An Alchemist is anyone who knows how to produce an alchemical preparation. You will have a number of “potions slots” which you can use to produce potions you know between adventures. A Class C or D potion takes 1 potion slot to mix, while a class A or B potion takes 2 potion slots to mix.

As an alchemist, you are somewhat used to your own potions and they do not count towards your daily limit.

In addition to these potion slots, you can mix 1 potion of the appropriate level for each potion you know how to make (i.e., if you know how to mix 3 class D potions, then you can mix 3 class D potions between adventures in addition to those produced from your “potion slots”).

It is possible to craft unique potions from unique ingredients. The rules for this follow the standard rules for crafting an artefact. The potion will be a unique potion which will be used up when consumed (or potentially a small number of potions). Because these potions are unique, skills which rely on an in depth knowledge of their creation or application do not work (e.g., Advanced Application). As a general rule, an artefact potion will have an extremely powerful effect, but will also likely come with side-effects due to its unrefined nature.

• Potion: Gain +1 damage on your next two blows. (This does not stack with other sources of +1 damage except strengthen).
• Paste: N/A
• Advanced Application: Gain +1 on your next 4 blows

• Potion: Call a ZERO STRIKEDOWN on your next blow.
• Paste: N/A
• Advanced Application: Call a ZERO STRIKEDOWN on your next two blows.

• Potion: Gain 2 points of temporary natural armour.
• Paste: N/A
• Advanced Application: Gain 4 points of natural armour.

This potion can be bought (or prepared) in two different versions. Either as a set of three diluted potions (version #1) or a single more potent potion (version #2).

Version #1 (set of 3 potions)

• Potion: HEAL ZERO
• Paste: HEAL ZERO by blow
• Advanced Application: HEAL ONE

Version #2 (single potion)

• Potion: HEAL ONE
• Paste: HEAL ONE by blow
• Advanced Application: HEAL TWO

This halts a dying character’s death count. Can be applied as an alchemical paste. This is bought either as a set of 3 HEAL ZERO potions or a single HEAL ONE potion. Only an alchemist who knows how to prepare the potion can dilute a HEAL ONE potion into a set of 3 HEAL ZERO potions.

• Potion: The drinker falls into a deep sleep indistinguishable from death. They will awaken in 4 hours and not prior.
• Paste: The target grow slowly more fatigued over the course of several hours, eventually falling into an incredibly deep sleep from which almost nothing will rouse them.
• Advanced Application: Control of the period of sleep from between 10 minutes to 12 hours with the option of adding a trigger which will wake the target.

After about 30 seconds, the drinker’s sight grows sharper, with a coloured border seeming to surround the edges of things. For the next five minutes, the drinker can see well enough to operate if their vision is obscured by darkness, snowstorms, smoke or a myriad of other obstructions. This prevents the BLIND call from affecting them.

• Potion: Gain IMMUNITY to BLIND
• Paste: N/A
• Advanced Application: Following the encounter the potion was used, resist the next BLIND call you take.

A sticky paste which when applied to a weapon makes it easier to knock a weapon from your opponents hands. If drunk, tremendously uncomfortable for several days, but not actually dangerous unless drunk in quantities sufficient to block internal organs.

• Potion: N/A
• Paste: Gain 1 use of DISARM
• Advanced Application: Gain 2 uses of DISARM

A poison which causes the victim to be beset by shadows which move from the corners of their eyes.

• Potion: Drinker is affected by the poison as described above.
• Paste: Gain 1 use of POISON
• Advanced Application: Alchemist may specify the nature of shadows, and describe a loose theme for the nature of the paranoia.

• Potion: The next time you successfully strike a foe, you will regain body hits equal to the damage you dealt.
• Paste: N/A
• Advanced Application: The effect applies to your next 2 strikes.

• Potion: 30 seconds of STRENGTHEN
• Paste: N/A
• Advanced Application: 60 seconds of STRENGTHEN

• Potion: N/A
• Paste: RENEW 12 on a suit of armour it has been applied to.
• Advanced Application: Provides a RENEW 24 which may exceed the usual maximum hits or takes the suit of armour up to twice its maximum hits, whichever is lower. Any hits exceeding the usual maximum will be lost at the end of the encounter and cannot be restored through the usual methods.

