[LooseWilly]

Thayan Wrote:

Overall though, I've always felt poisons in D&D 3.0 rules were pretty...'meh'. I feared poison a helluva lot more in games like Baldur's Gate (2nd edition rules), where poison would do damage for a number of rounds until either neutralized or it ran its course. This conversation has got me thinking that a type of wounding property, while not in alignment in D&D 3.x rules, might be a good way for poisons to start seeing some use. Especially after the large amount of time that was sunk into completely revising the poison system here long ago - and including all poisons types with it. Or, if nothing else, at least give Blackguards/Assassins an added benefit of wounding/poison damage with a successful strike. Kind of a hybrid of 2nd and 3rd edition rules. Any comments on that idea?

I think that would be a wonderful tweak for the poisons... and the price reduction will make it possible to use some more interesting ones (the blue whinnis and something or other ichor, and even the carrion crawler brain juice, poisons either never have any noticeable effect, or everything keeps making the ridiculously easy saves against them... but those are the only poisons dropping with any regularity as loot).

Now I have something to look forward to besides being dropped in toe to toe fights due to a poor ac with my assassin...

It does occur to me that giving a boost on the dc for poison use for assassins (maybe equivalent to the poison save bonuses they get for themselves?... with maybe bonus feats to improve still further still?) might also be an interesting tweak for assassins... which I guess I should mention in that other thread too, as it's more than just a poisoning idea.