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Skarra's Guide to Horticulture, Poultices, and Poisons!
🕑 Added 2024-05-16 18:10:50 +0000 UTCIT IS FINALLY HERE! The Horticulture Guide that I have been slaving away on for months! This project is very near and dear to my heart and I hope you get some use of it!
93 Magical Plants, Herbs, Mushrooms, Poultices, and Poisons!
Skarra’s Guide to Horticulture, Poultices, and Poisons is your one-stop shop to make the wilds of your games more interesting. In a fantastical world with fantastical magic, beasts, and artifacts; sometimes it's strange to have locales that do not reflect the magical nature of the world! This guide seeks to amend this by adding in 93 different plants to populate ALL of your environs in 49 pages FULL of content!
Slightly Mundane to Deeply Impactful!
These additional plants are not all game-breaking or going to drastically change the balance of your game. The plants vary greatly in terms of their fantastical influence; as you could find simple vines that are edible when cooked, a type of mushroom that grows on dead bodies that is especially poisonous, or even iridescent sunflowers that can siphon and steal dreams!
Designed with Player Engagement at the Forefront
Nearly all of the plants listed within this guide all have some manner of a ‘Refined’ form; something that can be done with the plant! If a plant naturally has restorative properties, it can likely be distilled or boiled with successful ability checks to enhance its healing properties! If a deadly carnivorous plant is defeated in battle, it will have some kind of edible boon for players to take part in! All of these plants are not meant to just simply exist and look pretty; they offer some kind of engagement with the player; either as alternative consumable magic items, or as additions to encounter hazards to make the wilds more dangerous!
Sorted and Tabled
93 plants is A LOT. But, you don't need to thumb through the ENTIRE guide just to find one plant that fits into your next encounter! All of these plants are sorted alphabetically, by rarity, AND by environment! In addition to this, there are rollable tables for every kind of environment, so you don’t need to do the work!
Bonus Magic Items!
And if you’re like me, and like the idea of worldbuilding based on the environment, many of the plants can be central or important to cultures as they serve a very functional purpose in their environment! Furthermore, because many of the plants do have minor magical capabilities, I’ve gone ahead and made 19 bonus magic items based off of these plants that you can also find in this guide!
