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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8209802" data-attributes="member: 93670">By default?  [spoiler="xge sez no"][ATTACH=full]133371[/ATTACH][/spoiler]5e also goes a step further  by practically giving away the proficiency & having no magic item budget baked into the system math.  If I had houserules in place to expand that in ways that would make that potion being very available  I'd go a different route from [USER=1]@Morrus[/USER] though.  Making it requires dc 12 brewers tool check and 5 pounds of heartstems carved from grade A purple hove leaves and a sizable period of time left distilling in a suitable basement (3 weeks?). During those 3 weeks the cask needs to be turned by 1-2 commoners<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">1 pound  of purple hove leaves =2sp5cp</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">1 pound of grade A purple hove heart stems =100gp</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A suitable herbalism check(dc12) can process 100 pounds of purple hove leaves into 1 pound of heart stems over a period of one week.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Instead of the hair  I'd go with a bloodstone extracted from a hill giant being capable of reducing the brewing time from 3 weeks to 2 weeks <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></li> </ul>It takes a long time to process the leaves but doing so is not very difficult so a follower (likewise with the brewers tool bit) but the size of your distillery would limit how many potions you could be distilling at any one time.Personally I don't really like one shot consumables with crafting & not sure I'd allow this one but crafting a belt of hill giant strength with body slots or similar in use would probably look very similar with different tools that made more sense & higher prices.  There's nothing special in lore or anything about purple hove leaves or heart stem (it got pulled from a book) & sounds fairly magical/exotic.  The important part is the massive quantities that make "yes you find a (garden of) purple hove plant(s)"  not an instant jackpot with the added benefit of being a good reason why a well stocked supplier might only have a small amount that makes doing some side work to shore up relations with wherever they are grown enough to be a more valuable customer with a larger amount of leaves set aside for you.</blockquote>

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