[ WP ] An elf , a dwarf , and a wizard are filling out the character sheets for their next game of Dayjobs and Drudgery , a role-playing game set in the world of humans .

`` You ca n't brew a potion.'' 
 
 `` Why not?'' demanded Altharex. `` I *have* the components, all I have to do is boil the the herbs in the cow's blood and—'' 
 
 `` Your character's an Armenian-American Sales Executive. He does n't know how to brew potions.'' 
 
 `` Maybe he's just trying things out.'' 
 
 `` He's just'trying out' the exact recipe for a potion of invisibility?'' 
 
 `` Yeah. I have 17 luck, you know.'' 
 
 `` It does n't matter what your stats are. There has n't been an Alchemical Revolution in this world. Potions are n't a thing. You ca n't just have a sales executive brew one.'' 
 
 `` Yeah but, if I were trying to make a stew, and—'' 
 
 `` Ugh, whatever. Fine, you brew the potion. It does n't work.'' 
 
 `` You did n't even roll.'' 
 
 `` I do n't have to roll. This is Dayjobs & Drudgery, potions do n't work. The herbs are n't magical.'' 
 
 `` What do you mean they *are n't magical. * It's still wolfsbane is n't it?'' 
 
 `` Yes, but it's non-magical wolfsbane.'' 
 
 `` What, so it just does n't have any magic at all? Why does n't it absorb ambient magic from the environment in which it grows?'' 
 
 `` There is no magic. Nothing's magical.'' 
 
 `` What, so they're *no magic* in the whole world? What keeps the lay-lines anchored to this plane, then? How come it does n't drift apart into the void?'' 
 
 `` I do n't know, okay. It just does n't.'' 
 
 `` Fine. No potions. Whatever. In that case, my Sales Executive heads into Zales, and I hand the smith this blueprint...''
