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Message: <blockquote data-quote="R_J_K75" data-source="post: 9550595" data-attributes="member: 6921294">I just looked it up as I didn't recall this either. Drinking a potion added 1 to your initiative and had a speed factor of 1d4+1 to take effect. We never bothered using speed factors, it just added too of a headache for the DM for little reward. We did use onset times. I don't recall if the rules specified if a character knew they had been poisoned or not, but I'd suspect that it would depend on the type of poison encountered. Some examples. Injected poison from a Drow blade may leave signs around the wound. Contact poison may or may not, poison ivy or poison oak doesn't manifest for some time after contact. Ingested poison like drinking caustic bleach as opposed to eating poisoned Mom's Apple Pie would have two very different initial effects. Some effects would lead to tension if they know they've been poisoned but didn't know when it would take effect or what the effect would be, while others would be oblivious and unsuspectingly be afflicted at some random time, at which point panic sets in, or they drop dead. It added a fun element to the game instead of just saying to a player, you've been poisoned.</blockquote>