Where do they make those potions?

[Zaukrie]

So, I've often wondered, where do the many churches that sell potions of healing make them? I can't remember ever seeing a room for making potions in one single church map ever produced by WotC, Paizo, or any other third party.

Feel free to answer, or to post your own questions about D&D that have always bugged you.

 

[diaglo]

i played over on the TSR community forums for a while as a cleric.

my church was my brewery.

my healing potions tasted like beer.

 

[drothgery]

For a typical small, fairly indepnednet church, they're made in a small outbuilding out back; lay worshipers (or, especially, their children) might wander into an alchemist's lab, and that would get messy. Large, organized faiths have clerics-in-training mass produce them as part of divinity school training and ship them out to the provinces.

 

[Henry]

They probably have them shipped in from other temples, like the tavern owner has his ale, or buys his ale from someone else who does.

My D&D bug? Most of the dungeons I EVER see NEVER have a privy! There's not even a midden outside of the dungeon!

 

[Mystaros]

Odds are that divine potions are made in the same magical fonts as holy water, which would mean that they are made on or near the central altar/idol of the temple, or perhaps a side altar/idol with its own font... At least, that's the way it used to be done in 1E and 2E, and there's no real reason to change that. Most of the "production time" for a divine potion would involve praying and chanting and such, which is most appropriate in a consecrated temple.

 

[diaglo]

They probably have them shipped in from other temples, like the tavern owner has his ale, or buys his ale from someone else who does.

My D&D bug? Most of the dungeons I EVER see NEVER have a privy! There's not even a midden outside of the dungeon!

mang, now that is thorough adventurer.

you want to kill them and take all their stuff. preconsumed and then repackaged stuff too.

 

[Mystaros]

My D&D bug? Most of the dungeons I EVER see NEVER have a privy! There's not even a midden outside of the dungeon!

In the era where a man-/dwarf-/whatever-made dungeon was occupied originally, chamber pots would likely have been used in most rooms, then the room furthest along the flow of an underground river would have been the dumping point, taking the effluence away quickly. Criminals and lower-caste folk would collect the pots on a daily basis for dumping. The last thing you want in a dungeon is a sewer system or anything else that "flows" throughout the complex; if it backs up, it gets ugly quickly...

In a "fallen" dungeon occupied by humanoids, monsters, and vermin, of course, the critters simply go wherever they are, when they must, though most animal intelligence and semi-intelligent creatures and better will not mess their own lair, they will go to a different chamber and use that as the litter box (perhaps having a symbiotic relationship with an otyugh or other filth-eating creatures). In general, without such creatures a monster-infested dungeon should be pretty nasty and filthy.

The same goes for castles; chamber pots were the rule for the day, though for some castles, you can assume that garderobes are built into the walls at regular intervals.

 

[Tonguez]

two questions about poop in a week is kind of obsessive don't you think...

 

[pawsplay]

So, I've often wondered, where do the many churches that sell potions of healing make them? I can't remember ever seeing a room for making potions in one single church map ever produced by WotC, Paizo, or any other third party.

Feel free to answer, or to post your own questions about D&D that have always bugged you.

In AD&D, clerical potions were created by infusing the liquid in front of the altar.

 

[der_kluge]

Man, some people think about this game WAY too hard.