Question about Potions.

[Pokepoke]

Right, well I recently found a very interesting list of 10,000 random magical effects and I was thinking of replacing 'Caster' with 'Subject' or whoever drank the potion. And this is where the question comes in, is it alright if Stewart made a "Random Potion" (Workin on name, feel free to help) that could use this list?

List is posted below, it is a .PDF so be warned.


And also, sorry, any of the super serious effects I would get the player's consent after I roll. And any of the ones that don't make sense I'd just re-roll

[Ben]

A potion that imbues random effects. That could be VERY fun to RP with. Some would see it as a punishment, others as a gift. As long as the effect stays random, I'd see this working personally.

[Pokepoke]

Thanks Ben, anyone else feel the same? Or otherwise?

[BountyHunter]

I think it'd work, just some of the more stupid and overly powerful stuff shouldn't work. For an example, time stopping for a while day.

[Ben]

Mmm. That too. We don't want Gnomes the size of the Empire State Building destroying Orgrimmar for crimes against the little guys. Or do we?

[Psychyn]

2121 Caster wears corks in his ears so his brains don't leak out. 

... Win, I support this but have no clue how to get it in game. Some GHI item with over 10,000 random effects? I fear for lagg.

Would people just /roll between 1 - 10,000, fetch an number and gain that effect? That works as well I guess.

[Pokepoke]

Yes, it would be done with rolls and then I whisper them the effect.

[Pokepoke]

I think it'd work, just some of the more stupid and overly powerful stuff shouldn't work. For an example, time stopping for a while day.

Yeah, the more extreme stuff would be rerolled. Or, it could be nerfed a bit. Like time stopping for a minute or so.

[Beltharean]

There's a similar item to this in the RPG, called a Chaos Orb, or something along those lines if I recall. Goblin alchemists took all the stray magical ingredients in their shops, and put them into a small ball. When it cracks, it gives one of ten random symptoms to those around it; Unfortunately for the person throwing it, there's the possibility the potion will actually buff his enemies, haha. It's a really fun item, and taking it that extra step to have even more things that could go horribly horribly right seems like it could make for quite the RP experience.

[Pokepoke]

Reminds me of the {Weapon} Of Wonder from D&D.

[Aphetoros]

It feels like a potion doc.

[Pokepoke]

It feels like a potion doc.

That is awesome.. I think Stew might turn into one at some point..

[NodCommando]

I really like this. It could really come in handy.. or just completely screw you over.

The only thing, which has been mentioned before, is that a few of the things are rather excessive. And that there's like a bajillion options, though that's not exactly a bad thing.

[FreezingBlood1942]

In my opinion this is a great idea, so many things could happen and would cause many unique RP experiences.

[Mayson]

I would be okay with this. But I would take the timestop thingie completely out, if I were you. Don't forget, that the effect needs to be roleplayed out somehow and I don't know... Drinking it and suddenly being imprisoned in time is strange.

Suggestion: Why don't you change the time stop to a palsy? That makes more sense and has the same effect. Palsied people can't move. But make it temporarily, otherwise people will never drink your magical potion. :<

Another suggestion, how the different effects are explainable: The ingredient of the potion have different effects on the user depending on the immune system of the user and other physical attributes of the person, like blood type, a possible existing or not existing fel corruption, illnesses like influenza, etc...