ADGANA (Sean Snyder from Joe Devers ‘Lone Wolf’ series) 
Available: Spring 10% 
Climatic Zone: Temperate 
Locale: Rural 
Preparation: 1 week  
Cost: 10 gp/ 500 gp 
Uses: 1 
Ability Check: Intelligence 
The leaves of this plant must be dried. They may then be crushed and eaten. It’s effects diminish with constant use. The first time and second time Adgana is used it adds 2 to the user's Strength, Dexterity and Constitution for 2d4+4 minutes. The third time it is used it adds 1 to Strength and Dexterity for the same amount of time, the 4th time +1 is added to Strength only, and after that no benefit is ever gained. In addition to this, the herb is also highly addictive. 

AGRIMONY (Shaun Hately) 
Available: Summer 30% 
Climatic Zone: Temperate 
Locale: Forest 
Preparation: 1 week 
Cost: 2 gp/ 8 gp 
Uses: 3 
Ability Check: Intelligence 
Agrimony reaches a height of 1 to 2 feet. It has leaves up to seven inches long, which are serrated, green on top and white underneath. It has yellow flowers with five petals which are arranged in a spike on top of the stem. Its dried leaves must be boiled in a pint of red wine for five minutes, and then left to stand for an hour. It should then be used on sprains and bruises in a compress. A successful application will cure sprains and bruises in half the normal time. Agrimony was also believed to produce very heavy sleep if placed beneath a persons head, so deep that the person could not be woken until it was removed. At the GMs discretion agrimony may have this effect, but I would suggest the potential victim gets a save vs poison with a very large (8-10) bonus. 
‘If It is leyed under mann’s head, 
He shal sleepyn as he were dead; 
He shall never drede na wakyn 
Till fro under his head it be taken’ 
        Traditional English Rhyme 
ALDAKA (Shaun Hately from ICEs “MERP” RPG) 
Available: Winter 5% 
Climatic Zone: Cold 
Locale: Mountains 
Preparation: 1 week 
Cost: 100 gp/ 1000 gp 
Uses: 1 
Ability Check: Intelligence 
The roots of this plant must be brewed over a low fire for one week, and the resulting distillation drunk. If used successfully, sight will be restored to the recipient provided the eye remains. 

ALETHER (Sean Snyder from Joe Devers ‘Lone Wolf’ series) 
Available: Spring, Summer 5% 
Climatic Zone: Temperate 
Locale: Rural 
Preparation: 1 day (for potion) 
Cost: 10 gp/ 100 gp (for potion) 
Uses: 1 
Ability Check: Intelligence -5 
Eating a handful of these orange berries will add +1 to both a characters chance to hit, and to their damage rolls for 2d6 minutes. The berries can be brewed in white wine to produce a drink that will add +2 to the recipients chance to hit, and temporarily give them 2d4 hp. This effect lasts for 2d12 minutes, and ends with the characters total collapse for 1d3 days unless they successfully save against poison. This brew will only be useful for one month after manufacture and then loses its potency. 

ALKANET (Shaun Hately) 
Available: Summer 30% 
Climatic Zone: Temperate 
Locale: Rural 
Preparation: none 
Cost: 2 gp/ 2 gp 
Uses: 1 
Ability Check: Intelligence -4 
This plant has a thick red root, narrow hairy leaves, and small red or blue flowers. The root can be eaten directly upon being drawn out of the ground but will only keep for a week or so. The herb allows a +1 bonus to any saving throw vs ingested poisons for 1d8 hours after eating. 

ALL-HEALE (Shaun Hately from Alexander Scott’s “Maelstrom” RPG) 
Available: Autumn 75% 
Climatic Zone: Temperate 
Locale: Forest 
Preparation: 2 weeks 
Cost: 2 gp/ 10 gp 
Uses: 7 
Ability Check: Intelligence +1 
When All-heale is mixed in a pint of olive oil and applied to a wound, (one application per day), the recipient will heal even if still working as normal. With rest, the recipient will heal at three times the normal rate. 

 ALOE (Shaun Hately from ICEs “MERP” RPG) 
Available: Autumn, Winter 55% 
Climatic Zone: Temperate 
Locale: Grassland 
Preparation: none 
Cost: 5 cp/ 5 cp  
Uses: 2 
Ability Check: Intelligence  
The leaf of Aloe applied to a wound, will double the natural healing rate of burns and minor cuts.  

