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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mal Malenkirk" data-source="post: 312831" data-attributes="member: 834">We can justify poison use eight way to sunday and at the end we'll agree that objectively using poison is no worse than using a sword.But you'd be forgettig one thing; Using poison is perceived as being evil or immoral by most culture.Pop quizz: the use of which weapon is defined as a crime of war by the geneva convention?  Gun or Poison?Poison are the chemical weapons of the medieval world; efficient but reviled weapons.  They are associated with assassins and there is no way to free yourself from this stigma in the eyes of everyone.You can rationalize the use of poison and you might even be right.  But you'll still be preceived as a cruel bastard and unless your whole party is composed of modern rationalizers there will be tension.  As a final note; in some culture, the use of poison is indeed much more evil than the use of a sword.  A Viking who dies by the sword goes to Valhalla but if he's poisoned while eating he'll be denied the right to enters the hallowed hall of Vallhalla and feast with his ancestors.  Believe me that his sons, brothers and friends are going to be mightily pissed.  And to them you will be seen as the lowest of the low.</blockquote>