Musings of a Fractured Mind

This was ori­gin­ally pos­ted on Barrok’s Tower in 2005 — I will be updat­ing pois­ons for use in Pathfinder sys­tem. The pois­ons lay­out was some­thing which came from how they were set out ori­gin­ally in MERP and Role­mas­ter, who in my opin­ion had one of the most descript­ive poison and dis­ease tables I have seen.

Name: Carshiem
Form: Dust
Type: Inges­tion
DC: 14
Primary Save: –4 to all social skills due to ooz­ing pus­tules erupt­ing all over the tar­gets body
Time Inter­val: 2 Hours
Sec­ond­ary Save: Explode (thus dying) all within 10’r take 6d6 points of force dam­age – Ref save (12DC) for half.
Climate/Terrain: Temperate/Mountain
Rar­ity: Com­mon
Source: Durken Fower
AD: 25
Mar­ket Price: 500gp
The Durken flower is nat­ive to all forests and flowers all year round. Known by most herb­al­ists for its cur­at­ive effects on warts, only Wood Elves and other forest den­iz­ens know of its other property.

Name: Baarn
Form: Liquid
Type: Injury
DC: 50
Primary Save: The indi­vidual takes 1d4 Con­sti­tu­tion dam­age
Time Inter­val: 1d10 Rounds
Sec­ond­ary Save: The poisoned indi­vidual becomes an open Gate (as per spell) for 1d20 rounds. Dur­ing this, a ran­dom plane is touched and any creatures may come through to the plane the indi­vidual is on (DMs choice)
Climate/Terrain: Temperate/Swamp
Rar­ity: very rare
Source: Baarn Root
AD: 50
Mar­ket Price: 200000gp
Found in the tem­per­ate swamp­land the Baarn Weed can be found near any of the lakes and is usu­ally the chosen home of water snakes.

Name: Arastin
Form: Dust
Type: Inges­tion
DC: 80
Primary Save: (Earth Ele­mental beings)Fort save (20DC) or take 1d4 points of Intel­li­gence dam­age and be con­fused (as per spell) for 1d10 rounds
(non Earth Ele­mental beings)Held (as per hold mon­ster spell) for1d10 hours
Time Inter­val: 12 Hours
Sec­ond­ary Save: (Earth Ele­mental beings) Noth­ing
(non Earth Ele­mental beings)The poisoned indi­vidual slowly pet­ri­fies over the course of 10 minutes
Climate/Terrain: Ele­mental Plane of Earth
Rar­ity: very rare
Source: Arastin Leaf
AD: 60
Mar­ket Price: 180000gp
The Arastin trees are the jew­els in many of the noble gar­dens on the ele­mental plane of earth. It has thick earthy brown leaves all year around and they are are an intox­ic­ant to all earth ele­mental beings..

Name: Far­gurstak
Form: Paste
Type: Injury
DC: 66
Primary Save: Lose all arcane cast­ing abil­ity for 1 hour
Time Inter­val: 1 minute
Sec­ond­ary Save: 6d6 points of sub­dual dam­age
Climate/Terrain: Temperate/Mountain
Rar­ity: very rare
Source: Far­gur Weed
AD: 35
Mar­ket Price: 80000gp
The Far­gur weed is the bane of all wiz­ards, so much so its traffic has been banned in every coun­try where wiz­ards dwell. Any­one even talk­ing about the weed nor­mally dis­ap­pears.. forever. The green paste can be applied to any weapon to scratch the skin.

Name: Eshanti “Friend Slayer“
Form: Liquid
Type: Injury, Inges­tion
DC: 20
Primary Save: 1d4 Con­sti­tu­tion dam­age, + 6 to Strength (for 1 minute)
Time Inter­val: 1d6 Minutes
Sec­ond­ary Save: The poisoned creature gains acute para­noia for 1d4 hours. Every­body is out to get them. Any thing encountered must be killed imme­di­ately
Climate/Terrain: Temperate/Mountain
Rar­ity: rare
Source: Ehsnati Nut
AD: 25
Mar­ket Price: 5000gp

The light green fla­vour­less liquid of the Eshanti Nut is often used by war­ri­ors who need that strength boost in battle though shaman do not tell the imbiber of its side effect where the war­rior usu­ally devel­ops a killing rage for hours after­wards. Vari­ous poison makers have seen these effects and mar­keted the poison as a way of indu­cing tem­por­ary mad­ness in cer­tain subjects.

