The Old World - Warriors & Heroes - Complete Online Rule Book
Potion Crafting
Those with the alchemist skill can learn to craft a variety of potions and poisons. These can have a wide variety of effects. Some may save a life in a desperate situation and others may add significant spice to encounters.
The strength and effects of these potions and poisons vary widely. Crafting potions and poisons requires a mortar & pestle, clean water, and a cauldron.
The variety of effects created by potions and poisons could be quite useful in several situations. Those who like to dabble in alchemy can find themselves in possession of some truly unique abilities. Potions must be consumed, while poisons can be applied to weapons or ingested.
Every potion has a recipe. Crafting a potion takes an average of an hour and requires a place to cook the potion. A campfire is an acceptable solution. Ingredients are quite expensive. It may benefit alchemists to search for their own components in the wild. Some rare ingredients can only be found by defeating certain types of opponents.
Searching for ingredients can become a quest for the more devoted alchemist. Some in the Old World hire sell swords for the sole purpose of hunting dangerous beasts for their crafting purposes.
Players may even find hunting down potion ingredients a quick way to earn income. However, traveling in the Old World is always fraught with danger, so they best be careful not to bite off more than they can chew.
Potion of Agility
Recipe: Clean Water, Agurk, Spellwort, Vanera
Effect: +4 Agility modifier, 1 Encounter
Value: 2D4x 50g
Potion of Attention
Recipe: Clean Water, Rare Mushroom, Salwort, Agurk
Effect: +4 Notice modifier, 1 Encounter
Value: 2D4 x 50g
Potion of Charm
Recipe: Clean Water, Slowmind, Ectoplasm, Gesundheit
Effect: +6 Persuasion modifier, 1 Encounter
Value: 2D4 x 50g
Potion of Cleverness
Recipe: Clean Water, Mandrake Root, Vigwort, Sigmafoil
Effect: +4 intelligence modifier, 1 Encounter
Value: 2D4 x 50g
Potion of Concealment
Recipe: Clean Water, Snake Scales, Alfunas, Spiderleaf
Effect: +6 Stealth modifier, 1 Encounter
Value: 4D4 x 50g
Potion of Cure
Recipe: Clean Water, Sigmafoil, Gesundheit, Speckled Rustwort
Effect: Remove disease status, cure status poison.
Value: 2D4 x 50g
Potion of Dancing
Recipe: Clean Water, Alfunas, Juck, Trinkwort, Agurk
Effect: Target dances until they reach total exhaustion and collapse. Targets inflicted with the potion can take no other actions, not even speaking.
Value: 3D4 x 50g
Potion of the Ethereal
Recipe: Clean Water, Ectoplasm, Mage-leaf, Rare Mushroom, Graveroot, Tarrabeth
Effect: Add status ethereal, 30 seconds.
Value: 4D4 x 50g
Potion of Fire Breathing
Recipe: Clean Water, Dragon Fang, Valerian, Tarrabeth
Effect: SPR+5D8 Magical fire damage, cone template 30ft.
Value: 3D4 x 50g
Potion of Fire Walking
Recipe: Clean Water, Dragon Scale, Mandrake Root, Mage-leaf
Effect: Immune to fire damage, 1 minute.
Value: 4D4 x 50g
Potion of Glowing
Recipe: Clean Water, Ectoplasm, Slowmind, Speckled Rustwort
Effect: Target glows bright orange, they can now see in total darkness. 1 Encounter.
Value: 2D4 x 50g
Potion of Invisibility
Recipe: Clean Water, Nightshade, Spellwort, Earthroot, Iron Powder
Effect: Gain total invisibility, 1 minute
Value: 5D4 x 50g
Potion of Mending
Recipe: Clean Water, Spiderleaf, Alfunas, Faxtoryll, Sigmafoil
Effect: Heal 8D6 damage, cure status poisoned.
Value: 2D4 x 50g
Potion of Spell Power
Recipe: Clean Water, Mage-leaf, Spellwort, Alfunas
Effect: Effect: +10 Spirit score, 30 minutes.
Value: 2D4 x 50g
Potion of Spider walking
Recipe: Clean Water, Mage-leaf, Spider Eyes, Speckled Rustwort, Vigwort
Effect: Gain the ability to walk up walls and across ceilings, 1 hour.
Value: 3D4 x 50g
Potion of Water breathing
Recipe: Clean Water, Snake Scales, Tarrabeth, Juck
Effect: Breath underwater, 30 minutes.
Value: 4D4 x 50g
Potion Recipes
Poison of Madness
Recipe: Clean Water, Madcap Mushroom, Spiderleaf, Tarrabeth
Effect: Gain 10 points of insanity, 3 hours.
Value: 2D4 x 50g
Poison of Withering
Recipe: Clean Water, Agurk, Faxtoryll, Spellwort
Effect: -6 Parry, 1 minute.
Value: 3D4 x 50g
Poison of Weakness
Recipe: Clean Water, Valerian, Harpy Talons, Faxtoryll
Effect: -10 Strength score, 1 minute.
Value: 3D4 x 50g
Poison of Dullness
Recipe: Clean Water, Giant Toe, Spiderleaf, Alfunas
Effect: -10 Intelligence modifier, 1 minute.
Value: 3D4 x 50g
Poison of Cowardice
Recipe: Clean Water, Mage-leaf, Iron Powder, Faxtoryll
Effect: -2 Fear Threshold, 1 minute.
Value: 4D4 x 50g
Poison of the Dead
Recipe: Clean Water, Graveroot, Schlafenkraut, Harpy Feathers
Effect: Add status poison to undead targets on hit. Cannot be resisted.
Value: 4D4 x 50g
Poison of Sleep
Recipe: Clean Water, Tarrabeth, Salwort, Sigmafoil
Effect: Add status unconscious to target, 10 minutes.
Value: 3D4 x 50
Poison Recipes
