Poison comes in all shapes and forms. Yet there is only one condition state for being poisoned. How does that work? Some creature attacks that uses poison clearly state the DC to roll, what happens if you don’t and when you can reroll. Other poisons only specify the damage they deal. Do these also cause the poisoned condition?
Nothing in 5E has an effect that isn't explicitly listed in its description. Poison only causes the poisoned condition if it says it does, much of the time it just causes poison damage.
This isn't remotely realistic, but very little about D&D is actually that realistic and realistic poison is not all that great- it takes minutes to hours to even start causing an effect in many cases. That's not very fun for PCs (since you have to do a lot of extra bookkeeping and either just cast a spell to cure it at the end of a fight or keel over dead hours later) and outright useless against NPCs.
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Poison comes in all shapes and forms. Yet there is only one condition state for being poisoned. How does that work? Some creature attacks that uses poison clearly state the DC to roll, what happens if you don’t and when you can reroll. Other poisons only specify the damage they deal. Do these also cause the poisoned condition?
Nothing in 5E has an effect that isn't explicitly listed in its description. Poison only causes the poisoned condition if it says it does, much of the time it just causes poison damage.
This isn't remotely realistic, but very little about D&D is actually that realistic and realistic poison is not all that great- it takes minutes to hours to even start causing an effect in many cases. That's not very fun for PCs (since you have to do a lot of extra bookkeeping and either just cast a spell to cure it at the end of a fight or keel over dead hours later) and outright useless against NPCs.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.