AMRANS (Druann Pagliasotti) 
Available: Spring 40% 
Climatic Zone: Temperate 
Locale: Rivers, Rural 
Preparation: 3 days/ 1 week 
Cost: 50 gp/ 50 gp  
Uses: 1 
Ability Check: Intelligence -2 
The lilac flowers can be prepared into a potion that rapidly cures wounds (3d6 if properly prepared (for 1 week), 1d4 if poorly prepared (for 3 days)) 

ANGELICA (Shaun Hately) 
Available: Summer 30% 
Climatic Zone: Temperate 
Locale: Mountains 
Preparation: 1 hour 
Cost: 5 sp/ 1 gp 
Uses: 2 
Ability Check: Intelligence -3 
Angelica’s root should be boiled in water for an hour and then drunk in order to relieve coughs.  The plant can grow to a height of eight feet. It has a hollow stem and has large, broad pointed leaves at the base of the stem. It has a cluster of white or pink flowers at the top of the stem. The herbs does not in any way act as a cure for any disease causing a cough, it merely reduces the amount of coughing. 

ANISE (Shaun Hately) 
Available: Summer 25% 
Climatic Zone: Temperate 
Locale: Rural 
Preparation: 10 minutes 
Cost: 1 gp/ 1 gp 
Uses: 5 
Ability Check: Intelligence -6 
Anise grows to height of about two feet, and is distinguished by its unusual leaf formation. At its base, the leaves are heart shaped and toothed, but as we progress up the stalk they are small and feathery. It has delicate white flowers which ripen in summer to produce small ridged seeds. These seeds should be crushed and left to stew for ten minutes in boiling water. The resultant mixture should then be strained and drunk as desired (it will keep for up to 3 months). A successful application will relieve hiccups. 

 ANSERKE (Shaun Hately from ICEs “MERP” RPG) 
Available: Summer 30% 
Climatic Zone: Tropical 
Locale: Coastal 
Preparation: none 
Cost: 75 gp/ 75 gp 
Uses: 1 
Ability Check: Intelligence -4 
The root must be applied to a bleeding wound. Within three rounds it will have stopped the bleeding. The recipient must not move for one turn or risk the wound reopening. 

ARCHANGELICA (Druann Pagliasotti) 
Available: Summer 30% 
Climatic Zone: Temperate 
Locale: Swamp 
Preparation: none 
Cost: 5 sp/ 5 sp 
Uses: 1 
Ability Check: Intelligence -2 
This white flowering plant has black seeds and roots with a sharp taste. The root, when brewed, makes a hot, peppery decoction that helps alleviate common colds, flu and congestions (doubles recovery time, adds +2 to Constitution rolls to prevent colds in bad weather). 

ARFANDAS (Shaun Hately from ICEs “MERP” RPG) 
Available: Autumn, Winter 50% 
Climatic Zone: Cold 
Locale: Rivers 
Preparation: 1 day 
Cost: 2 sp/ 3 sp 
Uses: 4 
Ability Check: Intelligence -6 
If the stem of Arfandas is bound up in the dressing of a fracture, it will double the rate of healing for that fracture.  

ARKASU (Shaun Hately from ICEs “MERP” RPG) 
Available: Autumn 55% 
Climatic Zone: Temperate 
Locale: Grassland 
Preparation: none 
Cost: 12 gp/ 12 gp 
Uses: 3 
Ability Check: Intelligence -3 
When the sap of the Arkasu plant is applied to wounds, it doubles the rate of healing. The effect is not cumulative. 

ARLAN (Shaun Hately from ICEs “MERP” RPG) 
Available: Autumn 60% 
Climatic Zone: Cold 
Locale: Grassland 
Preparation: none 
Cost: 20 sp/ 20 sp 
Uses: 1 
Ability Check: Intelligence -5 
The leaf of Arlan when applied to a wound will heal 1 hp of damage if it is used within 5 rounds. Arlan will also speed a persons recovery from respiratory illness by five times.   
ARNICA (Shaun Hately) 
Available: Summer 25% 
Climatic Zone: Temperate, Cold 
Locale: Mountains 
Preparation: none 
Cost: 1 gp/ 1 gp 
Uses: 1 
Ability Check: Intelligence - 6 
This plant grows to a height of 1 to 2 feet. It has a hairy stem on which its leaves are arranged in pairs. It has orange flowers. These flowers should be plucked and dried, and then boiled in a litre of beer. This should be applied to a compress which is wrapped around a bruise. A successful application will cause the bruise to fade within one day. The pollen of the flowers if inhaled will cause uncontrollable sneezing. A phial of arnica carried in a persons pocket is also reputed to help a person quit smoking.  

