Introduction

This guide is specifically dedicated to helping you run a game of Wands & Wizards: A Harry Potter 5e Adaptation. If you're unfamiliar with W&W, a few things might not make much sense. Additionally, be sure to refer to Wands & Wizards: The Monster Book of Monsters to find the fantastic beasts you can pit against your players.

You will find three parts to this guide. The first part is purely setting information, giving a crash course in Harry Potter and filling in any blanks you might have about the series. The second part is variant rules, resources and activities; it contains all the little things for a campaign that will keep your players enchanted. The third and final part is dedicated entirely to locations. The magical word in Britain revolves around a few key locations, which your players will want to explore and experience.

Chapter 1: The History of Magic

Welcome to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter! If you'd like to familiarize yourself with the canon of the series, read on. This section does not contain any information originating from the Play-That-Must-Not-Be-Named, and no references to such a thing will be found anywhere else.

At the end of this chapter, Writing New Chapters in Wizarding History addresses how HMs can fit W&W adventures in and among existing canon.

The Story of
the Boy Who Lived

One of the most famous wizards in the modern wizarding world and the only known survivor of the Killing Curse, Harry James Potter is credited with twice defeating the Dark wizard Tom Riddle, also referred to as He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named, You Know Who and Voldemort. Harry Potter now heads the Department of Magical Law Enforcement and is happily married to former Holyhead Harpies Chaser Ginny Weasley. However, Harry Potter's childhood and school years are the subject of international curiosity and countless historical accounts. To fully understand the story of Harry Potter, one must begin with Tom Riddle's rise to power.

Grindelwald's War

Chapter 2: The Wizarding World

Magical Schools and International Relations

The Non-Humans of
Harry Potter

House-Elves

Merpeople

Vampires

Veelas

Werewolves

Coming soon!

Chapter 3: Magical Adventures

As an HM, it's your job to provide a world for your players to experience. This chapter is dedicated to providing options and guidance on the decisions that need to be made about that world, like when it takes place, who is the antagonist and what kind of conflicts will the players face.

This section is written with the assumption that the campaign should be consistent with established canon. An HM can twist or abandon characters and events from the original series as desired, although most players will expect the canon wizarding world by default.

Handling Canon Characters

Coming soon!

Choose Your Own
Dark Wizard

After choosing the time period of a campaign, the most important element is the BBEG. Short for "Big Bad Evil Guy," BBEG not only represents the actual villain of a campaign, but also all of the nefarious deeds and plotting that this BBEG will be doing through the course of the campaign. This section will help outline some of the details to be considered when designing a BBEG.

Dangerous Beasts and Magical Beings

• A charismatic leader among goblins illegally seizes a significant number of wands, arming his followers and waging war against wizards for past transgressions.
• A misguided magizoologist befriends a group of intelligent and lethal magical beasts and helps them grow their numbers, threatening nearby wizards and the International Statute of Secrecy.
• A leader of the merfolk is raising a global fascist movement trying to reclaim the glory of old Atlantis.
• Dragons are suffering from a contagious disease that makes them unusually aggressive, and the magical community must enlist muggle scientists, because the answer can only be found in the intersection of magic and technology.

Mysterious Happenings

• An employee of the Department of Mysteries falls under the control of an ominous dark artifact and they unwittingly work to expand its control.
• A seer is driven mad by their visions, wreaking havoc and evading capture only through their omniscience.
• A seemingly harmless club is started at Hogwarts, which is revealed to be a branch of a dangerous cult led by a shadowy figure only referred to as the "Grand Father," and the cult aims to grow its members until it can overthrow the Ministry of Magic.
• A vengeful Muggle escaped with knowledge of wizards, exposed the wizarding world to the muggle government, and is now leading a secret militia, known as Inquisitors, to fight against wizards and witches.
• The new CEO of Gringott's is slowly buying up all of the small businesses in magical Britain, trying to turn the bank into the first magical megacorporation.
• A magical paradox threatens to destroy magic altogether, causing magic to fade and become increasingly unreliable.
• Someone emerged from the Veil in the Department of Mysteries, and they're trying to convince as many people as possible to walk through it.

Extracurricular Crime-Fighting

Since Wands & Wizards is designed around a group of young witches and wizards learning magic at Hogwarts or another similar magical school, the development of conflict will look a little different compared to a typical fantasy quest. After all, BBEGs care deeply about the education of future generations and will need to let the party continue their schooling. Here are a few guidelines to keep in mind:

A BBEG should not be openly operating at the beginning of the campaign. There are many powerful wizards teaching at Hogwarts, so it must be logical why adults do not immediately address the BBEG's threat. It also would be unfortunate if a fool-hardy group of first-years threw themselves at a powerful dark wizard before they had adequate dueling skills.

A BBEG's plans should progress at an appropriate rate as the party grows in magical prowess. Unless the campaign is separated into completely separate story arcs, the BBEG can gradually become more and more of a problem as their actions ripple through the world. Much like Tom Riddle regaining his strength, the stakes get bigger as time passes.

A BBEG should have a very good reason to NOT kill young wizards. Tom Riddle greatly valued wizardkind and wanted as many wizards and witches as possible to join his ranks. Thanks to a prophecy, he also forbid Death Eaters from attempting to kill Harry Potter. Mix in magical protection from the love of his mother, and Harry Potter was ready to survive 7 books. A campaign's BBEG should give the party the same luxury. Give a BBEG easily understandable motivations or principles that will prevent them from immediately Avada Kedavra-ing a group of Hogwarts students who stand in their way.

There should be mini-BBEGs or henchmen to keep the party busy at lower levels. Adventurers (or adventurous students) need an antagonist. Whether it's a weaker lieutenant of the BBEG or a rival in school, the party should be able to hone their skills and resolve some conflicts against smaller adversaries.

Chapter 4: Variant Rules

F  rom the beginning, Wands & Wizards was designed to be as compatible with 5e as possible. As a result, certain sacrifices have been made for simplicity, and sometimes, it's going to feel a little bit more like D&D than Harry Potter. If your table is looking to tip the scales in the other direction and play a game that more closely aligns with the Wizarding World they know and love, these variant rules are designed to be closer to Harry Potter's canon or otherwise promote an enjoyable experience.

