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<blockquote data-quote="Empirate" data-source="post: 5770812" data-attributes="member: 78958">If you really want to bring the real world into a discussion that used to be entirely about the rules cosmos, think about this:&nbsp;&quot;The dose makes the poison.&quot; -- ParacelsusDid you know oxygen caused cancer? Or sawdust? Did you know that carbon dioxide is quite, quite poisonous to most animal life in sufficient quantity, even though plants thrive on it? Pure water, ingested in great enough doses, will kill you by inducing osmotic imbalance in your intestines. So is a Druid immune to those? What does immunity mean in that case? Can't a Druid breathe, because inhaling oxygen might be bad for his health? Can't a Druid drink too much water?And don't get me started on drug abuse and the question which drugs are socially unacceptable, thus &quot;bad&quot;, thus &quot;poison&quot;, and which drugs are socially acceptable. Alcohol is the usual example given (or marijuana in some nations), but let's think out of the box: did you know people can become addicted to sugar? A lot of Inuit have a huge sweets habit, which WILL kill them or at least make them sick if they can't kick it.See, a poison is quite clearly defined in D&amp;D rules texts, but in the real world, there usually isn't such a thing as a clear definition, even though scientists like to carry themselves as if everything were clear-cut. So please don't bring in your real-life categories. They have no bearing on the question which substances a Druid is immune to in D&amp;D.Also, kitcik is right about the &quot;done to death&quot; part. Leave well (or bad) enough alone already...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Empirate, post: 5770812, member: 78958"] If you really want to bring the real world into a discussion that used to be entirely about the rules cosmos, think about this: "[I]The dose makes[/I] [I]the [/I][I]poison[/I]." -- Paracelsus Did you know oxygen caused cancer? Or sawdust? Did you know that carbon dioxide is quite, quite poisonous to most animal life in sufficient quantity, even though plants thrive on it? Pure water, ingested in great enough doses, will kill you by inducing osmotic imbalance in your intestines. So is a Druid immune to those? What does immunity mean in that case? Can't a Druid breathe, because inhaling oxygen might be bad for his health? Can't a Druid drink too much water? And don't get me started on drug abuse and the question which drugs are socially unacceptable, thus "bad", thus "poison", and which drugs are socially acceptable. Alcohol is the usual example given (or marijuana in some nations), but let's think out of the box: did you know people can become addicted to [I]sugar[/I]? A lot of Inuit have a huge sweets habit, which WILL kill them or at least make them sick if they can't kick it. See, a poison is quite clearly defined in D&D rules texts, but in the real world, there usually isn't such a thing as a clear definition, even though scientists like to carry themselves as if everything were clear-cut. So please don't bring in your real-life categories. They have no bearing on the question which substances a Druid is immune to in D&D. Also, kitcik is right about the "done to death" part. Leave well (or bad) enough alone already... [/QUOTE]

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