ARNUMINAS (Shaun Hately from ICEs “MERP” RPG) 
Available: Autumn 70% 
Climatic Zone: Temperate 
Locale: Grassland 
Preparation: none 
Cost: 6 gp/ 6 gp 
Uses: 5 
Ability Check: Intelligence -1 
The leaf of this plant should be applied to the site of ligament, cartilage, or muscle damage. If used successfully, it will double the speed of healing of such damage. 

ARPUSAR (Shaun Hately from ICEs “MERP” RPG) 
Available: Autumn 40% 
Climatic Zone: Cold 
Locale: Rivers 
Preparation: 1 week 
Cost: 7 gp/ 30 gp 
Uses: 2 
Ability Check: Intelligence -7 
The stalks of this plant must be brewed for one week in fresh water at the end of which time it may be drunk. If it is successful, it will heal any damage to a persons muscles that are capable of healing naturally within one day. 

ASARABACCA (Shaun Hately) 
Available: Spring 10% 
Climatic Zone: Temperate 
Locale: Forest 
Preparation: 1 day 
Cost: 3 gp/ 7 gp 
Uses: 2 
Ability Check: Intelligence -6 
Asarabacca is a creeping vine with many small leaves each on their own small stalk. It also has small purple flowers. These flowers must be brewed up on a fire and left to stand. When administered successfully to someone, they must save vs poison or be rendered docile, and incapable of violence for 3d8 hours. The brew has a distinctive purple colour, and bitter taste, so to be given secretly in food, the food must be able to hide these attributes. 

 ASH (Shaun Hately) 
Available: Spring 50% 
Climatic Zone: Temperate 
Locale: Forest 
Preparation: 1 day 
Cost: 5 gp/ 8 gp 
Uses: 3 
Ability Check: Intelligence -4 
The bark of the ash tree must be stripped from its branches and boiled in clear water for one day. It should then be drunk as a cure for fevers, especially those caused by diseases such as malaria. It does not cure the cause of the fever but merely brings it under control within 2d6 hours. The ash tree is sacred to worshipers of Thor, who use its wood to make spears. The wood of the ash tree could possibly be used as an essential item in the manufacture of magical spears. Ash leaves should be boiled in water and drunk as a cure for the poison of viper bites (cures poison in 2d6 turns, any damage already incurred remains). The ash tree has ash grey bark, and black buds. Its flowers have no petals. Ash trees are also by tradition used to make stakes for the purposes of killing vampires. This belief stems from Roman times, when Pliny the Elder wrote that all evil things feared Ashwood. 

ASHLINE (Seth Klein from Fantasy Star IV) 
Available: Winter, Spring 5% 
Climatic Zone: Temperate 
Locale: Mountains 
Preparation: 1 week 
Cost: 50 gp/ 500 gp 
Uses: 16 
Ability Check: Intelligence -3 
Ashline is a small red flower, with very pale green leaves. The entire plant must be mashed and boiled in fine red wine for one week and the resultant mixture mixed with olive oil. When this liquid is poured over a petrified person it will, on a successful roll, restore them to their normal state.  

ATHELAS (Shaun Hately from ICEs “MERP” RPG) 
Available: Autumn 45% 
Climatic Zone: Temperate 
Locale: Forest 
Preparation: none 
Cost: 200 gp/ 200 gp 
Uses: 4 
Ability Check: ? 
Also known as “Kingsfoil”. It appears as a vine with dark green leaves divided into four parts. According to legend, the leaves of Athelas when crushed by the hands of a King over the afflicted person are capable of curing anything. 

“When the black breath blows 
and death’s shadow grows 
and all lights pass, 
come athelas! come athelas! 
Life to the dying 
In the King’s hand  lying!”                                                                          
from “The Return of The King” 

ATIGAX (Shaun Hately from ICEs “MERP” RPG) 
Available: Winter 40% 
Climatic Zone: Temperate 
Locale: Grassland 
Preparation: 1 day 
Cost: 40 gp/ 70 gp 
Uses: 5 
Ability Check: Intelligence 
The roots of this plant must be brewed over a low fire for one day, and the resulting distillation drunk. If used successfully, sight will be protected from glare or blinding light for a period of nine hours. This herb can thus be used to limit the ill effects suffered by subterranean creatures (such as drow) in full sunlight. 

ATTANAR (Shaun Hately from ICEs “MERP” RPG) 
Available: Autumn, Winter 45% 
Climatic Zone: Temperate 
Locale: Rivers 
Preparation: none 
Cost: 8 gp/ 8 gp 
Uses: 2 
Ability Check: Intelligence -6 
Attanar is a moss, which when applied to the forehead of a stricken person, will cure fevers. It takes effect 2d6 hours after it is successfully administered.