Holy Drinking Water Batman!


Rules Questions

Lantern Lodge

Ok, here's a silly one -

Does drinking Holy Water (if the character is not evil/would have no cause to be harmed by it) have any effect, positive or negative, on a character doing so?

Thanks!


I'm pretty sure there is no effect in the standard rules, but you can always house rule an effect. Like maybe a +1 to a save for disease or +1 to a heal check ect.

Silver Crusade

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May cause aasimar babies.

Liberty's Edge

I've always had it taste subtly sweet :)

Dark Archive

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Considering that it has 5 lbs of silver needed to create 1 pint (flask) of holy water, you mave have to worry about turning blue (argyria)


I can now see a cleric of noble background that considers holy water the drink of gentlemen.


I figure it acts like a purify water effect, which might be valuable to some people. (Of course, it's far cheaper to cast purify water.)


I could see me ruling that it makes it impossible for a vampire to drink your blood for a short time, as it makes your blood acidic for undead (not enough to deal damage)


it doesn't get into your blood circulation, not unless you use other methods instead drinking

anyway, per RAW no bonuses, but I do use a lot of variants depending on world, most of them give effects like remove disease/curse, or weaker ones like a one hour effect of Bless spell


1) Holy spit!

2) If you're a Paladin and drink holy water, you become a Popeye Paladin.

3) Holy pee!

4) Put holy water into your attractive teen daughter's water and you'll be sure she won't come back home pregnant. Not because of a man, at least.


The spell uses five pounds of silver powder - wouldn't Holy Water actually be contaminated by that? Or at least leave you with a sparkling tongue?


that component is absurd anyway, holy water has to be due to divine blessing not silver or somesuch, in effect it is blessed pure water, the absurdity of such item components placed to various spells is a bad remnant of past editions of D&D, often, like in this case, it makes no sense

With silver it would become something like an anti-lycantrope potion


The silver is a material component, not a focus. It is consumed when the spell is cast. The silver is used to pay your god's low-level bureaucrats that approve the blessing.


+2 Diplomacy for a few hours?

(Silver-tongued?...

...I'll get my coat.)


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IRL, you can actually use silver to purify water. It has qualities that wiill kill bacteria.

I had a dwarf cleric who brewed "holy water". He took great pride in knowing the best kinds for various situations.

"Now, yer basic ales are good fer all the zombies and shuffling wights. Fer the spectral ones, ye'll want some at's got a bit more malt to it. But, if ye come across a demon, it's stout fer them. Sticks to 'em like glue, and by the gods, how they wail! Course, once ye've vanquished 'em, ye'll want te pair it with a meal that can stand up te it's headiness."

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I know in Salvatore's books, the dwarves used beer as holy water.

As to the silver being toxic... um, transubstantiaion maybe?

The Concordance

MacFetus wrote:

+2 Diplomacy for a few hours?

(Silver-tongued?...

...I'll get my coat.)

As a geologist who loves "rocky" puns, I vote that you stay for that argent remark!


The Crusader wrote:
IRL, you can actually use silver to purify water. It has qualities that wiill kill bacteria.

All the material components are like this. For example, when casting fireball, you basically invent gunpowder from bat guano and sulphur.

When casting Scrying (at least in 3.5), you build a primitive battery with nitric acid, copper, and zinc and use it to power the mirror which serves as a TV.

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