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<blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 5913633" data-attributes="member: 6669384">Curiosity:&nbsp; Why would potions be in short supply?&nbsp; While stockpiles would have been disenchanted, these and other consumable items would, by their nature, be consumed over time even when the world overflowed with magic.&nbsp; It's the nature of the item.&nbsp; And if they're being consumed, then there would have needed to be people making them, before, during and after the &quot;Great Power Down&quot;.The same might be said for scrolls, wands and staves, as well as the consumables on the Wondrous Item list.&nbsp; (Keotome's Ointment, Stone Salve, Candles of Invocation, Quall's Feather Tokers, etc. )Question:&nbsp; Were consumable items disenchanted along with the permanent ones?Oh, for fun, let the group discover that the disenchantment was because of a being or force known simply as &quot;Deus Machinas&quot;.&nbsp; Some might think that this refers to some divine patron of the mechanical arts, while others might misread it as &quot;The machinations of the gods&quot; (which would be Deus ex Machinas).&nbsp; The bitter truth is, of course, in abbreviations:&nbsp; Deus Machinas = DM. <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="Greenfield, post: 5913633, member: 6669384"] Curiosity: Why would potions be in short supply? While stockpiles would have been disenchanted, these and other consumable items would, by their nature, be consumed over time even when the world overflowed with magic. It's the nature of the item. And if they're being consumed, then there would have needed to be people making them, before, during and after the "Great Power Down". The same might be said for scrolls, wands and staves, as well as the consumables on the Wondrous Item list. (Keotome's Ointment, Stone Salve, Candles of Invocation, Quall's Feather Tokers, etc. ) Question: Were consumable items disenchanted along with the permanent ones? Oh, for fun, let the group discover that the disenchantment was because of a being or force known simply as "Deus Machinas". Some might think that this refers to some divine patron of the mechanical arts, while others might misread it as "The machinations of the gods" (which would be Deus [B]ex[/B] Machinas). The bitter truth is, of course, in abbreviations: Deus Machinas = DM. :) [/QUOTE]

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