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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Folji" data-source="post: 6617234" data-attributes="member: 6795412">Hey! So I'm the DM of a pretty regular tabletop group, as well as  occasionally DMing for other groups on occasions, and my core party  started playing D&D 5th Edition a while ago. So far it's going  pretty well, everyone's enjoying it, I'm certainly enjoying the  streamlined feel of it all and thinking it is pretty great to keep track  of.Not that long ago, though, one of the players asked me about the system  for crafting and performing alchemy in the game, as they were  considering dabbling in that. They like crafting in RPGs, and so do I  personally. Crafting is probably one of my favourite parts of any RPG.The crafting in D&D 5th Edition, though, I'm honestly not that  impressed. Least of all for alchemical crafting. I mean, is it really  supposed to be so that a character can do 5g of crafting per day, taking  them some average of 10 days just to craft a healing potion?Then I read about an <a href="http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Alchemy_%285e_Variant_Rule%29" target="_blank">alchemy variant rule</a>  on the D&D wiki, which does seem decent at a cursory glance, though  I'm feeling inspired to try and homebrew something of my own. So I'm wondering, what opinions do people have on crafting alchemy and suchlike? In what way do people reckon it should work? As I'm thinking it, I'd personally like to arrange an alchemy homebrew  that works with different ingredients having different properties. Such  as, an ingredient would have a set number of potential qualities, of  which at least one of them need to be matched with a different  ingredient for the potion to work. It's a setup I've always felt worked  pretty well for the Elder Scrolls series, and it has a lot of room for  experimentation and a sense of the character actually dabbling with  ingredients to find the best combination of them--as opposed to just  having a checklist of what has to go into, say, a healing potion.Alternatively, I'm imagining something similar to the alchemy variant  rule I linked to, but expanded upon with a wider variety of ingredients  and effects. Though I'm still thinking effects triggered by their  (generally unknown) presence on the ingredients would be the easiest way  to make an alchemy system that's interesting for the player to tinker  with. Two ingredients together might combine well for a particular  effect, but throwing in a third could easily catalyse an unexpected  side-effect depending on the combination.But before I go off on a tangent and just start rambling. I'm looking  for opinions, thoughts, ideas? Is it something that could work? If not,  what could make it work? Are there homebrews like this already out  there? What would be the best way to balance it, and what kind of  effects and ingredients would fit the game?First and foremost I'm planning to write it all as a personal homebrew,  to make crafting a more interesting component of my own D&D  sessions, though if other people would be interested in using it I'd  love to share it around!</blockquote>

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