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Appendix B - Magic Items - Potions
Typical Ingredients
Typical Ingredients for Alchemical Potions and Powders
| Alchemical substance | Typical Ingredients |
| Appearance, dust of | 6 oz. of powdered chalk, 500 gp of emerald dust, and 12 annis hairs |
| Acid resistance, oil of | Two giant slug eyestalks, and a black dragon fang |
| Animal control | A paw, hoof, or claw of the animal type to be controlled, and a lock of a druids hair |
| Beauty, philter of | A lock of sirine hair, and a ground succubus horn |
| Clairaudience | Six giant bat ears |
| Clairvoyance | Two giant owl eyes, and a cadaver thalamus gland |
| Climbing | A giant spider leg |
| Diminution | 1 oz. of shrinking violet flowers, with either 1 oz. of snyad blood or a powdered sprite wing |
| Disappearance, dust of | 12 powdered pixie wings, or one whole (dead) invisible stalker |
| Disenchantment, oil of | 12 oz. of disenchanter hair |
| Dragon control | The brain of the appropriate dragon type |
| Dryness, dust of | A dustdigger arm, or a portion of a sandling |
| Elemental Invulnerability, oil of | Dependent upon the type of elemental to be controlled: earth uses tiger eye, water uses smoky |
quartz, air uses zircon, and fire uses ruby (gem values of at least 1,000 gp). Powder the gem, then add 4 oz. of the appropriate element.
| ESP | 6 oz. of doppleganger blood, or two mind flayer tentacles |
| Etherealness, oil of | A bottle of aerial servant essence |
| Extra-healing | 6 oz. of troll blood |
| Fire breath | A chimera stomach, or a barbed devil claw |
| Fiery burning, oil of | Five salamander scales, or three drops of phoenix blood |
| Fire resistance | A red pyrolisk feather, or a stench kow horn |
| Flying | Eight hippogriff wing feathers, or a lock of Pegasus tail |
| Gaseous form | Dust from a destroyed vampire, or three dead vapor rats (in a bottle) |
| Giant control | A brain of the appropriate giant type |
| Giant strength | Six fingernails from the appropriate giant type |
| Glibness, philter of | Any minor devil tongue |
| Growth | A spriggan heart, or 6 oz. of ogre-mage blood |
| Healing | A vial of holy water, three lammasu feathers, or 1 oz. of troll flesh |
| Health, elixir of | A vial of holy water, and a couatl feather |
| Heroism | The heart of a lion, or an androsphinx feather |
| Human control | 6 oz. of nixie blood, or dust from a destroyed vampire or succubus |
| Illusion, dust of | A lock of lamia hair or a rakshasa brain |
| Impact, oil of | A powdered minotaur horn |
| Invisibility | 6 oz. of pixie sweat |
| Invulnerability | A tarrasque or gargoyle horn |
| Kheoghtom’s ointment | 1 pint of royal jelly from giant bees |
| Levitation | Two beholder eyestalks, or 8 oz. of Type II demon ichor |
| Life, elixir of | 10 phoenix head feathers |
| Longevity | 3 oz. of elven blood, or 6 oz. of mummy dust |
| Love, philter of | A lock of dryad hair |
| Meditation, incense of | 1 oz. of hallucinogenic spores from a myconid, and one holy/unholy symbol |
| Nolzur’s marvelous pigments | Clematis, lady’s mantle, and 500 gp worth of platinum or sapphire |
| Plant control | 2 oz. of treant sap, 1 oz. of shrieker spores, or a vegepygmy “brain” |
| Polymorph self | A doppleganger brain, or a jackalwere heart |
| Rainbow hues | Two giant dragonfly wings |
| Sharpness, oil of | One tarrasque tooth per + 1 of enchantment |
| Slipperiness, oil of | 4 oz. of boggle oil |
| Sovereign glue | 6’ piece of cave fisher filament, one roper tentacle, or 16 filaments from a giant sundew |
| Speed | A thri-kreen eye, four unicorn mane hairs, or a giant wasp wing |
| Super-heroism | Four giant wolverine claws, and 6 oz. of (any) giant’s blood |
| Sweet water | Four shedu tail hairs |
| Timelessness, oil of | Part of a time elemental |
| Tracelessness, dust of | 2 oz. of boggart bone |
| Treasure finding | Three ancient dragon scales |
| Undead control | Hand of an evil high priest, or dust from a lich’s bones |
| Ultimate solution | 2 oz. of dracolisk acid, and two “pearls” from a land urchin |
| Ventriloquism | A bottle of leprechaun’s breath |
| Vitality | A vial of holy water, and a titan fingernail clipping or 3 oz. of troll blood |
| Water breathing | Eight water naga scales, or 1 oz. of triton gills |
| Youth elixir | 6 oz. of ki-rin hair |
These ingredients are only a few possibilities. Imagination and research may discover other items that also produce the desired compound.
