CRGreathouse said:Let's take a typical first-level commoner who drinks 1, 2, or 3 doses of poison and look at the fatality rate for each (selected Con poisons only).
Human commoner: HD 1d4; hp 2; SV Fort +0; Con 11.
Greenblood oil: 0%; 0%; 0%.
Bloodroot: 0%; 0%; 0.8%.
Wyrven: 56.5%; 94.9%; 99.6%.
Blue whinnis: 0%; 0%; 0%.
Deathblade: 45.5%; 97.3%; 99.?%.
Nitharit: 59.8%; 89.6%; 97.7%.
Sassone leaf: 74.5%; 93.5%; 98.3%.
As you can see, they're not all that deadly - even for peasants.
CRGreathouse said:Let's take a typical first-level commoner who drinks 1, 2, or 3 doses of poison and look at the fatality rate for each (selected Con poisons only).
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As you can see, they're not all that deadly - even for peasants.
Umbran said:Well, to be nitpicky, all those poisons are "injury", not "ingested" poisons.
Think about what you've just said, though. More than half the poisons you mentioned will kill a commoner outright on one dose, usually better than 50% of the time. How is that not deadly? Need we also mention what else is happening to that commoner? His Fortitude save and hit points are dropping due to con loss.