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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jackinthegreen" data-source="post: 5741102" data-attributes="member: 6678119">My logic was that unless there are rules to modify the text of an ability such as Venom Immunity, then the rules are the rules.  The rule for druids is they are granted immunity to all poisons.  The rules for oozes are they're immune to poison, but it's possible to create poisons that affect them anyway.  My logic is that because the druid has no such modifying text, it is immune to all poisons no matter what.   The thing is, those poisons on the list are the only ones that have been given rules for in that book.  If something is immune to all poisons from that list, they're effectively immune to all poisons because those are the only poisons.  If one were to make up a new poison, then that falls squarely inside house rules because that's creating something that does not exist within the context of the official rules.Yes, such a clarification was necessary in this case.  Why? Because cloudkill is technically a spell, and rather unique one at that.  As it's definitely magical and not a standard poison, clarification would be needed to determine whether poison immunity would work on it.The pertinent reference is " <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/typesSubtypes.htm#oozeType" target="_blank">Oozes</a> [...]<a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/typesSubtypes.htm#outsiderType" target="_blank">http://www.d20srd.org/srd/typesSubtypes.htm#outsiderType</a> are also immune to poison, although conceivably special poisons could be concocted specifically to harm them."  This is a specific exception to the immune to poisons rules.  If the rules of "special poisons" could be used for such things as constructs or undead, it would have been mentioned.  Could such rules be applied to other things?  If we're going strictly by the book, no, because those things aren't mentioned in this exception.  If we're going with house rules, anything is possible.The catch is, there are no official rules for these "special poisons."  Everything beyond "conceivably special poisons could be concocted specifically to harm them" is left up to players to figure out for their own ends.  Because of this, by the book, druids (and everything else except maybe for oozes, plants, and certain kinds of outsiders) are immune to all poisons.</blockquote>

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