what does a CLW potion taste like in your world?

[Voadam]

Standard cure = blue. Nobody has bought one in my game so no taste has been attributed yet.

the mouthwash I get is either blue or green mint, the artificial blue I associate with cure potions and the green with haste.

When we played WFRP the GM had a huge list of custom potions with descriptions like pale olive, swirling grey, etc. I remember that crackling red cured crits. One PC recorded them carefully as we adventured and had a page long reference sheet by the end of the campaign that we could rely upon. It was really cool to ID stuff reliably based on in game experience.

 

[werk]

I have them taste differently depending on the recipe used. I find that if I stick with a common description of a potion, players tend to want to casually identify them. While I don't allow this, they do it anyway, so then I get accused of foul play when the strawberry bubblegum flavored potion is a fly potion instead of a barkskin potion...you get the idea.

 

[Majoru Oakheart]

Yeah not to mention the breakage is kind of not nice thing to happen when a PC reaches to drink said CLW potion...

Luckily, when you cut yourself on the broken glass, the residual cure potion heals it right up.

 

[Mallus]

Like a lot of folks said, it depends on the maker...

Some examples:

The potions of Mr. Redlips (Saint of Healing, Hannikum monotheon) taste like blood. Which, in fact, they are.

The potions of Mr. Pau-Pau (minor Erisian street god), taste like cream. Mr. Pau-Pau is traditionally depicted as a fainly luminous alley cat.

The potions of Mr. Three-Legs (former Saint of Virility, Hannikum monotheon) are a viscid, whitish fluid that taste like... well, let's not go there, Eric's Grandma wouldn't approve.

The Church of Kruetzel the Ever-Rising (god of food) doesn't brew potions. They bake restorative honey cakes which never go stale.

The Order of St. Tart's Bodice (within the Temple of Aja Opal Blossom, Goddess of Love) mix healing cocktails, most notably one with sweetened rosewater. The operative ingredient is always holy gin.

 

[jerichothebard]

Gatorade. Red (Fruit Punch?) Gatorade is a CLW. Orange Gatorade is CMW. Lemonade Gatorade is CSW. Blue (Berry Rush?) Gatorade is CCW. Purple (Grape) Gatorade is Regeneration or Heal.

Fly is red and has a little bull motif. Cause Red Bull gives you wings.

 

[Nightfall]

*wonders if its blue then does that mean it's a BOY healing potion or a not...*

 

[Phoenix]

The potion labeling thread (http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=138611 ) got me to wondering whether there was any consistency in the way potions tasted from one campaign to another.


It seems like, in a lot of groups I was in, cure light wounds potions (your basic, run-of-the-mill low-level healing potion) are blue, and have a taste not unlike almonds.

So, describe form, the taste, color (texture if applicable) for a basic cure light wounds healing potion (or equivalent) in your game.

If you don't know, shame on you.

Cranberry juice....it's Crantastic!

 

[Nightfall]

Cran...why does it always have to be CRAN!?!

What's wrong with grape or apple, or even WATERMELON!!?!

 

[babomb]

*wonders if its blue then does that mean it's a BOY healing potion or a not...*

So blue potions of CLW only work on males, and pink ones only work on females? hmm.

 

[Nightfall]

Well its entirely possible. I mean we already have rampant gender profiling going on among the drow. Perhaps the females want to make sure it only works for THEM!