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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8199549" data-attributes="member: 29398">And that specific example has always kind of irked me a bit, right from when I first read it, as it struck me as being a bit too far over-the-top.I've often thought of a made save vs deadly poison as signifying the poison - for whatever reason - never entered the victim's bloodstream at all, depending on the means of delivering said poison.&nbsp; A nick with a poisoned knife?&nbsp; Maybe the part of the blade that did the nicking didn't happen to have any poison on it.&nbsp; A poisoned crossbow bolt into the gut?&nbsp; Yeah, not so believable if that save gets made. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />For made saves vs lesser poisons, some people in real life are in fact more resistant to some toxins than are other people, so I can live with it in the fiction also.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 8199549, member: 29398"] And that specific example has always kind of irked me a bit, right from when I first read it, as it struck me as being a bit too far over-the-top. I've often thought of a made save vs deadly poison as signifying the poison - for whatever reason - never entered the victim's bloodstream at all, depending on the means of delivering said poison. A nick with a poisoned knife? Maybe the part of the blade that did the nicking didn't happen to have any poison on it. A poisoned crossbow bolt into the gut? Yeah, not so believable if that save gets made. :) For made saves vs lesser poisons, some people in real life are in fact more resistant to some toxins than are other people, so I can live with it in the fiction also. [/QUOTE]

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