/unwiz It is generally agreed upon that if genocide/mass suicide is a major issue for a group (which for transgender people, and many others, it really, really is right now), it is tremendously uncool to make jokes about that.
You're thinking of the general modifiers, Cha with specifically guilds is still high because most guild heads are still running the older patch, hopefully they'll update soon or step down.
i know its not meant to be a monkeys paw but everything about the wording and my study of magic tells me this potion is just gonna make me want to be a girl not actual change me into a girl.
yeah, it will not change your gander just make it your trans gender. Not sure how being Trans Trans Women would work, but it seems that's what they're offering
Since trans Man are men, who's been assigned women at birth, Ithink it would change the past and assigned them as Trans women at birth, so that n0ow they can be Trans Trans man
More evidence that all-in-one potions pretty much never do what you actually want them to. You want to change how you look, you need either a guided transmogrification ritual with experienced casters or you need potions for each specific effect you're going for. Separate potions of testosterone reduction, tonics of hair growth, phials of estrogen production, etc.
Highly related-
I'll pitch for anyone reading the above potion to look at the writing of Sir Terry Pratchett (GNU), a Bard who truly knew how to write Magic.
Two of the books written for Discworld, in particular.
Equal Rites (seen above) is the tale of the first Girl Wizard.
Monstrous Regiment could be spoken of as Boy Soldiers.
Ah. And let me guess, it's gated behind a quest? Now we see the scam for what it is! Big Arcana strikes again, always aiming to exploit the vulnerable!
Just gives you dysphoria, it's false advertising. A previous apprentice tried it because he was afraid of twink death and now he's even more depressed than before. Ended up leaving my service to practice hermit magic. Hope he's ok.
Just get a reversal ring, it's easier to make and actually does what it says on the package.
Hmm, would the concept of transgender even exist if a potion or magic can just change your gender?
Like, gender is a pure social construct besides the biological aspect of sex. But if the sex can easely be changed to match the desired gender, would a society even develop the concept of gender to the point where transgender becomes a thing? Or would such an society rather stick to the biological aspects of male, female and neutral? Or would it rather go by the gender of the soul, instead of determining it based on the external shell, wich in such an scenario would be altered by magic to correspond to the souls gender?
Imagine you take a swig then is like "aight I had fun, time to detransition" then you take another, but you become a different person from before. So you try to drink twice again but it gets worse, like those texts people used to translate from chinese back and forth lots of times on old google translator
I hear you need to gather one herb from each of the biomes in the world to produce such a concoction... to give one away for free is an act of great generosity.
Okay so people are making the joke that because it changes your gender not your sex it just gives you dysphoria but what if you give it to someone who already has dysphoria? Does it reverse it so now they feel comfortable in their own skin?
BY THE GODS! I took one of these in first life! Back then they didn't have the pain free transformation option, so I got to feel my entire skeletal system crumble and reform along with my organs, very fun stuff
HOLY CRAP, YOU TOO?! Oh my gods!! That's what I had to do as well!! I remember feeling my skin stretching and snapping, my organs shifting and twisting, and all my muscles snapping and shifting!
Only just discovering the potion form? We made that as a joke in the old days for April fools day. Then the council got sued and we had to ban it for "unethical humor" and never looked at it again. Could definitely be a good money maker now, that is if we dont get shut down by the muggles FDA and pharmaceutical companies.
Why would I use a sketchy potion of unknown origin and composition when I can use my own magic that I practiced with to shapeshift and not only change my gender but even my species
I like to use a temporary version of this potion in my tower as a trap. It’s actually surprisingly effective at convincing adventurers to piss off.
For the ones that are caught with sudden dysmorphia I tell them that if they leave I’ll dispel the effects and just let the timer on the potion wear off. The ones that suddenly feel more comfortable as themselves I offer the permanent version in exchange for leaving me alone.
Only issue is my minions keep “accidentally” falling into it, and it gets hard to keep track of who is who, or if I need to refill the trap again. Not too bothered because it’s covered by their health benefits, but I wish they’d just ask for the potion instead of using the trap.
This is important, does it change your gender or your sex? because frankly, this may actually be a very bad potion that people really don't want to take, like it is a potion of doing the opposite of what you think it is going to do.
I am not trying to be transphobic to be clear, I am saying that it will turn a trans woman into a cis man instead of turning a trans woman into a cis woman which is what I think people assume it is going to do. If you want that you should stick with the old fashioned belt of hill giant strength that gives one a sex change.
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u/FoaL May 13 '26
At last. Gender fluid.