Mid-Campaign Skill Progression

In 5e, your adventurers typically start at 1st level as adults with complete backstories and some basic skills to help them in their journeys. In Wands & Wizards, your 1st-level adventurers are 11-12 year old children. With less time to build up specialized skills and learn about themselves, it may be a little strange to start with 4+ skill proficiencies.

Chapter 5: Treasure

Wand Traits

Magic Items and Artifacts

Coming soon!

Chapter 6: Potions and Brewing

Potion List

Looking at Love Potions

The morality of love potions is questionable at best. While love potions are often handled humorously in the original series, we must recognize the importance of consent. Love potions do not allow for consent and should not be used to cross any character's boundaries. If you are going to play W&W with love potions, please have a conversation with your table to ensure everyone is comfortable and will behave respectfully. Otherwise, do not include them in your game.

This is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy. Not approved/endorsed by Wizards. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. ©Wizards of the Coast LLC. Not approved/endorsed by J.K Rowling or Warner Bros. Entertainment.

Potion Descriptions

Cupid Crystals

Love potion, common

When a being drinks this potion, they will become infatuated with the next being they see within 10 minutes. They become charmed by that being for 1 hour.

Recipe:

• 1 bundle of peppermint
• 1 cluster of mistletoe berries
• 1 granian hair
• 1 vial of rose oil

Flawed Cupid Crystals:

The duration is 10 minutes, instead of 1 hour.

Exceptional Cupid Crystals:

The duration is 2 hours, instead of 1 hour.

Doxycide

Poison, common

Delivered as a mist via a spray bottle, this mild potion is a household staple to deal with pests. A creature that inhales this poison must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw, taking 2 (1d4) poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

If the victim of this poison is a tiny Beast, it is paralyzed for 1 hour on a failed save.

Recipe:

• 1 bundle of cowbane
• 1 bundle of hemlock
• 1 flask of bundimun secretion
• 1 powdered streeler shell

Flawed Doxycide:

The saving throw's DC is 10, instead of 13.

Exceptional Doxycide:

The saving throw's DC is 15, instead of 13.

Dr. Ubbly's Oblivious Unction

Potion, common

When you drink this potion, your brain's perception is softened for 1 hour, to protect it from harmful thoughts. For the duration, you have disadvantage on Wisdom checks. If you are targeted by legilimens, you can make a Wisdom saving throw to resist its initial effects, and if you are targeted by imperio, you have advantage on the first Charisma saving throw.

Recipe:

• 1 flask of Lethe River water
• 1 flask of vervain infusion
• 1 frog brain
• 1 granian hair

Flawed Dr. Ubbly's Oblivious Unction:

The duration is 10 minutes, instead of 1 hour.

Exceptional Dr. Ubbly's Oblivious Unction:

The duration is 2 hours, instead of 1 hour.

Dreamless Sleep Potion

Potion, common

When you drink this potion, you immediately fall asleep and gain the benefits of a long rest after 4 hours of uninterrupted sleep. However, your sleep is far deeper than usual, and someone using their action to shake you or taking damage is the only way for you to wake before 4 hours have passed.

Recipe:

• 1 bundle of poppy heads
• 1 cluster of baneberries
• 1 frog brain
• 1 powdered octopus

Flawed Dreamless Sleep Potion:

The required amount of uninterrupted sleep is 6 hours.

Exceptional Dreamless Sleep Potion:

The required amount of uninterrupted sleep is 3 hours.

Elixir to Induce Euphoria

Potion, common

When you drink this potion, your mind is flooded with a sudden inexplicable happiness, overpowering many other emotions with the side effects of spontaneous singing and nose-tweaking. You gain resistance to psychic damage for 1 hour. For the duration, you have disadvantage on Dexterity (Stealth), Charisma (Intimidation), and Charisma (Deception) checks.

Recipe:

• 1 bundle of peppermint
• 1 bundle of shrivelfigs
• 1 flask of wormwood infusion
• 1 porcupine quill

Flawed Elixir to Induce Euphoria:

The duration is 10 minutes, instead of 1 hour.

Exceptional Elixir to Induce Euphoria:

The duration is 2 hours, instead of 1 hour.

Forgetfulness Potion

Potion, common

When you drink this potion, you forget everything you perceived in the last minute and you won't be able to remember anything you perceive in the next 10 minutes.

Recipe:

• 1 bundle of lovage
• 1 cluster of mistletoe berries
• 2 flasks of Lethe River water

Flawed Forgetfulness Potion:

The duration of forgetfulness is the next 1 minute.

Exceptional Forgetfulness Potion:

The retroactive forgetfulness applies to the last 10 minutes.

Fungiface Potion

Potion, common

When you drink this potion, you gain the effects of the furnunculus spell, sprouting dense and itchy mushrooms on your face instead of pimples. These mushrooms will last 1 hour.

Recipe:

• 1 flask of bubotuber pus
• 1 giant purple toad wart
• 1 staghorn mushroom
• 1 vial of woodlice extract

Flawed Fungiface Potion:

The duration is 10 minutes, instead of 1 hour.

Exceptional Fungiface Potion:

The duration is 2 hours, instead of 1 hour.

Garrotting Gas

Poison, common

This gas produces a choking or suffocating sensation, which, given the fact it's colorless, can be quite dangerous. A creature that inhales this poison must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 1 hour. If the saving throw fails by 5 or more, the creature is also unconscious while poisoned in this way. The creature wakes up if it takes damage or if another creature takes an action to shake it awake.

As an action, you can throw a bottle of Garrotting Gas at a point up to 60 feet away, releasing the gas and exposing creatures within 5 feet of that point.

Recipe:

• 1 flask of bundimun secretion
• 1 flask of ethanol
• 1 powdered wartcap
• 1 vial of exploding ginger eyelashes

Flawed Garrotting Gas:

The potion does not have the unconscious effect.

Exceptional Garrotting Gas:

The saving throw's DC is 15, instead of 13.

