance is kept in a glass vial. It is crystalline, muted soot in color and tastes a bit like pepper.
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Spinachcat

Great stuff!

What is Lucozade and bistre?

Kellri

Bistre is a shade of grayish brown and Lucozade is an energy drink
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You can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that\'s like basically good -Lester Bangs

noisms

Reminds me of the way potions are randomly generated in Angband and its variants. Great stuff.
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Kellri

If you like this kind of stuff, be sure to download a copy of my book CDD#4 - Encounters from my blog. It's got 160+ pages of selected & original random tables used for designing adventures & encounters for 1e AD&D.

Noisms... read your blog. Like the bit about dropping the rants. I've been trying to curb my own appetites in that direction as well after forum ranting killed my rpg writing for awhile. Now, I'm trying to get back into the swing of things (and avoiding the political threads like the plague).
Kellri\'s Joint
Old School netbooks + more

You can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that\'s like basically good -Lester Bangs

noisms

Quote from: Kellri;251137If you like this kind of stuff, be sure to download a copy of my book CDD#4 - Encounters from my blog. It's got 160+ pages of selected & original random tables used for designing adventures & encounters for 1e AD&D.

Noisms... read your blog. Like the bit about dropping the rants. I've been trying to curb my own appetites in that direction as well after forum ranting killed my rpg writing for awhile. Now, I'm trying to get back into the swing of things (and avoiding the political threads like the plague).

Yeah, I just decided enough was enough really. I like ranting and it generates lots of comments, but at the end of the day what is it except a huge wankfest? It doesn't change anything. Better to focus on something more worthwhile that people can actually use.

I've downloaded all your web-books. Fantastic stuff. If everybody who played RPGs was that productive I can only imagine how much healthier the hobby would look.
Read my blog, Monsters and Manuals, for campaign ideas, opinionated ranting, and collected game-related miscellania.

Buy Yoon-Suin, a campaign toolbox for fantasy games, giving you the equipment necessary to run a sandbox campaign in your own Yoon-Suin - a region of high adventure shrouded in ancient mysteries, opium smoke, great luxury and opulent cruelty.

noisms

By the way, Kellri, the Old School Reading List link on your blog site sends me to the download page for the Encounters web-book.
Read my blog, Monsters and Manuals, for campaign ideas, opinionated ranting, and collected game-related miscellania.

Buy Yoon-Suin, a campaign toolbox for fantasy games, giving you the equipment necessary to run a sandbox campaign in your own Yoon-Suin - a region of high adventure shrouded in ancient mysteries, opium smoke, great luxury and opulent cruelty.

Narf the Mouse

It looks good and useful, but I think it would do better as a series of tables - As it is, there's one result per bullet-point, when you could easily get at least three times that many with dice-roll tables.
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