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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pbd" data-source="post: 2367788" data-attributes="member: 20567">Werk,We seem to agree that poison is an inanimate object that cannot, by itself, be evil; any evilness would be a factor of how it is used.  But you seem to be saying that any use of poison to hurt people has to be evil, simply because it hurts people.I am mearly trying to point out that in DnD there are lots of things that hurt people and are not considered evil; so if that is the basis on which you are determining that poison use is evil, than chopping someone with a sword is also evil.  Basically, if hurting someone with poison is evil than hurting someone in any way is evil.We know in DnD that not everyone that cleaves someone in twain with a sword or turns them to dust with a disintigrate is considered evil. The same should hold true for poison use in that context, ie. say a halfling that uses a poisoned blade or arrows to help in defeating the giants that trying to turn him and his entire family to goo, is not inherently evil by using poison as a tool to that end.  However, the assassin that poisons someone because they are paid to is considered evil, just as he would be if he stuck an unpoisoned knife between their shoulderblades.  Just because it may seem underhanded, does not make it evil in all contexts.pbd</blockquote>