Brew a random potion -- name, effect, and side effect -- from five schools of alchemy, composed fresh every press. The cursed shelf is exactly as advertised.
This generator brews complete potions -- an evocative name, what drinking it does, and usually a side effect -- across five schools: Healing & Restoration, Combat & Power, Mind & Senses, Transformation, and the Cursed & Chaotic shelf where the labels lie. Every bottle is composed fresh from form, effect, and side-effect banks.
Every result here is drawn using crypto.getRandomValues() -- the Web Crypto API's cryptographically secure randomness -- instead of Math.random(), so it's genuinely unpredictable, not just statistically random. Learn more.
Stock a shop for tonight's D&D session in ten presses, loot a defeated alchemist's satchel, seed a story with a mysterious vial, or run the classic tavern game of making a player drink an unidentified draught. The side effects are where the roleplay lives.
Generate assembles a fresh potion on every press using the site's cryptographically secure randomness: a form (elixir, philter, tincture...), an optional adjective, a school-specific name and effect, and a rolled chance of a side effect. The School filter picks the shelf.
They're written system-neutral -- effects have concrete durations and limits ('for an hour', 'once') so a GM can price them on the fly. Treat Combat & Power draws as rare, and the Cursed shelf as a trap with a receipt.
About two in three -- the roll is deliberate, so an unblemished draught stays plausible and a player can never be sure. The side effects are inconvenient, never ruinous: teal hair, lavender hiccups, geese.
The bottles a sensible person wouldn't drink: wishes interpreted unhelpfully, luck you deserve, and effects that work only while hopping. In other words, the ones your party will drink immediately.
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