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Potions of Healing

Potions Of Healing
  • Category: Potion
  • Rarity: Rarity Varies

You regain Hit Points when you drink this potion. The number of Hit Points depends on the potion's rarity, as shown in the table below.

Whatever its potency, the potion's red liquid glimmers when agitated.

PotionHP RegainedRarity
Potion of Healing2d4+2Common
Potion of Healing (greater)4d4+4Uncommon
Potion of Healing (superior)8d4+8Rare
Potion of Healing (supreme)10d4+20Very Rare

Tactical Applications​

Combat Strategy: Provides immediate healing during combat, restoring hit points and enabling continued fighting. Essential emergency healing for all characters and combat sustainability.

Class Synergies:

  • Any Class: Universal utility for healing and hit point recovery regardless of class or build
  • Frontline Combatants: Perfect for tanks and melee fighters taking consistent damage
  • Non-Healing Classes: Essential for characters without access to healing magic or abilities
  • Emergency Response: Excellent for characters needing reliable healing during critical moments

Build Considerations: Single-use consumables providing instant healing without requiring attunement. Most valuable for characters lacking healing abilities.

Acquisition Methods​

Crafting Requirements: Requires healing magic, restoration enchantments, and life-restoring herbs. Creation cost varies by potency (25-2,500 gp) and takes 1-8 weeks.

Common Sources:

  • Healing temples and medical organizations
  • Alchemical shops and potion specialists
  • Commission from enchanters specializing in healing magic
  • Found in the collections of medical practitioners and healers
  • Common purchase from most magical item vendors and healing organizations

Alternative Acquisition: Sometimes discovered in medical facilities or obtained from healing creature encounters.

Value & Trade​

Estimated Value: 50-5,000 gp depending on healing potency, with universal demand among all adventurers.

Trade Considerations: Essential equipment for all adventuring parties and considered basic survival gear.

Character Integration​

Roleplay Elements: Suggests practical preparation, survival instincts, or professional roles requiring emergency medical capabilities.

Character Concepts:

  • Practical adventurer with comprehensive emergency preparation and survival planning
  • Medical specialist with advanced healing knowledge and potion expertise
  • Character prioritizing survival and emergency response capabilities
  • Support specialist maintaining party health and healing resources

Adventure Hooks​

The Emergency Healing: Crisis situations where immediate healing determines survival and mission success.

The Medical Supply: Adventures involving healing resource management and medical supply procurement.

The Healing Mission: Scenarios where providing healing to others advances the plot and saves lives.

The Survival Challenge: Dangerous encounters where healing potions enable continued exploration and combat.

Variants & Customization​

Healing Potion Types:

  • Potion of Healing (Common): 2d4+2 healing for basic medical needs
  • Potion of Greater Healing (Uncommon): 4d4+4 healing for moderate injuries
  • Potion of Superior Healing (Rare): 8d4+8 healing for serious wounds
  • Potion of Supreme Healing (Very Rare): 10d4+20 healing for critical injuries

Specialized Variants:

  • Combat Healing Potion: Optimized for battlefield use with rapid activation
  • Emergency Response Potion: Enhanced for crisis situations with additional stabilization
  • Concentrated Healing Potion: Maximum healing in minimal volume for space efficiency

Lore & History​

Origins: Among the first magical items created, developed by ancient healers for battlefield medicine and emergency treatment.

Historical Significance: These potions enabled countless military victories and exploration successes through reliable healing.

Cultural Impact: Represent the foundation of magical medicine and the universal need for healing and recovery.

Magical Craft: Demonstrates basic understanding of healing magic and the fundamental processes of life restoration.

Balancing Notes​

Introduction Timing: Appropriate for all levels as basic survival equipment, with potency scaling to character level and threat.

Campaign Impact: Provides essential healing balanced by cost and resource management requirements.

Universal Utility: Valuable in all campaign types and essential for party survival and sustainability.

Encounter Design​

Recommended Challenges:

  • Combat encounters where healing enables continued participation and survival
  • Exploration scenarios where healing resources determine expedition success
  • Emergency situations where immediate healing prevents character death
  • Resource management challenges where healing conservation affects long-term survival

Tactical Adjustments: Healing availability should be factored into encounter balance and damage scaling.

Healing Items: Other items that provide healing and recovery benefits for emergency medical situations.

Medical Equipment:

  • Items that enhance healing effectiveness and medical capabilities
  • Equipment for advanced medical treatment and emergency response
  • Tools for professional healing work and medical practice

Complementary Equipment: Items that enhance healing abilities or provide additional recovery benefits.

Roleplay Opportunities​

Medical Expertise: Characters develop knowledge of healing techniques and medical treatment methods.

Emergency Preparedness: Healing resource management creates opportunities for survival planning and crisis preparation.

Support Leadership: Healing capabilities enable party support roles and medical responsibility within adventuring groups.