Does using a contact poison as an injury poison change the onset time?


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Scarab Sages

Using Black Lotus Extract as an example, it is a contact poison with an onset time of 1 minute.

The rules mention that contact poisons can be used as injury poisons. Contact poisons generally have an onset time of 1 minute while injury poisons don't usually have an onset time.

So, would using Black Lotus Extract as an injury poison remove the onset time?

My logical interpretation says that contact poisons take longer since they enter your system through the touch of your skin where injury poisons act more quickly since they can enter your bloodstream. The rules, however, don't specifically address this.

Silver Crusade

RAW, the onset time stays the same.


I asked a similar question a while ago.

My question was more pertinent though, because it involved the ability "poison conversion" which is an alchemist discovery.

In such a situation you're not just swapping use between using a poison designed for contact or injury, but rather making a huge change from something like ingested to inhaled or injury.

Regarding poisons that have multiple application methods by design, unless otherwise stated (I think a few state a different onset), the onsets are the same. It makes reasonable sense in my opinion.

With regards to poison conversion, I personally think the onset times should definitely change to the average (statistical mode) onset for that exposure type. Otherwise it makes the discovery kinda useless, and also very unrealistic.

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