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The ranger may make different poultices every 24 hours, as long as they have access to raw materials (any environment with plants, or any uncivilized natural area). The ranger is assumed to have enough time during a full night's rest to perform these activities. Note: The raw materials must be of considerable extent. A small herb garden in a back yard is more than sufficient. A window planter full of flowers and herbs is barely adequate for a single day's worth of poultices. Carrying a potted plant and claiming it's enough should earn the player the wrath of the GM, and rightly so. | The ranger may make different poultices every 24 hours, as long as they have access to raw materials (any environment with plants, or any uncivilized natural area). The ranger is assumed to have enough time during a full night's rest to perform these activities. Note: The raw materials must be of considerable extent. A small herb garden in a back yard is more than sufficient. A window planter full of flowers and herbs is barely adequate for a single day's worth of poultices. Carrying a potted plant and claiming it's enough should earn the player the wrath of the GM, and rightly so. | ||
A ranger may also purchase a [[Component Pouch]] in place of scavenging for plants and other materials, if they prefer. While this doesn't affect the efficacy of their poultices in any way, most rangers will tell you they taste worse, and just aren't as good. But if you're in a dungeon for a full month, a component pouch is much better than nothing. | As long as the ranger has sufficient access to an environment with plants or any uncivilized natural area, they do not need to pay for material components for any of their extracts, even if they have a listed material component cost greater than 1 gold piece. All things are made available to those who know where to look. | ||
A ranger may also purchase a [[Component Pouch]] in place of scavenging for plants and other materials, if they prefer. While this doesn't affect the efficacy of their poultices in any way, most rangers will tell you they taste worse, and just aren't as good. But if you're in a dungeon for a full month, a component pouch is much better than nothing. Component pouches never provide material components worth more than 1 gold piece in value, however, so the more expensive components must still either be scavenged by the ranger, or purchased ahead of time. | |||
Applying a poultice is (usually) a standard action, and the effect of the poultice determines where the poultice needs to be applied (on the target's body, their weapon, sprinkled over a patch of ground, etc.). Players are encouraged to work with the GM to come up with descriptions of how the poultice produces the desired effect in cases when it's not completely clear how a poultice could achieve the desired outcome (e.g. the ''returning weapon'' poultice might actually be a very springy rope attached to the weapon). If a player is having a difficult time visualizing poultice effects,"It's magic" is a perfectly valid descriptive option. | Applying a poultice is (usually) a standard action, and the effect of the poultice determines where the poultice needs to be applied (on the target's body, their weapon, sprinkled over a patch of ground, etc.). Players are encouraged to work with the GM to come up with descriptions of how the poultice produces the desired effect in cases when it's not completely clear how a poultice could achieve the desired outcome (e.g. the ''returning weapon'' poultice might actually be a very springy rope attached to the weapon). If a player is having a difficult time visualizing poultice effects,"It's magic" is a perfectly valid descriptive option. | ||