Alternative Medicines is a great collection of lore and specialized healing potions, tonics, ointments, and salves. Interestingly, this supplement specifies the damage type relevant to each healing method, which creates a tradeoff between the apparent requirement for players to record the amount of each type of damage taken in combat, and the excitement that comes from having the perfect item for a given situation! Furthermore, I appreciate the carefully detailed descriptions for the realism of each medicine having a specific application rather than healing ANY wounds whatsoever.

This information is perfect for any player character with an outlander, sage, or hermit background, the ranger or druid class, or NPCs that act as herbalists or physicians. I would like the inclusion of a table of contents and/or an appendices organized by damage type, though a clean, professional formatting with simple scientific-sketch illustrations tie this lore together into a well-designed supplement.

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Interesting fluff to items. I think that a lot if them where they heal X of a given type of damage but Y for other types is a bittoo awkward to track for players nless tied to a medicine check (which would be cool if they had a certain number of uses/charges based on medicine checks), but overall I think they are also great for things to put on the shelf at an magewright/herbalist shop or something for the npc to use on patients.

This is just an excellent supplement for those interested in going a bit deeper than flat-out calling for a Medicine check when a player wants to heal another character. Highly recommended!

This guide is a fantastic expansionon the idea of simple healing items. The variety of items will let me create some much more meaningful healing choices for future campaigns, befitting of the setting.

This is a great supplement to help with role playing the use of healing potions. Really opened up opportunities for creative healing. Tons of fun healing potions, lotions and other healing items, so you are not stuck just using a standard healing potion. And lots of them have interesting combinations of specific types healing. Also the short little stories with each one are fun to read and are great little prompts for story telling inspiration. With 100 healing potion alternatives this is a great value.