Give me some ideas for fantasy drugs that could rule the streets of a large kingdom. A mix of benign and highly destructive drugs, shit for both commoners and nobility alike.
>>46932280
Had a setting once where people would burn old magical scrolls with alchemical herbs and snort the ashes. They got vivid hallucinations, glimpses into the past and future, and got to roll on the wild magic table. Good times.
space weed
>>46932280
>Fairy dust (commoner drug)
off-white sparkling powder made from crushed fairy wings, ground to dust, and mixed with dwarven blackpowder and sugar
Administerd by:
Snorting, eating, breathing it in
Effects:
Increased body temperature, sweating, feeling of euphoria, widened pupils, mild visual hallucinations including vibrant colours and loss of depth perception, mild auditory hallucinations including muffled high-pitched buzzing sounds and echo. Prolonged use risks include heart failure, loss of hearing and sight, and hormonal imbalance.
>Midnight Lotus (nobility)
Deep blue leaves ground and treated like tobacco by gnome artificiers and mixed with dried skin of various poisoned berries for taste by various nobilities.
Administerd by:
smoking
Effects:
Extremely potent feeling of superiority, calmness and clarity of mind, slight shaking of limbs, and loss of warmth in skin colour, increased magic affinity and sometimes fleeting visions of great events, some which happened, are yet to happen, or are just wishes and dreams. Users will sometimes display obsessive behaviour over fine details and feel inspired to begin on impossible projects.
Long term use risks include: brain damage, nervous tissue damage, shaking and loss of controll of limbs, inability to digest food, contracted blood vessels, and a blue tongue.
opium
lots and lots of opium
>>46932280
Jenkem
Go read "Eyes of the Overworld" by Jack Vance.
>>46932280
Spice Melange.
Moonglow tea: Brewed from a plant with emerald leaves and white flowers. Used medicinally in small doses to calm nerves and in large doses as a painkiller for the ill-trained barber-surgeons who practice their craft on the society, this drug deadens pain receptors and causes disassociation and a trance-like state.
Prolonged use of the drug renders one vulnerable to ghostly possession.
Think necromantic ketamine.
Glow shrooms.
Glowing mushrooms that are mildly hallucinogenic and narcotic. Prolonged use makes users eyes and bodily fluids glow.
Scale Snuff. A powder distilled from the pineal gland of kobolds. It's an upper that elevates the heart rate and heightens sensation.
Dryad "juice"
Aphrodisiac. Can cause mutations in children conceived during intercourse, especially in half-breed situations.
>>46932280
In my campaign (5e) we have an wizard that's alchemist flavored selling Viagra because of the common case of erectile dysfunction in the populous.
>>46932581
>snorting blackpowder
Taniel pls.
Go be a junky somewhere else.
>>46932580
>space weed
huff petroleum based fuel
>>46933623
>space weed
>>46932280
Remand - Take it once, go back in time a day, take it again, go back to the original time line when you hit up the first time.
>>46932608
Wish I had these magic swords back... So I could sell them for more opium.
Fluoroamphameria
The Amphemira mushroom produces a fluorescent residue every new moon cycle, which can be collected and dehydrated, then reduced into a fine, glowing white powder.
When ingested or insufflated, it has a slow build of effects, beginning with gaining pleasurable sensations from stretching and yawning. In the next few minutes, a weightless feeling builds, culminating in very minor levitation abilities for a short period. After this, it acts as a moon enhancer and stimulant, spurring on dance, running and jumping, aided by the levitation. The onset of euphoria and absence of negative emotions, self doubt and unnecessary anxiety often accompanies odd effect of confusing a Paladin's ability to discern good from evil. Once the levitation ability subsides, the user may push past the eventual euphoria of the drug and gain clear, precise thought. The focus and precision/sharpness of thought often makes this a study drug for wizards, allowing them to memorise spells in intricate detail in half the time it would normally take.
The comedown is smooth and uninterrupted in most cases, though it may cause temporary depression and manic behaviour in some, if only due to the loss in euphoria and clarity of thought.
Basilisk's Tongue.
A strong tasting pepper that when eaten raw causes the user to be paralyzed and experience hallucinations. If cooked properly has more mild flavor and makes the taste of things it's mixed with more vivid, because of this it has a decent value and is popular as a food among the middle class that can't afford great ingredients.
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>>46933654
You know could laugh at it but look up star jelly. Call it Night weed and it'll be a strange unatached leafed plant just sorta appears overnight for no reason. Smoked it causes a lethargic satisfied state with minor mostly auditory halucinations when abused. It spread rapidly at first with people just picking it up until the mob got invovled and patrols the open fields it seems to appear in during the early morning. Now that people are hooked and the various crime guilds are trying to push it it's causeing some problems.