Heartbreak Teardrops

Love potion, common

When a being drinks this potion, they are overcome with the fear of being rejected by the object of their desire for 1 hour. If no relationship or attraction exists, a new one will be magically created. The being is susceptible to the next suggested course of action to try to avoid rejection. The suggestion does not need to logically prevent rejection, but it must be reasonable and not be obviously harmful. It pursues the course of action you described to the best of its ability, until the course of action is complete or until the potion's effect wears off.

Recipe:

• 1 bundle of peppermint
• 1 cluster of boom berries
• 1 powdered lionfish spine
• 1 vial of rose oil

Flawed Heartbreak Teardrops:

The duration is 10 minutes, instead of 1 hour.

Exceptional Heartbreak Teardrops:

The duration is 2 hours, instead of 1 hour.

Herbicide Potion

Poison, common

When this poison is poured directly on a magical plant, the plant immediately withers and dies. There is only enough poison to affect a plant that fits within a 5 foot cube. If the magical plant is larger than a 5 foot cube, the affected area will wither, but the plant will not die until the entire plant is withered.

Recipe:

• 1 flask of honeywater
• 1 powdered lionfish spine
• 1 powdered streeler shell
• 1 vial of doxy eggs

Hiccoughing Solution

Potion, common

When you drink this potion, you come down with a bad case of the hiccups for 1 hour. For the duration, you have disadvantage on Charisma checks. If you try to cast a spell verbally, roll a d10. On a 1, the casting fails and the spell is wasted.

Recipe:

• 1 powdered lionfish spine
• 1 powdered vipers-flesh
• 1 powdered wartcap
• 1 staghorn mushroom

Flawed Hiccoughing Solution:

The duration is 10 minutes, instead of 1 hour.

Exceptional Hiccoughing Solution:

The duration is 2 hours, instead of 1 hour.

Moonseed Poison

Poison, common

The moonseed vine, its leaves and its berries give their toxicity to this basic poison. A creature that ingests this poison must succeed on a DC 11 Constitution saving throw, taking 21 (6d6) poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Recipe:

• 1 bundle of hemlock
• 2 clusters of moonseed berries
• 1 flask of pufferfish eyes

Flawed Moonseed Poison:

The damage is 15 (6d4) instead of 21 (6d6), and the saving throw's DC is 9 instead of 11.

Exceptional Moonseed Poison:

The damage is 27 (6d8) instead of 21 (6d6), and the saving throw's DC is 12 instead of 11.

Oculus Potion

Potion, common

Drinking this deep orange potion removes the blind condition, restoring your eyesight to its normal state.

Antidote to: conjunctivia

Recipe:

• 1 bundle of nettles
• 1 flask of pufferfish eyes
• 1 newt spleen
• 1 powdered octopus

Pepperup Potion

Potion, common

When you drink this deep red potion, jets of steam shoot out of your ears, you're cured of the common cold and you feel quite warm throughout your body, rendering you immune to gaining exhaustion from cold environments for 1 hour. One level of exhaustion is removed for the duration, but it is regained at the end of the potion's effects.

Recipe:

• 1 cluster of boom berries
• 1 flask of ethanol
• 1 flask of vervain infusion
• 1 powdered octopus

Flawed Pepperup Potion:

The duration is 10 minutes, instead of 1 hour.

Exceptional Pepperup Potion:

The duration is 2 hours, instead of 1 hour.

Pet Tonic

Potion, common

When this potion is given to a magical pet, all of its hit points are restored, any diseases and conditions are removed and it gains 1d4 temporary hit points for 1 hour.

Recipe:

• 1 bat spleen
• 1 powdered vipers-flesh
• 1 vial of fanged geranium fangs
• 1 vial of rose oil

Flawed Pet Tonic:

There are no temporary hit points gained.

Exceptional Pet Tonic:

The temporary hit points gained are 2d4 instead of 1d4, and the duration is 2 hours.

Regerminating Potion

Potion, common

When this potion is poured over the roots of a dying plant, it is revitalized. It also accelerates the growth of healthy seedlings.

Antidote to: Herbicide Potion

Recipe:

• 1 bundle of galanthus nivalis
• 1 bundle of nettles
• 1 giant purple toad wart
• 1 vial of fanged geranium fangs

Shrinking Solution

Potion, common

When you drink this potion, you gain the effects of the diminuendo spell for 1d4 hours (no concentration required). This potion can also be poured over an object for the effects of reducio.

Antidote to: engorgio, Swelling Solution

Recipe:

• 1 bundle of cowbane
• 1 bundle of shrivelfigs
• 1 flask of wormwood infusion
• 1 vial of woodlice extract

Flawed Shrinking Solution:

The duration 1d4 is divided by 2 (rounded up).

Exceptional Shrinking Solution:

The duration is 2d4 hours, instead of 1d4 hours.

Star Grass Salve

Potion, common

You regain 2d4 + 2 hit points when you apply this medicinal balm to your injuries.

Recipe:

• 3 bundles of star grass
• 1 flask of bubotuber pus

Flawed Star Grass Salve:

The hit points healed are 2d4, instead of 2d4 + 2.

Exceptional Star Grass Salve:

The hit points healed are 2d4 + 3, instead of 2d4 + 2.

Swelling Solution

Potion, common

When you drink this potion, you gain the effects of the engorgio spell for 1d4 hours (no concentration required). This potion can also be poured over an object for a similar effect.

Antidote to: diminuendo, reducio, Shrinking Solution

Recipe:

• 1 bat spleen
• 1 bundle of nettles
• 1 flask of pufferfish eyes
• 1 vial of exploding ginger eyelashes

Flawed Swelling Solution:

The duration 1d4 is divided by 2 (rounded up).

Exceptional Swelling Solution:

The duration is 2d4 hours, instead of 1d4 hours.

Wound-Cleaning Potion

Potion, common

When you apply this potion to open wounds, it stings, smokes and perfectly sterilizes the area. A bottle contains ten doses, and one dose stabilizes a creature that has 0 Hit Points, without needing to make a Wisdom (Medicine) check.

Recipe:

• 1 bundle of star grass
• 1 flask of vervain infusion
• 1 staghorn mushroom
• 1 vial of spirit of myrrh

Flawed Wound-Cleaning Potion:

The bottle has four doses.

