# The Apothecary's Shelf *The Apothecary, Poisons, Drugs, and Chemical Agents for Exodus NDS. Source: https://exodusnds.com/sourcebooks/the-apothecary/the-apothecarys-shelf* What the Old World sells over a counter: medicines, stimulants, sedatives, antidotes, and in some Universes the products of working alchemy. Entries with a **Benefit** row are drugs and follow Chapter 5. The last three entries are poisons and follow Chapter 3. Entries tagged **Fantastical** need a Universe with alchemy or magic. The rest need a garden and a mortar.

##### Healing Salve Poultice, wound balm, honey and yarrow

— — 1 day 1

Applied 20 Common Old World None

Benefit Applied before a full night's rest, the patient recovers 2 additional Wounds from that rest

Clean dressings and something that keeps a wound sweet. It is not magic and it does nothing in a fight. ##### Poppy Tincture Opium, laudanum, milk of the poppy

3 10 minutes 4 hours 2

Ingested 30 Common Old World Habit 2

Benefit Recover 3 Strain, and ignore the ongoing penalty of one Minor or Moderate Critical Injury for the duration

Side effect Add 1 Bane Die to Perception and Readiness checks

Overdose 4 Strain each 10 minutes for 4 checks; sleep 4 hours

The one medicine before the Modern period that reliably stops pain. Soldiers, surgeons, and the old all keep it. A good many of them cannot stop. ##### Chewing Leaf Coca leaf, khat, betel, kola nut

1 10 minutes 4 hours 2

Chewed 5 Common Old World Habit 1

Benefit Recover 2 Strain. Add 1 Boon Die to Fortitude and Athletics checks against fatigue, hunger, altitude, and long labour

Crash 1 Strain

A leaf or nut chewed by porters, sentries, and rowers. It dulls hunger and keeps the legs moving. ##### Watchman's Tea Black tea, strong coffee, guarana, mate

1 10 minutes 8 hours 1

Ingested 3 Common Old World None

Benefit Ignore the penalties for one missed night of sleep

Crash Add 1 Bane Die to all checks the next day until a full night's rest

Brewed black and drunk hot. It pushes sleep back by a night and charges interest. ##### Strong Drink Spirits, fortified wine, rum, the stirrup cup

2 10 minutes 2 hours 2

Ingested 2 Common Old World Habit 1

Benefit Add 1 Boon Die to checks made to resist fear, and recover 1 Strain

Side effect Add 1 Bane Die to Agility and Intellect checks

Overdose Disoriented for 4 hours, then 2 Strain that cannot be recovered until a full night's rest

A measure of courage before the boarding or the duel. The **Limit** counts strong measures in an evening, not sips. ##### Berserker Draught Battle brew, wolf-ale, red cap mead

3 10 minutes 1 encounter 1

Ingested 80 Restricted Old World Habit 1

Benefit Add 1 to the damage of Melee and Unarmed attacks, and ignore Disoriented

Side effect The drinker must move toward and attack the nearest enemy each turn, cannot make Ranged attacks, and adds 2 Bane Dice to Intellect and Charisma checks

Crash 4 Strain, and Disoriented for the rest of the scene

Brewed from red mushrooms and bog herbs and drunk before a charge. It makes a fighter hit harder and think not at all. ##### Dreamsmoke Opium pipe, hashish, lotus resin

2 1 minute 4 hours 1

Inhaled 15 Restricted Old World Habit 3

Benefit Recover all Strain over the first hour

Side effect Disoriented, and add 2 Bane Dice to Readiness and Perception checks

Overdose 4 Strain each 10 minutes for 4 checks; sleep 8 hours

Smoked lying down, in a room kept for it. Every port and every large city has a house where it is sold, and a list of customers somebody would pay to see. ##### Smelling Salts Hartshorn, sal volatile, burnt feathers

— None — 1

Inhaled 10 Common Old World None

Benefit An Engaged character spends a maneuver to wake a character who is asleep, or who is incapacitated by Strain. The patient recovers Strain down to 1 below Strain Points

Limit Once per patient per encounter. No effect on a character incapacitated by Wounds

A sharp reek under the nose. It is the old answer to a sedative and to a faint. ##### Emetic Mustard water, salt water, ipecac root

— None — —

Ingested 5 Common Old World None

Benefit A **Purge** made with an emetic needs no check

Side effect The patient suffers 2 Strain and is Staggered on the next turn

Something that empties the stomach. It works only on what was swallowed, and only before the poison has left the stomach. ##### Theriac Mithridate, treacle, the universal antidote

— 1 round 1 day 1

Ingested 100 Restricted Old World None

Benefit General antidote. Add 2 Boon Dice to resist checks and to Medicine checks to treat one poison, for the rest of its Course

A paste of sixty-odd ingredients, most of which do nothing. Enough of them do something that kings ate a spoonful every morning. ##### Antivenom Snake stone, serum, the charmer's cure

— 1 round — —

Injected, Applied 120 Rare Old World None

Benefit Specific antidote to the venom of one kind of creature, named when it is bought

Special Before the Industrial period it is a folk remedy and works as a general antidote against that venom only. True serum dates from the 1890s

Whatever is known to work against the bite of one animal. It must match the animal. The wrong one does nothing. ##### Bezoar Stone from a goat's stomach, toadstone, unicorn horn

— None — —

Dropped in the cup 500 Rare Old World None

Benefit Add 1 Boon Die to resist checks against any Ingested poison drunk from a cup the stone has stood in. The stone is not used up

Special In a Universe without magic the Boon Die is the drinker's confidence, and the GM may rule it does nothing against a poison the stone could not absorb

A smooth stone set in gold and hung on a chain over the table. Its owner believes in it completely. ##### Healing Draught Red potion, vitae, the alchemist's cordial

— None — —

Ingested 50 Common Old World Fantastical

Benefit Recover 4 Wounds. Each further draught the same patient drinks before a full night's rest recovers 1 fewer, to a minimum of 0

Special Drinking one is a maneuver. Pouring one into an incapacitated ally is an action

An alchemical medicine that closes wounds as the patient watches. It belongs to Universes with working alchemy. A Universe with its own healing potion uses its own numbers in place of these. ##### Truth Draught Candour, the confessor's cup

4 1 minute Hour 1

Ingested 350 Rare Old World Fantastical

Effect For one hour the victim cannot say anything the victim believes to be false. The victim may stay silent, and knows what was done

Antidote None; it wears off

A clear alchemical liquid with a taste of iron. It compels honesty and nothing else: the victim can refuse to answer, can mislead with true statements, and can be honestly wrong. ##### Stoneblood Basilisk tincture, gorgon oil

4 1 round Round 3

Injury, Contact 300 Rare Old World Fantastical

Effect Immobilized. A victim already Immobilized by this poison is Paralysed, with skin as hard and grey as slate

After One hour after the poison ends

Antidote A specific antidote brewed from the same creature

A grey oil that stiffens flesh. It does not kill and it does not last. ##### Bleeder's Oil Leech water, thinblood

3 None Round 3

Injury 150 Restricted Old World Fantastical

Effect Bleeding: 1 Wound at the start of each turn until an action and an Average Medicine check stop it

After Wounds cannot be recovered by rest for one day, and Medicine checks to heal the victim add 2 Bane Dice

Antidote A specific antidote ends both effects

An oil that stops blood from clotting. A small cut treated with it will not close.