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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hammerhead" data-source="post: 1235335" data-attributes="member: 73">But killing isn't wrong. That's the point of D&D, to kick ass and get cool stuff. What's the difference between raising an army to hack your way into the evil overlord's castle, then challenge him to one-on-one combat and beat him down and having a rogue sneak past the guards and poison his supper with Black Lotus Extract? Sure, one way involves far less bloodshed and mayhem...but it's not honorable! Evil! Evil!Further, poison does not make things too easy. Most enemies have far too high Fortitude saves to be affected reliably by poison, unless you use purple worm poison or something similarily nasty. Second, poison is expensive. If PCs try using it every fight (and really, most likely only rogues will) they'll become very broke very fast.And how on earth would anyone know if you used a poison dagger to kill the evil wizard, or it was just a lucky shot? Or a magic weapon or power? Do you think people watch the adventurers when they hunt down the bad guys? And of course, it's cool if the PCs use Fireballs, Great Cleaves, Enervations, or Destructions to kill the bad guys; but not poison.Poison is a weapon, just like a sword or a Wand of Fireballs. It should generally be used with care, like most weapons, but its use by an individual, and not its chemical composition, determines whether it's evil.</blockquote>