Minor Creation and You, a Small Guide

[Bullet06320]

As originally posted on WOTC boards by Lokiyn on Nov 29, 2006
http://community.wizards.com/forum/previous-editions-general/threads/1093126

Minor creation and its counterparts are one of the most single useful powers in dnd, given a choice i would be hard pressed to decide between astral construct and minor creation, its that awesome.

However minor creation as presented has little data to support uses for most creative players. So rather than go through the effort of calculating all the numbers each time i use it, i've decided to compile many of the charts into one location.

the First block of data is what is presented for minor creation, Volume and its size as a cube.

C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7
Level Volume Length Inches Inch Feet 10 Foot Wall Length
1 1 1.00 12.00 41.57 3.46 1.20
2 2 1.25 15.00 58.79 4.90 2.40
3 3 1.44 17.28 72.00 6.00 3.60
4 4 1.58 18.96 83.14 6.93 4.80
5 5 1.70 20.40 92.95 7.75 6.00
6 6 1.81 21.72 101.82 8.49 7.20
7 7 1.91 22.92 109.98 9.17 8.40
8 8 2.00 24.00 117.58 9.80 9.60
9 9 2.08 24.96 124.71 10.39 10.80
10 10 2.15 25.80 131.45 10.95 12.00
11 11 2.22 26.64 137.87 11.49 13.20
12 12 2.28 27.36 144.00 12.00 14.40
13 13 2.35 28.20 149.88 12.49 15.60
14 14 2.41 28.92 155.54 12.96 16.80
15 15 2.46 29.52 161.00 13.42 18.00
16 16 2.51 30.12 166.28 13.86 19.20
17 17 2.57 30.84 171.39 14.28 20.40
18 18 2.62 31.44 176.36 14.70 21.60
19 19 2.66 31.92 181.20 15.10 22.80
20 20 2.71 32.52 185.90 15.49 24.00

Column legend
•Manifester Level
•Volume of Created Matter
•Length of each side in a cube in feet
•length of the same cube in inches
•Side Length (L or W) of a one inch thick panel in inches
•Same panel in Feet
•Length of a 10 foot tall wall one inch thick (as usual half the width to double the thickness)

Thats just the basic Power.

Volume Pounds Gallons Quarts Pints Ounces
1 62 7.40 29 59 947
2 124 14.80 59 118 1,89
3 186 22.20 88 177 2,841
4 248 29.60 118 236 3,788
5 310 37.00 148 296 4,736
6 372 44.40 177 355 5,683
7 434 51.80 207 414 6,630
8 496 59.20 236 473 7,577
9 558 66.60 266 532 8,524
10 620 74.00 296 592 9,472
11 682 81.40 325 651 10,419
12 744 88.80 355 710 11,366
13 806 96.20 384 769 12,313
14 868 103.60 414 828 13,260
15 930 111.00 444 888 14,208
16 992 118.40 473 947 15,155
17 1054 125.80 503 1,006 16,102
18 1116 133.20 532 1,065 17,049
19 1178 140.60 562 1,124 17,996
20 1240 148.00 592 1,184 18,944


This chart is based off of water. To keep things simple water is assumed to weigh 62 pounds per cubic feet, also there are 7.4 gallons in the cubic foot (rather than 7.44~~~~blah blah blah).

So say at level 5 we want to make some poison, unless the specific gravity of the poison is significantly greater or lesser than water. One can simply take the value from the ounces table and thats how many doses. Plese not that because of rounding the numbers are roughly 5% off but in most cases you don't need that level of accuracy.

Once we have this base table it becomes easy to calculate other units. All one needs to do is take the specific gravity value of a material and multiply the pounds value on the table by the specific gravity value.

