Suppose I have a high tech like dart gun (or tranq gun). I fill the delivery dart with a healing potion.
Later, in combat, i fire said dart at an ally. Do they get the effect of a Cure Potion?
Firing a dart coated with a poison designed to be ingested would have no effect. Potions and elixirs are designed to be ingested. So, no.
i dont think high tech is RAW (havent seen any anyway), however I see no problem with it, (assuming dart itself does no damage)
Firing a dart coated with a poison designed to be ingested would have no effect. Potions and elixirs are designed to be ingested. So, no.
can use an oil of CLW, etc which is designed for topical use
There is the Syringe Spear.
And the touch injection spell, and the iron cobra.
Although it does allow for acid and alchemical substances, the iron cobra specifies injury poisons (not ingested), so there's nothing to suggest that filling an iron cobra's reservoir with a CLW potion would benefit anyone.
The syringe spear only says "typically poison" but again there is nothing in the description that recommends overriding common sense and allowing a substance dependent on ingestion to take effect when injected.
The touch injection spell does specifically allow ingestable potions and elixirs to be delivered by contact, which I think sets an unfortunate precedent, but OTOH it is magical rather than simply mechanical as the other two examples are.
I don't see any problem with injecting an oil of CLW.
The syringe spear is designed, usually, for injecting poison into a target. It doesn't say anything suggesting an ingestible potion has its normal effects when injected. Likewise the iron cobra, although it mentions alchemical items also working. The touch injection spell finally does say that potions would work, but it's a 3rd level spell.
*ninja'd by griffin*
Applying an oil requires a standard action and provokes AoOs, so RAW it doesn't work via dart gun, and seems powerful enough that I'd want it to be a priced around the same as the spell storing weapon enchantment, since it's a similar effect, although more costly since you have to buy the potions.
Iron cobra specifically calls out potions:
"Some spellcasters even fill these reservoirs with potions, so that when the cobra bites, it injects the potion into its target. This is a somewhat dangerous method for gaining the effects of a potion, but it does free up the cobra's master to do other things in a combat round apart from quaffing potions."