Potion

Potions feature often in the fantasy-based gamebooks.

Standard Potions

For a start, many of the adventures (especially the early ones) offer the player the choice of one of three potions at the start of the game. These are:

• Potion of Skill: restores the player's skill to its Initial level.
• Potion of Strength: restores the player's stamina to its Initial level.
• Potion of Fortune: adds 1 point to the player's Initial luck score and then restores the player's luck to this new Initial level.

Other Potions

Other potions to have featured in the gamebooks include:

• Baskin's Potion (Island of the Lizard King)
• Black Poison of Lisz (Daggers of Darkness)
• Clearsee Potion
• Curative Potion
• Doppelgänger Potion (Deathtrap Dungeon)
• Fatal Mixture of the Luckless (Daggers of Darkness)
• Hallucinating Potion (The Citadel of Chaos)
• Healing Potion (City of Thieves)
• Invisibility Potion (The Tasks of Tantalon)
• Potion of Berserk Rage (Beneath Nightmare Castle)
• Potion of Clumsiness (Island of the Lizard King)
• Potion of Destiny (Dead of Night)
• Potion of Great Wisdom (Daggers of Darkness)
• Potion of Heroism (Dead of Night)
• Potion of Invulnerability to Sword Strike (Daggers of Darkness)
• Potion of Madness and Death (Daggers of Darkness)
• Potion of Magik (The Citadel of Chaos)
• Potion of Mind Control (City of Thieves)
• Potion of Misfortune (City of Thieves)
• Potion of No Appetite (Beneath Nightmare Castle)
• Potion of Power to Change Metal Objects (Daggers of Darkness)
• Potion of Power of Fortune (Daggers of Darkness)
• Potion of Power of Persuasion (Daggers of Darkness)
• Potion of Power of Stormbringing (Daggers of Darkness)
• Potion of the Exploding Death (Daggers of Darkness)
• Potion of Trap Detection (Deathtrap Dungeon)
• Potion of True Seeing (Portal of Evil)
• Salamader Potion
• Sleeping Draught Potion
• Unnamed Potion that cures Lycanthropy

Potions to have featured in the Advanced Fighting Fantasy – The Roleplaying Game include:

• Potion of Anti-Poison (Advanced Fighting Fantasy – The Roleplaying Game)
• Potion of Cooling (Advanced Fighting Fantasy – The Roleplaying Game)
• Potion of Fire Protection (Return to the Pit)
• Potion of Firewater (Advanced Fighting Fantasy – The Roleplaying Game)
• Potion of Insect Control (Advanced Fighting Fantasy – The Roleplaying Game)
• Potion of Invisibility (Advanced Fighting Fantasy – The Roleplaying Game)
• Potion of Life (Beyond the Pit)
• Love Potion (Advanced Fighting Fantasy – The Roleplaying Game)
• Medicinal Potion (Advanced Fighting Fantasy – The Roleplaying Game)
• Potion of Magic (Advanced Fighting Fantasy – The Roleplaying Game)
• Potion of Rage (Advanced Fighting Fantasy – The Roleplaying Game)
• Potion of Sobriety (Advanced Fighting Fantasy – The Roleplaying Game)
• Potion of Seeing (The Titan Herbal)
• Potion of Transformation (The Titan Herbal)
• Potion of Warming (Advanced Fighting Fantasy – The Roleplaying Game)

Appendix

Gallery

The Triplex Potion Concocter, suitable for all you potion creating needs.

A potion amongst other items.

Six different potions.