D&D Accessories: Brews, Boosts, and Potions
Potions are useful, plentiful, and look pretty cool, so let’s figure out a few ways to add potions to our real life D&D playing table.
Potions are one of the universal constants of D&D. If you’re dungeon crawling and taking damage, you’ll probably be picking up a few potions along the way and healing up between battles. Sometimes just find them lying around in caves or tunnels and they can be immediately useful to any member of your party. But they also have an iconic look that can add a fun aesthetic to your physical gaming table. And isn’t the aesthetic half of the fun?
1. Witches Brew Potion Dice
I love the recent trend of dice that look like things associated with your character. And every character can use a few potions from time to time. This complete set of D&D dice all look like various potion bottles with witches’ brews. And with some really unique shapes, they wouldn’t look too out of place on any magic user’s shelf. There are a bunch of designs of potion-themed dice depending on your style and favorite color, but I’m partial to this Witchy brew.
2. Potion Tokens
I’m the sort of player who will forget all of the items on my character sheet or that I have the prefect feat to use until the moment has passed. So when there’s a potion to use, it’s getting forgotten until two seconds after my next turn has ended. But physical potion tokens would never let players like me forget ever again. Coming in healing, greater healing, superior, and supreme, you can get a very complete set for your party without breaking the bank or get a set or two for yourself and be the envy of your table.
3. Potion Storage Set
This set would be the perfect present for the D&D player in your life. Each “potion” jar is actually full of dice of varying colors plus a giant D6 and an inspiration token. I’m not saying this is everything a player needs, but it’s certainly most of it.
4. Bottle Tokens
The same idea as the tokens, but a little different. These potion tokens almost look real. The 3D bottle-shaped tokens and bright colors look almost like real liquid, and the numbers will let you roll for HP without having to worry about which potion is which dice. Knowing that stuff is a job for the DM. The set can keep track of how many potions you or your group have combined, mark on the map where you think you see some treasure, or just remind you to use your potions before you rush off into battle again.
5. Dice Jars of Healing
The usefulness of these sets is two-fold. Both holding the dice you’ll need to roll for the HP you’ll be getting back, but every bottle lets you know what level of healing they are and what to roll. On their own, being handed a bunch of rogue D4 may not be immediately helpful, but if you’re picking up the bottle for the Healing Potion, it gives you a handy cheat sheet so you know that you’ll be getting 2D4+2 health back. Also, having your DM hand you a small bottle to roll the specially designated healing dice whenever you take a potion adds a level of fun and immersion that I really appreciate in an RPG.
Will you be adding any potions to your game table? How do you keep track of your items and supplies? What’s your favorite potion token? Let us know in the comments!
Happy Adventuring!
