Experienced Poisoner

There are many kinds of criminals, and within a thieves’ guild or similar criminal organization, individual members have particular specialties. Even criminals who operate outside of such organizations have strong preferences for certain kinds of crimes over others. Choose the groups you associated with in your criminal life, or roll on the table below.

You can prepare and deliver deadly poisons, gaining the following benefits:

• When you make a damage roll, you ignore resistance to poison damage.

• You can coat a weapon in poison as a bonus action, instead of an action.

• You gain expertise with the poisoner's kit if you don't already have it. With one hour of work using a poisoner's kit and expending 50 gp worth of materials, you can create a number of doses of potent poison equal to your proficiency bonus. Once applied to a weapon or piece of ammunition, the poison retains its potency for 1 minute or until you hit with the weapon or ammunition. When a creature takes damage from the coated weapon or ammunition, that creature must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or take 2d8 poison damage and become poisoned until the end of your next turn.

Although your capabilities are not much different from those of a regular poisoner, you learned and practiced them in a very different context: as an espionage agent. You might have been an unofficial agent of the crown, or perhaps you sold your services to the highest bidder.