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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Patryn of Elvenshae" data-source="post: 2825941" data-attributes="member: 23094">Are you using the base Craft (Poisonmaking) skill?  Or are you using the updated rules from Complete Adventurer?Assuming the first, the answer's easy.Let's say you kill a dragon, and want to harvest from it the raw components of dragon bile (a rather nasty potion).Dragon bile, the poison, costs 1,500gp per dose.  Per standard Craft rules, that requires 500gp worth of "raw materials."  We'll assume that most of that is actual dragon bile (450gp) and the rest (50gp) is assorted herbs, reagents, and other stuff.So, all the DM has to do is decide how many gps worth of dragon bile you can get out of the dragon.  If he says "900gp worth of bile," then you've got the majority of the raw materials for two doses of dragon bile poison; they character will need to spend an additional 100gp for assorted sundries and make some skill checks in order to process it (following normal crafting rules).Now, as far as handling the gathering of the poison materials, I'd decide how much of the raw materials are available at maximum.  In this case, the dragon had 1,000gp worth of dragon bile in his various organs.  Then, have the player make a Craft (Poisonmaking) check against a particular DC.  For every point by which he misses the DC, reduce the amount of raw materials he gathered (say, DC 30, -10% per missed point).  In our case, the player hit DC 29, and ruined 10% of the raw materials.  He therefore ended up with 900gp worth of dragon bile.</blockquote>

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