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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 9787383" data-attributes="member: 6877472">Reading the DMG and PHB, at least, it never specifies what the containers are made out of, but one can infer that they are glass because several potions describe what they look like.  I think the takeaway is that they would be made of glass for easy identification.RE: potion weights.  There is something very odd going on here.  The DMG tells us a potion contains 1 ounce of liquid.  The PHB says a Potion of Healing weighs half a pound.But look at the description of a glass vial- it has no listed weight on it's own, but contains up to 4 ounces of liquid (page 153)!But look at what is contained in vials according to the PHB and things get weirder.  A vial of acid weights 1 pound (?), while a vial of antitoxin, perfume, or basic poison has no weight.  As a unit of weight, 4 ounces is a mere 0.25 pound, which means they must be talking about fluid ounces (30 ml).  Whatever kind of acid is being stored in a vial*, it's apparently at least four times as dense as, say, water.What's interesting is that there is no known acid that dense- the most dense liquid acids are about twice as dense as water!*I know someone will say "but obviously it's a vial made of stronger/denser materials to contain the acid", but since it's stated to be contained in a vial, and we have rules telling us the weight and capacity of a vial in the PHB, and that, if thrown, the vial is instantly broken, I have doubts.Curiously, alchemist's fire, which has the same rules for being thrown and broken as acid, is contained in a "flask", which contains 1 pint of liquid, meaning that whatever alchemist's fire is, it's 8 times as dense as water, or twice as dense as whatever kind of acid is being sold in the PHB!</blockquote>

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