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I've been interested in trying to build a poison use character within Pathfinder Society for a while. The alchemist always seemed a natural as they can apply poisons very quickly. With Pathfinder Player Companion: Champions of Purity the Celestial Poisons discovery became available, making poison even more versatile with their ability to effect undead and evil outsiders. With this I set out to compile the options and came to some disappointing conclusions.
Say by 10th-level an alchemist player character can bring a giant wasp poison from DC 18 to DC 24 through the use of Concentrate Poison and Malignant Poison discoveries. Giving the benefit of the doubt to the player character, lets say they know that they are able to spend a full-round action preparing this enhanced poison immediately before combat with a Glabrezu demon (CR 13). Lets also say that the party of adventures manages to apply the shaken condition to the Glabrezu, reducing its Fortitude save to +16. This means that there is a 35% chance that the Glabrezu will fail a save under these ideal conditions for the alchemist, which is still not very good odds. On the other hand, this character's use of poison might be more discriminating, like any class ability. Unfortunately, even with these silver linings, these poisons will not become more potent while creature Fortitude saves will only rise. Short combats also penalize poison use. Lastly, poisons are expensive over the long haul.
How can alchemists craft in Pathfinder Society Organized Play?
"Alchemists can use the Craft (alchemy) skill to produce items with their Alchemy ability. Follow the Craft rules on pages 91–93 of the Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook as well as in the alchemist’s Alchemy ability description. Any item created must be properly noted on that scenario’s Chronicle sheet. Under "Items Bought", note the amount of gold spent and the item created. Alchemists are assumed, for Pathfinder Society Organized Play, to carry the necessary items and tools with them to use available resources to create alchemical items. If they have a base of operations from which to do so, they may use an alchemy lab to gain the +2 bonus on their Craft (alchemy) check. Alchemists may never sell any of their created items nor may they trade them to another PC. However, they may allow other PCs to borrow or use items they’ve created (so long as the alchemist class ability being used allows them to do so)." —Pathfinder Society FAQ
How do poisons work in Pathfinder Society Organized Play?
"Any character with the Poison Use class ability can purchase and use poisons. For now, they are the only classes that have a list of “always available poisons” (those noted below)—no other class may purchase poisons unless they appear on a chronicle sheet. Alchemists, ninja, and poisoner rogues may only purchase the following poisons from the Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook:
—Giant wasp poison [210 gp, DC 18, 6 rounds, 1d2 Dex damage, 1 save]
—Large scorpion venom [200 gp, DC 17, 6 rounds, 1d2 Str damage, 1 save]
—Medium spider venom [150 gp, DC 14, 4 rounds, 1d2 Str damage, 1 save]
—Shadow essence [250 gp, DC 17, 6 rounds, Initial Effect 1 Str drain, Secondary Effect 1d2 Str damage, 1 save]
—Small centipede poison [90 gp, DC 11, 4 rounds, 1 Dex damage, 1 save]" —Pathfinder Society FAQ
Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Rival Guide —Legal as per Additional Resources
—Cockatrice Spit [1,000 gp, DC 12, 4 rounds, 1d2 Dex damage (a creature who takes Dexterity damage equal to its Dexterity score from this poison becomes petrified; each day, a petrified victim can attempt a new DC 12 Fortitude save to recover from the venom and become unpetrified with an amount of Dexterity damage equal to 1 point less than its Dexterity score), 1 save]
—Fiddleback Venom [500 gp, DC 13, Onset 1 minute; Frequency 1/minute for 6 minutes, Initial Effect nauseated 1d4 rounds, Secondary Effect 1d3 Str damage and 1d4 Con damage, 2 saves]
—Hag Spit [1,500 gp, DC 16, 6 rounds, Initial Effect blindness for 1d10 rounds, Secondary Effect 1d4 Wis damage, 2 saves]
—Rainbow Jellyfish Toxin [400 gp, DC 14, 2 rounds, Initial Effect staggered for 1d6 rounds, Secondary Effect paralyzed for 1d6 minutes, 1 save]
Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Equipment —Legal as per Additional Resources
—Black Adder Venom [120 gp, DC 11, 6 rounds, 1d2 Con damage, 1 save]
—Bloodroot [100 gp, DC 12, 1 round onset, 4 rounds, 1 Con and 1 Wis damage and 1 round confusion, 1 save]
—Greenblood Oil [100 gp, DC 13, 4 rounds, 1 Con damage, 1 save]
—Malyass Root Paste [250 gp, contact, DC 16, 1 minute onset, 1/minute for 6 minutes, 1d2 Dex damage, 1 save]
—Nitharit [650 gp, contact, DC 13, 1 minute onset, 1/minute for 6 minutes, 1d3 Con damage, 1 save]
—Terinav Root [400 gp, contact, DC 16, 1 minute onset, 1d3 Dex damage, 1 save]
*These are in addition to those listed in the Core Rulebook.
