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It's a creepy underground encounter for atmospheric horror, which is what I read the post to be asking for. I'm sorry I don't have 4e stats for the creepy critter I tossed out to share, but it was from a years-old 2e campaign and I have no idea where my notes for it went to. I don't expect...

I would say, a cute little girl sitting on the floor playing with her dolly. Problem is, my players would know that this is probably a precursor to something horribly dire, and she will soon be bleeding from her eyes and reciting creepy nursery rhymes in a sweet, high-pitched voice as the walls...

Presumably whatever makes plausible backstory for your PC's circumstances and your world background. What you name this boss and how you explain it is up to you. It's a potential plot hook to hang your PC's on; flesh it out in a way that makes sense in the context of your game. So who might...

Taking care of the game mechanics part would actually be a pretty easy tweak. "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today." - J. Wellington Wimpy The PC's get the XP for the summoned monsters. No problem. Happy PC's. Until the Gatekeeper shows up, enraged at their abuse of the...

You could always add a bit of Mythos flavor - who knows what manner of cthonian horrors might be found there - or just pure horror by bringing in something ominous and/or truly vile that the PC's have never seen before. "Accounts of these creatures are rare, and of dubious worth, as they have...

I think it actually makes a lot of in-game sense to decide that druid immunity to poison is at least partly the physical result of their working directly with the natural world. Working with venomous and poisonous plants and animals to do interesting things with their toxins sounds about right...

This. Also, I might handle it.....creatively. Things like storytelling, world background and internal plot logic are significantly more important than rules lawyering in my game. I probably wouldn't want to game with someone who would attempt this in the first place. But if one of my players...

As we've been discussing, that's actually quite an interesting game mechanics point. Almost all good drugs have a harmful or fatal overdose. Some drugs have a pretty narrow margin between helpful and fatal. If you postulate a magical mechanism that differentiates between "medicine" and...

In the real world, there are two mechanisms by which a venom or a poison can effectively ignore prior immunization. One, it can be delivered in sufficient quantity to bind circulating antibodies and still have plenty left to do its dirty work. Two, it can change or adapt sufficiently that the...

Odd, it looks to me like a constructive discussion of how to optionally incorporate toxicology and chemistry into your game mechanics. The only non constructive input I am seeing here is yours. Obviously biotoxicology is a field of significant interest to me, and I've borrowed some fairly...

Excellent point of distinction. And obviously relevant to game mechanics. The DM would need to decide what effect such spells would have, hopefully in a reasonably logical manner. If your character got socked with a chemical poison created with magical techniques that substituted for...

If memory serves, when medicines (or herbs with pharmacological effect) are discussed, the mechanics are handled similarly to magical effect. I don't think they make a clear rules distinction. I suppose that would depend on the individual substance. We could postulate a magically created...

There's lots of topics that aren't of personal interest to me. I don't go into those threads asking that they be closed. I just don't bother reading them. Venoms and biological toxins are a nifty, geeky, interesting topic that can make good background material or a useful plot hook for...

I would agree with that. If you are postulating the partially or wholly non magical development of natural toxin resistance as part of druid training, this would be an annoyingly easy project. There is a freakishly wide spectrum of biotoxins expressed by various organisms, and sometimes a...

Sort of. I'd cheerfully make you a bar bet that rattlesnakes are not poisonous.

The way I phrased it when educating folks about biotoxins was that poison is bad if you bite into it, and venom is bad if it bites into you. A bit of a crude approximation, but what is generally accepted in the biotox community is that venom is delivered via active mechanism (bite, sting or...

Depends on how much realism vs. magic you want to interject into your game. The obvious/easy choice is to go with whatever the standard rules say, but in case you want to make some homebrew tweaks based on science, here's some boring real world background. Warning: most of you will find this...

Isn't that from Brokeback Mountain? :devil: Must admit I rather like this version: Brokeback Of The Rings.

Aww, that's sweet. Remind me to pick up some dry ice for the special effects, chill my lips down with ice water and creep into your bedroom draped in a tattered bedsheet to wake you up with a nice romantic kiss. ;)

It's video game specific, but still. The Dragonborn Comes is pretty awesome.