So

Apple .66-.83
Ash, black 0.54
Ash, white 0.67
Aspen 0.42
Balsa 0.17
Bamboo .30-.40
Birch (British) 0.67
Cedar, red 0.38
Cypress 0.51
Douglas Fir 0.53
Ebony .96-1.12
Elm ( English ) 0.6
Elm ( Wych ) 0.69
Elm ( Rock ) 0.815
Larch 0.59
Mahogany ( Honduras ) 0.545
Mahogany ( African ) .495-.850
Maple 0.755
Oak .590-.930
Pine ( Oregon ) 0.53
Pine ( Parana ) 0.56
Pine ( Canadian ) .350-.560
Pine ( Red ) .370-.660
Redwood ( American ) 0.45
Redwood ( European ) 0.51
Spruce ( Canadian ) 0.45
Spruce ( Sitka ) 0.45
Sycamore 0.59
Teak .63-.72
Willow 0.42



Alfalfa, ground .256
Apples .641
Bark, wood refuse .240
Barley .609
Beans, castor .577
Beans, cocoa .593
Beans, navy .801
Beans, soy .721
Beets .721
Bran .256
Brewers grain .432
Buckwheat .657
Cardboard .689
Chocolate, powder .641
Clover seed .769
Coconut, meal .513
Coconut, shredded .352
Coffee, fresh beans .561
Coffee, roast beans .432
Copra, medium size .529
Copra, meal, ground .641
Copra, expeller cake ground .513
Copra, expeller cake chopped .465
Cork, solid .240
Cork, ground .160
Corn, on the cob .721
Corn, shelled .721
Corn, grits .673
Cottonseed, dry, de-linted .561
Cottonseed, dry, not de-linted .320
Cottonseed, cake, lumpy .673
Cottonseed, hulls .192
Cottonseed, meal .593
Cottonseed, meats .641
Cottonwood .416
Flaxseed, whole .721
Flour, wheat .593
Glue, vegetable, powdered .641
Gluten, meal .625
Grain - Maize .760
Grain - Barley .600
Grain - Millet .760-.800
Grain - Wheat .780-.800
Linseed, whole .753
Linseed, meal .513
Malt .336
Oats .432
Oats, rolled .304
Oil cake .785
Oil, linseed .942
Paper, standard 1.201
Peanuts, shelled .641
Peanuts, not shelled .272
Peat, dry .400
Peat, moist .801
Peat, wet 1.121
Pecan wood .753
Rice, hulled .753
Rice, rough .577
Rice grits .689
Rosin 1.073
Rubber, caoutchouc .945
Rubber, manufactured 1.522
Rubber, ground scrap .481
Rye .705
Sawdust .210
Soy beans, whole .753
Starch, powdered .561
Sugar, brown .721
Sugar, powdered .801
Sugar, granulated .849
Sugar, raw cane .961
Sugarbeet pulp, dry .208
Sugarbeet pulp, wet .561
Sugarcane .272
Tobacco .320
Turpentine .865
Walnut, black, dry .609
Wheat .769
Wheat, cracked .673

Copra is the meat of a coconut
Turpentine is distilled pine resin (so a plant product)
Rosin is remaint after the turpentine is produced from heated resin and is highly flamable. More common uses involve powder forms used to increase friction. (personally i would say its worth a small bonus in climb checks or when you need a better grip)

The uses of most of the materials is obvious. Rosin is something i use in place of candles. As beeswax is an animal product. More common uses is to blend it with alchohol (it disolves in it) to produce as sticky firestarter. (think weak alchemist fire we)

Aloe Vera is another good plant product. (no real mechanical effect other than we use it as parts of healing kits

