PotionSpoilage

Potions

Potion Spoilage

When drinking a potion, there is a chance the potion has gone bad and its contents are spoilt. Potions have a quality factor ranging from +0 (poorest), and +3 (normal) to +6 (highest quality). After drinking the potion, check using 3d6 and adding the potion quality, with the following results:

3d6+quality	Effect
<10	Potion ineffective, and spoiled
10-13	Potion effective, and spoiled
14+	Potion effective, not spoiled

If the potion is spoiled, roll 2d6, arrange dice from low to high, and check the table below for the effect and its duration:

Roll (2d6)	Effect	Duration (1d6)
11	Grow hair everywhere	days
12	Smell horrible	hours
13	Flatulent and hiccups	days
14	Speak very slowly	hours
15	Speak with very high pitch	hours
16	Skin rash, warts and black boils	days
22	Sweats profusely	hours
23	Drools constantly	days
24	Itching	hours
25	Cramps and diarrhea	hours
26	Get drunk	hours
33	Insatiable hunger, must eat	hours
34	Retches constantly	hours
35	Repel animals	days
36	Attract vermin	days
44	Screams and shouts unvoluntarily	days
45	Deafened	hours
46	Hair loss	days
55	Hallucinations	hours
56	Blinded	hours
66	Poisoned: lose 1d6 HP/minute	minutes

Optional rule: potions don’t age like wine, and instead get worse over time. The quality of potions is reduced by 1 per season passed, down to a minimum of 0. This optional rule is only relevant over long (in-game) time campaigns.