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Some Dungeon Masters have
difficulty describing the contents of potion bottles, magical elixirs,
and like liquid substances.
The lists below give the
appearances of liquids,
colors, tastes, and smells. In combination with
APPENDIX
I: DUNGEON DRESSING (q.v.) or by itself, these various descriptive
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words will serve the DM
in good stead when preparing level keys or when "winging it".
<note that I turned these
into random generation tables, in the first colum>
| d10 | Appearance/Consistency: | Transparency: |
| 1 | bubbling | clear (transparent) |
| 2 | cloudy | flecked (transparent and other) |
| 3 | effervescent | layered (color or transperancy) |
| 4 | fuming | luminous (determine transperancy) |
| 5 | oily | opaline (glowing) |
| 6 | smoky | phosphorescent (determine transparency) |
| 7 | syrupy | rainbowed (transparent) |
| 8 | vaporous | ribboned (determine transparency) |
| 9 | viscous | translucent |
| 10 | watery | variegated (determine colors) |
1. METALLIC
2. Bronze
3. Coppery
4. Gold
5. Silvery
6. Steely
7.
WHITE
8. Bone
9. Colorless
10. Ivory
11. Pearl
12.
GRAY
13. Dove
14. Dun
15. Neutral
16.
BROWN
17. Chocolate
18. Ecru
19. Fawn
20. Mahogany
21. Tan<s>
22. Terra cotta
23.
BLACK
24. Ebony
25. Inky
26. Pitchy
27. Sable
28. Sooty
29.
VIOLET
30. Fuchsia
31. Heliotrope
32. Lake
33. Lavender
34. Lilac
35. Magenta
36. Mauve<s>
37. Plum
38. Puce
39. <Deep>
Purple
40.
YELLOW
41. Amber
42. Buff
43. Citrine
44. Cream
45. Fallow
46. Flaxen
47. Ochre
48. Peach
49. Saffron
50. Straw
51.
RED
52. Carmine
53. Cerise
54. Cherry
55. Cinnabar
56. Coral
57. Crimson
58. Madder
59. Maroon
60. Pink
61. Rose
62. Ruby
63. Russet
64. Rust
65. Sanguine
66. Scarlet
67. Vermillion
68.
GREEN
69. Aquamarine
70. Emerald
71. Olive
72.
BLUE
73. Azure
74. Cerulean
75. Indigo
76. Sapphire
77. Turquoise
78. Ultramarine
79.
ORANGE
80. Apricot
81. Flame
82. Golden
83. Salmon
84. Tawny
| d28 | Taste and/or Odor: | d28 | Taste and/or Odor: | d28 | Taste and/or Odor: |
| 1 | acidic | 11 | herbal | 21 | salty |
| 2 | bilious | 12 | honeyed | 22 | soothing/sugary |
| 3 | bitter | 13 | lemony | 23 | sour |
| 4 | burning/biting | 14 | meaty | 24 | spicy |
| 5 | buttery | 15 | metallic | 25 | sweet |
| 6 | dusty | 16 | milky | 26 | tart |
| 7 | earthy | 17 | musty | 27 | vinegary |
| 8 | fiery | 18 | oniony | 28 | watery |
| 9 | fishy | 19 | peppery | - | |
| 10 | greasy | 20 | perfumy | - |
Colours:
| 1. METALLIC | 2. WHITE (#FFFFFF) | 3. GRAY (#7F7F7F) | 4. BROWN
(#804000) (#A52A2A) |
5. BLACK (#000000) |
| 1. brassy | bone | dove | chocolate
(#C85A17) (#D2691E) |
ebony |
| 2. bronze | colorless | dun | ecru | inky |
| 3. coppery | ivory (#FFFFF0) | neutral | fawn | pitchy |
| 4. gold (#D4A017) (#FFD700) | pearl | - | mahogany | sable |
| 5. silvery (#C0C0C0) | - | - | tan | sooty |
| steely | - | - | terra cotta | - |
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<note: i am using
symbolic colors ('the exceptions' : based on the classic Netscape 4.7)
here>
<this is explained
in the <notes> at Appendix K ...>
'Symbolic Colours' : this is supposed to
make it EZ for people to color their pages ...
(you don't have to
think about it)
| white | ||||||
| silver | red | orange | yellow | green | blue | purple |
| black | ||||||
<the above 'color values' have hierarchy
over the HTML values>
<fill in the rest with the #HTML numbers
...>
<in theory, the symbolic colors are base/defaults: any shade of green could be used ... >
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Black: The Earth - darkness - negation
Blue: The Heavens - truth
- spirituality
Clear: The Sun - luck
Green: Venus - reproduction
- sight - resurrection
Red:
Hemorrhaging
control - heat
White: The
Moon - enigmatic
Yellow:
Secrecy
- homeopathy - jaundice
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