Check Here for more plant products


CL Radius Shell V Diameter R Feet D Feet Open Vol Amount
1 12 1 24 1.0 2.0 4.1 30.34
2 17 2 34 1.4 2.8 11.9 88.06
3 20 3 40 1.7 3.3 19.3 142.82
4 23 4 46 1.9 3.8 29.4 217.56
5 26 5 52 2.2 4.3 42.6 315.24
6 29 6 58 2.4 4.8 59.1 437.34
7 31 7 62 2.6 5.2 72.2 534.28
8 33 8 66 2.8 5.5 87.1 644.54
9 35 9 70 2.9 5.8 103.9 768.86
10 37 10 74 3.1 6.2 122.7 907.98
11 39 11 78 3.3 6.5 143.7 1063.38
12 41 12 82 3.4 6.8 167 1235.8
13 42 13 84 3.5 7.0 179.5 1328.3
14 44 14 88 3.7 7.3 206.4 1527.36
15 45 15 90 3.8 7.5 220.8 1633.92
16 47 16 94 3.9 7.8 251.6 1861.84
17 48 17 96 4.0 8.0 268 1983.2
18 50 18 100 4.2 8.3 303 2242.2
19 51 19 102 4.3 8.5 321.5 2379.1
20 52 20 104 4.3 8.7 340.8 2521.92


This chart is the maximum size of a one inch thick sphere with the listed internal radius. By caster level 10 (and before) you can can encase someone with say a wooden sphere or something else. Although not needed i restated the gallon volume of the sphere in the last collum.


CL V(i) R(i) R(s) V(s) ~Cl
1 1728 7.44 8.44 794.1200 0.46
2 3456 9.38 10.38 1,227.49 0.71
3 5184 10.74 11.74 1,587.64 0.92
4 6912 11.82 12.82 1,907.45 1.10
5 8640 12.73 13.73 2,200.38 1.27
6 10368 13.53 14.53 2,473.57 1.43
7 12096 14.24 15.24 2,731.41 1.58
8 13824 14.89 15.89 2,976.80 1.72
9 15552 15.48 16.48 3,211.84 1.86
10 17280 16.04 17.04 3,438.04 1.99
11 19008 16.56 17.56 3,656.59 2.12
12 20736 17.04 18.04 3,868.42 2.24
13 22464 17.50 18.50 4,074.28 2.36
17 29376 19.14 20.14 4,848.84 2.81
18 31104 19.51 20.51 5,032.29 2.91
19 32832 19.86 20.86 5,212.29 3.02
20 34560 20.21 21.21 5,389.09 3.12

This Data set below this text is a hemisphere with the listed Volume
CL V(i) R(i) R(s) V(s) ~Cl
1 1728 9.38 10.38 613.7400 0.36
2 3456 11.82 12.82 953.7300 0.55
3 5184 13.53 14.53 1,236.79 0.72
4 6912 14.89 15.89 1,488.40 0.86
5 8640 16.04 17.04 1,719.02 0.99
6 10368 17.04 18.04 1,934.21 1.12
7 12096 17.94 18.94 2,137.39 1.24
8 13824 18.76 19.76 2,330.83 1.35
9 15552 19.51 20.51 2,516.15 1.46
10 17280 20.21 21.21 2,694.54 1.56
11 19008 20.86 21.86 2,866.94 1.66
12 20736 21.47 22.47 3,034.07 1.76
13 22464 22.05 23.05 3,196.51 1.85
17 29376 24.12 25.12 3,807.91 2.20
18 31104 24.58 25.58 3,952.76 2.29
19 32832 25.03 26.03 4,094.90 2.37
20 34560 25.46 26.46 4,234.51 2.45

Legend
CL=CasterLevel
V(i)=Internal Volume (how much it can hold)
R(i)=Internal Radius (open air radius)
R(s)=Outer Radius of the Shell (Shells are one inch thick)
V(s)=The total Volume of the Shell
~Cl=This is the casterlevel needed to spontaneously produce the shell, If we were using link power or call item we would need the listed caster level to produce the bowl/sphere then fill it the next round with a substance

Largest Possible Hemisphere by Shell Volume
CL V(i) R(i) R(s) V(s) ~Cl
485 838080 73.69 74.69 34,584.22 20.01

Largest Possible Sphere by Shell Volume
CL V(i) R(i) R(s) V(s) ~Cl
340 587520 51.96 52.96 34,580.49 20.01
For Reference.