Exceptional Wound-Cleaning Potion:

The bottle has thirteen doses.

Uncommon Potions

Uncommon potions are taught to fourth and fifth-year Hogwarts students to prepare for their OWLs. The ingredients to brew uncommon potions are often more difficult to find or come from an uncooperative magical creature. Attention must be paid to preparing and brewing the ingredients.

Beguiling Bubbles

Love potion, uncommon

When a being drinks this potion, they become charmed by a chosen being for 1 hour. The chosen being is selected by the brewer speaking their name into the potion during brewing. If the chosen being is someone the charmed subject would normally be attracted to, they regard that being as their true love while they are charmed.

Recipe:

• 1 abraxan hair
• 1 bundle of peppermint
• 1 bundle of sneezewort

Flawed Beguiling Bubbles:

The duration is 10 minutes, instead of 1 hour.

Exceptional Beguiling Bubbles:

The duration is 2 hours, instead of 1 hour.

Bloodroot Poison

Poison, uncommon

The Bloodroot Poison gets into the bloodstream and causes a very gradual internal necrosis. A creature that ingests this poison must succeed on a DC 16 Constitution saving throw or take 7 (2d6) poison damage and become poisoned. The poisoned creature must repeat the saving throw every 24 hours, taking 7 (2d6) poison damage on a failed save.

Until this poison ends, the damage the poison deals can't be healed by any means. After seven successful saving throws, the effect ends and the creature can heal normally.

Recipe:

• 2 bundles of bloodroot
• 1 powdered streeler shell

Flawed Bloodroot Poison:

The damage is 5 (2d4), instead of 7 (2d6).

Exceptional Bloodroot Poison:

The damage is 11 (2d10), instead of 7 (2d6).

Blood-Replenishing Potion

Potion, uncommon

Typically administered in an emergency, this healing potion helps replenish blood lost from injuries. If the next rest you take is a short rest, the amount of hit points gained from rolling hit dice is doubled during that short rest. If the next rest you take is a long rest, you regain all spent hit dice.

Antidote to: Baneberry Poison, Bloodroot Poison

Recipe:

• 1 bundle of wiggentree bark
• 1 flask of vervain infusion
• 1 powdered bicorn horn

Flawed Blood-Replenishing Potion:

There is no effect on the amount of hit points gained during a short rest.

Exceptional Blood-Replenishing Potion:

The amount of hit points gains from rolling hit dice is tripled.

Draught of Peace

Potion, uncommon

When you drink this potion, all strong emotions are suppressed for 1 hour, putting you into a neutral and relaxed disposition. Any charmed or frightened condition is removed and you have advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened. Unfortunately, the feeling of this potion wearing off has been described as experiencing all of the suppressed emotions at once.

Additionally, if you are hostile, you will become indifferent to the targets of your hostility. This indifference ends if you are attacked or harmed by a spell or if you witnesses any of your friends being harmed.

Antidote to: Common and Uncommon Love Potions, Elixir to Induce Euphora, exhilaro

Recipe:

• 1 porcupine quill
• 1 powdered moonstone
• 1 vial of syrup of hellebore

Flawed Draught of Peace:

There are no effects on the charmed condition.

Exceptional Draught of Peace:

The duration is 2 hours, instead of 1 hour.

Exstimulo Potion

Potion, uncommon

When you drink this potion, the next spell you cast will be as if it were cast using a spell slot one level higher than its original level.

Recipe:

• 1 abraxan Hair
• 1 bundle of galanthus nivalis
• 1 flask of re'em blood

Flawed Exstimulo Potion:

The potion only affects spells of the 3rd level or lower.

Exceptional Exstimulo Potion:

For spells of the 3rd level or lower, they are cast two levels higher.

Fatiguing Fusion

Poison, uncommon

A creature that ingests or inhales this tiresome poison must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or gain 3 levels of exhaustion. This poison cannot cause you to reach more than 5 levels of exhaustion.

Recipe:

• 1 bundle of angel's trumpet
• 1 vial of chizpurfle carapaces
• 1 vial of syrup of arnica

Flawed Fatiguing Fusion:

The potion's effect is 2 levels of exhaustion, instead of 3 levels.

Exceptional Fatiguing Fusion:

The saving throw's DC is 15, instead of 13.

Fire Protection Potion

Potion, uncommon

When you drink this potion, you gain resistance to fire damage for 1 hour.

Recipe:

• 1 bursting mushroom
• 1 powdered wartcap
• 1 vial of salamander blood

Flawed Fire Protection Potion:

The duration is 10 minutes, instead of 1 hour.

Exceptional Fire Protection Potion:

The duration is 2 hours, instead of 1 hour.

Gillyweed

Potion, uncommon

When you eat this plant, your body adapts to an aquatic environment, sprouting gills and growing webbing between your fingers. You can breathe underwater and gain a swimming speed equal to your walking speed. However, you also lose the ability to breathe air, following the rules for suffocating if you emerge from water.

Flawed Gillyweed:

The duration is 30 minutes, instead of 1 hour.

Exceptional Gillyweed:

The duration is 75 minutes, instead of 1 hour.

Girding Potion

Potion, uncommon

When you drink this potion, you gain 6d4 + 6 temporary hit points for 1 hour. This feels like an abnormal amount of physical stamina and pain tolerance.

Recipe:

• 1 powdered flying seahorse
• 1 set of fairy wings
• 1 vial of doxy eggs

Flawed Girding Potion:

The duration is 10 minutes, instead of 1 hour.

Exceptional Girding Potion:

The duration is 2 hours, instead of 1 hour.

Gregory's Unctuous Unction

Love potion, uncommon

When you drink this potion, you are charmed by the giver of the potion for 1 hour. The charmed subject believes the giver is their very best friend.

Recipe:

• 1 abraxan Hair
• 1 bundle of poppy heads
• 1 bundle of scurvy grass

Flawed Gregory's Unctuous Unction:

The duration is 10 minutes, instead of 1 hour.

Exceptional Gregory's Unctuous Unction:

The duration is 2 hours, instead of 1 hour.

