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So, this is how poisons (and most other afflictions) work: You suffer the effects every time you fail a save The frequency tells you how often you make a save, once the onset time has passed If there is no onset, you make a save immediately The poison is finished when the conditions for a cure are met, or the duration has elapsed For black adder venom, ...

I don't know the RAW answer, but from a practical standpoint I would say that ingesting a contact poison causes the effects - it IS coming into contact with you, against soft tissue no less! It will also likely get on your lips if it's in a drink. Ergo, eating contact poison should poison you. If the poison is baked into something, or added before/during ...

The best resource available for 3.5 poisons is the Arsenic and Old Lace handbook, but like so many other things, it’s hosted on MinMax which is currently down. For right now, you can use the Google cached version, but it’s ugly. Anyway, Master of Poisons from Drow of the Underdark is a must. For one feat, get Poison Use and the ability to apply ...

To add some homebrew poison support, here are a few: A nasty Poisoner PrC. 3.5 implementation of real-world poisons. Rules for creating custom poisons. And to toot my own horn: I have performed an overhaul of the 3.5 poison system myself. It's not so much an addition to as it is a replacement of the old mechanics, but it does make them significantly more ...

A: My interpretation of Venomous is that a character only ever gets 1 Poisoned aspect, but the difficulty of the Endurance check can be increased if a new attack is stronger. B: If there are extra effects from the poison, change the Poisoned aspect to Poisoned With x Venom or an effect-related aspect like Slow And Lethargic and track them separately. These ...

I would say that the effects of different venoms will stack but that the same venom will not. However, for each additional attack that succeeds, the difficulty to resist will increase -- you have more venom in your system. What are different venoms? I would say that different species will have different venoms. So, venomous garden gnomes will have a ...

Book of Vile Darkness is your best friend here, for it features poisons with really high DC. Unfortunately, the most potent ones are injury poisons. The only caveat is the cost of the top poisons; it can be circumvented by liberal application of minor creation or by crafting cost mitigation.