POISONS

Ah, life's little pleasures. How to poison and what to make it cost. There are always evil things, people and cities wherein a player character can find poison. So, if it's available, what does it do and how much should it cost? I have never been a believer in the "Save or Die" poison roll except in extraordinary situations. I have always thought that the world is dangerous enough and that experienced characters would be more likely to shrug off a poisons' effect that starting ones. So, I decided to assign damage values to differing levels of poison and based on that, establish a price range. Killing poison was made particularly expensive.

Now that a system was in place, what about the different possibilities for poison (sleep, paralyzation, gas, water soluable, etc). Each needed a value assigned to it based on what kind of effect on game balance it would have. Hence, those items that tilt power cost more. Those poisons that are innately more effective (a harder saving throw) are also more expensive.

Available Form

• Ingested (Weapon Poison) (at Cost listed)
• Water Soluble (at Cost *2)
• Contact (at Cost *3)
• Gas (at Cost *4)

Notes:

1. Base cost listed is for last damage listed for poison type. Each column backwards is available at a 5% (cumulative) discount from the base price (max discount - 15%).
2. Sleep poison is created with an intended victim level. The base price is calculated as 100 tGP times the intended victim level (ie. 5th level = 500 GP). Any victim above the intended level gains a +1 to the save per level of difference.

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