"I drink a healing potion"

>"I drink a healing potion"
>Critical failure

What's the worst thing that could happen?

You swallow the cork

Your wounds turn into massive knots of scar tissue and your broken bones keep on growing, through the skin and out in big curls like overgrown toenails.

Instead of going down your throat, it goes down your windpipe, and does bad shit to your lungs.

>Rolling to drink a healing potion

Why?

Were their hands covered in butter or oil?

Was it some possibly dangerous or experimental potion that could cause side effects?

Depending on the context, and what attribute/skill they're rolling, it could be anything from diarrhoea and hallucinations or some extreme magical effect to dropping the valuable potion and wasting the healing effect.

You spill it and look like an idiot. Your charisma is temporarily lowered until you do something cool again.

Well, it's the drinking of the potion rather than the brewing, so you probably just choke on it a bit or drop the bottle.

The only game I believe would ask you to roll to swallow would be FATAL, so probably magic impregnation.

The potion attempts to heal your emotional wounds and you are forced to spend the next 1d6+1 months in therapy.

Since the potion is already made and its contents are nothing to do with you, your success or failure shouldn't have any impact on its effect. Worst that could happen is that you fumble and drop it or spill it down your chin or something.

It's no use, user, Op is just a dumb memer (probably from /v/) who wants to make "ebin" nerd jokes.

>DUDE WALKING CRITFAIL LMAO
>DUDE DRINKING CRITFAIL LMAO
>DUDE BREATHING CRITFAIL LMAO
>DUDE SHITTING CRITFAIL LMAO

Well, given that you're only supposed to ever roll for something is when that task has some meaningful chance of failure, I presume it's because the character is distracted or coated in grease or something, so a crit fail would have you drop the potion, where it breaks.

Cancer.

You have an allergic reaction to the potion which the potion tries to heal. Infinite loop of allergies.

An allergic reaction, maybe?

>What's the worst thing that could happen?
The worst thing already happened - you are with a DM who demands to roll for trivial things.

The bottle is made of flimsy glass and the potion is long expired, having been purchased from a less than savory shopkeeper. The unsealing of the potion starts a caustic reaction when it mixes with the air, causing the bottle to explode on your lips, which eviscerates your tongue and jaw and causes you to bleed to death

It's not a healing potion, it's a potion of confusion. You feel compelled to make shitty threads asking stupid questions.

Because there is no such thing as a failure to drink a healing potion, let alone a critical failure.

So, you get asphyxiated by tumor-like growths filling your lungs. Sounds nasty.

Pulmonary aspiration. Specifics depend on the system, but usually you're just considered asphixiated for 1 round.

You could have made a meaningful threat instead, OP; shame on you.

Aspiration is still pretty bad, you could choke to death

what would happen if you roll 20 on breathing?

Hyperventilation

Great thread, OP, I sure do love the summertime.

>distinct Veeky Forums "humor" of lolrandumb / you don't even need other boards
>it's totally /v/'s fault guise!
Why are some of you faggots so up Veeky Forums's ass?

>probably from /v/
Sorry there sprout, but /v/ actually plays games occasionally, unlike Veeky Forums

>What's the worst thing that could happen?
You realize your GM is so awful that he makes you roll to successfully drink a healing potion.

I guess that would be a good result.

Can-
God fucking damnit you punchline thieving piece of shit.

>Worst that can happen
Depends on the potion. If it's a generic potion, you choke on it and vomit up healing tumors.
If it's something legendary, like the Blood of an Ancient, you could end up becoming a vessel for that Ancient, slowly becoming more bloated over the next couple months until eventually bursting forth into a dimensional gate that lets forth the nightmares that Ancient controls.

>"I drink a healing potion"
>Critical failure

WFRP potions have this problem. One of our guys once threw an unidentified potion into the mouth of a griffin as a last act of desperation. The potion had gone off and caused the griffin to mutate. Its skin and feathers turned to gold, giving it +2 armour points and sealing the fate of our group.

But when we came back for round two, its pelt made the sickest banner ever made.

Honestly, those sound like things Gygax would demand rolls for.

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Yeesh

>actually plays games
Gotta step up your ruse, senpai.

Yeah, this.

Has summer ever left since last year? Or am I just becoming more aware of how shit this board is getting?

wound heals around the arrow

>>Critical failure on drinking stuff out of a bottle.
Welp. Might as well start rolling for breathing, walking, running, memory, cleaning equipment, feeding horses, speaking each individual word, heartbeats, blinking, etc because apparently my character is so fucking incompetent that drinking something out of a bottle has a significant chance of failure.

Nothing. Because you should never have to roll for doing an non combat action.
unless said potion drinker is unconscious or dying.

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How would you know, Veeky Forums is too busy jerking itself off to U DUN NED OTHER BOARDS to actually visit other boards

you drown your self.

>drinking
>crit fail

Hey look, yet another fake quandary topic from a shitposter that obviously doesn't play. C'mon, neu/tg/ this thread obviously needs to get to at least 300 replies! You can do it!

>/v/ actually plays games

>Doing my part.

we're doing it, bois

>neu/tg/
This old Veeky Forumscore shitposting, fampai

Probably because they aren't needed.

Veeky Forums always tries to take a shit thread and turn it into something proper.
See: that thread about pike formations but with cars which is up right now

>muh neo/board/!
Get a grip

BUUUUUUURN

>/v/ playing games
>Veeky Forums having friends to play games

And now that /qst/ exists, neither is Veeky Forums.

Fuck off to /qst/, then. If you don't need Veeky Forums, why are you hanging around?

Veeky Forums has always been shit. You're just a year older and starting to notice.

And you're still here because...?

>You transform into a cute loli

Shear morbid curiosity to see how far this train goes.

All the way, user, the train goes all the way.

>warhammer high
>reasonable marines
>all those 40k OCs like cultist chan and xeno
>unironic dorfwank
>unironic heresy memeing
>unironic elf slave wat do
>harem knights
>sergalfag
>Jim Profit
>unified setting
>high approval of edgardo, sir bearington, henderson, etc.

You tell me

How is that a failure of any sort?

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For some bizarre reason you're not smug

>unironic heresy memeing
What's even more pathetic is that HURRESY fags can't even contain their autism and stake memes on porn boards.

I just want to crank it to some blue alien tiddiez, not see you spam le ebin spess mareenz image macros from 5 years age

Wtf man

Aspiration is just a breath of air following a speech sound, such as the p in pin (as opposed to spin, where the p is unaspirated).
What are you talking about?

Flustered lolis are fine too