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724, RE: From a poisoner
Posted by DwE on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
>1. No emetic weapon poison? That seemed really odd to me.
>Here my character is devoting his life to the study of
>poisons, but if he wants a poisoned weapon that does damage
>rather than maledictions, he'll have to go hunt up one that's
>pre-poisoned.

That really is kind of weird. It would be nice to have at
least one poison that helps during ranking, and if it were
emetic the countryside would be littered in vomit. You can
never have enough vomit in the countryside. Maybe just a
simple 'envenom' or something that doesn't require ingredients
because noone wants to go through and redo a stack of those.

>2. Maybe it's just me, put pre-poisoned weapons seem to
>discharge much more frequently than his applied poisons. I
>though it strange that a warrior weilding a pre-poisoned
>weapon with no education in the art would have a better chance
>of poisoning than my character.

You can poison a pre-poisoned blade. For example, a fear poison
on a poisoned dagger can both 'normal' poison them and give
them the big freak out.

>3. Why bother to give inhaled poisons at 17 when emetic can't
>be inhaled and you can't learn knock-out till lvl 19. My
>opinion ,(for what little it's worth) give both at the same
>time.

Really good point. I'd prefer the option of inhaled as a
method on emetic, but either way an adjustment there makes
sense. Of course between 1 & 2 you're talking about emetic
having all the delivery methods and that's probably not the
best idea.

What I'd really like are some pre-20 poisons available in
the Tar Valon and Eryn Galen Guilds (Hillcrest rules!).

On the flip side of things, 'Charge Weapon' could have a chance
to strip off 'Contact Poison' or 'Weapon Poison'. And 'Pillar of
Lightning' could have a chance to 1) strip the poison off the
blades of the person hit or 2) burn the poisons out of the
bloodstream of the person hit.