They're different things in reality, but they all deal poison damage. The DMG treats venoms and poisons interchangably. Well, sometimes diseases do necrotic damage instead, like in the Harm spell, but other times? Gas Spore's Death Throws, for instance, is a disease, deals poison damage and inflicts the Poisoned Condition.Bad for your doesn't equate to poison, which is why we have poisons, venoms and diseases as separate things.
D&D doesn't use real world conventions with these terms, and here? Neither should we. We should be using D&D's.
Yep, which is why Dwarves were given poison resistance. Because they're all alcoholics.I'm also not sure all the wine makers in D&Dland want to be accused of practicing necromancy everytime they make wine. Alcohol is an actual poison you know.![]()
Not if you're spraying poisoned blood. Have you ever played the Vampire ttrpgs? There a discpline that converst blood to poison and spits it out at people. You're spraying poison.I can see that, but that's very different from a poison spray.