I can see the argument that a whip cannot carry an injury poison as the whip does only non-lethal but what about contact poisons?
Could it deliver the contact poison to creatures with better than +3 natural armor?
thinking of whips and it's not even valentines day.
~will
Contact poisons are contracted the moment someone touches the poison with his bare skin. Such poisons can be used as injury poisons. Contact poisons usually have an onset time of 1 minute and a frequency of 1 minute.
Yes and yes. I dont see a rule against your idea.
Only problem is that most contact poisons are expensive and have a long onset time.Regards
Well it should be a touch attack to use contact poison, which would bypass armour and shield bonuses.
That being said, if someone's bare skin is not exposed ie. wearing full plate armour with a helm and gauntlet, you shouldn't be able to touch it with the whip to utilise the contact poison.
RAW = yes
RAI = maybe.
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Contact poisons are contracted the moment someone touches the poison with his bare skin. Such poisons can be used as injury poisons. Contact poisons usually have an onset time of 1 minute and a frequency of 1 minute.
Yes and yes. I dont see a rule against your idea.
Only problem is that most contact poisons are expensive and have a long onset time.Regards
True, save that a 3rd lvl rogue poisoner can turn any type of poison (inhaled, ingested, injury, contact) into any other type, so they could make any poison contact.
Well it should be a touch attack to use contact poison, which would bypass armour and shield bonuses.
That being said, if someone's bare skin is not exposed ie. wearing full plate armour with a helm and gauntlet, you shouldn't be able to touch it with the whip to utilise the contact poison.
RAW = yes
RAI = maybe.
I disagree that it should be a touch attack. Hitting someone's armor, clothes, or shield is not going to poison anyone.
A barbed whip also does some real piercing damage.
An inquisitor might have a cold iron barbed whip and poison it with Coatil venom.