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Re: Magic Potions

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PFRPG Yin Sloth Jungles had the skill Holistic Chemistry, that could be used to create things like Healing Potions, Poisons, and Explosives. These might be considered "mundane" in term of how they are manufactured, but their effects might be considered "magical". One of the Rifters provided an update to the skill for 2nd edition.

Rifts: England had the Mystic Herbology skill, allowing a character to magically enhance natural herbs to create things like potions, wands, and other things. I don't remember if this skill was explicitly for Druid OCCs only, or if they simply received a bonus, whereas any other practitioner of magic did not.

Otherwise, the PFRPG Alchemist is the only class that I can think of that can make potions, though this is never really statted out anywhere.
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jester_79 wrote:My gaming group has an on going question. Are there any rules/recommendations for when a wizards can/should be able to create potions, i.e. healing potions. Like what level of experience and what skills would be needed. Also how many skill rolls would required to determine the success or failure of the creation.


Making potions is a class-based thing, not a skill-based thing. only certain OCC's like Herbalist and Alchmist can even make the attempt.

They are also rarer to find in general. Potions just arn't a very big "thing" in palladium
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A mage who knows the Nazcan Line Magic ritual "Draught of Health" and either the (depending on book) Temporal Magic spell "Time Capsule" or the Invocation spell "Ley line Time Capsule" can make healing potions for just the cost of bottles and stoppers.
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filo_clarke wrote:PFRPG Yin Sloth Jungles had the skill Holistic Chemistry, that could be used to create things like Healing Potions, Poisons, and Explosives. These might be considered "mundane" in term of how they are manufactured, but their effects might be considered "magical". One of the Rifters provided an update to the skill for 2nd edition.

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thorr-kan wrote:
filo_clarke wrote:PFRPG Yin Sloth Jungles had the skill Holistic Chemistry, that could be used to create things like Healing Potions, Poisons, and Explosives. These might be considered "mundane" in term of how they are manufactured, but their effects might be considered "magical". One of the Rifters provided an update to the skill for 2nd edition.

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Prysus wrote:
thorr-kan wrote:
filo_clarke wrote:PFRPG Yin Sloth Jungles had the skill Holistic Chemistry, that could be used to create things like Healing Potions, Poisons, and Explosives. These might be considered "mundane" in term of how they are manufactured, but their effects might be considered "magical". One of the Rifters provided an update to the skill for 2nd edition.

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Thanks! I think that's in the gaming group's archives...
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Re: Magic Potions

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So, I found a copy in the group archives. Not really potions, per se, not Alchemy as Palladium Fantasy means it. But very, very interesting nonetheless.

Your character has the ability to make concoctions, assuming materials and a lab are available. Might be interesting to tack this onto Mystic China's Chinese Alchemy skill as well.
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