Though what is this Night weed? Clearly invisible creatures sheading layers off them self as they fly through the void. It only looks plantlike it's just strange alien leather. The parts make it to earth and will actual drive people mad/mutate them if they abuse this shit for years or when they inevitably use alchemy to concentrate it.
>>46932280
Powdered werewolf hair
Gives the user the high of being totally free and wild via hallucinations of being a wolf hunting. Extended use causes the user to lose self control and generally more animalistic.
Vision
>an off white coarse powder, when smoked induces a powerful euphoria, visual hallucinations and an altered sense of reality. Effects can last up to 24 hours. Highly addictive.
>unknown to most users is that the drug acts as a clairvoyant catalyst. Things seen while high are other planes/places.
>>46934216
Echo
>A silvery liquid, when drunk or injected causes a distorted sense of the passage of time, most often seeming to loop a short period of time over and over. A common party drug, users often dose right before engaging in pleasurable activities. Depending on dose effects can last up to several hours though users claim much more time has passed. Not addictive though habit forming and psychological dependancy may occur after multiple uses.
>Useful as an interrogation aid.
Vampire Blood
Not actually blood, but rather a drink made from boiling the petals of the crimson flower of the same name. Gives it's user a violent, euphoric high with seemingly inproved strength. While it doesn't actually increase the strength of it's users, it makes them less caring about bodily injury due to over-exertion.
>>46932280
Pathfinder has a decent list: Shiver, Scour, Opium, and more
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/gamemastering/afflictions/drugs
>>46932280
Elder Scrolls also has a list: http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Narcotics
>>46932280
From Fantasy, SciFi, general fiction series:
Digitalin from Alien Nation
Morphling from Hunger Games
Ryll from Ryloth in Star Wars Expanded Universe
Substance D from A Scanner Darkly
Zydrate from Repo! The Genetic Opera
Blinkmoth Serum from Magic the Gathering
Bubbleshake from Doctor Who novel The Highest Science
Chanv from Prince of Nothing
Eucharist from the Empire comic series
Flash from the Andromeda television series
Jet from the Fallout series
The Spice Melange from the Dune series
Silver Serpent Venom from Ultima
Stimutacs from Sealab 2021
Buz from Cerebus the Aardvark
Crash from EVE Online
Denner Resin from The Name of the Wind
Dyne from City of Heroes
Edge from Class of 1999
Loa Dust from Saints Row 2
Nuke from Robocop
Obscura and Spook from Warhammer 40k
Rapture from Marvel 2099
Slo-Mo from Dredd 3D
Spank from GTA III
Valkyr from Max Payne
White Claudia from the SIlent Hill series
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_medicines_and_drugs
>>46935917
Question about the Zydrate. What does it come in?
>>46932280
A drug that allows you to astral project to other planes. It's a real out of this world experience, man.
In my game there's a plant that gives one use of the spell Wish, although it's owned by the government of the lizard people, and stealing it is not only hard as fuck but would incur some of their worst punishments, because obviously you don't want random people just wishing shit, or growing their own wish plants. However, this has already long ago affected their water supply, making the generations upon generations of lizard people who drink this water more magically adept and casting Prestidigitation on anyone who drinks it.
Sopor
Mind Honey
Dream Nectar
>>46932280
Smurf shrooms
>>46932280
>Give me some ideas for fantasy drugs that could rule the streets of a large kingdom. A mix of benign and highly destructive drugs, shit for both commoners and nobility alike.
Alcohol.
Moonball
>>46936494
Smurfs. Living, talking, smurfs.
>>46932280
Balor's liquor (Noble)
Ingested (liquid)
A spirit brewed with the blood of a holy person. It bears some dangers as a mundane poison (though mostly in large doses), but is consumed for its remarkable ability to induce a sense of euphoria and spiritual wholeness. The holier the person, the greater the impact.
Balor's liquor provides an inherent danger because the satisfaction of ordinary good works and ethical standards is still not comparable to its effects; its distribution often (though not necessarily) compels the nobles who consume it to abuse their power to commission as much of it as possible, ironically pursuing a sense of enlightenment through evil.
>>46936660
This is explains Gargamel's mad lust to capture them. Dude looks like a junkie.
Dunno about commoners or nobility, but adventurers ought to be popping painkillers like they're candy
>>46932280
Dragon bones.
In the past, there were creatures (primoridal gods) that were so large, so powerful, they had multiple souls. There was no concept of heaven and hell then, so when they died, their souls entered their bones instead.
If you smoke those bones, you can inhale those released spirits, giving you supernatural insight and strength but opening you up to possession. The street name for the drug isdank souls.
Skooma from Elder Scrolls is pretty good really since it's combination of stimulant, psychedelic and opoid. Nothing close to it in real life does exist (making it very fantasy), but at same time it can be pretty much every real life drug at once.
>>46937164
Technically I would guess health potions work like opioid painkillers with exception that they also heal you. It's pretty odd why health potions are never addictive. That would be interesting mechanic.
