Pathfinder Potion Guide
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- Опубліковано 15 січ 2025
- Welcome to the D6Damage pathfinder potion guide. This video explains the brew potion feat, how much the potion will cost, and gives my picks for the best potions to make and the best class to craft with.
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Honestly, I really thank you! I was considering a healer/buffer character who brews potions, and this really helped it seem less daunting!
I wish my game manager allowed potion brewing or scroll creation but the game was just back to back go out kill things come back , then go out kill things then return no down time
then why play pathfinder cut out the cool stuff and you basically have D&D
Actually, any "Personal" range spells can't be in a potion. So Shield, True Strike, etc are a no-go. I can go into detail as to why.
+Kevin Ryan Sure, I'm not real clear why spells with a range of Personal can't be potions.
+D6Damage Personal range spells are always much more powerful than their targeted counterparts. So when they designed them, they wanted to ensure that the only way to use personal Sor/Wiz spells (and coresponding classes) was to -be- those classes. Yes, Use Magic Device can change that, but there is no skill check required for potions. Hence why this rule exists for "no personal potions."
+Kevin Ryan that makes sense, ty
You're welcome! Another thing to remember or consider is that the game is a double-edged sword. Anything the players can do, enemies can do as well. How frustrated would you be if suddenly all of your opponents carried 50gp potions of True Strike? Haha
+D6Damage . they can if you're an alchemist. Since True Strike is on the alchemist extracts list you can...that plus the infusion discovery makes my alchemist useful to the entire party.
9:10. Potion of Shield does not exist. To craft a potion, the spell in question has to be able to target 1 or more creatures. It can't target another creature besides the caster, because its a personal spell.
by RAW that is. If you wanna homebrew it, sure. But for Pathfinder Society, It definitely doesn't exist.
+Richard B. The fine print will get you every time LOL thanks for pointing out my mistake
+D6Damage will you ever talk about 3rd party stuff
+Alex Lacoste At some point. The hardest part with that is a good source, as they don't always carry third party books near me.
+D6Damage alot of material is now online too. like d20pfsrd has pretty much most of the non-copyrighted stuff on it (so everything except adventure paths, modules, and deities).
Hey D6Damage. If you really wanna strike at a new area, read up on the occult adventures and explain the classes. Nobody has done it yet and its very new territory.
IIRC it is the same thing with potion of Truestrike; it has a range of personal and therefore it cannot be made into a potion. BUT in the Kingmaker adventutre module, one person used a Truestrike potion to get an edge in an archery competition.
So you cannot brew a potion of a spell above third level? I did not know that. Thank you. As a long time player and GM, I much preferred the way it was with AD&D (1st Edition), where all the possible spells were listed in the DM Guide to find, make, or purchase. If you have a potion of Feather Fall and start climbing and fall, how do you drink the potion? How is this useful?
Amazing Video! Funny and finally helped me understand the costs. Thanks a lot!
Glad I could help.
I understand that you cannot brew a potion at a caster level above your own caster level. But can you brew a potion of a caster level "below" your caster level, in order to make it cost less.
Yes, you can. When you create the potion you set the caster level, you don't need to always be at the max. However, you can only set it as low as the minimum level to create the potion. For example, a cleric could create a potion of Cure Moderate Wounds, but it would have to be at 3rd caster level minimum, because that's when clerics get Cure Moderate Wounds.
I never took the brew potion feat on my cleric, I did take scribe scroll. I made scrolls of remove Disease/curse/anything, the restorations. It was some random spells I did not want to prep on the random chance I needed to cast. It was so great. I never thought of true strike. That is way to good.
can you do one for scrolls? im working on a halfelf rogue/scrollmaster wizard/cyphermage/arcane trickster who specializes in stealing scrolls and things from wizards and there isnt any good resorces on how scrolls work
+Topher Robeson Stone That's not a bad idea and it is a similar process to potion making, in the mean time all the info is on pg 552 of the CRB
I know but hearing it explained helps
fantastic video, playing a potion focused witch and this definitely helped!! But i gotta be that guy, Im pretty sure potions in Harry Potter actually had to be stirred in certain speeds and in certain directions, and the ingredients and sometimes even incantations had to be done in a specific order as well!! Not that anyone cares lol
"Note that all items have prerequisites in their descriptions. These
prerequisites must be met for the item to be created. Most of the time,
they take the form of spells that must be known by the item's creator
(although access through another magic item or spell caster is allowed).
