- Two of the ingredients for a potion of speed are a pegasus heart and giant weasel blood. Now that would be a fun little quest for three or four lower-level PCs to go on. A local magic-user, based out of Enstad, hires the group to get a heart and find some weasels. Along the way, they battle goblins, gnolls, a gargoyle, and one angry ogre, only to find it was all a set up. There wasn't a pegasus at all: the magic-user was luring the party to their doom so he could drain their blood.
- Getting a potion of speed is well worth it. Movement speed is doubled, and a character can attack at twice their normal amount. Essentially, an 9th-level assassin could fire 4 poison-tipped arrows a melee round, as she scoots around the room as a blur. It is worth the 1 year of a life for each drink. Elves can live 500 years: that is a lot of potions.
- Speaking of fast, mixing boots of speed with a potion of speed would be quite impressive. The boots have a base movement of a fast horse [24" a round]. Slip on the boots, slip a little of the fine weasel blood, and run around the battlefield faster than pretty much anything. Well worth having to rest every eight hours and being one year older.
- There also is a lot about weapon speed factors, which I surprisingly never used. I guess it is because it wasn't on a graph or chart I could memorize.
"Kings of Speed" is also the A-side to the "Motorhead" single. I should probably spend some prime material dollars and buy that record.
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