105 fully illustrated 5e potions across ten families — each with a primary effect, side effect, market price, and mixing rules your table can use tonight.
Standalone volumes in a shared grim-mythic world. Each book is a complete toolbox — portable into any campaign, or woven together into one setting.
Book One
105 alchemical formulas across ten families, including Backers' Brew and patron-created potions. Each entry includes primary effect, side effect, mixing results, market data, and full art.
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Book Two
Sacred remains, crown relics, war tribute, hag hoards, and nameless things. Every entry carries an attunement rite, past bearers, rumors & rivals, and a named condition of destruction.
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Join the SocietyThe Potions campaign funded the core book, unlocked stretch material, and added Backers' Brew plus patron-created formulas from the Alchemist of a New Potion tier. The final book now holds 105 potions.
The book is meant to be read, looted, printed, searched, and dropped into a session with almost no preparation.
Core formulas, Backers' Brew, and patron-created potions from the Alchemist of a New Potion tier.
Every bottle has a clear mechanical use and a flavorful consequence.
Pair formulas at the table and let chemistry become story fuel.
Designed to work as book entries, discovery cards, and quick handouts.
Market notes help GMs place potions in shops, hoards, guilds, and black markets.
Every formula receives its own image language, no stock art and no repeated bottle template.
Use Previous and Next to browse real sample entries. Tap the page itself to open it full-screen and inspect the art, effects, side effects, and story hooks at reading size.
A small taste of the layout and density inside The Black Book of Potions.
A taste of the Black Book of Potions. Draw one of 10 real potion reference cards and see which potion family welcomes you.
Unlocked as a stretch goal, every backer receives printable PDF card sets built for mystery, discovery, and fast table use.
Discovery Cards are player-facing potion handouts for unknown or partially identified vials. The front gives players the name, rarity, family, and artwork; the back leaves generous writable space for effects, duration, side effects, warnings, theories, failed experiments, and glorious mistakes.
Give a card to your players when they find a new vial. Let them test it, taste it, trade it, fear it, mislabel it, and slowly fill in what it actually does.
The book gives you the potion. The Discovery Card gives your players the object.
Reference Cards are made for fully identified potions. Each card includes complete effects and side effects, tasting notes, storage and handling information, market data, warnings, and possible mixing partners.
They do not replace the book. They complement it during live play, giving GMs and players a quick, table-friendly way to use known potions without flipping through pages.
Included with the Black Book of Potions pledge: STL tokens for all ten potion families, provided in mono-color and multicolor AMS-compatible versions for groups that want the families to become physical table objects.
Every formula is illustrated. No stock art. No repetition. These are artifacts from a world that bleeds, burns, and bargains.
An authenticated digital compendium for The Black Book of Potions. Search every formula, trace ingredient links, read mix results, and keep private notes for your campaign.
Requires a backer code.
The Black Book of Relics brings 100+ magic items to 5e, each built as a playable object with a memory: attunement rites, past bearers, rumors & rivals, and a named condition of destruction.
100+ magic items for 5e — from the Hollow Crown to the Last Gift. Explore the full gallery, the ten families, and the shared world on the dedicated Relics page.
In the act of creation, the One was wounded. Creation bears the Wound. Sin deepens it; mercy heals it.
The Black Books share one grim-mythic world — intentionally incomplete, continuing across every volume. Fallen crowns, sacred bones, war offerings, forge-oaths, folk charms, hag-hoards, pact-bargains, grave-keepers, scholar-secrets, and the Nameless all leave marks on the same wounded world.
You are invited to use the world whole, borrow a single thread, or transplant every entry into a setting of your own. Each book stands alone. Together, they echo.
The Crown's Legacy
The Sacred Remains
The War Tribute
The Forge's Legend
The Folk Charms
The Hag's Hoard
The Pact's Bargains
The Death's Keeping
The Scholar's Secrets
The Nameless