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While I think it's really cool and thematic that Filge uses syringes for his potions, I realized that there's an unexplored potential there for offensive potion use. It's even obliquely suggested that it might be used that way, particularly by the potion of ghoul touch which would act as a paralytic agent.

However, there is no system for using a syringe in this way. My idea is to treat it as a melee piercing attack. It does 0 damage, but is treated as if it did 1+str for purposes of overcoming DR. If it manages to hit and overcome DR, then you can inject the potion as a free action.

I could see many evil applications of this technology.

The way I see it, a city this gritty and corrupt could be run one of two ways: Sin City or Ankh-Morpork.

Sin City would be if I wanted to emphasize the utter squalor and destitution of the city, and how the Age of Worms might end up being a good thing, devouring the diseased flesh of the city like maggots on a gangrenous wound.

Ankh-Morpork would be more if I wanted to emphasize the sheer over-the-topness of the city. Reading the description of some areas, like the Whirling Giantess and the old observatory with its rotating cast of mad wizards, I couldn't help but think of Discworld. The lake even reminds me of the Ankh river.

Which do you think is more appropriate to the tone of the series, or do you think it would be somewhere in between?