Happler |
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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)
Astral Wanderer |
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.
Ryu Kaijitsu |
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 Crusader |
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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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Knight Magenta |
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.