Aside from the uses of wooden spheres, (if only for amusement) the spheres were for sieges

Siege Weap Weight Volume Radius Inches Pints AoE
Mangonel, Heavy 75 1.210 0.199 2.387 126.000 31
Mangonel, Light 40 0.645 0.088 1.054 55.000 20
Scorpion 75 1.210 0.199 2.387 126.000 31
Trebuchet, Heavy 150 2.419 0.490 5.879 311.000 49
Trebuchet, Light 100 1.613 0.289 3.470 183.000 38

You can pour a pint of oil on the ground to cover an area 5 feet square, provided that the surface is smooth. If lit, the oil burns for 2 rounds and deals 1d3 points of fire damage to each creature in the area.

AoE section is calculated as the area idealy covered by the amount of oil/flamable liquid in each sphere. Although the idea never saw use its always good to have siege stats on hand. As a bonus the sphere itself is wooden and can be lit on fire pre launch to help ensure ignition.



A1 A2 A3 A4
1 6 1.63 3.26
2 6 7.63 15.26
3 6 4.91 9.82
4 6 6.54 13.08
5 6 8.18 16.36
6 6 9.82 19.64
7 6 11.45 22.90
8 6 13.09 26.18
9 6 14.73 29.46
10 6 16.37 32.74
11 6 18.00 36.00
12 6 19.64 39.28
13 6 21.28 42.56
14 6 22.91 45.82
15 6 24.55 49.10
16 6 26.19 52.38
17 6 27.82 55.64
18 6 29.46 58.92
19 6 31.10 62.20
20 6 32.74 65.48

B1 B2 B3 B4
1 15 0.71 1.42
2 15 7.63 15.26
3 15 2.14 4.28
4 15 2.86 5.72
5 15 3.58 7.16
6 15 4.29 8.58
7 15 5.01 10.02
8 15 5.72 11.44
9 15 6.44 12.88
10 15 7.16 14.32
11 15 7.87 15.74
12 15 8.59 17.18
13 15 9.31 18.62
14 15 10.02 20.04
15 15 10.74 21.48
16 15 11.45 22.90
17 15 12.17 24.34
18 15 12.89 25.78
19 15 13.60 27.20
20 15 14.32 28.64

C1 C2 C3 C4
1 30 0.36 0.72
2 30 7.63 15.26
3 30 1.10 2.20
4 30 1.47 2.94
5 30 1.84 3.68
6 30 2.21 4.42
7 30 2.58 5.16
8 30 2.95 5.90
9 30 3.32 6.64
10 30 3.69 7.38
11 30 4.06 8.12
12 30 4.43 8.86
13 30 4.80 9.60
14 30 5.17 10.34
15 30 5.54 11.08
16 30 5.91 11.82
17 30 6.28 12.56
18 30 6.65 13.30
19 30 7.02 14.04
20 30 7.39 14.78


Legend•This tube or Trough is 1 foot in diameter, 5 per square
•This Tube or Trough is 2.5 Feet in Diameter, 2 per square
•This Tube or Trough is 5 Feet in diameter, 1 per square
•This Column is the caster level
•This Column is the radius of the tube in inches
•This Column Is the length as a trough (half a tube)
As a point, the average width of the human hip is greater than 10 but less than 20 inches so you could create tubes to slide down with little effort. The main problem is time. Currently i'm looking at using Link power and using Call item as the initial power, and Minor Creation as the linked power

[Bullet06320]

*Reserved for both other posters ideas and for minerals (major creation) as well as possible knowledge Dc's for odd chemicals.


Cadmia, which was also called Tuttia or Tutty, was probably zinc carbonate.
Philosophers' Wool, or nix alba (white snow). Zinc oxide made by burning zinc in air. Called Zinc White and used as a pigment.
White vitriol. Zinc Sulphate. Described by Basil Valentine. Made by lixiviating roasted zinc blende (zinc sulphide).
Calamine. Zinc carbonate.