• Potion: Gain one use of DOUBLE STRIKEDOWN during the encounter.
• Paste: Gain TRIPLE STRIKEDOWN on your next blow.
• Advanced Application: Gain two uses of the call.

• Potion: HEAL 4
• Paste: HEAL 4
• Advanced Application: HEAL 8

• Potion: For the rest of the encounter you will not bleed out when reduced to zero hits.
• Paste: N/A
• Advanced Application: At the time of application the alchemist can choose one of the following two effects, the potion can either last for 2 encounters or on the first occasion the target is reduced to zero hits they will be affected by a HEAL 1 in addition to the usual effects.

• Potion: Drinker has powerful visions, that often feature portentous imagery.
• Paste: Gain 1 use of POISON. The victim will have vivid dreams when they next sleep which will likely feature portentous imagery.
• Advanced Application: The alchemist may apply some broad theme to the visions.

• Bomb: When thrown at the ground, allows you to call MASS BLIND 5. This affects you as well as everyone else.
• Paste: You may call BLIND 5 on your next blow.
• Advanced Application: Call increases to MASS BLIND 10/BLIND 10 respectively.

A small thrown bomb that explodes, damaging those nearby and blasting them from their feet.

• Bomb: Use a throwing weapon to represent this, and call BLAST SINGLE if you hit (or you may take a blast single yourself and call the effects as normal if you detonate it at your feet).
• Paste: You may call BLAST SINGLE with your next hit.
• Advanced Application: You may instead call BLAST DOUBLE.

Note, if you miss when throwing the Grenado phys rep, then the Grenado is not used up.

• Potion: The drinker will become seriously ill for a short period after drinking this concoction (lose all dodges and become weakened), but will usually recover very quickly.
• Paste: You may call FEAR on your next strike.
• Advanced Application: When applying the potion the alchemist may vary the symptoms (just dodges or just weakened) and the duration (between 1 encounter and 7 days). When using a paste they get 2 uses of FEAR.

• Potion: The drinker will become slowly weaker, with a moderate chance of death. A strong and healthy individual will probably recover eventually, although their chances are improved by the ministrations of an Alchemist or Surgeon.
• Paste: Gain 1 use of POISON (victim develops the same effects as if having drunk the potion shortly after)
• Advanced Application: The alchemist can specify a progression for the potion, running its course anywhere between 3 hours and 5 days. The poison can either be made less deadly (definite survival for all but the most sickly of victims) or more deadly (although a strong and healthy individual will probably still survive).

• Potion: The drinker becomes more gullible and credulous, they are much more likely to believe what they are told. The effects only last for an hour or two.
• Paste: Gain 1 use of POISON (victim develops the same effects as if having drunk the potion shortly after)
• Advanced Application: The alchemist can choose to limit the credulousness of the target to a limited set of themes which must be specified in advance.

• Potion: When applied to a small item (an item which could be held in the palm of a hand) the item will dissolve completely.
• Paste: Gain 1 use of SHATTER on your next strike.
• Advanced Application: As a potion, the size of the objects dissolvable increases to one which you can comfortably contain in two hands. As a paste you gain the use of SHATTER on your next 2 strikes.

• Potion: Strengthened for 1 encounter
• Paste: Gain the call STRENGTHEN on your next strike.
• Advanced Application: When delivered by potion the target is both STRENGTHENED and gains +1 damage for the next 30 seconds (this +1 does not stack with any other sources of +1 other than strengthened). When used as a paste you gain STRENGTHEN on your next 2 strikes.

• Potion: HEAL FULL
• Paste: Gain HEAL FULL on your next strike.
• Advanced Application: When delivered by potion the target is increased to twice their maximum body hits. These additional hits will be lost at the end of the encounter and the target will only benefit from healing once their body hits have dropped below their usual maximum. When delivered by paste you gain HEAL FULL on your next two strikes.

• Potion: 5 seconds after beginning your death count you will be restored to full health. This happens the first time you are dropped to 0 HP in the encounter you drank the potion, regardless of if you received healing in the interim 5 seconds.
• Paste: N/A
• Advanced Application: You will be restored to full health the first 2 times you begin your death count in an encounter.

