{"id":1246,"date":"2025-03-09T07:55:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T12:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=1246"},"modified":"2025-12-06T06:21:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T11:21:47","slug":"the-arcane-brewery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=1246","title":{"rendered":"The Arcane Brewery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Been thinking about <em>Shadowdark<\/em> lately, and about giving my PCs more options for burning off their gold reserves.  I didn&#8217;t want to violate the core precept about magic items, including expendable ones, being rare, but I wanted some ways for them to craft&#8230; after a fashion.  Here&#8217;s my take on potion brewing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Brew a Potion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alchemy is rare, expensive, and unpredictable, but sometimes you bring rare, expensive, and unpredictable ingredients back from the Shadowdark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To brew a potion, spend coin for materials and laboratory access. Then roll 1d8 + your resource bonus to determine your experiment&#8217;s outcome. If you&#8217;re a wizard, witch, or ranger, add +1. If you have an appropriate background, add +1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Brewing Resources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>50 gp: You raid a neighbor&#8217;s herb garden. +0.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>100 gp: Your usual apothecary is concerned. +1.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>250 gp: In your bags, you find minerals and fungus of unknown provenance. +2.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>400 gp: A scribe sells you a somewhat-legible formula on parchment smeared with blood and coffee. +3.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>700 gp: The excised organs leaked ichor on everything in your pack, but they&#8217;re still potent. +4.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1,000 gp: A wizard is morbidly curious about what happens when you drink this. +5.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Brewing Outcome<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1: Poor quality control. Roll one benefit and one curse on the potion table (p. 286).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2: Toxic alchemic waste. 1d8 magic damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3: Wizard juice. +1 to a carousing roll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4: Performance-enhancing draught. Roll with advantage when trying to learn a skill or wizard spell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5: Attenuated potion of healing. Reduce by one die size.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">6: Alchemist&#8217;s fire. As oil flask, but 1d6 damage for 6 rounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">7: Potion? No, poison. Roll on the poison table (<em>Cursed Scroll #2<\/em>, p. 27).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">8: Potion of healing. This was what you wanted anyway, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">9: Dubious outcome. Roll one benefit on the potion table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">10: Weird blade wax. Roll on weapon benefit table (p. 293). When applied to weapon, takes effect on next hit (only).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">11: Experimental brew. Roll two benefits on the potion table, pick one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">12: Concentrated potion of healing. Add one die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">13+: Double batch! Re-roll with unmodified 1d12, receive two doses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been thinking about Shadowdark lately, and about giving my PCs more options for burning off their gold reserves. I didn&#8217;t want to violate the core precept about magic items, including expendable ones, being rare, but I wanted some ways for them to craft&#8230; after a fashion. Here&#8217;s my take on potion brewing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,112],"tags":[125,101],"class_list":["post-1246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equipment","category-mechanics","tag-magic-items","tag-shadowdark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1247,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions\/1247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}