Corrosive sublimate. Mercuric chloride. first mentioned by Geber, who prepared it by subliming mercury, calcined green vitriol, common salt and nitre.
Calomel. Mercurous chloride. Purgative, made by subliming a mixture of mercuric chloride and metallic mercury, triturated in a mortar. This was heated in a iron pot and the crust of calomel formed on the lid was ground to powder and boiled with water to remove the very poisonous mercuric chloride.
Cinnabar. Mercuric sulphide.
Turpeth mineral. A hydrolysed form of mercuric sulphate. Yellow crystalline powder, described by Basil Valentine.
Mercurius praecipitatus. Red mercuric oxide. Described by Geber.
Cinnabar or Vermillion. Mercuric sulphide.

Mosaic gold. Golden-yellow glistening scales of crystalline stannic sulphide, made by heating a mixture of tin filings, sulphur and salammoniac.
Tin salt. Hydrated stannous chloride.
Spiritus fumans. Stannic chloride, discovered by Libavius in 1605, through distilling tin with corrosive sublimate.
Butter of tin. Hydrated stannic chloride.

Galena. Plumbic sulphide. Chief ore of lead.
Lead fume. Lead oxide obtained from the flues at lead smelters.
Massicot. Yellow powder form of lead monoxide.
Litharge. Reddish-yellow crystalline form of lead monoxide, formed by fusing and powdering massicot.
Minium or Red Lead. Triplumbic tetroxide. Formed by roasting litharge in air. Scarlet crystalline powder.
Naples yellow, or Cassel yellow. An oxychloride of lead, made by heating litharge with sal ammoniac.
Chrome yellow. Lead chromate.
Sugar of Lead. Lead acetate, Made by dissolving lead oxide in vinegar.
White lead. Basic carbonate of lead. Used as a pigment.
Venetian White. Mixture of equal parts of white lead and barium sulphate.
Dutch White. Mixture of one part of white lead to three of barium sulphate.

Antimony. From latin 'antimonium' used by Constantinius Africanus (c. 1050) to refer to Stibnite.
Glass of Antimony. Impure antimony tetroxide, obtained by roasting stibnite. Used as a yellow pigment for glass and porcelain.
Butter of Antimony. White crystalline antimony trichloride. Made by Basil Valentine by distilling roasted stibnite with corrosive sublimate. Glauber later prepared it by dissolving stibnite in hot concentrated hydrochloric acid and distilling.
Powder of Algaroth. A white powder of antimonious oxychloride, made by by precipitation when a solution of butter of antimony in spirit of salt is poured into water.
Stibnite. Antimony trisulphide. Grey mineral ore of antimony.
Wismuth. Bismuth.
Pearl white. Basic nitrate of bismuth, used by Lemery as a cosmetic.
Chrome green. Chromic oxide.
Chrome yellow. Lead chromate.
Chrome red. Basic lead chromate.
Chrome orange. Mixture of chrome yellow and chrome red.

Green Vitriol. Ferrous sulphate.
Rouge, Crocus, Colcothar. Red varieties of ferric oxide are formed by burning green vitriol in air.
Marcasite. Mineral form of Iron disulphide. Oxidises in moist air to green vitriol.
Pyrites. Mineral form of iron disulphide. Stable in air.
Cobalt. Named by the copper miners of the Hartz Mountains after the evil spirits the 'kobolds' which gave a false copper ore.
Zaffre. Impure cobalt arsenate, left after roasting cobalt ore.
Nickel. Named by the copper miners of Westphalia the 'kupfer-nickel' or false copper.

Copper glance. Cuprous sulphide ore.
Aes cyprium. Cyprian brass or copper.
Cuprite. Red cuprous oxide ore.
Blue vitriol or bluestone. Cupric sulphate.
Verdigris. The green substance formed by the atmospheric weathering of copper. This is a complex basic carbonate of copper. In more recent times the term 'verdigris' is more correctly applied to copper acetate, made by the action of vinegar on copper.
Resin of copper. Cuprous chloride. Made by Robert Boyle in 1664 by heating copper with corrosive sublimate.

