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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistah J" data-source="post: 5267312" data-attributes="member: 29527">Here is the situation that brought up my question:An evil wizard, under the guise of a kind old soul, invites the party to have tea. The tea is spiked with lich dust poison. Once they start to suffer its effects, the wizard attacks.Now if I, the DM, had deducted 400gp per dose of poison per PC from this wizard's NPC wealth I would not change the CR or the XP given at all.But I didn't. I just added it to the encounter - so it is kind of like its own separate thing. Since lich dust is an ingested poison, it is not covered in the mechanical trap poison CR adjustment table so I am wondering how much extra XP others think this is worth? Is it +1 CR to the wizard? Or does it make sense to think of it as its own CR challenge?Ultimately, this leads to a bigger question: Where do you draw the line between tricks, plans, or tactics that are incorporated into the opponent's CR and those that legitimately push the XP award a little higher?</blockquote>