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The Practice: Fantasy Alchemy & Herbalism

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Updated 7/11/22

The Practice is a complex fantasy alchemy and herbalism system for 5e. There are alchemists and herbalists, but a practitioner needs to be both, combining their skill sets in order to master drawing magical properties out of latent ingredients.

All of the included rules are built upon a new crafting system, designed to be approachable and intuitive. Instead of basing the amount of time required on price, there are only two parameters; weight and complexity. The more a thing weighs, the more ingredients it requires, and the longer it takes to create. Alchemical concoctions are the most complex, next to magical items, and take the longest, while simple items such as weapons, tools, clothing, and any of the other mundane equipment, take much less time.

What rules are included? I am so glad you asked.

Crafting, as mentioned above, is retrofit and fleshed out for a more complete experience. There is also a new feat for players and GMs who wish to really dive into the system, and a slight modification of the existing damage rules.

Collecting details everything you need to know about going out into the wild mountain ranges or your neighbor's backyard to gather your precious ingredients. The rules here are also complex, but only in the back-end, and once you get the hang of them you will be only a few rolls away from marking down your bounty. There are collection tables for determining what you find in arctic, coastal, desert, forest, grassland, hills, mountains, rural, swamp, underground, underwater, and volcanic locales.

The Blood Practice, equivalent to the dark arts of alchemy, is the killing of creatures and beasts in order to collect their organs as ingredients. Though this is frowned upon by most practitioners, you will have the option to engage in harvesting, with tables for beasts of many kinds: arachnids, bats, bears, birds, cats, chargers, crabs, crocs, dinosaurs, faun, hounds, insects, lumberers, monkeys, mounts, octopi, plants, reptiles, rodents, sealife, serpents, sharks, skeletons, and zombies

Thank you for reading, and I truly hope you enjoy this work of love.

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Sebastian K May 27, 2021 7:37 am UTC
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Dear Deven B! My oh my am I happy I purchased your product! Thank you for an amazing collection.

I have to admit thought, the whole rolling d- system and the tables explaining em I find very confusing. Can you help me in understanding how I'm supposed to use said tables? Best, Seb
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Deven B June 15, 2021 5:41 pm UTC
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Thanks for your purchase!
The d- system only requires that you roll a handful of dice, and every result on every die gives you something from the table. If you get multiples of the same result, you get multiples of the same ingredient. Does this answer your question?
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Sebastian K September 21, 2021 7:42 am UTC
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It's and amazing product and I think I finally did figure out the d- system but honestly I think that part could use a splash of streamlining, simplifying or explaining. Otherwise I have nothing but praise for your work :)<3
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January 31, 2019 5:51 pm UTC
Hey Deven,
Would it be possible to get an example of the types of items your system can create? I'm looking for a pretty comprehensive alchemy system for 5E that covers both monster harvested components and herbalism. This is specifically due to one of my player's interest in making custom poisons and such.
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Deven B January 31, 2019 9:31 pm UTC
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Absolutely. There is a chapter where I include a number of examples recipes to help players and GMs get a feel of the system. Some of which are for creating items found in the standard equipment, such as alchemist's fire, antitoxin, basic poison, and healing potions. What is also available are recipes for various curatives, an expanded list of healing potions based on the system, flasks of rope, oil of silvering, potions of harming, flying, crawling, and a number of other examples based on the properties available.
Thanks for the question.
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