Lunar caustic, lapis infernalis. Silver nitrate.
Fulminating silver. Silver nitride, very explosive when dry. Made by dissolving silver oxide in ammonia.
Horn silver, argentum cornu. A glass like ore of silver chloride.
Luna cornea. The soft colourless tough mass of silver chloride, made by heating horn silver till it forms a dark yellow liquid and then cooling. Described by Oswald Croll in 1608.

Purple of Cassius. Made by Andreas Cassius in 1685 by precipitating a mixture of gold, stannous and stannic chlorides, with alkali. Used for colouring glass.
Fulminating gold. Made by adding ammonia to the auric hydroxide formed by precipitation by potash from metallic gold dissolved in aqua regis. Highly explosive when dry.

Quicklime. Calcium oxide.
Slaked lime. Calcium hydroxide.
Chalk. Calcium carbonate.
Gypsum. Calcium sulphate.

Natron. Native sodium carbonate.
Soda ash. Sodium carbonate formed by burning plants growing on the sea shore.
Caustic marine alkali. Caustic soda. Sodium hydroxide. Made by adding lime to natron.
Common salt. Sodium chloride.
Glauber's Salt. Sodium sulphate.

Wood-ash or potash. Potassium carbonate made from the ashes of burnt wood.
Caustic wood alkali. Caustic potash. Potassium hydroxide. Made by adding lime to potash.
Liver of sulphur. Complex of polysulphides of potassium, made by fusing potash and sulphur.

Sal Ammoniac. Ammonium Chloride. Described by Geber.
Sal volatile, Spirit of Hartshorn. Volatile alkali. Ammonium carbonate made from distilling bones, horns, etc.
Caustic volatile alkali. Ammonium hydroxide.
Nitrum flammans. Ammonium nitrate made by Glauber.

Brimstone (from German Brennstein 'burning stone'). Sulphur.
Flowers of sulphur. light yellow crystalline powder, made by distilling sulphur.
Thion hudor (Zosimus refers to this as the 'divine water' or 'the bile of the serpent'). A deep reddish-yellow liquid made by boiling flowers of sulphur with slaked lime.
Milk of sulphur (lac sulphuris). White colloidal sulphur. Geber made this by adding an acid to thion hudor.
Oil of Vitriol. Sulphuric acid made by distilling green vitriol.

Realgar. red ore of arsenic. Arsenic disulphide.
Orpiment. Auri-pigmentum. Yellow ore of arsenic. Arsenic trisulphide.
White arsenic. Arsenious oxide. Made from arsenical soot from the roasting ovens, purified by sublimation.
Aqua tofani. Arsenious oxide. Extremely poisonous. Used by Paracelsus.
King's Yellow. A mixture of orpiment with white arsenic

http://www.levity.com/alchemy/substanc.html

More Substances what i propose is that we limit our discussions to substances discovered by alchemists.

One possible Dc set is a Knowledge Nature check Dc 10 for alchemical substances that are found in nature (ores and such) A Dc 15 Alchemy Check to produce items that are one step extractions (soak seaweed for iodine) Multiple step chemicals are a dc25 an only if the items can be produced with basic tools (Heating with flame, Cooling to distill, and such) anything a classic beaker/ coal fire and water cooling system can make. No electrical processes or anything beyond say 1500's at the latest.

This second post is going to be rambly as I research alchemy in my spare time for this

One interesting thing I’ve already turned up is that gunpowder as produced in the ancient times did not explode, rather it was an incendiary. Gunpowder with sufficient power for what we consider a proper explosion required a process known as corning(1429). Actual exploding gunpowder appears to have been developed around 1240 or so.

