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Message: <blockquote data-quote="eamon" data-source="post: 5923257" data-attributes="member: 51942">[MENTION=63787]FinalSonicX[/MENTION]:  I think you're making too much of an issue of this.  DM fiat isn't anything new; and a bit of creativity in mapping a story into plausible rules has always been required.You've got lots of options.  You've a specific need; so there's no problem simply saying that in your world dwarves aren't immune - they just get advantage.  Why not?  Or...<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You could use a disease</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You could use a magical poison bypassing immunity</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You could use a delay-acting acid everyone thinks is a poison</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You could use splinters of glass in his jug of dwarven ale</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You could use a lucky stab</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You could let him choke</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You could go crazy and say it's radiation; or heavy metals, or magic or anything "not-really-poison-but-kind-of-similar"</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You could leave it a mystery...</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">...e.g. on autopsy no trace of poison is found; he died of a stroke</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You could change the rules surrounding dwarves</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Maybe they only get advantage</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Maybe they only get a bonus to saves and perhaps damage reduction</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Maybe they get something entirely different</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Maybe they're only immune to mundane poisons</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Maybe they're only immune to creature based poisons, not plain rotten food.</li> </ul>Not every story is going to map exactly onto the rules as written.  It's nothing new, and it's hardly a showstopper for you is it?  I mean, I get that it's not ideal, but you must realize it's a fairly obscure requirement you've got there - a specific occurrence in a specific campaign which you want to map onto the current rules.I mean there's no way you could map all the in-world experiences in a 2e campaign onto a 3e campaign or a 3e campaign onto a 4e campaign.  Some abilities, monsters, rules or magic will have changed and some events just wouldn't have worked out the same way.  That's the nature of the beast: dwarven poison immunity is going to be only one of many worries in such an endeavor.</blockquote>

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