I love the possibility of having a red/green colorblind character and having to roll to hopefully pick the right potion when they both health potion and poison in their bag.

In Overwatch, healing is consistently represented by the color yellow. Making Lucio's speed aura yellow and healing aura green would be visually confusing

the flask is green! i would know since i emptied it one too many times snd the texture is dark green

Then the entire game is wrong.

The old TSR/SSI game Unlimited Adventures had randomized potion colors. It's also how I learned that khaki is not pronounced 'kahiki' when trying to explain what was going on to someone (I knew khakis as a type of trouser not a color). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgotten_Realms%3A_Unlimited_Adventures Edit: or maybe I'm thinking of another gold-box game if that one didn't have some random generation. Hrm.

> "There are no 'rules' for fantasy" Wrong. To write *good* Fantasy (of SciFi), you have to go through a process called "World Building" where you lay down the rules of your world. Properly done, the amount of World Building exceeds the actual works by far. It is absolutely necessary to create a core of inner logic to the story. You are not bound by the rules of our world, yes, but you are bound by the rule of consistency. If you violate those, you automatically write crap Fantasy (or SciFi). Funny, though, that e.g. many literature teachers / professors don't even *know* about the idea of World Building.

Then the insides have to be red for it to appear orange through green glass. *The health potion is red!*

DM: Roll a Vibe Check Player: I rolled Dark Green DM: Ooohhh...

My vibe is slightly hurt with a hint of mental damage

Shoot it directly with a flamethrower. Puddle burns slightly like a gas stove before going out again.

Orange is machinery/technology

Divinity Original sin vibes

I like the fallout approach Green glow: radiation Brown water: radiation Bottled Water: Good! Not really, believe it or not, radiation. (You must be thinking of purified water)

Pixel dungeon does the same thing, you don't know when you start a run what any color potion does. So they're randomized.

Granted. Anthrax the Destroyer is how hiding among stuffed animals.

I feel like any decent adventure would develop a system. I hear blind people will fold their paper money a certain way so they can differentiate between the different values...

A clearer way to phrase it might be "there are no rules for the *genre* of fantasy". An individual world needs self-contained rules, yes, but just because Tolkien's Dwarves have beards regardless of gender doesn't mean that *your* Dwarves need to be the same.

... yes^tm^

Green w/ sparkly bubbles = Happy Drunk

It's a potion that cures hunger.