Lemme drink my potions!!!

[Cowboy_ninja]

-is there a way to drink a potions WITHOUT provoking an attack of opportunity? like drinking defensively or something?

or

-is there some potion drinking strategy that D&D newbies (like me) dont know about? its lame going "oh i need a potion" -sip- smack- dead. i go to keep from getting thrown into the negatives and i provoke an aop that does just that!

[oriong]

Take a 5 foot step.

[Koji]

Try making a withdraw action (a move that provokes no AOOs) to get away, and drinking a potion the next round.

OR put some ranks into tumble, and jump away like a ninny as you quaff your drink. Quick draw helps with this if the DM rules that it applies to potions and similar objects, too.

[Amiria]

With a potion belt or masterwork potion belt (FRCS) you can draw a potion as a free action once per round. This doesn't help avoiding the AoO when you drink it, but it is a useful item nontheless.

[cupkeyk]

A. There is a restricted withdraw that lets you move your speed instead of double. Withdraw and drink.

B. Declare that you are NOT putting your potions in your bag. Buy a heward's handy haversack as soon as possible, or its cheap version: the bandoleer. You can run and gulp all in one round.

[That Lanky Bugger]

As a GM, I'd rule you can drink and not provoke an attack of opportunity as long as you take a five foot step, as OrionG stated. Otherwise, you've got to realize you're sticking out your neck as you're chugging that potion down. Sorry, there aren't any feats available which actively let you do this.

Although, try running this by your DM:

Chug Champion
Requirement: Dex 13+
Benefit: Drinking a potion is a Swift Action.

He might let you get away with that.

[oriong]

Where is this restricted withdraw from? It seems to be negating the whole point of the normal withdraw option.

[Cowboy_ninja]

A. There is a restricted withdraw that lets you move your speed instead of double. Withdraw and drink.

B. Declare that you are NOT putting your potions in your bag. Buy a heward's handy haversack as soon as possible, or its cheap version: the bandoleer. You can run and gulp all in one round.

where can i find this Bandoleer?

edit: as in what book......

[RandomNPC]

where can i find this Bandoleer?

try the general store

[Cowboy_ninja]

With a potion belt or masterwork potion belt (FRCS) you can draw a potion as a free action once per round. This doesn't help avoiding the AoO when you drink it, but it is a useful item nontheless.

what is FRCS?

[oriong]

Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting

[Saithis Bladewing]

It's called a 5 foot step.

[Cowboy_ninja]

ok well my current predicament is this:

my character is at -1 prone and dying. however my ally dragon shaman has that regeneration aura on.

what would you do?

i'll be at 0 hp next round (stabalized) i cant get up (aop) cant drink potion (aop) do i get a free 5ft step when im disabled?

[Shhalahr Windrider]

A. There is a restricted withdraw that lets you move your speed instead of double. Withdraw and drink.

No, there isn't.

[hr]There is no rule that lets you "drink defensively". Though I'd consider a house rule allowing this and maybe some other actions that normally provoke an unavoidable Attack of Opportunity do be done defensively. It would actually give Concentration a use outside of spellcasting. Maybe give reasons for Monks and other non-spellcasting classes with Concentration as a class skill an actual reason to invest a few ranks in it, too.

Though I'd have to figure out appropriate penalties for failure. As it is, if you have a high AC when you cast a spell, you might be willing to suck up the AoOs so you don't risk losing the spell. If there's not a similar penalty, there's no reason not to do one of these other actions defensively.

Maybe: "Action is extended to a full-round action and if you fail, you simply cannot do whatever it was you were attempting to do. You can try again the next round."

Not as severe as losing a spell, but it works for actions that don't have a direct analogue.

(Yeah, the actual subject matter—drinking a potion—it's easy to say, "You spill it all over yourself when you fail," but I'm extending the general case a bit here...)

[cupkeyk]

The bandoleer is also in Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting.

Restricted withdraw is the last paragraph of withdraw in the combat actions section of the PHB. Only its also a standard action. Hence you cannot make a restricted withdraw and drink a portion. You can however make a restricted withdraw then run for your life. LOLz.

[cupkeyk]

ok well my current predicament is this:

my character is at -1 prone and dying. however my ally dragon shaman has that regeneration aura on.

what would you do?

i'll be at 0 hp next round (stabalized) i cant get up (aop) cant drink potion (aop) do i get a free 5ft step when im disabled?

The five foot crawl provokes an attack of opportunity too.

[oriong]

No, a restricted Withdraw is like a Partial Charge, it's something you can only do if you are limited to taking just a standard action on your turn, it is not something normally available in a full turn.

[Shhalahr Windrider]

Restricted withdraw is the last paragraph of withdraw in the combat actions section of the PHB. Only its also a standard action. Hence you cannot make a restricted withdraw and drink a portion. You can however make a restricted withdraw then run for your life. LOLz.

That's like a charge. You can only do that when restricted to a standard action or less.

[Scalenex]

You know those beer hats? Do that only for potions

[Stevenson]

Well, as for the battle at hand, just, as said like eight times, take a five foot step. However, for next battles, you can use an alchemical tooth (complete adventurer). The reason I know about it is there's a person in my group who's a pain about this stuff. Alchemical tooth is a tooth with any potion in it, and it can be drank as a swift action.

[Shhalahr Windrider]

You know those beer hats? Do that only for potions

Hey! That was in Dragon magazine once!

Granted, it was an April Fool's article, but who cares about that?

[cupkeyk]

As he's prone, he can't make a five foot step. He is screwed. LOLz.

[Thomas]

Take a 5 foot step.

It's called a 5 foot step.

^^ The correct answer.

Step, drink, done.

[crazedloon]

As he's prone, he can't make a five foot step. He is screwed. LOLz.

unless he just lays there an plays dead

Ask your DM if you can make a bluff check every round to play dead if your opponent fails a sense motive check he will not be alowed to attack you.

[oriong]

In this situation your best bet is probably to just go on total defense, let the regenerating aura get you above 0 at least and hopefully someone else lures the enemy away from you. If it's late in the battle and things look mostly won just stay on the defensive and wait him out. The best you can probably hope for from a potion is about 18 hit points, and that's not really enough to put you back in the fight unless you're low level.

So keep your head down and stay on the defensive until someone else can heal you, or you're out of your threatened area.

[Orzel]

Other option: Kill everything that threatens you in melee and drink.

A bit harder than a 5' step though.

[SpiderBrigade]

Well, as for the battle at hand, just, as said like eight times, take a five foot step. However, for next battles, you can use an alchemical tooth (complete adventurer). The reason I know about it is there's a person in my group who's a pain about this stuff. Alchemical tooth is a tooth with any potion in it, and it can be drank as a swift action.

Plus, then every time you're wounded and in need of a potion you can have a flashback/voiceover to the tune of

"The tooth...remember the tooth..."

[Shhalahr Windrider]

Step, drink, done.

Not always an option.

Plus, then every time you're wounded and in need of a potion you can have a flashback/voiceover to the tune of

"The tooth...remember the tooth..."

Okay, alluding to the book: fine.

Not so sure about referencing the movie though. I only saw about 20 minutes of the thing, and I already know there's way too many voiceovers.

[Collin152]

Hmm... HOw many Alchemical tooths can you have installed at once? Cn I just get a set of alchemical dentures?

[Necrosis]

the above prone situation is why I run a house stateing that you can crawel as a 5 foot step! Otherwise been prone + 8 1st level kolbolds = death!