Name: Xarax
Form: Dust
Type: Con­tact
DC: 12
Primary Save: 1d6 Wis­dom dam­age
Time Inter­val: 1 minute
Sec­ond­ary Save: Deaf­ness for 1d4 hours
Climate/Terrain: Temperate/Plains
Rar­ity: Uncom­mon
Source: Xarax root
AD: 15
Mar­ket Price: 750gp
Xarax pro­lif­er­ates the plains for only one month in the sum­mer. The root must be har­ves­ted in a mater of hours for it to be prop­erly pre­pared into the power­ful pois­on­ous dust.

Name: Juth­carys
Form: Paste
Type: Con­tact
DC: 17
Primary Save: Nausea (as per con­di­tion) for 1d6 Minutes
Time Inter­val: 5 Minutes
Sec­ond­ary Save: 1d3 Wis­dom dam­age, 1d3 Con­sti­tu­tion dam­age, Nausia (as per con­di­tion) for 1d6 Hours
Climate/Terrain: Arid Desert
Rar­ity: com­mon
Source: Juth­carys cac­tus root
AD: 15
Mar­ket Price: 6000gp
Well known to desert raid­ers and often employed in a pre­cursor to tor­ture, the Juth­carys poison is a ochre paste which smells pun­gently foul. Recently it has been used in holy wars against invad­ing cleric and paladin armies.

Name: Cargarrin’s Mad­ness
Form: Gas
Type: Con­tact
DC: 17
Primary Save: Dazed (as per con­di­tion) for 1d4 Rounds
Time Inter­val: 1 Minute
Sec­ond­ary Save: Con­fused (as per con­di­tion) for 1d3 Days
Climate/Terrain: Sub­ter­ranean cav­erns
Rar­ity: Rare
Source: Lytharis leaf, Ettin blood and Illithid brain
AD: 23
Mar­ket Price: 1600gp
The bright red gas has been used by Grey Dwarves for over a cen­tury now when raid­ing Drow Elf out­posts, which is how it got its name. The first use of it was on small out­post called Car­gar­rin. Most of the Drow became con­fused and slew each other. Now any per­son bear­ing a gas filled bauble with Cargarrin’s Mad­ness who is encountered by Drow will imme­di­ately feel their full retri­bu­tion. Illith­ids are also a bit miffed about this pois­ons man­u­fac­ture due part of them being a vital ingredient.

Name: Dark Waters
Form: Liquid
Type: Con­tact
DC: 56
Primary Save: 1d10 Intel­li­gence dam­age, 1d10 Wis­dom dam­age
Time Inter­val: 1 Minute
Sec­ond­ary Save: lose per­man­ently 1d6 points of Intel­li­gence and Wis­dom
Climate/Terrain: Sub­ter­ranean cav­erns
Rar­ity: Rare
Source: Water from the River Styx, Pit Fiend Blood and essence of Shadow
AD: 50
Mar­ket Price: 150000gp
The fabled Dark Sty­gian waters were mod­i­fied by an unnamed lich try­ing to cause one of his sub­jects to be unable to cast any of the spells they had stolen. The pro­cess of Dark Water cre­ation has been jeal­ously guarded by a hand­ful of the most skilled Apothecaries.

Name: Vacu­una
Form: Paste
Type: Con­tact
DC: 18
Primary Save: Dwarves 1d6 Con­sti­tu­tion dam­age
Non Dwarves 1d3 Con­stituion dam­age
Time Inter­val: 1 Minute
Sec­ond­ary Save: Dwarves The tar­get feels euphoric and at ease with the world as if under a Calm Emo­tions spell for 1d6 Hours
Non Dwarves The tar­get feels angry and imme­di­ately starts to Rage (as per Bar­bar­ian abil­ity) for 1d6 rounds. Any­one with 10′ of the poisoned indi­vidual will be attacked at full BAB
Climate/Terrain: Sub­ter­ranean cav­erns
Rar­ity: Rare
Source: Vacu­una Grub Slime
AD: 27
Mar­ket Price: 2300gp
Vacu­una was ori­gin­ally used by dwarves to relax them after many busy months of build­ing sub­ter­ranean cit­ies. They soon real­ised the it had an adverse effect on non dwarves and thus Vacu­una was used to bring enemy ranks into a brawl­ing rabble.

Name: Khal­garin
Form: liquid
Type: Con­tact, Inges­tion
DC: 16
Primary Save: 1d2 Dex­ter­ity dam­age
Time Inter­val: 1 Hour
Sec­ond­ary Save: Blind­ness (as per con­di­tion) for 1d6 days
Climate/Terrain: Tropical/Forest
Rar­ity: very rare
Source: Cara­soun Tree Sap
AD: 19
Mar­ket Price: 250gp
This brown liquid is highly prized by spies and agents for dis­abling an entire army and mak­ing them stum­bling blind people.