[Torg] Poison

[Kansas Jim]

Peter Darley wrote:

>     I can't find any mechanics for using poison, are there any?

Poisons and toxins show up in a couple of places but pretty much each
time it was handled differently. Sometimes it was given a straight
effect value and did a single hit of damage, other times it had special
rules attached to it like it causes damage for some set duration and/or
until the character makes a Toughness check against its EV. One instance
I remember from the Nile book is that if the character takes a wound of
damage from Asp poison then he dies in six more rounds. Death after
taking one wound?!

>     The situation is that we have a Kefee in the party, who has a 
> whopping 7 base damage with her pole arm.  She'd like to coat it with a 
> poison so she can do some actual damage.

In the Land Below book there's a miracle called Poisonberry which will
turn fruit poisonous. While it creates an ingested poison it's not
unthinkable that a Keefee might know of a naturally poisonous plant in
the Land Below which has a similar effect that can be delivered with
a weapon. (For the record, fruit affected by the miracle will do DV 18
for three rounds.)

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