The Compleat Alchemist (1983)

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Title: The Compleat Alchemist: Fantasy Role-Playing Game Supplement
Item Code: 4801
Type: Generic fantasy supplement
Copyright: 1983
Author: Stephan Cordobano and Stephan Michael Sechi
Artwork: Joe Bousa
Place of Publication: Greenwich, Connecticut, United States
Format: 45 page softcover
ISBN: 0-9610770-0-X
Cover Price: $7.95
Mass: 162g
Dimensions: length 27.8cm, width 21.5cm, thickness .4cm

From the introduction: "THE COMPLEAT ALCHEMIST was developed to fill what we, the authors of this supplement feel is a glaring gap in the make-up of most Fantasy Role-Playing (FRP) systems and campaigns. Most of the FRP games we have played have contained no lack of wondrous substances, such as potions, dusts, and magical devices. What adventurer in any FRP system has not had cause to fear the seemingly countless varieties of gasses, venoms, acids, and toxic substances which are the bane of the unwary and incautious? Certainly, such substances add excitement and color to the wide range of campaigns which employ them, but where do they all come from? Admittedly, wizards must create some of these products, but even this doesn't explain how so many potions, dusts, and malevolent substances come to litter the average dungeon or ruin. Who, then, is responsible for the vast profusion of mixtures and devices which exist in these FRP campaigns?"