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[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 68 points 1 week ago (3 children)

See also: video game AOE FX.

Big glowy green area? Could be a healing aura, could be poison. Good luck!

[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 72 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Nah this one is easy.

If it's green and sparkly, it's a good thing. If it's green and bubbly, it's a bad thing.

[–] sirblastalot@ttrpg.network 3 points 5 days ago

Given what Mountain Dew has done to me, that tracks.

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[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] JackFrostNCola@aussie.zone 5 points 1 week ago

I like the fallout approach

Green glow: radiation
Brown water: radiation
Bottled Water: Good!
Not really, believe it or not, radiation. (You must be thinking of purified water)

[–] Khrux@ttrpg.network 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Purple: Magic??

Green: Life/death??

Red: Life/fire??

Blue: Magic/cold??

Honestly the only colour I don't feel uncertain about is orange, that's always bad.

Also on the topic of health potions, a great piece of advice I once heard was that if your players are in a foreign land, remove health potions. Give them health biscuits and watch them reconcile with God.

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 6 points 1 week ago

Orange is machinery/technology

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 59 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Bright red barrel of aircraft grade fuel.

Shoot it.

Spawns a leak.

//FPS players mind's implode//

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Toss a lighted match into the growing puddle.

Match goes out.

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 13 points 1 week ago

Shoot it directly with a flamethrower.

Puddle burns slightly like a gas stove before going out again.

[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How about Oblivion where every potion, including drugs, are red?

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] orenj@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

except the ones made from potatoes and cheese, those are just soup

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If you don't think soup is addicting, you haven't had soup.

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[–] Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

Still heals HP. Definitely a health soup.

[–] papertowels@mander.xyz 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I color code all my info. (..) Green means go, so I know to go ahead and shut up about it. Orange, means orange you glad you didn’t bring it up. Most colors mean don’t say it.

- Michael Scott

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (14 children)

"There are no 'rules' for fantasy"

Wrong. To write good Fantasy (of SciFi), you have to go through a process called "World Building" where you lay down the rules of your world. Properly done, the amount of World Building exceeds the actual works by far. It is absolutely necessary to create a core of inner logic to the story. You are not bound by the rules of our world, yes, but you are bound by the rule of consistency. If you violate those, you automatically write crap Fantasy (or SciFi).

Funny, though, that e.g. many literature teachers / professors don't even know about the idea of World Building.

[–] Archpawn@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's hard fantasy. Soft fantasy can be good too.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Can, yes, but in my experience rarely is.

[–] Derpykat5@ttrpg.network 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A clearer way to phrase it might be "there are no rules for the genre of fantasy". An individual world needs self-contained rules, yes, but just because Tolkien's Dwarves have beards regardless of gender doesn't mean that your Dwarves need to be the same.

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[–] hungprocess@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Electric element. Team Yellow vs Team Blue, FIGHT!

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 20 points 1 week ago

There is (was?) an electric power provider in Germany by the name of Yellow. Their whole marketing was "electricity is yellow!"

[–] orenj@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 1 week ago

what do you mean? electricity is purple

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Nethack (and derivatives) is pretty much the only game I know of where the health potions may or may not be red.

And I guess Dark Souls... It's more of an orange than a red. But maybe that's just the color of the flask. Idk what the substance inside looks like. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] skye@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

the flask is green! i would know since i emptied it one too many times snd the texture is dark green

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 points 1 week ago

Then the insides have to be red for it to appear orange through green glass. The health potion is red!

[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Why should your fantasy game be limited by something like "health". Whether you die should be based on vibes.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 14 points 1 week ago

DM: Roll a Vibe Check

Player: I rolled Dark Green

DM: Ooohhh...

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 6 points 1 week ago

My vibe is slightly hurt with a hint of mental damage

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[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Overlord the anime has a whole arc about the protagonist using his immense power and influence to have people start research on how to turn blue potions red.

[–] Rednax@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Similarly to how paprika chips come in blue bags and salted chips come in red bags. Anything else is heresy. Unless you live right across the border, where it's exactly the opposite.

[–] Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My health potions are red, also, pulp free is not an option. >:)

[–] Mesophar@pawb.social 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The pulp is from fruit, right? The pulp is from fruit, right!?

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[–] remon@ani.social 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Reminds me of that overwatch character with the yellow healing aura and the green speed aura. Just why?

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because his default coloring is green and yellow I'd guess

[–] Chronographs@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah but the healing aura should be green and the speed one should be yellow

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago (6 children)
[–] Chronographs@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago

Yellow means “Yello? I don’t got all day!”

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[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's true.

Rules are meant to be broken - apart from when they aren't.

You can change any aspect of the world any way you like, but only if doing that is critical to your universe and story.

Messing up without reason conventions that are well established is a dick move, unless the whole point of your work is to screw with people.

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[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I hate dragons. Controversial take but like just come up with some other mystical creatures! have some fun with it! if rather interact with a pink unicorn plushie than fight another dragon

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