Potion Use and Other Tactics

[zanzibar]

I just had an odd thought. If potions are as I suggest magical in nature as opposed to perhaps natural elixers made by alchemy then they would not absolutely need containers, they could be magical bubbles that dissolve when they contact saliva. As I said a strange and unique, I think, idea. I give it freely to the community.

Why stop there?  Maybe buying potions is actually just symbolic for building up a resevoir of HP points that exists in an alternate dimension and is automatically added to your life total if your HP falls below 50 percent.
 

[bilbous]

Well if we want to get silly I'll take mine in the form of bubble gum that squirts. I was trying to be serious.

[Nikodemus]

If you are going to be serious you need to think. If there were magic bubbles, there is no room for potions at all^^ because what for if the bubbles are better from every side. I won't even go into details of a magic bubble, I would tell you bilbous, to look flaws of it by yourself, but if you didn't do it already, you probably won't While you should have had...

[bilbous]

I was actually thinking of a liquid that had an extremely high surface tension and behaved must like water in free-fall. This would make the "potion" be a perfect sphere if you threw it up in the air, and be flattened on the bottom if it was to come to rest on the ground. It might act like liquid mercury or some such thing. One thing I think that tends to get forgotten in the rush to realism is that it is Fantasy. As long as it is self consistant that should be realism enough. Why can't this approach work? Can you not suspend your disbelief for a second? Isn't that what fantasy is about?

[Nikodemus]

omfg, why don't you read what i write?
I said there would be no potions if there are purely magic bubbles. What further proove they won't exist in PS as we have normal potions. Ask Talad for permission and i won't complain anymore. gah..

* Nikodemus notes: Bilbous is the guy who goes for the fantasy and magic argument when there aren't real arguments.

I was actually thinking of a liquid that had an extremely high surface tension and behaved must like water in free-fall.

I won't even try to imagine how to eat, drink, assmilate it, or whatever...

[bilbous]

So what you seem to be saying is that a potion cannot exist without its container. Perhaps I am not being clear enough. Then again you refuse to acknowledge that magic can exist in the world and have inexplicable effects.
Tell me if you can just how a sword of clear thought can increase your wil by 20 points? It can't be magic because there can be no magic argument. It can't be fantasy either because that argument is out. Yes we have potions that have a graphic. That does not mean the graphic cannot be changed. All I have been trying to suggest are ways that the current situation could be explained in a way that more or less fits what we can see. You try to explain what happens to the containers once they are emptied. Do they magically disappear? Nope there is that magic argument again. Do you eat them? Well I suppose they could be made of wax and not be harmful but I think they would tend to get mushed.

I do not understand why you are getting so upset. The only reason you have given me for my idea to be unacceptable is just that you seem to think potions are non-magical and I'm telling youcomplete health from a near fatal wound with no passage of time has to be a magical effect and if it is a magical effect it can have a magical delivery system. It is that thing about being consistant within itself. If you think potions of healing are non-magical please feel free to explain to me how they work. There is nothing in the real world that will take you from your deathbed to complete health in an instant.

I realize my idea is unusual but I just don't see it as something out of line for a fantasy game. It might never be adopted by the devs but that doesn't mean it is worthless to discuss.