mutatations

[Rovena]

Hello everybody.
I am playing D&d 3e with some friends and we run into small problem. Our DM gave us some random Chaos Mutatations as a result of wild magic outburst. My character, a drow cleric, now has a poisonous saliva. However, the description doesn't say if the saliva is always poisonous, can be made poisonous by wish or loses the poison after one spit and have to restore it. Can anybody offer any insights?
Sorry if it is the wrong subforum, I just registered.

 

[Sekhmet]

I'm not familiar with the Poisonous Spit variety of Acidic Saliva. I thought that Acidic Saliva required you to Bite your opponent.
Please reference the text you have available.

Candidly speaking, most natural attacks with a poison or acidic component are always active, and require no "cooldown" time. You can use them every round.
Most creatures in the real world that have venomous aspects, use them involuntarily as well, although they're generally spent after one bite or sting for a few hours (or days).

 

[Deset Gled]

The default assumption for Extraordinary and Supernatural abilities (I'm assuming the poison is one or the other) is that they are "standard actions unless otherwise noted." For an ability that is continually active, like Spell Resistance, etc, this means that you have to spend a standard action to turn in on, and another action to turn it off.

In the absence of further rules text on the poison ability, my best guess is that all bite attacks will deliver the poison. You can then spend standard action to turn it off, and biting won't be poisonous again until you spend another action to turn it back on.

 

[Rovena]

Thank you very much for replies.
The problem is, since we are Russians our DM uses translated materials and they not always have reference to original english source.

However, if to translate back to English:

The creature is able to produce poison. If the creature has snake fangs the poison is stored in their special reservoires and released at will. If the creature does not possess the fangs, it doesn’t have reservoirs and in that case its saliva turns poisonous instead.

So... is the spit going to be poisonous or only the bite in that case?

 

[Sekhmet]

[MENTION=6703478]Rovena[/MENTION] With toxic saliva, I imagine you could EITHER spit or bite and still effect the target.
Either way, your toxin seems like it is always in effect, and is a natural product of your body (like saliva is to humans). I don't think you can turn it off.

 

[Rovena]

Sekhmet,
thank you very much, we'll go with the assumption that it is always in effect then.