Potent Potion Potables

Hold onto your wizard hats because boy howdy, do we have a DnD post of epic potiony proportions to share today! Besides, what Dungeon Master doesn’t like shiny new game aids for his table? We sure do!

DM Ben loves tangible game handouts in any form and uses them alllll the time. He’s got NPC Face Cards, Item Cards, Spell Cards, game coins, and of course, all our beloved 3D-printed miniatures and scatter terrain. After noticing how much his players latched onto those physical healing bottles, he wanted to add some other types of potions to his treasure library.

Enter the talented husband and wife team at Aurora Athenaeum. Their thriving Etsy store is based in good ol’ Boston, Mass (#carport), and they’re just as clever as all get out! It was a true pleasure to work with them on this DnD post. Nick and Kaitlyn make a variety of cool potions that we simply couldn’t resist (pun intended). 😉

Let’s start with some liquid courage and their beautiful Potion of Heroism. How bad arse would it be for the DM to slide this to a player after some successful pillaging? The “oohs and ahs” will be abundant from everyone huddled around your table.

Each potion of heroism comes in a 200mL glass bottle with a hard, decorative resin base and is topped with a laser-etched cork. Your charming potion bottle includes a teal standard d4 (representing the Bless spell) and 10 translucent blue gems (representing the temporary hit points gained). Each magical brew also comes with a matching item card, professionally printed on premium natural cream cardstock. Nothing but total class here, y’all.

Next up is this charming D&D Adventuring Gear Potions set, and all we can say is let the drooling commence! You get five different, highly desired potions in this set, including Anti-Toxin, Poison, Alechmeist Fire, Acid, and Holy Water. The Heroism potion pictured above is separate, but the little bugger photobombed this shot. Their mixtures are designed for D&D 5th edition’s 2024 rules set, but you can request the 2014 versions, and they’ll be happy to accommodate you.

Again, each Adventuring Gear potion bottle comes with its own high-quality, gimmie-gimmie item card. Yes, yes, a player can have this very same magic item somewhere digitally in their D&D Beyond character sheet, but let’s be honest here, gamers forget about using them because there’s nothing tangible in their hand or in plain view. If you’ve got a physical, quaint potion bottle and item card in front of you, you’re way more likely to remember to use it.

Also, the potions are naturally made for earlier levels, but since all the bottle corks are removable, you could easily level up the potion and add your own dice for higher-level handouts.

Lastly, you can pick up this enchanting D&D Potions of Resistance set. There are ten different resistant concoctions in all, including Acid (black), Cold (blue), Fire (red), Force (white), Lightning (yellow), Necrotic (purple), Poison (green), Psychic (pink), Radiant (gold), and Thunder (brown). The adorable labels are also very intuitive for anyone to quickly recognize the corresponding potion.

Each resistance potion comes in a 2.17″x 0.86” (10mL) glass bottle filled with soft decorative resin and topped with a small cork. They’re perfectly sized to pass out and keep in one’s personal table space. They also come with their own item cards with a handy game-use description on the front and a charming authenticity mark on the back. It’s those types of clever little personal touches that keep us coming back to brilliant Etsy artisans like Nick and Kaitlyn.

There are plenty of ways to integrate these bottley goodness game aids into your campaign. DM Ben can slide them across the table anytime a player purchases any of them from one of our homebrewed NPCs, including Keanu Leaves, proprietor of One, Two, Three, or M Knight Holyman, high priest of the Church of Consequences.

DM Ben could also pass some of these Aurora Athenaeum potions around during those post-encounter investigation checks from fallen foes’ pockets or lockpicked treasure chests. Players could even buy them for their own adventure gear and inventory purposes.

3DRPG is showcasing both of their potion sets, but it’s important to note that you can buy any particular brew bottle individually, including those irresistible healing potions. Either way, you’re sure to find just the right concoction combination for your player’s pockets at Aurora Athenaeum. Our highly anticipated 2025 Holiday Gift Guide is right around the corner, and we think these magical elixers would make perfect stocking stuffers for that gamer in your life, but more on that coming soon.

Until next time!