Philter of Love

I am listening to this being used in episode of Episode 109 of Critical Role.

Comedy gold.

my character has a constant drip feed of these straight into their blood so they fall in love with everyone they see, its not fun to play but thats life i guess

According to the Character sheets, this weighs 1lb.  But other potions (like potion of Healing) have a weight of 1/2 lb.  Are there unique weights of these listed somewhere? It seems like an oversight to not list a weight with the magic items.

The heart-shaped bubble weighs 8 ounces.

Turducken

Literally as the DM I got 10 of these thrown on me :(

Imagine someone drinking this, purposefully, and looking into the mirror to Charm themselves.

what happens if a character attracted to, say, men was to look at a women. does it just not work or is there a charisma roll or something?

"If the creature is of a species and gender you are normally attracted to, you regard it as your true love while you are charmed."

"If"

"you become charmed by that creature for 1 hour." has zero relation whatsoever.

Something that seems quite obvious but I forgot about, is that if a creature is immune to charm this has no effect on them. So won't work on quite a few devils and stuff (especially higher cr).

My oath of Vengeance paladin has one of these and I have something planned for fighting the BBEG of the campaign. All I can say is Yandere.

The description says "if the creature is of a ... gender you are normally attracted to, ..." So the answer is that it doesn't work

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what happens if a character attracted to, say, men was to look at a women. does it just not work or is there a charisma roll or something?

 If you are not normally attracted to them, then only the first part takes hold. You are charmed by them, but that usually means you think of them as your friend/you trust them. Or just whatever is in the charmed effect.

 does anyone know if the person knows they were drugged when the thing wears off?

its indefinite, though dispel magic could end the effect

So this is essentially a date **** potion? Seems very inappropriate. 

No. It is not. Philter of Love is essentially the "Charm Person Spell". And that states that the effect ends if the charmer or his compagnions do anything to the charmed person that this person sees as negative. 

“Seems very inappropriate.”

It really is as simple as not including the content you don’t like in your personal game.  You can even include the Philter of Love and simply change its abilities or set limits on how player characters are allowed to conduct themselves in your world so it’s less uncomfortable for you if you’re so inclined.  You have the power.

That said, if we’re only focusing on the most disturbing or morally reprehensible actions a player character can commit using an item or spell, I’d wager it would be easy to label a massive number of them inappropriate.

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No. It is not. Philter of Love is essentially the "Charm Person Spell". And that states that the effect ends if the charmer or his compagnions do anything to the charmed person that this person sees as negative. 

 
There is nothing in the rules that suggests to me the Philter of Love’s effects should end if the charmer does something that the charmed person would ordinarily find objectionable or even harmful.

“Charmed” is a condition much like “frightened” or “poisoned”, so has set effects on a creature.  Each spell or item that can cause the charmed condition has its own rules about how to counter it independent of how other spells or items behave.  Charm Person is only a first level spell so it has a lot of limitations.

Obviously any DM may rule that the Philter of Love is not powerful enough to keep someone charmed if the charmer does them harm, but that’s not RAW.  If it’s powerful enough to make someone fall in love (for an hour, anyway), it seems inconsistent to make it so easily countered.

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 does anyone know if the person knows they were drugged when the thing wears off?

 
Nothing in the rules to say the person would know they were charmed if they weren’t aware they took the potion.  But you could make it interesting by letting the character roll a Wisdom check when the potion wears off.  It’s very plausible that a shrewd character would notice how suspicious it is that they suddenly had a lot of affection for someone and those feelings evaporated after only an hour.