Voraciousness
Alchemy, Philtre
The drinker is seized by a bottomless hunger, eating everything in sight or dropping everything to go find food.
From the book
Brewed with 4 drs. of lupine, it gives the drinker an instant, insatiable hunger, and he starts devouring any food in sight. If nothing to eat or drink is at hand, he drops whatever he was doing to go looking for it. The effect lasts 5-20 minutes.
Each philtre stirs up one particular emotion or reaction in the drinker. It is mixed into a pint of wine using a mortar and pestle and a fire, taking 5-8 (d4+4) hours, with a 90% chance of success plus 1% per level of ability (99% at most). The wine makes it very hard to spot: a victim who actually questions what he is being offered may save vs Intelligence at -4 to realize it is not ordinary wine. Once swallowed, it takes hold instantly and allows no save. Philtres usually cost 100 G.P. when available.
At a glance
- Ingredients
- 4 drs. lupine
- Duration
- 5-20 minutes
- Base
- 1 pint of wine
- Equipment
- Mortar and pestle, fire source
- Time to complete
- 5-8 (d4+4) hours
- Chance of success
- 90% +1% per level (max 99%)
- Cost
- About 100 G.P. each when available
- Save
- None once ingested; spotting it as a philtre needs a save vs Intelligence at -4 if questioned
- Requires
- Philtres skill (prerequisite: Read Magic)
- Onset
- Instantaneous