Memory Potion

Potion, uncommon

When you drink this potion, any lost memories are restored to you and you're able to recall more details than usual. You have advantage on Intelligence (Herbology), Intelligence (History of Magic) and Intelligence (Muggle Studies) checks for 10 minutes.

Antidote to: Forgetfulness Potion, obliviate

Recipe:

• 1 bundle of galanthus nivalis
• 1 bundle of sneezewort
• 1 jobberknoll feather

Flawed Memory Potion:

The duration is 1 minute, instead of 10 minutes.

Exceptional Memory Potion:

The duration is 1 hour, instead of 10 minutes.

Murtlap Essence

Potion, uncommon

This solution of strained and pickled tentacles of Murtlaps soothes painful cuts and abrasions, helping you regain 4d4 + 4 hit points when applied.

Recipe:

• 2 murtlap tentacles
• 1 vial of spirit of myrrh

Flawed Murtlap Essence:

The hit points healed are 4d4, instead of 4d4 + 4.

Exceptional Murtlap Essence:

The hit points healed are 4d4 + 6, instead of 4d4 + 4.

Noxious Potion

Poison, uncommon

The liquid and fumes of this potion are equally dangerous, allowing for creatively nefarious uses. A creature that ingests or inhales this poison must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or take 21 (6d6) poison damage, and must repeat the saving throw at the start of each of its turns. On each successive failed save, the character takes 7 (2d6) poison damage. After three successful saves, the poison ends.

As an action, you can throw a bottle of Noxious Potion at a point up to 60 feet away, releasing the gas and exposing creatures within 5 feet of that point.

Recipe:

• 1 bundle of angel's trumpet
• 1 cluster of moonseed berries
• 1 vial of syrup of hellebore

Flawed Noxious Potion:

The saving throw's DC is 10, instead of 13.

Exceptional Noxious Potion:

The saving throw's DC is 15, instead of 13.

Sleeping Draught

Potion, uncommon

When you drink this potion, you fall unconscious into a deep sleep. You can't be awoken by any means for 1 hour, aside from administering an antidote. After that, the sleep is natural, so you would sleep only as long as you normally would or until woken by taking damage or someone shaking or slapping you awake.

Recipe:

• 1 bundle of angel's trumpet
• 1 bundle of scurvy grass
• 1 flask of flobberworm mucus

Flawed Sleeping Draught:

After 1 hour, you immediately awaken.

Exceptional Sleeping Draught:

The initial unwakeable time lasts for 8 hours.

Strengthening Solution

Potion, uncommon

When you drink this potion, your Strength score is raised to 21 for 1 hour. The potion has no effect on you if your Strength is equal to or greater than that score.

Recipe:

• 1 flask of re'em blood
• 1 vial of fanged geranium fangs
• 1 vial of salamander blood

Flawed Strengthening Solution:

The duration is 10 minutes, instead of 1 hour.

Exceptional Strengthening Solution:

The duration is 2 hours, instead of 1 hour.

Twilight Moonbeams

Love potion, uncommon

When a being drinks this potion, they become charmed by a chosen being for 1 hour. The chosen being is selected by the brewer speaking their name into the potion during brewing. The charmed subject's mind is clouded with daydreams and has disadvantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks to notice anything other than the chosen being.

Recipe:

• 1 bundle of lady's mantle
• 1 flask of Lethe River water
• 1 set of fairy wings

Flawed Twilight Moonbeams:

The duration is 10 minutes, instead of 1 hour.

Exceptional Twilight Moonbeams:

The duration is 2 hours, instead of 1 hour.

Vitamix Potion

Potion, uncommon

When you drink this potion, you have advantage on Dexterity checks for 1 hour. Drinking it feels like 'a burst of energy', greatly sharpening one's reflexes.

Antidote to: digitus wibbly, locomotor wibbly

Recipe:

• 1 bundle of aconite
• 1 flask of wormwood infusion
• 1 powdered root of asphodel

Flawed Vitamix Potion:

The duration is 10 minutes, instead of 1 hour.

Exceptional Vitamix Potion:

The duration is 2 hours, instead of 1 hour.

Volubilis Potion

Potion, uncommon

When you drink this potion, you have an advantage on Charisma (Deception) and Charisma (Performance) checks when trying to pass yourself off as a different person. It magically alters your voice to sound like someone else's, or if your voice is lost, it will restore it.

Antidote to: silencio

Recipe:

• 1 flask of honeywater
• 1 jobberknoll feather
• 1 vial of syrup of hellebore

Flawed Volubilis Potion:

The duration is 5 minutes, instead of 10 minutes.

Exceptional Volubilis Potion:

The duration is 1 hour, instead of 10 minutes.

Wideye Potion

Potion, uncommon

Also known as the Awakening Potion, drinking this potion removes up to two levels of exhaustion. Other uses are awakening someone from non-magical drugging or concussion, and side effects include restlessness and insomnia.

Recipe:

• 1 bundle of aconite
• 1 powdered flying seahorse
• 1 vial of billywig stings

Flawed Wideye Potion:

One level of exhaustion is removed, instead of two.

Exceptional Wideye Potion:

Three levels of exhaustion are removed, instead of two.

Wiggenweld Potion

Potion, uncommon

This healing potion is the antidote for magically induced sleep, immediately waking the victim.

Antidote to: Draught of Living Death, Sleeping Draught, stupefy

Recipe:

• 1 bundle of wiggentree bark
• 1 flask of honeywater
• 1 powdered root of asphodel

Flawed Wiggenweld Potion:

The potion is not an Antidote to Draught of Living Death.

Exceptional Wiggenweld Potion:

The potion serves as an antidote for a duration of 8 hours.

Rare Potions

Rare potions are NEWT-level recipes taught to sixth or seventh-year Hogwarts students, requiring expensive and difficult to handle ingredients. These are quite difficult to brew--even if using properly prepared ingredients--and may require specialized brewing equipment.

Kissing Concoction

Love potion, rare

When a being drinks this potion, they become charmed by a chosen being and powerfully compelled to kiss them for 1 hour. The chosen being is selected by the brewer speaking their name into the potion during brewing. If the charmed subject sees the chosen being, they must use as much of their movement as possible to move to the chosen being and kiss them, ending the potion's effect.

