Can you drown by choking on health potions?

Okay, a Mana Overdose probably is lethal, is it?

But how about a bath in a pool of fresh-brewn alchemical-award-winning super health potions?

Drowning or not?

What do you think and why?

Just thinking while playing Inquisitor, a RPG where you are somekind of healthpotions spongelike entity quaffing galons of them each fight...

Yes. Health potions heal physical wounds, drowning isn't really the sort of thing that could be healed by that.

Sooo if a rapier pierced your lung and it's starting to collapse you drink a health potions and all your problems are solved?
How is that different from suffocating?

What happens when a Pit Fiend from the lower planes wants to eat your living heart and is ripping it out of your brest cage tearing it wide open. I think quaffing a "full health restoration" potion solves the issue again, right?

I doubt it's as easy as you say.

Not to detract from the OPs intriguing query but I've always been more curious about taste, specifically mana. I can't imagine that something that color and consistency taste anything short of ass, and if it is nasty (as one would assume) how would one go about not puking it back up? Therein lies another question: if you drink a health or mana potion and the taste is so hideous that you immediately puke it up, does it take all the magic and or life with you when it comes flying out of your mouth onto the floor?

isnt that pretty standard on computer games?

id be more interested, whether health potions in sugar / sugar free versions :p

You would drown, but if another party member can cast a resurrection spell on you, you should be fine.

Drinking all those potions probably keeps the characters up all night using the toilet though. So I'd imagine a few nights of no sleep from that would start to hurt their combat abilities.

Your blatter would probably explode .

Short answer: I vote for death.

Long answer: Health potions seem to require digestion to operate, at least they don't bail my characters out simply by passive proximity. If that holds the answer seems to depend on if enough health potion is ingested to offset non-digested " health fluid" filling the lungs. Also, some ailments persistently lower health when present. For example, health potion may ward off death from poison but healh will continue to reduce until the source of damage (the poison status) is removed. Therefore, fluid would have to be expelled from lungs before health potion avaliable to be digested is expended. Right?

That would be so worth it. I hate that crooked old fart.

considering how many more potions you can quaff as your level rises, i think the bladder size must be linked with your level..

You see that's why I get on people who say a game like Postal 2 is stupid. The ability not only to piss but also have it effect your overall ability makes the game infinitely more realistic than a lot of the so called "good" shooters out there.

The again how would one go about taking a piss in that Halo suit?

You would drown.

Perpetually.

Depends on the system. In D&D 3e, drowning (in the otherwise harmless liquid of your choice, not necessarily potion) heals. Look up 'Omniscificer'.

Drowning occurs because the person drowning cannot breathe, i.e. get oxygen to their body cells.

You can't drown by drinking something in excess, unless you are haphazardly sending the liquid down the pipe connected to your lungs (aka trachea or wind pipe).

It's true that drinking any liquid in excess, including water, can be harmful, but I imagine that health potions have some sort of property to compensate for being consumed in excess.

Mana potions are magical and shit, so those we don't need to try and rationalize.

The same way Tony Stark does, I would imagine.