One of the oldest way of poisoning weapons that is still used today is quite simply to smear a blade with feces, resulting in infections, and the Victor Charlie were an infamous recent real life example who have used this very tactic.
It's pretty brutish to be fair, not a really civilized way of poisoning people, but it does work. What would be the stats on this?
The problem with that technique is it takes time. It’s more of a disease effect that doesn’t happen for a few days than a poison effect under D&D rules. That makes it something that PCs will almost never use since they’re always doing short duration fights, not protracted month long battles.
The problem with that technique is it takes time. It’s more of a disease effect that doesn’t happen for a few days than a poison effect under D&D rules. That makes it something that PCs will almost never use since they’re always doing short duration fights, not protracted month long battles.
Who said anything about PCs? I know that's racial profiling, but I would expect orcs to be fond of this tactic...
There's some kind of septic sewer infection that my DM infected two players with while we were doing Waterdeep Dragon Heist. We are still using Waterdeep in parts of our current campaign so, the content is locked for me right now. Maybe someone else remembers the specifics?
A weapon or trap that had been smeared with fecal matter is a potential way to catch Sewer Plague (Filth Fever in older editions). Rules for it can be found on page 257 of the DMG.
I'd like to point out that such effects are likely to be more of an inconvenience than a true threat to an adventuring party- curing disease is really easy. Just cast Lesser Restoration or use five points of a paladin's Lay on Hands.
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One of the oldest way of poisoning weapons that is still used today is quite simply to smear a blade with feces, resulting in infections, and the Victor Charlie were an infamous recent real life example who have used this very tactic.
It's pretty brutish to be fair, not a really civilized way of poisoning people, but it does work. What would be the stats on this?
The problem with that technique is it takes time. It’s more of a disease effect that doesn’t happen for a few days than a poison effect under D&D rules. That makes it something that PCs will almost never use since they’re always doing short duration fights, not protracted month long battles.
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Who said anything about PCs? I know that's racial profiling, but I would expect orcs to be fond of this tactic...
There's some kind of septic sewer infection that my DM infected two players with while we were doing Waterdeep Dragon Heist. We are still using Waterdeep in parts of our current campaign so, the content is locked for me right now. Maybe someone else remembers the specifics?
take no position on thisaccount for it on DMG p.257 (Thanks, 6)"Not all those who wander are lost"
A weapon or trap that had been smeared with fecal matter is a potential way to catch Sewer Plague (Filth Fever in older editions). Rules for it can be found on page 257 of the DMG.
I'd like to point out that such effects are likely to be more of an inconvenience than a true threat to an adventuring party- curing disease is really easy. Just cast Lesser Restoration or use five points of a paladin's Lay on Hands.
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.
That sounds like what I was mentioning.