If the brewer uses a bonus action to tell the charmed subject where the chosen being might be, the charmed subject must use as much of their movement as possible to move in that direction on their next turn. They can take their action before they move. They won't be compelled to move into an obviously deadly hazard, but they will provoke opportunity attacks.

Recipe:

• 1 bundle of alihotsy leaves
• 1 cluster of mistletoe berries
• 1 powdered moonstone
• 2 vials of pearl dust

Flawed Kissing Concoction:

The duration is 10 minutes, instead of 1 hour.

Exceptional Kissing Concoction:

The duration is 2 hours, instead of 1 hour.

Mandrake Restorative Draught

Potion, rare

When this healing potion is administered, it ends one of the following effects on the target:

• One effect that charmed, paralyzed or petrified the target.
• One Transfiguration spell that has changed the form of the target.

Recipe:

• 3 mandrake roots
• 1 vial of chizpurfle carapaces
• 1 vial of spirit of myrrh

Flawed Mandrake Restorative Draught:

The potion loses its untransfiguration effect.

Exceptional Mandrake Restorative Draught:

The potion ends both types of effects, or two of one type of effect.

Skele-Gro

Potion, rare

Used to rapidly regrow and repair bones, this healing potion is a staple in a mediwizard's potion case. If the next rest you take is a short rest, you regain hit points equal to half your hit point maximum. If the next rest you take is a long rest, you regain all spent hit dice and gain temporary hit points equal to twice your caster level.

Recipe:

• 1 Chinese chomping cabbage
• 1 flask of pufferfish eyes
• 1 murtlap tentacle
• 1 powdered griffin claw
• 1 powdered scarab beetle

Flawed Skele-Gro:

The temporary hit points gained are equal to your caster level, instead of twice your caster level.

Exceptional Skele-Gro:

The temporary hit points gained are equal to triple your caster level, instead of twice your caster level.

Weedosoros

Poison, rare

Named after the mysterious magical plant, weed of sorrows, this poison is reputed to fill the victim with deep regret in their final moments. A creature that ingests this poison must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw, taking 49 (14d6) poison damage and being poisoned for 1 day on a failed save, or half as much damage and poisoned for 1 minute on a successful one.

Recipe:

• 1 bundle of hemlock
• 1 bundle of valerian roots
• 1 bundle of weed-of-sorrows
• 1 essence of Belladonna
• 1 vial of syrup of arnica

Flawed Weedosoros:

The damage is 35 (14d4) instead of 49 (14d6), and the saving throw's DC is 13 instead of 15.

Exceptional Weedosoros:

The damage is 63 (14d8) instead of 49 (14d6), and the saving throw's DC is 16 instead of 15.

Wit-Sharpening Potion

Potion, rare

When you drink this potion, your brain's neurological functioning is maximized, raising your Intelligence and Wisdom scores to 20 for 1 hour. The potion has no effect if your ability scores are equal to or greater than that score.

Antidote to: Befuddlement Draught, Common and Uncommon Love Potions, confundo, Confusing Concoction, infirma cerebra

Recipe:

• 1 clutch of runespoor eggs
• 1 newt spleen
• 1 powdered dragon claw
• 1 powdered scarab beetle
• 1 sloth brain

Flawed Wit-Sharpening Potion:

The duration is 10 minutes, instead of 1 hour.

Exceptional Wit-Sharpening Potion:

The duration is 2 hours, instead of 1 hour.

Very Rare Potions

Very rare potions are only taught to exceptional seventh-year students at Hogwarts or shared among professional potioneers. These potions are distinguished by their exceptionally hard-to-find ingredients and extremely complicated brewing procedures and timelines.

Essence of Dittany

Potion, very rare

This highly concentrated liquid rapidly heals and regenerates open wounds, helping you regain 10d4 + 20 hit points when applied. If the target has lost body members (fingers, legs, and so on) and the severed part is held to its place, applying Essence of Dittany causes the limb to heal back on immediately.

Recipe:

• 2 bundles of dittany
• 1 powdered griffin claw
• 2 powdered unicorn horns
• 1 unicorn hair
• 1 vial of African sea salt

Flawed Essence of Dittany:

The hit points healed are 10d4 + 5, instead of 10d4 + 20.

Exceptional Essence of Dittany:

The hit points healed are 10d4 + 30, instead of 10d4 + 20.

Polyjuice Potion

Potion, very rare

After adding the hair, nail clipping, or other part of a human, drinking this potion perfectly transforms you into that human for 1 hour, changing your height, weight, facial features, sound of your voice, hair length and coloration. None of your statistics change, but your size may change to match the targeted human.

The potion works for part-humans, but not half-humans. The consistency of the potion is always like a thick mud, but the color and flavor change based on the targeted human, typically tasting very unpleasant.

Recipe:

Flawed Polyjuice Potion:

The duration is 30 minutes, instead of 1 hour.

Exceptional Polyjuice Potion:

The duration is 75 minutes, instead of 1 hour.

Wolfsbane Potion

Potion, very rare

When a lycanthrope drinks this potion once a day for the entire week before the full moon, their alignment does not change and they are not placed under HM control during their transformation. If the drinker misses a single dose in the preceding week, the potion has no effect.

Recipe:

• 1 bundle of aconite
• 1 bundle of niffler's fancy
• 2 clutches of runespoor eggs
• 1 dragon liver
• 1 powdered graphorn horn
• 1 powdered unicorn horn

Flawed Wolfsbane Potion:

A second dose must be administered for this day.

Exceptional Wolfsbane Potion:

If the previous dose was missed, this dose compensates for it.

Legendary Potions

Legendary potions aren't taught at Hogwarts, and often, only a handful of potioneers have the required knowledge to successfully brew them. The ingredients are all but impossible to acquire, cost a small fortune, are extremely difficult to handle or require months-long brewing procedures.