The DC to create a magic item increases by 5 for each prerequisite the
caster does not meet. The only exception to this is the requisite item creation feat, which is mandatory. In addition, you cannot create potions, spell-trigger, or spell-completion magic items without meeting its prerequisites."
With the DC so low for potions (10 at max spell level, 15 if you don't have the spell.), just about anybody can do it, so long as they take brew potions with Master Craftsman. (www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/general-feats/master-craftsman-final/ )
Interesting. I didn't know not meeting the prereq applied to potions as well. Thanks.
I don't find your quote, can you please give your source? (I'm french, I use translated books so I would like to see how it has been translated)
This is really helpful, I’m definitely taking Brew Potion for my cleric now!
Glad I could help.
by the way speaking of healing, if you play smart, you don't need any spell stronger than a resurrection : cut the hand or a good chunk of flesh from each party member and cast corpse preservation spells (i forgot the name, gentle respose i think) on it. Or mumify them it works too. then cast regenerate on the party member. If you lost their body, just cast resurrection on the back-up body part. And just like that, you no longer have any need for a true resurrection spell.
Or you can just have the wizard clone the whole party.
You cant make potions with personal range spells like true strike or shield
did this come out before alchemist was a class?
he mentions the alchemist class getting brew potion as a free feat at lvl 1 so no it did not
Thanks for the guide !
In creating a undead lord cleric for an upcoming campaign. I'm really on the fence about taking this feat or scribe scroll feat... What would you recommend?
It depends on the nature of the party you have around you. If other characters are proficient with use magic device, then I would go with scribe scroll because other party members could use your scrolls as well. But, brew potion is better for party support. Of course, if you're not interested in supporting your party, I would go with scribe scroll because it's less expensive and you can have all nine spell levels.
It's not good to make cure potions at the max caster lv. You can make 5 at the lowest for the same price. What's better, 5d8 or 1d8+5?
And it's actually 5d8 +5. Because each is 1d8+1. So it's totally dumb to make them not at the lowest caster lv.
because it's a standard action to drink 1 potion - so basically 5 turns of standing there getting (on average) 4 hp back? That's probably not going to scale with te damage output of whatever's hitting you. The latter potion gives an average of 9 hp and gives you that much more chance to move away, give you a opening to kill the thing or basically do something that's not spend your turns drinking - the main advantage a party has against monsters (particularly big ones) is action economy.
I'm confused as to why he says that Alchemist isn't the best brewer. While some of the spells are one spell lvl higher, most aren't and they can make every potion he said except water walking while the cleric and wizard can only do half each.
The answer is caster level. Potions cost 50gp x spell level x caster level. Let's say for the sake of argument that a wizard and an alchemist are both making a potion of bull's strength. For the wizard the price is 25 x 2 (the same as the alchemist) x 3 (one spell level lower than the alchemist) = 150gp. The alchemist would cost 25 x 2 x 4 = 200gp. Because wizards and clerics get new spell levels quicker than the alchemist, it's cheaper for them to brew potions.
I see your point, though i prefer the availability lol
could you make potions in a hip-flask? (1 oz per vile, 10 oz per flask?)
A lot of that will depend on how you want to flavor your potion rp wise. I would say you can't have more than one potion in the same flask, but there's nothing wrong with having multiple flasks with potions in them.
Herbalism Druid is an OP potion maker. :D
True that.
unfortunately, "potion of shield"... not such a thing, potions can't be spells with "pesonnal" range. the 25 gp shield potion would have been really powerfull, maybe too much
Yo this was an awsome/helpful video. Fall damage can be a....
happy I could help
True strike doesnt work with called shots.
You left out probably the cheapest and potentially most life-saving potion of them all: either cure minor wounds (3.5) or stabilize (Pathfinder). A cleric can create a lot of those to give to his fellow party members to use on dying companions in the event the cleric himself is too far away to reach them in time with a cure spell (or for when he's one of the dying ones).
Being a cantrip, it costs just 12.5 gp to make and can be created either as a potion or an oil.
why are you yelling?