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Message: <blockquote data-quote="howandwhy99" data-source="post: 5913683" data-attributes="member: 3192">What's not to like about Poison?<img src="http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj81/CruelOne_photo/poison_lookwhatthecatdraggedin_fron.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />I like Save or Die poisons. DCs are set by the potency. If you want to get fancy, you can do the same with onset times. Sleep & Paralyzation poisons are less common usually, but an option.  I'd prefer if they modeled poison, a blanket term really, after common substances <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison" target="_blank">understood to be poison</a> first. Then further differentiations could be made for more interesting encounters with it, even magical varieties.To answer the OP's questions:1. Magic isn't so rare as highly dangerous. Saves used to be involved just in the safe handling of it. Using poison required a save from the user as well. Only Assassins had Poison Use: Yes, and it was sold through the Assassin's Guild only (by the DMG iirc). Using poison has a big advantage when we seek to kill. Balancing that in the game is definitely necessary (use to be a confusion effect, could be a morale one). 2. M-Us brew potions with the help of an alchemist and only then when higher level. Poisons are made by high level Assassins, but might require an alchemist too. Either way, both of these should be expensive and poisons not easily purchasable in most lawfully aligned lands.3. Envenoming a weapon is part of the game, but still counts as poison use, so a save is required. I think it only gets one hit per application and applying isn't something quickly and easily performed. I believe there is a shelf life on envenomed weapons too. (Cue the envenoming sheath magic item again <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> )</blockquote>

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