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<blockquote data-quote="DrSpunj" data-source="post: 1357037" data-attributes="member: 994">IMC I do something similar. Each type of potion has it's own Symbol/Rune/Glyph on the outside of its container. These are universal among all practitioners of magic, as deemed by the god/dess of Magic. Anyone screwing with a symbol and/or misrepresenting the contents of a container is very quickly reprimanded (i.e. insert gruesome punishment here) by the agents of that diety; or at least, that's what everyone says! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />So once the party figures out a symbol--either by a DC 25 Spellcraft roll, watching the effects after an enemy uses it, drinking it themselves, or whatever other method they come up with--they thereafter can readily identify any other potions of the same type.I build on lower level spells/symbols as well, such that Cure Moderate only had a DC of 20 after they knew what Cure Light was, because the symbols were similar. While potions are a mystery at the lowest levels, PCs quickly outgrow those puzzles and want to move on to bigger and better things (like what's so special about this magical longsword? &nbsp;<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ).Thanks.DrSpunj</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DrSpunj, post: 1357037, member: 994"] IMC I do something similar. Each type of potion has it's own Symbol/Rune/Glyph on the outside of its container. These are universal among all practitioners of magic, as deemed by the god/dess of Magic. Anyone screwing with a symbol and/or misrepresenting the contents of a container is very quickly reprimanded (i.e. insert gruesome punishment here) by the agents of that diety; or at least, that's what everyone says! :) So once the party figures out a symbol--either by a DC 25 Spellcraft roll, watching the effects after an enemy uses it, drinking it themselves, or whatever other method they come up with--they thereafter can readily identify any other potions of the same type. I build on lower level spells/symbols as well, such that Cure Moderate only had a DC of 20 after they knew what Cure Light was, because the symbols were similar. While potions are a mystery at the lowest levels, PCs quickly outgrow those puzzles and want to move on to bigger and better things (like what's so special about this magical longsword? ;) ). Thanks. DrSpunj [/QUOTE]

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