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POISONS

Both natives and ninjas make extensive use of poisons in their weapons and attacks. Very few poisons are of the "instant-death" variety; those that exist are very expensive and difficult to acquire. Any character with the Craft (poison) skill can attempt to make at least one of the following poisons if they succeed at the necessary Wealth and Craft (poison) checks.

Effects of Poison

When a target is affected by a poison, that target makes an immediate Fortitude save against the listed Difficulty for the poison. If that save is failed, then at the listed Initial Onset Time from the poisoning the target suffers the listed Initial Damage. At that time the target makes a second Fortitude save at the same Difficulty, and again, if this save is failed, the target will take the listed Secondary Damage at the Secondary Onset Time.

Note that very few poisons will kill a normal person in a short enough time to be useful in combat situations. Most poisons are used to weaken enemies and make them easier to kill.

Making Poisons

Characters can learn one poison from the list below for every rank of Craft (poison) they possess. Note that some poisons have more than one entry, corresponding to different delivery types; each such entry counts as a separate poison.

Name	Craft (poison) Difficulty	Type	Save Difficulty	Initial Damage	Secondary Damage	Initial Onset	Secondary Onset	Cost
Amanita	9	Ingested	11	3 Con	3 Con	6 hours	24 hours	4
Arsenic	11	Ingested	13	1 Str	2 Con	2 hours	1 minute	6
Belladonna	11	Ingested	13	2 Con	4 Con	10 minutes	1 minute	8
Black Widow	12	Injury	10	1 Dex	1 Dex	5 minutes	4 hours	3
Botulin	14	Ingested	16	2 Con	2 Con	3 hours	3 days	4
Cobra Venom	16	Injury	14	2 Str	2 Con	10 minutes	1 minute	3
Curare	19	Injury	17	4 Dex	4 Dex	Instantaneous	10 minutes	15
Cyanide	22	Ingested	20	3 Con	4 Con	1 hour	10 minutes	16
Cyanide	27	Injury	21	4 Con	2 Con	5 rounds	10 minutes	22
Digitalis	16	Ingested	18	2 Con	2 Con	30 minutes	1 minute	6
Dumb Cane	10	Ingested	12	1 Con	2 Con	30 minutes	1 minute	4
Fugu Toxin	22	Ingested	24	3 Con	3 Con	2 hours	24 hours	25
Fugu Toxin	21	Injury	19	2 Str	3 Str	Instantaneous	1 minute	8
Hemlock	9	Ingested	11	3 Con	1 Con	1 hour	1 minute	3
Poison dart frog	22	Injury	20	3 Dex	3 Dex	5 rounds	1 minute	25
Ricin	20	Ingested	22	3 Str	4 Con	1 day	3 days	8
Salamander toxin	12	Contact	10	2 Str	2 Str	30 minutes	1 minute	2
Shellfish Toxin	24	Injury	22	1 Str, 3 Con	2 Str	Instantaneous	1 minute	12
Shellfish Toxin	16	Ingested	18	1 Str, 2 Con	1 Str	30 minutes	1 minute	8
Stone fish toxin	17	Injury	15	2 Con	1 Con	Instantaneous	3 hours	6
Tarantula	12	Injury	10	1 Dex	1 Dex	2 hours	3 days	3
Wolfsbane	11	Ingested	13	1 Con	4 Con	30 minutes	1 minute	5

Using Poisons

Anytime a character fails a Craft (poison) check by 10 or more, they have inadverdently poisoned themselves with a full dose of whatever poison they are working with.

Weapons can only be envenomed with either a Contact or an Injury poison. The only weapons that can be envenomed are masterwork arrows, masterwork crossbow bolts, masterwork javelins, shuriken, mouth darts, blowgun darts, kakute, nekote and masterwork knives.

It is not straightforward to properly and safely envenom a weapon. A character without ranks in Craft (poison) will unknowningly fail to properly dose their weapon half the time, resulting in the poison having no effect on the target. In such a case, when an envenomed weapon is used in a successful attack, roll a d20 and if the result is 10 or less, the poison has no effect. In addition, all characters must make a Dex check against a Difficulty 15 to safely apply the poison. It is possible to take 10 on this check, but not 20. Failing this check means the character has poisoned themselves with a full dose of the poison while handling the weapon.

A character with ranks in Craft (poison) can make a Difficulty 5 Craft (poison) check in order to envenom a weapon. A successful check means the weapon holds a full dose of poison. Characters with ranks in Craft (poison) never unknowingly fail to properly dose their weapon. A character with ranks in Craft (poison) can add their ranks to their Dex check to avoid poisoning themselves.

Envenoming a weapon takes one minute for an untrained person, and 30 seconds for someone with ranks in Craft (poison). A character can use the the "Fast Craft" challenge on this check if they wish, reducing the time to either three rounds (with a +5 on the Difficulty) or one round (with a +10 on the Difficulty). The Difficulty for accidental poisoning rises at the same rate as the Craft (poison) check.