One possible interpretation of Smokepowder in dnd is that gunpowder hasn't been discovered as gnomes and inventors are working with Gold hydrazine or some other exotic explosive. After all nothing says that science progresses the same everywhere. While in our world we discovered gunpowder early and Fulminating gold and silver late (1600's) there is not reason that in another they discovered these substances the other way around, and without any sort of science they just muddle through trying to improve what they have.


Resin
Resin is a hydrocarbon secretion of many plants, particularly coniferous trees, valued for its chemical constituents and uses such as varnishes, adhesives, as an important source of raw materials for organic synthesis, or for incense and perfume. Fossilized resins are the source of amber.

Products
•Amber of course as a gem amber can simply be sold off. Other than that amber as amber is only good as a static generator
•Turpentine Fractionally distilled from Resin. This is a highly effective lice treatment, cleaning agent, and of course burns.
•N~Heptane Flammable, doesn't dissolve in water
•Copal Its an incense and a cheap amber substitute for jewels
•Dammar used in foods to preserve them longer
•Sandarac more incense
•Frankincense More incense, often used in religious ceremonies
•Rosin, formerly called colophony or Greek pitch. After heating the resin to get the more volatile compounds out you get a Semitransparent cake like substance. Very flammable it burns with a Smokey flame, and works as a pitching agent to stop leaks in casks
•Poppy (Papaver somniferum or Opium Poppy)
The opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, is the type of poppy from which opium and all refined opiates such as morphine (up to 20%), thebaine (5%), codeine (1%), papaverine (1%), and narcotine (5-8%) are naturally present and extracted from the poppy.
•Opium: Dried, the brownish Raw Opium is heated and the gasses inhaled. a pea sized Dollop is sufficient for about an hour If we assign a "pea sized dose" to 1/8th x 1/8th x 1/8th of an inch that’s 884,736 Doses per Cubic Foot.[/indent]
•Morphine[1804] Orally, it comes as an elixir, concentrated solution, powder (for compounding) or in tablet form. Taken orally (as we will assume in dnd) is 1/6th - 1/3 as strong as other methods.
A small dose provides relaxation and slight euphioria [-1 init?],
a medium dose relieves pain[+2 to con based checks?],
larger dose puts one to sleep[Fort [sleep 1 min/sleep 1 hour]?],
and an even larger dose kills [Con Damage?[1d10/1d10]?]
•Thebaine A Stimulant, rather than a depressant (like morphine) used in production of other chemicals, naturally occurring
•Codeine Slight addiction, Moderate to severe pain relief, Slight depressive (drowsiness), kills sex drive.... Kobolds on Codeine!
•papacerine Basically this drug is used to treat muscle spasms
•Narcotine Reduces spasms in involuntary muscle systems (aka Coughing) [give it to that horse that keeps giving you away
•Laudanum A Tincture of Opium, Basically Raw opium mixed with alcohol and sugar, same effects as opium with a slightly diluted virtue
•Deadly nightshade, Belladonna
Deadly nightshade or belladonna (Atropa belladonna) is a well-known perennial shrub, with leaves and berries that are highly toxic. It is in the nightshade family (Solanaceae), Children have been poisoned by eating as few as three berries. Ingestion of a leaf of the Belladonna can be fatal to an adult. The root of the plant is generally the most toxic part, though this can vary from one specimen to another. Belladonna is an entirely poisonous plant, for the purposes of dnd it is safe to assume that the plant is dried, ground and then seeped to produce a liquid form of belladonna. The main active ingredient of Belladonna is Atropine.
•Ophthalmic Used topically a single drop of Diluted Belladonna causes the pupil to dilate, this lasts for 2-3 days and often results in blurred visions.
•Other than that Belladonna is a poison and works to suppress the parasympathetic nerve system.
DC 13 Fortitude save or take 1d6 points of Strength damage. One minute later, the character must succeed on a second DC 13 save or take an additional 2d6 points of Strength damage.
Belladonna Ingested, Fort 13 [1d6 Str]/[2d6 Str]

Calabar bean
The Calabar bean is the seed of a leguminous plant. Highly poisonous the been has few beneficial uses. It contracts the pupil (possibly acting as a counter to light sensitivity) in small topical doses to the eye, however its main importance (for our purposes) is that it is a counter to Belladonna, Equivalent doses cancel each other out, however according to the 1911 encyclopedia Britannica, in 1/4 cases the two drugs combine to hasten death. Understand however that this is something that could be considered extremely high level alchemy, Knowledge of the ability of one deadly poison to counteract another is not something that would be widely known.