>>46932280
A drug that gives temporary spellcasting ability, but burns off years of your life in exchange. It is accompanied by a rush of euphoria.
Yall nigars kneed to kook up kokane wif bking soda and sell it.
ppprrrrr
>>46937439
To expand this mechanic. Chugging health potions a lot causes health potion tolerance that takes a week to reset by mechanics, but actually lore wise it could take year(s) since it's subjective. Chugging them daily for more than week causes addiction. Symptoms are unexplained pains, bleeding,fatigue/weakness, general malaise and easy bruising. They're instantly cured with taking another health potion. Addiction gets worse depending how long you use them, but obviously for mechanical reason there should be some cap at some point.
Health potion overdose is also a possibility. In this case user feels very euphoric, but sleepy. Eventually (if overdose is severe enough) consciousness is and user dies of respiratory depression. There are rumors that some health potions addicts are so addicted that to feel health potion euphoria they need to consume deadly overdose.
>>46937701
Forgot to mention that health potion addiction also can be reset by suffering it's symptoms for a week since addiction is linked to tolerance.
>>46932566
Ayyyyyy sun explodes.
>>46932280
First, sorry for the rough English!
Melkore
An magically infused stone that, when ground into powder and ingested raw, makes a person slightly stronger, tougher, and/or faster as well as providing a rough euphoria. This would be used by gangers/bandits/gladiators/etc as a sort of steroid or a hard narcotic. Excessive use would lead up to something along the lines of "Rocklung", where the dust and stone builds up to a point in the user's throat/lungs that they suffocate, potentially to death. If used sparingly, the drug dissolves in the body over time.
The ore can be refined and/or distilled through magical or alchemical (either way expensive) means to be soluble, and then added to an alcohol or other potion to completely avoid Rocklung as well as enhance the effects- both the physical improvements and the mental euphoria. This version of the drug would be accessible only by the wealthy!
I didnt come up with this, its actually from fallen london and the sunless sea. But I doubt you will be selling whatever you make so I dont think copyright will be a problem... red honey. If you eat it, you relive the memories of the people it was extracted from.
And yes, its extracted from liveing people. Painfully.
I have a fantasy drug i'm pretty proud of in a campaign of mine.
>Teeth
It's called that for a reason. It comes in ~2mm shards of yellow-white, glassy matter, derived from sea salt traded out of a port town ruled by a living voodoo pirate god. Stored amusingly in socketed jaws of ivory skulls. Real skulls if you're a badass or a drug lord.
You can't chew it or you'll OD on the spot, it feels like literal chunks of broken glass to swallow, you'll cough blood for the next half hour, and a bad high might result in becoming a mindless beast person for the next fifteen hours. But fuck it'll get you high. And the biggest draw is that it completely numbs your body from any kind of pain response. Not only do you not feel pain- or anything for that matter- but your body will continue to function as if nothing has even happened regardless of the (non-fatal or completely immobilizing) injury. Basically gives anyone something like a Die Hard feat.
It's ideal for keeping the peasant workers from going into cardiac arrest after 72 hour shifts, fueling rabid drug-addled gladiators, and for the noble folk: unwinding after a long day of political bullshit, as long as you don't try to pull your own skin off.
>>46936024
A little glass vial.
>Ambrosia
>Also called "Moondust", "Stardust", "Manadust"
>Think turquoise saffron powder, harvested from the same flower that can be brewed into Mana Potions
>while under its influence, the user "sees past the veil" and feels "at one" with the inner planes
>senses are greatly heightened, everything feels "more real"
>typically smoked to slowly acclimate to its effects, snorting can drive you insane
>favored by Elves and Wizards in the north, where Manabloom grows
Some people think Wizards have towers built in the north to experiment with dangerous magics a safe distance from civilization. They actually do so to smoke Manadust and fuck around with spells.
>>46932280
Aether
Getting magic energy dense enough to become visible in the form of Mist. They condense it and Wizards snort it.
>>46932280
Brown christmas.
>>46932280
Zombie Powder. Mummies and liches give the highest grades, but anyone can enjoy pain relief, spiritual numbness, reduced lifesigns, and a wonderful floating feelingas well as a slight vulnerability to Command Undead.
Overdose causes necrotic lesions in the digestive tract or nasal passages.
Though it's not addictive, it is VERY useful, and also absurdly cheap to make as long as you can raise the dead. The usual operation is a schmuck with a wand and a few trays of rats, which are zombified, crushed flat, and left to dry.
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>>46938114
A little glass vial?
>>46932280
Glamour. You get it from fairies, concentrate of all your dreams coming true. Keep it in a jar, keep it in a box, keep it in anything, depends on the dealer.
