Potions System

This is a simple system that I think could be implemented into the game:

How to learn potions: Books
Potions for 1st and 2nd Years- buy from Diagon Alley
Potions for 3rd and 4th Years- buy from Diagon Alley
Advanced Potions (5-7th Years)- buy from Diagon Alley
Basic Potions- Read in the library
Dark Potions- Restricted Section in library? Hogwarts Graduate?

1) So you open a book and it gives you the Ingredients and Instructions
For example:
Basic HP Potion - Restores 50% of your HP
Ingredients: Dittany, Asphodel, Eye of Newt
Instructions: 1) Add all three Ingredients 2) Mix clockwise

2) Then you go to the potions room and find an empty cauldron.
Each cauldron could have 5 verbs:
Add ingredient- adds any item to the cauldron
Stir clockwise- stirs clockwise
Stir counterclockwise- stirs counter clockwise
Empty- Empties the cauldron allowing you to start over
Take- take the potion you made, empties cauldron and adds item to your inventory

3) so you would probably need a bunch of If else statements
If (dittany + Asphodel + NewtEye + clockwise)
"You have created an HP potion"
take verb becomes vailable
Else
"Your potion didn't work"


4) You could buy items from the apothecary in Diagon. Rare items for more powerful potions are more expensive. Some item you get in the world, some from quests?

5) The potions can be as complicated or simple as you want

Potion Ideas:
HP restore (25%, 50%, 100%)
MP restore (25%, 50%, 100%)
Poison - make a verb so they can add to any food in the game, if a players eats it they lose HP
Lethal Poison- player gets a message saying they are going to pass out in 10 seconds
Bezoar- if a player eats this before passing out they won't die
Defense, Attack, Magic improvements for a set amount of time.

Ingredient Ideas:
check the HP wiki

Love this Jace.

On top of this, there could also be spells which you can cast on potions to enhance, reduce or counteract their abilities.

For example, if the potion was poisonous, you could cast a spell which would act as an antidote. Alternatively, you could turn healthy potions in to death traps.

That sounds great! : D
Maybe the dark potion could be exclusive to the Death Eaters and the Aurors could have an alternative "Perk".

I'm not going to like any HP based potions idea

One day the game will be only about MAGIC not HP.
There's so much more to explore than just what Harry Potter shows in the movie/books.


So let's look at 2 things.

First, ELDER SCROLL GAMES:
You basically have ingredients when each ingredient has different effects, you mix them you get a potion.

Second thing, REAL LIFE:
When you want a potion system, my head first thinks of Chemistry, if you've ever played SS13 it's a good example.
I want people to mix stuff up and explore potions and possibilities on their own like little scientists.

Basically items should have reactions, you mix them together, boom something happens.
It doesn't have to be only potions either, this can be developed into a gigantic magical science topic.


I basically want people to be creative and give them a large range of possibilities to explore, by creating an environment with rules I allow them to do just that but I can not allow "fixed" things.

For example, if I say there's 1 way to do HP potion, it's a fixed thing, it kills down a lot of possibilities.
But by allowing certain items to have healing attributes I allow people to create more than 1 type of healing potion (Code wise this requires less code and produces more options).

Thanks for replying Rotem.

When I was thinking of the system, I actually thought of the Elder Scrolls games. I like the idea of ingredients having properties allowing for a for dynamic system and allowing exploration. Does this mean that every combination will do something? I assume some combinations will just.. explode in the cauldron or something? Also the entire system does not need to be based on HP, that was just one example I used.

Also while I am not sure how a game could be completely void of HP, I really like the idea. I like the idea of completing quests, exploring, and creating being the purpose of the game. Mainly, I like it because it is unique and NEW. I have really enjoyed the fact that you are experimenting with new ways of playing the game (even if things like the layout aren't perfect yet).