Useless potion of alchemy

[The Admiral]

Hmmmm...let's convert this broadside with a retail value of 125 into pure gold! And then sell it for 100. What now!
It is basically 75. Buy a dagger, convert and sell. But recently my brother had a great idea. How often do you come across rusty useless weapons on the weapon rack. He suggested you should be allowed to take one to use the potion on. I thought, yeah, why not. At least you get the full 100 then.

Another solution might be to allow the alchemied weapon to be sold at full value.

[Jafazo]

Potion of Alchemy? Sounds like a homebrew item. Link it so I can read on it.

[The Admiral]

Potion of Alchemy? Sounds like a homebrew item. Link it so I can read on it.

It was one of the new treasure cards in the Wizards of Morcar set.

[Jafazo]

Ok I read it. I think it's supposed to be a card worth about 75 gold. Maybe just let him find a dagger or two whenever he'd find a potion of alchemy so he gets the 100 gold worth. Anytime you turn a dagger into 100 gold this way you're gonna feel like you're out 25 gold. It's just a matter of perception. It's like if he bought a dagger, turned it to gold, and you let him sell it for 125, he'll feel like he could've gotten 125 instead of 100 after buying a dagger for 25.

I definitely wouldn't let him sell the piece of equipment at its full value. That pushes the value way past 100 into the 400s, a definite no.

Maybe just tell him the arrow to a crossbow counts and he can drizzle it over one and sell it for 100 gold. Boom, he uses a weapon with no value and gets the full 100 gold value.

[StratosVX]

Depends. Maybe one of the characters is a real jerk.
Wizard finds potion of alchemy. Waits for Dwarf to turn his back. Spreads potion on Dwarf's armor. Boom! Wizard just made 100 gold pieces.

[lestodante]

Let's make a custom quest... with a new villain, he can be killed only with a GOLDEN balde!
What do you think? Now if you already used the potion and sold that item to get 100 gold coins you have to struggle to go back and find that merchant and it will sell it back for 400...

[Count Mohawk]

I have a novel, if overpowered, secondary use for Oil of Alchemy in my system:
It can be used in response to getting hit with Rust to counteract the spell and keep your stuff intact.

This, of course, dramatically increases the value of the Oil beyond its original 100-ish. Therefore you should very definitely not sell Oil in an Alchemist's Shop if you use this tweak.

On a related note, Flint from Old Scratch (RIP in pepperoni) had a type of Oil sold in stores that allowed players to swap some of their attacking dice for improved Black ones with 4 skulls on. I mention this because that type of Oil also negated Rust (although the benefit of rolling the Black dice would also be lost).

[lestodante]

This, of course, dramatically increases the value of the Oil beyond its original 100-ish. Therefore you should very definitely not sell Oil in an Alchemist's Shop if you use this tweak.

Some particular items are found in treasures cards only and the relative cards should not be returned to the deck everytime but only occasionally, maybe every 3 or 4 quests.

[mitchiemasha]

Was the card introduced because UK edition didn't have sale of weapons back to a shop? Memory is slipping me but might explain why.

[wallydubbs]

Nobody likes Orcs Bane... coat that with this pasty potion and get some value out of it.