It goes without saying that it's very addictive and they don't tend to take cash.
http://pastebin.com/Sqksj3vb
There's some pretty good ones in here
Funny this reminds me of campaign I once ran where I tried steering the party toward the main plot but then they promptly gave up after discovering a rare brand of weed smoked by Dragonborn which was many times more potent thn regular 'pipe weed' (they called it 'Dragon Kush') and proceeded with the money from their adventuring to set up the 'weedery' where they grew the stuff and retired as rich succesful merchants.
anyway a drug from the same setting:
Avera:
A thick and highly addictive black potion which can be made by most alchemists with relative ease although the quality varies hugely depending on the ingredient quality and the method of production.
It can be sipped neat, put into annother beverage or boiled and one inhales the vapours. It simply induces a sence of great euphoria quite simmilar to heroin. The side effects however can be quite severe, over time it simply numbs your ability to experience any kind of emotion, forcing you to consume ever higher dosages of it to experience the same high.
One who consumes too much simply becomes an emotionless zombie, unble to feel anything, usualy ending up self torturing or killing themselves or others in order to try and experience any kind of emotion. As such it is obviously highly illegal in most places.
>>46938337
A little glass vial. And the little glass vial goes into a gun like a battery.
DMP its like angel dust and heroin in one, lets just say your not ripping peoples car doors off but rather it makes you walk like a cartoon character i scripted named "wobbling wasted weasel" i think the clossest comercial relative would fall under the
Phrase goofy... It comes from a commercial product of orange cough maker beter stuff, also available in purple flavor...
there is a tower on the north pole that contains the gateway to the realm of life. to dissuade people from seeking it out, it is always surrounded by a golden mist that cures anything, but makes you forget your memories, temporarily at first, permanently starting after a day of being submerged. it also gives one a sense of peace, euphoria and vigor, numbs you emotionally to outside factors and robs you of your sense of priority and direction.
so naturally, when the dwarves found it, the first thing they did with it was gather and distill it into a liquid, which strengthens but shortens its main benefits, while the side-effects remain unchanged. overuse turns you into a vegetable, and an overdose makes you explode into light.
they call it gilbesh.
Dragon Jaw Ash
Dragons have a membrenous lining in their maws that protects the soft palletes from the effects of their various breath abilities although this is most common in species of Draconis that utilize strong acids.
After a while a new layer grows underneath to replenish the protective membrane which causes the dragon to lap at the flaking remnents with it's tongue and spit it out due to it's disgusting taste.
Typically, Jaw Ash is used as a component in powerful explosives and destructive spells to enhance their effects but others have found such uses for them as grounding up the ash into a fine powerder mixing it in with sweet smelling flowers in some cases and snorting the Ash which causes rapid heart beat and an energetic sense of euphoria with some describing it as having a dragon's fire inside of them.
It's been observed to have some strength enhancing qualities as well with some warriors snorting dragon jaw Ash before battle and fighting on in spite of otherwise damaging wounds. However, once the high wears off the user becomes supremely depressed and all supression of pain is apparently amplified as the nerves are still sensitive from the previous high.
Prolonged usage of Dragon Jaw Ash results in lost of motor functionality (ie.e excessive shaking of hands and limbs, unable to grasp things) muscular dystrophy, suicidal thoughts and tnedencies and death usually from injuries sustained while high.
>>46932280
Cheese(ratfolk)
I've actually had this idea for a while!
I call it Wizard's Elixir due to the fact that its made out of the bones, organs, blood, and skin of dead wizards, all ground up into a slurry. The inherent magic inside it makes it taste like the imbiber's favorite drink every time, along with giving those who never learned how to use magic a temporary ability to cast randomly selected spells or cantrips. If one is already a wizard, this provides a temporary boost (+5) to their Int, Wis, and Cha. The side effect is that its incredibly addictive, and also has a high chance of driving continuous user's insane, i.e,
on the off chance someone gets wish, or gate from drinking it, there might be a pretty big problem.
>>46942168
So basically a less dangerous version of cocaine? lol.
We're not thinking magical enough here guys... this is D&D. I could see "drugs" being downright silly or childish. Like those jellybeans in Harry Potter that can taste like anything be it deep dish pizza or rotten eggs and it's random.
Or perhaps a drug that boosts mental awareness and memory (int and wis bonus) but makes a magical copy of yourself that is a dumb twat and prone to getting himself in danger.
The kicker is the real you is actually the dumb clone, the smart you is the illusion that's trying to protect your high as fuck ass. Typically if the imaginary you figures out they are the one that's imaginary the drug trip immediately ends.
Pan's Labyrinth
A candy-like drug that causes euphoria, impaired balance, and creates an illusion that the user is in a psychedelic maze. The other symptoms wear off, but the user is left in a stupor and unable to wake up until he escapes. Abused by petty thrill-seekers, the drug has no long-lasting side effects, other than that the maze seems to get larger and more intricate every time you take it.
