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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6165009" data-attributes="member: 22424">No, it varies. However, there tends to be similarities - all healing potions may smell of cinnamon, or they might all share a common red colour, or...Sure, they can do, and in the specific case of Eberron and the Dragonmark houses I would expect a certain amount of standardisation for 'new' potions. But just as Coke and Ford, and other real-world big companies seem to change the look and feel of core products (or their packaging) every few years, I would expect much the same in Eberron. (&quot;No, you don't want those three-year old potions. Try these brand new ones instead - in clinical trials they've been shown to channel Positive Energy 12% more effectively!&quot;)And, of course, for 'found' potions that may be hundreds of years old (or older), standardisation is that much less likely.True. With the Dragonmark Houses then no doubt going to great lengths to demonstrate the pedigree of their wares. There's probably an adventure in there somewhere, although &quot;The Phantom Menace&quot; may have demonstrated that such plots are not the most thrilling. <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=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 6165009, member: 22424"] No, it varies. However, there tends to be similarities - all healing potions may smell of cinnamon, or they might all share a common red colour, or... Sure, they can do, and in the specific case of Eberron and the Dragonmark houses I would expect a certain amount of standardisation for 'new' potions. But just as Coke and Ford, and other real-world big companies seem to change the look and feel of core products (or their packaging) every few years, I would expect much the same in Eberron. ("No, you don't want those three-year old potions. Try these brand new ones instead - in clinical trials they've been shown to channel Positive Energy 12% more effectively!") And, of course, for 'found' potions that may be hundreds of years old (or older), standardisation is that much less likely. True. With the Dragonmark Houses then no doubt going to great lengths to demonstrate the pedigree of their wares. There's probably an adventure in there somewhere, although "The Phantom Menace" may have demonstrated that such plots are not the most thrilling. :) [/QUOTE]

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