Weapon / Poison effect

[Grenage]

Good afternoon,

I'm creating some encounters for the first time, and I'm a little confused as to the effect of a special ability - which is a string.

Poison (Ex)
Sting—injury; save Fort DC 10; frequency 1/round for 4 rounds; effect 1 Dex; cure 1 save.

So the player takes damage and then rolls for a save at the end of their turn; this continues for another three turns if they don't save.

But what is an effect of 1 dex? Do they lose one dex point for the duration of the encounter? Does that stack? What is Cure 1 save?

I'm sorry that these are pretty basic questions.

[Claxon]

Blog on poison

[Grenage]

Ah, so though it doesn't say 1 dex damage, it would be one point of dex damage. That's a great blog post, thank you.

[Claxon]

No problem. As you can see from the blog post, many people found the rules on poison to be very confusing. Glad I could help guide you to the answer.