So, the Dagger of Venom applies a poison to the blade. It's an Action to do so. And as an Attack, the poison only applies the poisoned Condition.
So, what if your rogue assassin also has the Poisoner Feat?
Poisoner: Potent Poison
When a creature takes damage from the coated weapon or ammunition, that creature must succeed on a DC 14 CON saving throw or take 2d8 poison damage and become poisoned until the end of your next turn.
I mean, is this on top of the 2d10 damage of the blades magical poison? And does the Feat still mean yer poisoned for 1 minute.
Some of the benefits of Potent Poison should still work when using a dagger of venom , like ignoring poison resistance and coating a weapon in poison as a bonus action, instead of an action.
Nothing would prevent you from coating the weapon in both types of poison, as long as you took the proper action economy to do so. On hit, both poisons would apply, forcing separate saves for their individual effects.
As far as I'm concerned per RAW the dagger could be coated with a normal poison the same as any other weapon, and then coated with the poison as part of the dagger itself. Nothing in the DMG rules for poisons limits the number of times you can apply poison to a weapon (it says poisons remain potent on a weapon until delivered to a wound or washed off , or that you can't stack two or more different poisons on a weapon using the appropriate number of actions to do so (multiple doses of the same poisons would not stack per the rules on stacking effects). Unless your DM rules that applying the second poison "washes off" the first (which to me, would be not in line with a common english understanding of "wash off"), but that is the only thing under interpretation here as far as I'm concerned; the damage and duration of the poison from the feat and the dagger would indicate to me that these are different poisons, not the same poison.
Regarding the effects of being hit with a twice poisoned dagger, there would be two saves, one for each effect. The damage would stack (assuming both saves failed), but the poison condition would just be itself, no stacking there, so it would last for the longer of the two durations.
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So, the Dagger of Venom applies a poison to the blade. It's an Action to do so. And as an Attack, the poison only applies the poisoned Condition.
So, what if your rogue assassin also has the Poisoner Feat?
When a creature takes damage from the coated weapon or ammunition, that creature must succeed on a DC 14 CON saving throw or take 2d8 poison damage and become poisoned until the end of your next turn.
I mean, is this on top of the 2d10 damage of the blades magical poison? And does the Feat still mean yer poisoned for 1 minute.
Up to your DM if the dagger of venom can have a mundane poison coated on it at the same time as its magical one.
Aside from that, both poisons should take effect separately. Separate saves, damage rolls, and durations of the poisoned condition.
Multiple instances of the same condition do not stack (except exhaustion), they will have the condition until the longest duration ends.
So, the Poisoner Feat does not stack with the Daggers magic venom. Hey, makes sense. But as a DM, and a player well hey, kinda sexy eh?
Some of the benefits of Potent Poison should still work when using a dagger of venom , like ignoring poison resistance and coating a weapon in poison as a bonus action, instead of an action.
Nothing would prevent you from coating the weapon in both types of poison, as long as you took the proper action economy to do so. On hit, both poisons would apply, forcing separate saves for their individual effects.
There isn't really any rule or guideline on double-coating so to me it would be up to DM's ruling one way or another.
As far as I'm concerned per RAW the dagger could be coated with a normal poison the same as any other weapon, and then coated with the poison as part of the dagger itself. Nothing in the DMG rules for poisons limits the number of times you can apply poison to a weapon (it says poisons remain potent on a weapon until delivered to a wound or washed off , or that you can't stack two or more different poisons on a weapon using the appropriate number of actions to do so (multiple doses of the same poisons would not stack per the rules on stacking effects). Unless your DM rules that applying the second poison "washes off" the first (which to me, would be not in line with a common english understanding of "wash off"), but that is the only thing under interpretation here as far as I'm concerned; the damage and duration of the poison from the feat and the dagger would indicate to me that these are different poisons, not the same poison.
Regarding the effects of being hit with a twice poisoned dagger, there would be two saves, one for each effect. The damage would stack (assuming both saves failed), but the poison condition would just be itself, no stacking there, so it would last for the longer of the two durations.