Ingredient List

Chapter 7: Activities and Adventuring

Casual Quidditch

Depending on your desired experience, there are two versions of Quidditch played. "Casual" Quidditch is a simpler and fast-paced version designed for larger tables or players who want a light mini-game to play in their downtime. "Pro" Quidditch is a more complex way of running the sport designed to simulate 5e combat and turn-based strategy. Either method can be used in a non-competitive, scrimmage context or in a very important spectator championship.

Casual Quidditch is primarily made up of ability checks and skill contests, following usual 5e rules. The only new rule is the possibility of adding the proficiency bonus twice to a single roll. If a character is proficient in a skill (like Athletics) and in using broomsticks, that character is going to add their proficiency bonus to their roll twice when they make an Athletics check while playing Quidditch. If a character is proficient in only one of those two things, they're going to add the proficiency bonus once, as usual.

The Four Positions' Roles

A Chaser's Role:

• When a Chaser has the quaffle, they're the Offensive Chasers. They engage in a contest using the skill associated with their chosen offensive maneuver to get past the opposing Chasers and get a scoring chance.
• In a scoring chance, the Chaser in possession of the quaffle uses their choice of Athletics or Sleight of Hand in the skill contest with the opposing Keeper, to successfully shoot the quaffle through one of the goal posts.
• The Chasers on the team that does not have the quaffle are the Defensive Chasers. They engage in a contest using the skill associated with their chosen defensive maneuver to block the Offensive Chasers and steal the quaffle from them.

Offensive Chaser Maneuvers

Name	Description	Skill
Rapid Passing	Swirling formations and multiple passes between chasers	Acrobatics
Hawkshead Formation	An arrowhead formation with the quaffle in the middle	Athletics
The Porskoff Ploy	A faked forward pass, into a drop pass to a Chaser below	Sleight of Hand

Defensive Chaser Maneuvers

Name	Description	Skill
Body Tackle	Physically blocking the opposing chasers and snatching the quaffle	Athletics
Parkin's Pincer	Two Chasers box in the quaffle, and a third flies straight at them	Athletics
Pass Interception	An open, flexible formation to cut off passing lanes	Acrobatics

Maneuver
Diagram

• The arrow indicates which maneuver wins against which. Rapid Passing wins against Body Tackle, but loses against Pass Interception.
• If any of the above maneuvers do not interact, like Rapid Passing and Parkin's Pincer, the maneuvers tie.

A Beater's Role:

• The Beater must make an Athletics check to successfully hit the bludger. If they fail the check, they either miss the bludger or the bludger misses the target, and they have no impact on that round.
• Whoever the Beaters successfully target suffers disadvantage on their roll. If Offensive Chasers are targeted, they receive disadvantage on the Chaser contest, not on the scoring chance. If enemy Beaters are targeted, the enemy Beaters suffer disadvantage on their Athletics check (roll again and take the lower of the two rolls). If the two teams' Beaters target each other, they cancel each other out and no Beater rolls need to be made.
• If there are enough players to play each individual Beater on a team, one can be an Attacking Beater and the other can be a Defending Beater. The Attacking Beater functions like a normal Beater. The Defending Beater must choose a target on their team to defend from incoming bludgers. If the Defending Beater successfully guesses the target of the opposing Beaters, the bludger is blocked and disadvantage is not applied to the target's roll.

Beater Targets

Opposing Position	Target's DC
Chasers	18
Beaters	15
Keeper	13
Seeker	16

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A Keeper's Role:

• A Keeper only comes into play if the opposing Chasers have bested the Defensive Chasers, earning a scoring chance. A Keeper must use Acrobatics in the skill contest with the Offensive Chasers, to successfully react, maneuver their broomstick, and reach for the quaffle.

A Seeker's Role:

• After 10 rounds have been completed, the snitch is released onto the pitch.
• Once the snitch has been released, each Seeker rolls a d20 at the beginning of each round. A Seeker must roll a 20 to spot the snitch, or a 19 or 20 if they're proficient in the Perception skill.
• If a Seeker spots the snitch, they can either initiate a Snitch Chase or pretend they didn't see it, in which case play continues as normal.
• If a Seeker gets a chance to catch the snitch in a Snitch Chase, the Seeker must succeed on a DC 18 Sleight of Hand check to catch it.
• Before any roll to spot the snitch, a Seeker can decide to perform the Wronski Feint, initiating a false Snitch Chase. That Seeker must forgo their snitch roll that round.

The Sequence of Play

Variants for Different Party Sizes

The following types of quidditch allow you to play a friendly game, depending on how many PCs and NPCs are present. Two-a-side, three-a-side, and four-a-side games are typically played in someone's backyard with only a quaffle and maybe a bludger, while regulation quidditch matches are played on an official quidditch pitch with all four balls. Competitive settings like the Hogwarts Inter-House Quidditch Cup only use regulation quidditch rules.

Three-a-Side Quidditch

• Rules: Each team is made up of two Chasers and one Keeper, with no Beaters or Seekers.
• 2 Players: One player controls the Chasers and one controls the Keeper. The players play against the HM, who controls the other team.
• 3 Players: One player controls the Chasers and one controls the Keeper. The third player controls either the Chaser or the Keeper on the other team, and the HM controls the final position.
• 4 Players: One player controls the Chasers and one controls the Keeper, for each team. The players play against each other.

Four-a-Side Quidditch

• Rules: Each team is made up of two Chasers, a Beater and a Keeper, with no Seekers.
• 3 Players: One player controls the Chasers, one controls the Beater, and one controls the Keeper. The players play against the HM, who controls the other team.
• 4-5 Players: One player controls the Chasers, one controls the Beater, and one controls the Keeper. On the other team, each other player controls one of the other positions, and the HM controls the remaining position(s). The players play against each other, with the HM.
• 6 Players: One player controls the Chasers, one controls the Beater, and one controls the Keeper, for each team. The players play against each other.

