What do potions taste like

I always had them pictured as red, and incredibly thin in terms of consistency. Not watery, just slippery. Like 40 cSt. I figured they tasted Not fruity - more medicinal, but not harsh. I have nothing to liken them to, but I have a taste kicking around in my mouth. I figured they had a very very mildly gritty texture, like a very finely strained soup. Validated User. In my games healing potions taste of d8's. Twiceborn Registered User.

I tend to let my players decide what their potions taste like. For myself, it varies depend on who's making them. Druidic potions taste like cold tea, with lots of strange herbal tastes. Clerical potions taste vaguely sweet and very smooth.

Dwarven potions taste like brandy. Crazy Jerome Registered User. We vary it by campaign. Usually, the player gets to decide, the first time they encounter something. Store Page. Global Achievements. Showing 1 - 15 of 24 comments. Well first you'd have to think about the ingredients of a potion. Let's say you got some blue mountain flower and some hanging moss to make a health pot.

Now go outside, grab some flowers and moss, mix that in your tea and drink up. It'd probably taste gross and I won't try but if anyone else is willing to try, let us all know what it really taste like. Last edited by -ZyzyX- ; 14 Jun, pm. Originally posted by -ZyzyX- :. So health potion would taste like baked goods if you use wheat, and stamina potions could possibly taste like char if skeever hide is used? The more beneficial the effect, the more horrid the taste.

Potions of Ultimate Well-being taste something like blending up an entire box of every flavor beans with actively rotting meat and a branch of peppermint. Not canon, just bullsnipping. Dawn of Hope: a 5e setting. Originally Posted by MeeposFire. In my game, healing potions are yellow-green sludge that tastes awful, like vomit mixed with spoiled milk. Heroism: tastes like fine mead or ale Invisibility: no taste, the only way you can tell it's there is that you feel it.

Invulnerability: like blood Longevity: like pure and high-quality wine You get the idea. Awesome avatar Kothar, paladin of Tlacua by Linkele! Originally Posted by Howard Tayler. This is not a team, Petey. It's just another mass grave. Well, I'll just leave this here Potions of Healing tastes like gasoline or awful medicine, because things that are good for you taste bad. But they also come in very small vials that are about the size of a thumb or smaller.

Potions of Poison should be tasteless. That's how you murder people with it and get them to drink it. I don't know where this came from, but in my circles healing potions have pretty much always had a peppermint flavor. I guess it started as a joke that kinda stuck.

And potions of bull strength AFB, so not sure if anything like that existed in 5e smell like cowshed and taste like crap. My Homebrew:. Modular Weapons Starfinder.