Poison Crafters in PFS - Certain Rare Races

[evilaustintom]

I've tossed around the idea of making a Poisoner specialist in PFS. I've read the FAQ listing the poisons you can buy (assuming you pick the appropriate class with Poison Use). My question, though, deals with races that can produce their own poison.

Off the top of my head, you can possibly manage the following races with 'poison production' as a possibility:

Gripplis (variant racial trait)
Nagaji (racial feat)

...both of which require the appropriate campaign access to run (certain boons, mostly). There's also the Vishkanya, but I don't think any of the boons have covered them yet.

So the question - can, say, an alchemist, craft poisons using his own natural poisons? If so, is there a gp cost?

Poisoners have some inherent problems (such as all the creatures that are immune to poisons, the basic non-scaling DC of most poisons, etc). My biggest problem, though, is the cost involved. If I am going to be regularly using poisons, the cost becomes prohibitive (and the PC gradually falls behind on the comparative GP vs other PCs).

I've considered the possibility of pulling poisons from your own body as a way to have some 'free' poisons available - although you'd still have to work at it (or 'craft' it) to preserve the poison beyond a certain point. Still, I'm not seeing any way in the PFS campaign to pull this off. I figured I'd post this idea - see if someone knows of something I'm missing.

Thoughts?

[WalterGM]

Vishkanyas are a playable race if you have the GM boon from Gencon.

Edit: and here's a further question.

Since Vishkanyas have Poison Use, can they purchase poisons not found on chronicle sheets?

I believe the answer is currently a "no," going off the RAW. But do you think the FAQ should be updated to include this poison-centric race?

[Preston Hudson]

Walter Sheppard wrote:

Vishkanyas are a playable race if you have the GM boon from Gencon.

Edit: and here's a further question.

Since Vishkanyas have Poison Use, can they purchase poisons not found on chronicle sheets?

I believe the answer is currently a "no," going off the RAW. But do you think the FAQ should be updated to include this poison-centric race?

My guess would be no as well as the Additional Resources entry for Ultimate Equipment states only classes and the one archetype with poison use and nothing about races being allowed to purchase poisons not on a chronicle. I do agree that either the FAQ should be updated and/or the Additional Resources entries should be updated to add poison-centric races.