Urushiol and obscure poison spell ruling


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Dear Fellow Pathfinders:

I have a rules question regarding the urushiol archetype and the obscure poison spell, both of which are from Ultimate Intrigue. If you were, say a 4th level urushiol druid, what would happen if you casted obscure poison on yourself and had no armor? Since all of your flesh at that level is poison, and said spell obscures all poison, Would that be like casting a personal obscuring mist or invisibility spell on yourself? I need to know ASAP. If so, that is completely broken. Thank you for your help.

Sincerely, Mike Mulligan-Nufer


Did you read over what Obscure Poison specifically does?

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You make the touched poison difficult to detect or identify. Detect poison and similar effects detect an obscured poison only with a successful caster level check against a DC equal to 15 + your caster level (rolled secretly by the GM). Even if the poison is detected, the DC of Craft (alchemy) or Wisdom checks to identify the poison is increased by 10.

If cast upon a venomous creature, obscure poison disguises all of the creature's natural poisons in the same way.

Your enemies can't always detect the poison and have trouble identifying it, and that's it.


Yes, but the archetype also says "at 4th level, an urushiol's body becomes so saturated with poison that even his flesh is poisonous."


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MikeMN<3Pathfinder wrote:
Yes, but the archetype also says "at 4th level, an urushiol's body becomes so saturated with poison that even his flesh is poisonous."

The spell makes the poison difficult to detect with Detect Poison or something similar, and difficult to identify. Unless people are trying to find you with Detect Poison, it's going to do nothing to hide you. It doesn't make poison invisible or hide it from anything but a few specific spells.


Yeah! you will look nice and tasty to any onlookers that want to bite you instead of highly toxic. It hides the poison not the character.

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