Re: (TFT) Whats your poison: Poison on claws, weaps etc.

[Monty Lemon <hexagonalprism@gmail.com>]

I've always run poison as a delayed effect, but this does not to mean that when they do take effect, it is all at once. Most standard poisons like blade poisons or something an assassin would slip into your mug at the tavern do one point of damage per turn. Slower acting poison might only do one point of damage every 15 minutes. And as the damage roll is generally done in secret this has two effects on play. Firstly, when the character starts losing strength and realizes something is up there is a wonderful sense of panic as the character does not know when the damage will cease. And also a call for a immediate action, scrambling around for antidote, grabbing for healing potions, or seeking a quick vengeance on those who done it to you. 
 Most poisons would be one damage 
per turn for either one or two dice in turns. That's not enough to kill a healthy man, but if you were wounded or fatigued look out.

   Daryl

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On 2012-07-06, at 9:39 PM, Meg Tapley <barnswallow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> (I didn't really mean to resurrect a dead discussion, it's just that I got distracted on Wikipedia while writing this, and it ended up festering in my "Drafts" folder until now.)
> 
> 
> I've heard of hunting poisons being derived from poison dart frogs in Amazonia, the plant wolfsbane (also known as monkshood, or aconite, as anyone who's read Harry Potter obsessively enough knows) in medieval Europe, and another plant (Strychnos something-or-other) in Africa. Snake venom has probably also been used in various places, but that's just me guessing.
> 
> The quickest-acting (ingested) human poison I know of is cyanide, which kills in a minute or two - certainly quick enough for good dramatic effect.
> 
> If you're going to implement poisoned weapons, it seems like a delayed effect, by at least a turn, is needed in order to be at all realistic. More like 20 minutes if the poison was swallowed, though this varies a lot. Some kinds of mushroom kill you by destroying your liver, which doesn't produce symptoms for a couple of days. This apparently made them popular for assasinations - the assasin would be long gone by the time anyone realized something was wrong.
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> The most deadly poison, ounce for ounce, is botulinum toxin (Botox, as it's known today). It's one of a group of poisons that act by paralyzing all skeletal muscles, including the diaphragm, so the victim dies of suffocation. Socrates' hemlock and fugu (pufferfish) poison also do this.
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> Heavy metals are usually fairly slow-acting, but have been used for assasinations, especially arsenic.
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> - Meg
> 
> On May 24, 2012, at 6:52 PM, Jay Carlisle wrote:
> 
>> Squirrels and small monkeys are the targets for the arrows and blowgun
>> darts as I understand.
>> I've heard of poisoning the only water supply to a town under siege but
>> quick acting weapon stuff for humans is very... Shakespeare I think the
>> word is.
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