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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ourph" data-source="post: 1678973" data-attributes="member: 20239">What does knowing how the specific mechanics of the poison rules work have to do with being worried about making your second saving throw and perhaps taking a bear's endurance potion?The player already knows that poison requires a Fort saving throw and that bear's endurance will help with that.The player already knows that poison causes "bad things" to happen.The player doesn't need to know the DC of the poison, when the second save occurs or what "bad thing" the poison will do.  That's metagame knowledge.  The PC has no way of knowing that this particular poison will do ability damage, HP damage, paralysis, sleep, etc.The DM should do an adequate job of explaining the situation in terms of IC knowledge and the player should make his/her decision based on the DM's description.  A player who is depending on their knowledge of the rules of poison to make decisions is using info their character shouldn't have.</blockquote>