Wildshape Poison rules, no rules?


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Hello, I made level 10 with my druid, and I can now wildshape into plant creatures up to size large. But as I flipped through a few ideas for my plant shapes, I noticed that they had many different types of poison delivery systems, and I'm not sure if they are all allowed.

So as level 10 druid, my plant shape works like Plant Shape II

Notice Plant Shape I lets me use poison.

So the Mandragora delivers there poison with the 'Slam—injury' Apparently it seeps in thru an open wound.

The Melfesh Monster delivers its poison though 'Poison Cloud (Ex)' Inhaled?

A Weedwhip uses 'Tentacle—contact' Can be absorbed thru the skin?

And a Ascomoid can apparently poison creatures by 'Spores—inhaled'

Which states: Once per round as a free action, an ascomoid can release a jet of deadly spores to a range of 30 feet. Upon impacting a solid surface, such as a wall or creature, the jet billows out into a cloud of spores that fills a 10-foot-radius spread. This cloud lasts for 1 round before dispersing.

So is it written anywhere that we are only allowed to use one or two types of poison delivery, or do we get to use all of them because I can use poison?

Sczarni

Poison only. Not "Poison Spores", or "Poison Jab", or "The Band, Poison".

Just regular ol' Poison.


So which one is the right one?


You get poison, but you don't get any special ways to deliver the poison. Yes, in some cases that means you just won't be able to use poison for that creature.

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wraithstrike wrote:
You get poison, but you don't get any special ways to deliver the poison. Yes, in some cases that means you just won't be able to use poison for that creature.

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I guess I'd be interested in Paizo's word here, but per RAW it's like they said.

For plain vanilla Poison abilities that you do get, remember that per Polymorph rules you will use your 'Casting Stat' to set the DC.
Which is a bit odd, since it goes against Pathfinder's 'new approach to Polymorph', where your physical stats matter for physical aspects of Polymorph.
At least Poison specifically still feels plausible to use the Casting Stat, being 'magically created substance'.

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