Poison: Dex roll

[Frendh]

With 16 in dex I failed first around 13 tries
with dire spider poison and then with 20
in dex I failed about 11 tries with dire
spider poison. Only one success in total.

Isn't that a bit too hard? I mean, sure there
are dire spiders everywhere, but when you
go only one step higher to Queen spiders
they become much rarer and will most likely
have an even higher DC on the Dex roll.

How about adding the lvl in Poison crafting
to the roll or some such?

[Destropterammer]

i think the difficulty in applying the poisons to your weapons represents the fact that L wanted it to besomething rare, something many people wuold'nt have the skill to do, mainly for assassins and evil-doers. Which mostly have a very high Dex. (assassins anyway..)

[Talan Va'lash]

The high dex checks were a bit of a compromise if I recall.

Previously you needed the "Use poison" feat.  Which was exclusive to Assasins and (I think) Blackguards (unholy champions.)

The compromise was made because well... if limited to Assasins and Blackguards no one on the server would be able to use it.


I'm not sure, but is a dex check part of the way the "Use poison" feat worked?  or is it auto success with the feat?

I'm thinking that non-good druids and rangers would also be fond of using poisons since they are natural, and the dex checks would be very difficult for most druids and many rangers to make.  Also Clerics of Ca'duz especially, and perhaps clerics/followers of other less than LG dieties would find poisons appropriate.

Perhaps a feat that gives a +5 bonus to dexterity checks to apply poison could be created with a non-good prerequisite.  I'm not sure if a +5 bonus is enough to be "feat power", it depends on what the DC's go up to, perhaps it should be +10.

Or maybe make the "Use Poison" feat available as one of the level 10+ special rogue feats.

I think followers, or at least clerics of Ca'duz should get a +5 knowledge bonus to dexterity checks to apply poison

-TV