• Potion: Drinker gains 1 use of MASS FEAR during the encounter.
• Paste: Gain FEAR on your next strike.
• Advanced Application: You gain 2 uses of MASS FEAR or FEAR on your next to strikes respectively.

• Potion: For 5 seconds after drinking the potion you may call dodge to any dodgable effect as per the skirmisher agility class feature.
• Paste: The target dodges all of your blows for 5 seconds, you MUST call ZERO (with no effect calls) for any strike you make against the target in the next 5 seconds.
• Advanced Application: The duration of the potion increases to 10 seconds.

• Potion: You may call QUAD REND on a single attack during the encounter.
• Paste: N/A
• Advanced Application: You gain two uses of QUAD REND during the encounter.

• Potion: You may call IMMUNE to strikedown for an encounter.
• Paste: N/A
• Advanced Application: In addition to being IMMUNE to strikedown the target gains two resists which can be used against disarms, shatters, and rends.

• Potion: The drinker loses sensation in their limbs, losing motor control shortly after. If not treated the drinker will start to have difficulty breathing, and will die shortly after. Diagnosis in the final stages is easy due to the signature swamp smell on the patient’s breath, but at this stage the condition is all but impossible to treat.
• Paste: Gain POISON on your next strike. Target will develop the symptoms above shortly after.
• Advanced Application: The alchemist may choose to exaggerate or mask the symptoms. When doing so the poison becomes equivalently more or less deadly. Many poisoners choose to mask the symptoms because even with the lessened efficacy the delay in correct treatment is often enough to get the job done. Equally, when away from competent physicians the easier to identify symptoms may be less of an issue and the enhanced potency desirable.

When drunk this potion causes a temporary change in the drinkers appearance. Their eyes turn completely black, their skin pales, and they develop a presence that is difficult to ignore. The downside is that this seriously impairs their vision for almost 24 hours after taking it (Blind effects are doubled and GMs might induce further penalties for travelling at night or in dark places). When prepared as an alchemical paste the effects on vision are far more acute, briefly blinding the victim.

• Potion: Gain 1 use of “Just hear me out” during the encounter as per the Fast Talk skill but take double effect from blind for 24hrs.
• Paste: Gain BLIND 15 on your next strike.
• Advanced Application: Either gain 2 uses of Just hear me out (potion) or gain BLIND 15 on your next 2 strikes (paste).

• Potion: For 1 encounter, regain 1 HP for every full 5 seconds you are not hit in combat. The effect ends when you are reduced to 0 hits
• Paste: You may call HEAL SINGLE by blow for 30 seconds. You may not make other calls with a coated weapon during that time.
• Advanced Application: The target regains 2hp every 5 seconds.

• Bomb: This may be used one of two ways: you may smash the potion at your feet and call a MASS HEAL 4 (which also affects you), or you may throw the potion calling HEAL 4 at up to five targets within 5 meters of where the potion lands. This effect does NOT count towards the targets' potion addictions thresholds.
• Paste: N/A
• Advanced Application: The healing effect increases to HEAL 8.

An alchemical bomb that sends out a wave of lacerating energy, with the person who detonated it safe in the centre.

• Bomb: You may call MASS REND (unarcable) by throwing the potion on the ground. If drunk the drinker immediately drops to zero hits, but still calls the MASS REND.
• Paste: Gain QUAD REND on your next strike.
• Advanced Application: The effects of the bomb are increased to a MASS DOUBLE REND. The effects of the paste increase to allow you QUAD REND on your next 2 strikes.

• Potion: Ever larger parts of the drinker fall off.
• Paste: You gain POISON on your next strike, with the target developing the symptoms above shortly after.
• Advanced Application: The alchemist may choose a non-deadly end-point for the poison, for example necrotic skin or non-functional legs. It is essentially impossible to make this poison more deadly than it already is.

• Potion: The target must append STRIKEDOWN to the end of all strikes against them.
• Paste: So long as the target did not dodge the strike (in which case the paste is not wasted) then you may call STRIKEDOWN (against the target) on hit every 15 seconds for the rest of the encounter.
• Advanced Application: When delivered by potion the target is additionally WEAKENED. When delivered by paste you gain +1 damage against the target (this does not stack with other sources of +1).