Lesser poisoner’s jacket (12,000 GP) —Ultimate Equipment, page 222
AURA faint conjuration and necromancy CL 5th WEIGHT 3 lbs.
Three times per day, the wearer of this dark jacket can create a vial containing one dose of any poison from the Core Rulebook that costs 300 gp or less. The jacket’s poison always looks like a murky amber fluid. This poison becomes inert after 1 hour.
Greater poisoner’s jacket (58,000 GP) —Ultimate Equipment, page 221
AURA strong conjuration and necromancy CL 15th WEIGHT 4 lbs.
This jacket has the abilities of a lesser poisoner’s jacket, and once per day the wearer can create a vial that reproduces the effect of any poison in the Core Rulebook that costs 4,000 gp or less. The jacket’s poison always looks like a murky lime fluid.
This poison becomes inert after 1 hour.
Immunities Constructs, plants, undead, oozes, daemons, demodands, demons, devils, and elementals are immune to poison. In the case of the crypt breaker, constructs and corporeal undead are especially vulnerable to alkahest bombs. Further, with the Celestial Poison discovery, undead and evil outsiders become vulnerable to poison, but usually have strong Fortitude saves despite this. This leaves plants, non-corporeal undead (if they still cannot be poisoned), oozes, and elementals unaffected by poison, or another Crypt Breaker Alchemist ability.
Discoveries Concentrate Poison (50% duration, +2 DC), sticky poison (6th; a single dose of created poison lasts Int mod), celestial poison (8th; good; poison undead and evil outsiders), and malignant poison (10th; +4 poison DC; no onset)
Dropping Fortitude Saves Shaken, sickened, pernicious poison (no save, but subject to SR), Con damage, and anything else that drops a creatures Fortitude saving throw, directly or indirectly, will make poison use reasonable.
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Darksandman: might I suggest a dip in ninja?
Also, there was a clarification about which poisons are always available, and it is worth mentioning here because of all the great info here.
Clarification: As clarified by Mike Brock here, the list of always available poisons (to those characters with poison use) from the Core Rulebook includes the following:
— black adder venom,
— bloodroot,
— giant wasp poison,
— greenblood oil,
— large scorpion venom,
— malyass root paste,
— Medium spider venom,
— nitharit,
— shadow essence,
— small centipede poison,
— terinav root.
The FAQ is incorrect and has not been updated.
(Basically, all of the poisons listed on Additional Resources for Ultimate Equipment also appear in the Core Rulebook. Mike clarified that either book is a legal source for those poisons.)
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Ah thank you very much. I was thinking of a single level of Ninja for poison use and then continueing on with Ranger. My ultimate goal is to get a snake pet and teach it a trick to bite the wax stopper of a vial to milk poison from it once a day.
Sadly you would not be able to do that's you can only gain tricks already printed in books and authorized for PFS.
The only way you can make your own Poison would be to take levels in alchemist or 3 levels in rogue poisoner archetype.
There is no way you can Milk your companion that I know of.
