Magic Potions

[Walsingham]

I had just been wondering what life would be like if there were magic potions.

 

After some moments of reflection I stood, went to the kitchen, and poured myself a glass of beer.

[Tale]

Depends on what we're looking at. If we're looking at the full range of D&D spells in a bottle, dear lord! Potions of Fox Cunning alone would make the world a better place.

Edited December 13, 2007 by Tale

[Darque]

Life would be explosive.

[ramza]

Our world would be very different with magic, and magic potions... for the better or the worse... When you think of it, that would mean that anyone, even a psycho, could kill other people much more easier... imagine the chaos that would follow...

[Walsingham]

Our world would be very different with magic, and magic potions... for the better or the worse... When you think of it, that would mean that anyone, even a psycho, could kill other people much more easier... imagine the chaos that would follow...

 

Isn't that the point with magic? It redduces the need for men to collaborate to get what they want.

[SteveThaiBinh]

*sings* Gummi Bears!

Bouncing here and there and everywhere

High adventure that's beyond compare

They are the Gummi Bears

I think I would make a good Gummi Bear.

[Walsingham]

*sings* Gummi Bears!

Bouncing here and there and everywhere

High adventure that's beyond compare

They are the Gummi Bears

I think I would make a good Gummi Bear.

 

You would make a good jelly baby.

 

I will eat your head.

 

nom nom nom

[ramza]

*sings* Gummi Bears!

Bouncing here and there and everywhere

High adventure that's beyond compare

They are the Gummi Bears

I think I would make a good Gummi Bear.

 

You would make a good jelly baby.

 

I will eat your head.

 

nom nom nom

 

He would make a good jelly bear... ya know, those we eat (Haribo)...

[SteveThaiBinh]

Bite me!

[samm]

Bite my shiny metal a**? - no, wait, that was something different

 

Anyway, if DnD magic potions (not DnD magic in general) were available, I think they would have a helpful rather than a destructive effect on society. Weapons would be less lethal (thanks to potions of cure XYZ wounds), disease could easily be cured (but not inflicted, I don't think things like mummy rot potions exist in the rules) etc.

Gummi bear potion would be cool, too. We'd all be colour- and cheerful and fluffy

 

All in all: I want potion!

[Humodour]

Well poison potions are easy. I could concoct one in 5 minutes if I visited most people's gardens.

 

Basic toxins:

Rhubarb - Contains oxalate crystals. The same compound which is the reason for spinach being a poor source of iron, as all the iron is actually bound up by oxalic acid. The base of the plant also contains the compound found in foxglove. Probably won't kill.

 

Potato - When sprouts form or the potato turns green, it contains unsafe levels of solanine and should not be eaten. Known cases of death from solanine in potatoes exist.

 

Deadly Nightshade/Belladona - Looks like potato and tomato because it is a close relative, one berry will kill a kid, 2 or 3 any adult - I've seen it growing wild in various locations around Bathurst, Canberra, Syndey and the Blue Mountains - including at a kid's waterslide. Solanine levels are amazingly high in this plant, and the small berries change from green to black when ripe. Some species have berries that resemble chilli peppers, probably since chillis are also part of this family. In general don't eat anything from a wild tomato, eggplant, potato, chilli or capsicum bush, including leaves, stem and roots.

 

Oleander - The entire tree is extremely lethal, yet you see it growing in every 2nd garden here. No functional uses in food, but due to its ubiquitous nature and high lethality, thousands of poisoning cases occur each year. One example is where a woman used oleander wood in a cooking instrument and died because the oil seeped into food when the wood got hot.

 

Foxglove - Sort of like snapdragons - AKA digitalis. Causes heart attacks by making the heart race. Extremely lethal. Used in medicine to treat heart-related disorders. Sometimes kids die by drinking vase water that's had digitalis flowers in it, other times people confuse it with Comphrey which is sometimes used to make tea.

 

Sweet pea - I actually used to eat these as a kid! Oops. They contain a neurotoxin.

 

Rose family - roses, apples, pears, peaches, apricots, nectarines, cherries etc - all the seeds contain cyanide (obviously almonds are an exception), so eat the fruit, never the seed.

 

Yew - seeds kill, but leaves do more so.

 

Daffodils - the bulbs are poisonous. My grandparents accidentally ate these once because they thought I was growing onions and had ran out of them. Luckily all they did was complain of upset stomachs.

 

Hyacinth and pretty much any Lilly, really - bulbs almost always quite poisonous and oft times leaves are too.

 

Honeysuckle - vomiting and diarrhea mostly.

[samm]

seeds contain cyanide (obviously almonds are an exception)

I'm no gardener, but I thought they are no exception, cyanide even smells like (bitter) almonds (or the other way around ). Anyway, magic > natural posions

Edited December 31, 2007 by samm

[Walsingham]

*Somebody keep Krezack's attention while I phone the police*

[Humodour]

seeds contain cyanide (obviously almonds are an exception)

I'm no gardener, but I thought they are no exception, cyanide even smells like (bitter) almonds (or the other way around ). Anyway, magic > natural posions

 

samm: Almonds have trace amounts but as somebody who has hogged out on 1 kg bags of them before, I can attest that the cyanogens will never build up to lethal levels from almonds.

 

Walsh: Just because I know how to make poisons and explosives and own a variety of medi

Edited December 31, 2007 by Krezack

[Tigranes]

They don't need to bomb Australia, most of it's already Fallout.

[Walsingham]

They don't need to bomb Australia, most of it's already Fallout.

 

Pipped me to the post.

[Humodour]

I have yet to see Mad Max.

[Walsingham]

I have yet to see Mad Max.

 

Never mind Mad Max, have you seen Sydney?

[Humodour]

I have yet to see Mad Max.

 

Never mind Mad Max, have you seen Sydney?

 

1/4 of Australia lives there buddy.

 

Just don't try riding a bike there.