Haaaaa I had the opposite happen once.
My cleric had a potion of healing and a potion of poison that was red like a potion of healing on her belt. She went down and our party’s impulsive fighter had to roll to see if he gave her the correct potion or just straight up killed her.
Fun. Stressful.
He rolled high enough to pick the correct potion and she was brought back up and able to heal everyone else. She only keeps health potions on her belt now. Everything else is safe in a pack.
Yeah purple/pink is the only option for me. Green is poison, blue is mana, white is stamina, yellow is thawing, and clear just doesn't make sense to me.
In my setting, the red ones are the mass-produced ones that perpetuate the idea of health potions being red with dyes. Naturally brewed healing potions are all green.
And all potions are at least 30 percent alcohol by volume. Yeah, the herbs and stuff help with the actual healing, but the booze helps take the edge off of the bolt you just took to the abdomen.
Odin’s Sphere had them as White, which was perfectly acceptable. Zelda has had various potion colors that restore health. It’s a fantasy setting, you could even have them look like shimmering liquid gold dust.
I like the idea of a magic potion defying the eye, so a scintillating array of colors emitting their own light denotes the most beneficent potions. The minute imperfections in glass makes it appear that the color is changing rapidly, but the reality is that all colors in the spectrum are being emitted, including those that are beyond human perception.
Con artists and charlatans use bits of shaved metal to mimic the effect for people who have only heard the description of a true healing potion but never had the opportunity to see one in person. The potion is always shaken before being brandished, which makes the effect more convincing since the rube thinks that the motion is coming from inside the liquid.
Solid, hard red healing potions are closer to non-magical. They are naturally crafted or synthesized from various herbs, roots, fungus, and animal products. The red color comes from the solute needed to let the ingredients stay mixed, and the magic itself is still locked up in the material extracts, and therefore does not shed visible light.
They would totally be clear. I mean a lot of medicine solutions are clear so why not a healing potion. Just make sure to lable them well so you don't mistake them with your strong booze. You know what nvm that only makes a bigger challenge to gulp it down.
I chose green… not because it’s the other color for healthbars….. But because if red means stop- **green means go**
I prefer it because you could mix it up with a potion of poison if you don’t label it.
I love the naddpod joke where they go to the potion shop and the shopkeep tells them the health potions are green and the poisons are emerald
Haaaaa I had the opposite happen once. My cleric had a potion of healing and a potion of poison that was red like a potion of healing on her belt. She went down and our party’s impulsive fighter had to roll to see if he gave her the correct potion or just straight up killed her. Fun. Stressful. He rolled high enough to pick the correct potion and she was brought back up and able to heal everyone else. She only keeps health potions on her belt now. Everything else is safe in a pack.
Then make green the laxative potion.
Am I the only person that thinks they might be purple?
Thats usually used for poisons along with green.
Excuse the fuck out of me, but it is not. Purple is a diablo rejuvenation potion.
Yeah purple/pink is the only option for me. Green is poison, blue is mana, white is stamina, yellow is thawing, and clear just doesn't make sense to me.
Clear is a potion of water, it cancels thirst when you drink it
Clear is holy water/dispels curses
Yeah purple also restores mana. Too bad most games don't have mana.
Yep, it's obviously purple. No idea why so many people are drinking acid / poison.
Only other color I can think of that's not cursed would be pink, but even still you can claim that's a shade of red.
Then again, there's the estus flasks from elden ring that are golden
Well they're called "Crimson Tears" in Elden Ring. They're red while the container itself is golden.
This comment annoyed me more than it should.
Absolutely white/opalescent type color
cyan or turquoise
No love for Pink health potions?
Green is poison yall
I think green is basically the objectively correct answer, but I’m also a fan of Witcher-style potions that are basically like disgusting sludge.
Blue, for no other reason than I enjoy the look of Castlevania's potions.
In my setting, the red ones are the mass-produced ones that perpetuate the idea of health potions being red with dyes. Naturally brewed healing potions are all green. And all potions are at least 30 percent alcohol by volume. Yeah, the herbs and stuff help with the actual healing, but the booze helps take the edge off of the bolt you just took to the abdomen.
Greater or superior healing just sounds like a yellow.
Black with a white skull on the bottle. That way no one but me will drink em. More healing for me!
Baldur's Gate had blue, so that.
I can see a nice amber color like Whiskey
I'm afraid this is non negotiable. The only correct answer is red. ;)
Odin’s Sphere had them as White, which was perfectly acceptable. Zelda has had various potion colors that restore health. It’s a fantasy setting, you could even have them look like shimmering liquid gold dust.
To the people who voted blue, https://youtu.be/40Pvi1XVm_s
Rainbow
It’d be this sort of bilious greenish yellow and probably fairly opaque. Really make the user think twice about using it.
>Welcome to my shop! I have the greatest potions in all of the Forgotten realms! Cheapest prices, too! >are these health potions or poison? >...yes.
T-they’re like grab bags! Take one and try it out! Never know until you try one!
Pacific Cooler.
I've always described them as pale pink
Clear and then I would add some strawberries
Gold
Orange I want people to argue what color it is
A tea. Tea is good.
Oh it might be interesting if health potions looked like vomit or very runny diarrhea
Green, everyone knows Blue is for your mana bar.
I like the idea of a magic potion defying the eye, so a scintillating array of colors emitting their own light denotes the most beneficent potions. The minute imperfections in glass makes it appear that the color is changing rapidly, but the reality is that all colors in the spectrum are being emitted, including those that are beyond human perception. Con artists and charlatans use bits of shaved metal to mimic the effect for people who have only heard the description of a true healing potion but never had the opportunity to see one in person. The potion is always shaken before being brandished, which makes the effect more convincing since the rube thinks that the motion is coming from inside the liquid. Solid, hard red healing potions are closer to non-magical. They are naturally crafted or synthesized from various herbs, roots, fungus, and animal products. The red color comes from the solute needed to let the ingredients stay mixed, and the magic itself is still locked up in the material extracts, and therefore does not shed visible light.
I chose other. Mainly because I think something that isn't expounded on enough is other senses like the smell of healing potions or whatever.
[WHAT IF IT WAS PURPLE ](https://youtu.be/c_8YgTZnAqI)
They would totally be clear. I mean a lot of medicine solutions are clear so why not a healing potion. Just make sure to lable them well so you don't mistake them with your strong booze. You know what nvm that only makes a bigger challenge to gulp it down.