D&D 5E Does Poison Immunity make you immune to the poisoned condition?

[CrimsonCarcharodon]

You can be immune to poison damage.
You can be immune to the poisoned condition.
You can be immune to poison.

In NPC stat blocks, they list damage and condition immunities separately. I'd say that if there is an ability which just says, you are immune to poison that you are immune to both damage and condition.

This is exactly how I'd rule it.

 

[Satyrn]

They seem to always to mentioned together. The Periapt of Proof Against Poison, for example, says: "While you wear it, poisons have no effect on you. You are immune to the poisoned condition and have immunity to poison damage." I guess if something only mentions one of the two you would have to assume that you can still be affected by the other.

Possibly. But I'd probably assume that the writer, for whatever reason, meant both but only mentioned one.

 

[Cyrinishad]

I fail to see how one could interpret "Immune to Poison" as applying only to "Poison Damage" and not "Poison Condition"... especially since the phrase "Immune to Poison" does not specify either "Damage" or "Condition"... so, if one is making the presumption that specificity is necessary and must say both "Immune to Poison Condition, and Immune to Poison Damage"... then the phrase "Immune to Poison" would have zero game effect because it references neither "Poison Damage" or "Poison Condition"...

It is only logical for "Immune to Poison" to apply to both the "Damage" and the "Condition"...

 

[Satyrn]

I fail to see how one could interpret "Immune to Poison" as applying only to "Poison Damage" and not "Poison Condition"... especially since the phrase "Immune to Poison" does not specify either "Damage" or "Condition"... so, if one is making the presumption that specificity is necessary and must say both "Immune to Poison Condition, and Immune to Poison Damage"... then the phrase "Immune to Poison" would have zero game effect because it references neither "Poison Damage" or "Poison Condition"...

It is only logical for "Immune to Poison" to apply to both the "Damage" and the "Condition"...

True.

Though I think the question is more about: when the books say something like "immune to poison damage" does it mean that the character can still gain the poisoned condition?

 

[Cyrinishad]

True.

Though I think the question is more about: when the books say something like "immune to poison damage" does it mean that the character can still gain the poisoned condition?

Yes, I think so... because that is specifically referencing one without the other...

The way I figure it, the Axe of the Dwarvish Lords still lets you get drunk (no immunity to poison condition)... but you don't get a hangover (immunity to poison damage)

 

[Dausuul]

So a druid that's immune to poison ("you are immune to poison and disease") could still be poisoned by a carrion crawler's poisoned condition ("DC 13 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned")?

The druid's ability is blanket immunity to poison; since it does not specify "poison damage" or "the poisoned condition," it presumably covers both. That is both the most straightforward reading of the ability and the obvious intent.

However, if you have an ability that says it makes you immune to "poison damage", it would not make you immune to the poisoned condition, nor vice versa.

 

[ehenning]

Yes

.....and, I was wrong.

https://www.sageadvice.eu/2016/08/0...o-poison-damage-but-what-about-poison-status/

"Resistance to poison damage doesn't help you against the poisoned condition unless a feature says otherwise. " - Jeremy Crawford

Same would go for immunity.

 

[Azzy]

Personally, I would think that (unless specified otherwise) it would apply to the poisoned condition if the condition stems from an actual poison (as there may be odd cases where the condition is inflicted by something that's not a "poison" in the real sense).