Calabar Ingested, Fort 13 [1d6 Str]/[2d6 Str], (heals strength damage dealt by Belladonna, then deals remainder of damage) ? Something like this?

Nepeta, Catnip
Nepeta cataria (Catnip, True Catnip, Catmint or Field Balm) is a 50–100 cm tall herb resembling mint in appearance, with greyish-green leaves; the flowers are white, finely spotted with purple. Although there are many species of "catnip" the species of interest is the cataria species.
•Feline Crack Its most famous property, Catnip affects roughly 2/3 cats, for a few minutes after first comming into contact the cats full attention is on the catnip, in which it plays with it, rolls in it and generally focuses its attention on it. After words the cat needs up to two hours before it will be affected again. Larger cats are more sensitive than smaller cats.
•Oil of cataria When the plant is rendered into an oil the lions share of the chemicals is the substance Nepetalactone, Its basic properties are as follows.
In humans, the compound has a number of very mild effects; it is a weak sedative, antispasmodic, febrifuge and antibacterial. In high doses it also has an emetic effect.

It also has an effect on some insects, repelling the cockroach and mosquito, poisonous to some common flies, but a sex pheromone to aphids.

The Following are an attempt to catalog the Herbs and plants presented in the Arms and Equipment Guide

I Should mention that half or more of this information is from Wikipedia, i'm just consolidating it here and suggesting possible uses for them as i see them, Some of its quite obvious such as the different pain killers counteracting some of the penalties induced by effects that are "pain" based, or used to counter effects that keep you awake by putting you in a deep deep sleep, such as countering nightmare for a time.

Anise is one of the herbs presented in the Arms and Equipment guide, while we aren't certain is all herbs or what herbs are present in dnd, we are certain of the herbs listed in the Arms and equipment guide as being "in the game" Anise has the following uses
•Culinary
•Medicinal◦Digestive Aid
◦Toothache relief
◦As an oil, to treat lice and Scabies

•Other possible uses◦Anise is Known to attract fish
◦It is used to Flavor many alcohols
◦In some breeds of dog has the same effect as catnip, while cats are also attracted to Anise oils, though not as much as catnip

Monarda didyma
Bergamot Herb: Monarda didyma (Bergamot, Scarlet Beebalm, Scarlet Monarda, Oswego Tea, or Crimson Beebalm) is an aromatic herb in the family Lamiaceae, native to eastern North America from Maine west to Ohio and south to northern Georgia. Its name is derived from its odor which is considered similar to that of the bergamot orange. The scientific name comes from Nicolas Monardes, who described the first American flora in 1569. This plant has no known uses other than as a flavoring or scenting ingredient, however since it was a little difficult to find the herb i thought i'd include it here for fun.


Caraway: Persian cumin (Carum carvi) is a biennial plant in the family Apiaceae, native to Europe and western Asia. The plant is similar in appearance to a carrot plant, with finely divided, feathery leaves with thread-like divisions, growing on 20–30 cm stems. The main flower stem is 40–60 cm tall, with small white or pink flowers in umbels. Caraway fruits, (erroneously called seeds) are crescent-shaped achenes, around 2 mm long, with five pale ridges. [/indent][indent]This plant is used to expel internal worms when brewed and drunk as a tea. Although this doesn’t have an in game effect its something that a dm might use for those rare monsters that are parasitic (the Gutworm FF) for one.