To steal Icosahedraphilia’s DM’s phrase, Prop Shop, I just had to share these. [FYI: Decent podcast and very 'clean' so you can actually listen to it with children in the room much unlike a lot (most?) of the rest.] Tangible potion props for inventory. I won’t tell you what they cost but let’s say sellers on Amazon should be taken out and shot for what they’re charging for these kinds of bottles. No I didn’t buy mine on Amazon, I’d shoot myself for paying that much for something like this.
Anyway, now I can hand out actual potions when the players pick up or make potions. And if the slaver they’ve got on the airship ends up joining the party then they might have access to quite a few potions as he’s a master alchemist. Of course you have to get over the idea that he’s a slaver of course. Or ex-slaver.
They’re filled with nothing more than a little food coloring in some water. In retrospect the first ones I filled have too much coloring. The blue and the green are pretty hard to tell apart at a distance. I briefly considered using some kind of silicone or epoxy to fill them since they are made of glass and could conceivably break if they hit the floor just right but they’re fairly thick and small enough and light enough that I think you’d practically have to fling them at the floor at top speed to get them to break on the average floor.
I think I’ll pick up some more and get some of that ‘swirly’ shampoo. WIth a little food coloring that make a pretty cool visual inside one of these. 
2 comments
Aussie B
March 8, 2011 at 7:02 am (UTC -5)
Nice find… without paying an arm and a leg on amazon, where did you find these bottles?
Dennis
March 8, 2011 at 12:36 pm (UTC -5)
You can or could at least pick them up here – http://www.sciplus.com/ They’re a surplus store so their stock varies from month to month but best of luck finding them.!