No, you really are retarded.
Hacking someone apart is infinitely more painful than poison.
Adding poison to your hacking will make them die faster.
You grant them a swifter, more humane death.
Poison: Always Evil?
Adrian Carter
Jaxon Cook
That's just good strategy and allows the opponents a reasonable chance to defend themselves, rather than stabbing somebody in the back with a dagger that makes the heart seize.
Adam Reyes
So what you're saying is that if a woman killed Hitler with poison she would be evil?
I think that poison is just another tool in somoene's arsenal to kill their enemies. It's not evil if you don't kill an innocent person with it.
Jose Torres
>proper ambush
>reasonable chance to defend themselves
u wot m8
>rather than stabbing somebody in the back with a dagger that makes the heart seize.
They are going to die no matter what, the poison is merely insurance. If they don't die immediately from the stab in the heart, then they will die from the poison. Guaranteeing your foe is smitten properly is not evil.
Cooper Jackson
>So I'm having a debate
2 points.
1º-You're the gamemaster, if that discussion lasts beyond 5-15 minutes either you don't respect your own role or he does, either way tell him to suck dicks or be prepared to have this kind of discusion over a long time.
I'm not saying that you should silence debates, only that the gameflow is more important than interpretations(unless your group really like them) and that people have to understand that you have always the last word about how the game developes.
>consistent use of poison for a combat edge creates pain and suffering beyond what is needed to overcome an enemy
2º-A venom doesn't have to cause pain to be mortal, in fact you could say that the most painfull thing about venom is the lack of pain as your body starts to fade without you being unable to do anything.
On the other hand, a venom can be mixed with an anesthetic/stimulant. So a wound would pass unnoticed and a poisoned food would make the person euphoric before dying.
Either way the character needs somekind of medichal/biochemical knwoledge of the fundamental kind(no medieval/tribal interpretation of scientific knowledge) or a lot of trial and error to get the adequate proportions(or at least, have someone prepare it for you).
Camden Adams
I think by RAW poison is evil.
This dates back to the older versions of dnd where there were only law and chaos.
Chaos was bad and only chaos used poison.
Look in any monster manual and it will show demons and evil shit using poison and no good things using poison.
Connor Rogers
Not OP, so don't hold it against him: he explicitly said he is not the GM. Read it all over again.
William Mitchell
d20srd.org
>To qualify to become an assassin, a character must fulfill all the following criteria.
>Alignment
>Any evil.
>Skills
>Disguise 4 ranks, Hide 8 ranks, Move Silently 8 ranks.
>Special
>The character must kill someone for no other reason than to join the assassins.
The question seems irrelevant to this scenario given that 3.5 assassins are required to be evil jerks.
Ethan Nelson
It's a cowardly, underhanded way to kill someone, mainly because there are few defenses against it outside of magic and oftentimes you don't need to actually be in the range of retaliation to kill someone with it.
It's why paladins aren't allowed to use poison.
Easton Brooks
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