Regulation Quidditch

• Rules: Each team is made up of the full seven quidditch players: three Chasers, two Beaters, a Keeper and a Seeker.
• 2 Players: Each player controls two positions within the team (choosing from Chasers, Beaters, Keeper and Seeker), directing the decisions of any NPCs and rolling for them, using their stats. The players play against the HM, who controls the other team.
• 3 Players: Each player controls one position within the team: Chasers, Beaters and Keeper. One of them can control the Seeker, when needed. The players play against the HM, who controls the other team.
• 4 Players: Each player controls one position within the team: Chasers, Beaters, Keeper and Seeker. The players play against the HM, who controls the other team.
• 5 Players: Each player controls one position within the team: Chasers, Attacking Beater, Defending Beater, Keeper and Seeker. The players play against the HM, who controls the other team.
• 6 Players: Each player controls one position within the team, for each team: Chasers, Beaters and Keeper. One player from each team can control the Seeker, when needed. The players play against each other.
• 7 Players: Each player (including the HM) controls one position within the team, for each team: Chasers, Beaters, Keeper and Seeker. The players play against each other, with the HM.
• 8 Players: Each player controls one position within the team, for each team: Chasers, Beaters, Keeper and Seeker. The players play against each other.

Pro Quidditch

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Madam Malkin's Robes For All Occasions

The first thing you notice as you enter this shop is that every surface is covered in fabric. Whether it be the walls, the floor, even the tables and chairs. It was like the whole place is carpeted. A variety of differently coloured and designed robes hang from the walls and ceiling, as well as other accessories scattered around the store.

Upon seeing you walk in, the short witch who you can only guess is Madam Malkin smiles at you from across the shop.

Magical Menagerie

The moment you open the door to this shop, you come to realize something: There is not that much room inside. Every inch of wall is hidden by cages. It is smelly and very loud because the occupants of these cages are all squeaking, squawking, jabbering or hissing. You know, the typical noises you would hear in a magical pet shop.

Before you even get a chance to look around, a rather eccentric-looking witch excitedly approaches you.

Ollivander's

Now this is a messy shop if you have ever seen one. Multiple floors, shelves reaching from floor to the very top of the building, all filled very messily to the brim with a variety of sized boxes, presumably containing various kinds of wands. The shop appears to be empty, until you hear the sound of wheels, followed by a rolling ladder sliding across the shelves, containing a white-haired man, who, upon seeing you, slowly climes down.

Potage's Cauldron Shop

This shop is… quite unique compared to the others, such as the tower of cauldrons decorating the entrance. Everything inside appears to be about to collapse, which is not exactly reassuring as you enter. Dozens upon dozens of cauldrons not only lined the walls, but filled the entire room, creating a sort of maze of cauldrons through the store. You are not even able to see the counter, or an owner for that matter.

Quality Quidditch Supplies and Broomstix

This shop is rather… sporty, though you suppose that makes sense, as this is where you buy broomsticks and Quidditch supplies, which of course, currently fill the area. You will find items ranging from Quidditch balls, to various models of brooms, to service kits, to uniforms and armour, and even safety belts. It's quite the popular place, even when compared to some of the other shops around.

You don't spot an owner, but there are several uniformed workers around to assist you if needed.

Scribbulus Writing Instruments

A very fine establishment, smelling of fine ink and parchment. The scent is almost a bit overwhelming upon first entering. There is paper of all shapes and sizes around the room, a variety of colours of ink, including several bottles that appear to be changing colours.

An old, stern-looking witch sits behind the desk at the back, curiously eyeing the group of students that just wandered into her store, before returning to her writing.

Second-Hand Robe Shop

A rather messy shop this one. Shelves filled the small room, each stacked to the brim with hand-me-down robes. Sure, they are definitely not as nice and pristine as those found in Madam Malkin's, but if you are tight on Galleons, they will certainly do. The young witch currently folding a set of robes offers a kind smile as you walk in before returning to her task.

Knockturn Alley

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Borgin & Burke's

This shop is quite large, dusty, and dimly lit from only the sunlight outside, with a large stone fireplace near the back. Trinkets and antiques of all shapes and sizes line the shelves and tables around the store. Such a variety that you're not even sure what the theme of this store is supposed to be.

Hearing a couple thumps from the floor above you, a shifty looking wizard walks down the stairs with a cage containing a monster book (levitated by his wand), and upon noticing a group of students in his store, narrows his eyes in suspicion.

Chapter 9: Hogwarts Castle

Arithmancy Department

Gryffindor Boys' Dorms

Gryffindor Common Room

Gryffindor Girls' Dorms

History of Magic Department

Hospital Wing

Moaning Myrtle's Bathroom

Quad Battlements

Quad Courtyard

Stone Bridge

Suspension Bridge

The Fat Lady

West Wing

Hospital Corridor

Floors of the West Wing

2nd Floor

• Clock Tower Basement

3rd Floor

• Care of Magical Creatures Department
• Clock Tower Courtyard

4th Floor

• Hospital Corridor
• Head of Gryffindor's Office
• Clock Tower

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East Wing

Floors of the East Wing

Ground Floor

• Charms Department
• Herbology Department
• Viaduct Entrance

1st Floor

• Potionmaster's Storeroom
• Tapestry Corridor

2nd Floor

• Defense Against the Dark Arts Department
• Library

3rd Floor

4th Floor

5th Floor

6th Floor

7th Floor

Towers

• Central Tower

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Central Tower

Charms Department

Defense Against the Dark Arts Department

Herbology Department

Library

Potionmaster's Storeroom

Tapestry Corridor

Viaduct Entrance

Middle Courtyard

Transfiguration Department

Floors of the Middle Courtyard

Ground Floor

• Middle Courtyard
• Transfiguration Department

1st Floor

2nd Floor

3rd Floor

4th Floor

5th Floor

6th Floor

7th Floor

• Astronomy Department

Towers

• Astronomy Tower

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North Wing

Ravenclaw Boys' Dorms

Floors of the North Wing

Ground Floor

1st Floor

• Muggle Studies Department

2nd Floor

3rd Floor

• Armoury
• Trophy Room

4th Floor

5th Floor

6th Floor

• Divination Department

Towers

• Ravenclaw Boys' Dorms
• Ravenclaw Common Room
• Ravenclaw Girls' Dorms

Ravenclaw Common Room

Ravenclaw Girls' Dorms

Training Grounds Tower

Trophy Room

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Professors and Staff

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Chapter 10: Hogwarts Grounds

Chapter 11: Hogsmeade

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Chapter 12: Ministry of Magic

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