Poison Simulation in Advanced Dungeons & Dragons

Poison Simulation

Name

Poison Simulation

Type

Science

Field

Psychometabolic

MAC

PSP (Initial)

PSP (Ongoing)

Range

Touch

Area of Effect

Personal

Prerequisites

chemical simulation

Power Score

The poison is concentrated; the victim saves at –2.

Critical (20)

The psionicist poisons herself for 10-30 points of damage (save versus poison for half damage).

Description

The psychometabolist can use this power to produce natural toxins from her own body. The psionicist can only simulate poisons that she has experienced or tasted herself; if she had survived the sting of a giant scorpion at some point in the past, then she can reproduce the scorpion’s venom. (If the psionicist purposely tastes or injects a small amount of poison in order to learn how to simulate it, she suffers half the normal effect and gains a +2 on her saving throws against that dose.) The psionicist can create the poison in her bloodstream or saliva. If she creates the toxin in her bloodstream, she can nick herself with a blade to get to it. Poisons the psionicist simulates can he used in their normal fashion; contact poisons can be used to poison victims with a touch, injective poisons can be smeared on weapons, and so forth. If the psionicist has an ingestive poison in her bloodstream and is bitten by a monster, that creature is affected normally by the venom. An attack roll is required to hit an opponent with poisoned spittle or an envenomed blade, and the victim gets a saving throw appropriate to that poison type. A dose of the psionicist’s poison remains potent for a number of rounds equal to her level or until it has been applied once. This ability also has two secondary uses. First, the psionicist also learns how to construct antidotes for poisons she has been exposed to. She gains a +4 on any saving throw against poison, and a +8 bonus on poisons she can manufacture herself. Secondly, the psionicist can produce an antidote to treat someone else if that person has been poisoned with a toxin that the psionicist knows how to create.

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