Fancy alchemists call this concoction "The Potential of Futures Yet to Come" but everyone calls it "Future Juice" so there it is. The magic in this potion pulls success from the future to the present, granting an advantage now at the cost of losing that advantage later. Most adventurers consider this a fair trade-off, as they live, and often die, in the moment.
The potion is ice-blue and has a faint glow, and tastes a bit like blueberries.
Most bottles of this ice-blue potion have three doses. Roll 1d3 if found in a random hoard.
A dose grants the drinker a free critical and/or guaranteed success on their next roll, with the caveat that the next natural critical and/or guaranteed success they roll is wooshed away to be used by their past self, and so must be re-rolled.
Ingredients: a cup of water from the fastest river in the land, two tears from an optimist, and two tablespoons of sugar.
13th Age: Can also be used to get a specific roll, for example the Fighter's Precision Attack, which normally triggers on a "natural 16+ hit".
Source: There's a potion with a similar effect in Adrian Tchaikovsky's City of Last Chances. I liked the idea so I pinched it, like a common thief.
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