Poisoned Tarot Cards...


Pathfinder First Edition General Discussion

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Is there anything stopping a person from lacing a deck of cards with poison?


Do it.

Contact poison, or some Spirit of Glass and injury poison... Yea.

One of my own dastardly plans was to poison a privy. Contact poison on the seat, paper and door handle to exit...

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mardaddy wrote:

Do it.

Contact poison, or some Spirit of Glass and injury poison... Yea.

One of my own dastardly plans was to poison a privy. Contact poison on the seat, paper and door handle to exit...

Yeah but what i meant was with injury poison and throwing them with deadly dealer but i guess the same answer applies?


Can you lace cards with poison? Technically yes. You can lace wine glasses, door handles, etc. with poison.

Should you lace cards with poison? Not particularly, unless you have poison immunity. Especially with contact poison, since you'd end up poisoning yourself by trying to use them, even with the ability to not poison yourself upon poisoning your chosen object. And that's not considering the multitude of enemies that are immune to it, or are pointless to use against due to its ridiculous expenses and minor impact in the grand scheme of things.

But, if you are insistent on using poisons, Mardaddy has a good point; injury poisons would work pretty well if you can turn your cards into lethal weapons. If you apply inhaling poison onto your cards via a perfume or some other subject, simply throwing the cards towards the enemy would cause an inhaling poison saving throw to take effect. However, like the contact poisons, these are risky since you could accidentally affect yourself, even with the ability to not poison yourself upon applying it due to the nature of the poison itself.


Oh, tossing them as weapons.

Nah - not very efficient.

It is not like a DM would let you circumvent the application rules by letting you douse the whole deck at once and then each card counts as a dose... But you could ask.

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Darksol the Painbringer wrote:

Can you lace cards with poison? Technically yes. You can lace wine glasses, door handles, etc. with poison.

Should you lace cards with poison? Not particularly, unless you have poison immunity. Especially with contact poison, since you'd end up poisoning yourself by trying to use them, even with the ability to not poison yourself upon poisoning your chosen object. And that's not considering the multitude of enemies that are immune to it, or are pointless to use against due to its ridiculous expenses and minor impact in the grand scheme of things.

But, if you are insistent on using poisons, Mardaddy has a good point; injury poisons would work pretty well if you can turn your cards into lethal weapons. If you apply inhaling poison onto your cards via a perfume or some other subject, simply throwing the cards towards the enemy would cause an inhaling poison saving throw to take effect. However, like the contact poisons, these are risky since you could accidentally affect yourself, even with the ability to not poison yourself upon applying it due to the nature of the poison itself.

yep whole idea is to have a prepacked deck of cards laced with injury poison then when in combat you use deadly dealer to make them lethal weapons. no one will see it coming.


Unless it is a powder, the cards would be soaking wet.

All depends on the DM and whether she/he'd allow the multiple circumventions:

1 dose = 1 attack, so a deck of X cards would require X doses.

X cards = X doses = X applications with each application a chance of self-dosing by accident.


Wouldn't it be funner to infuse them with hallucinogens?


Great movie involving an interesting application of poison...
"The Name of the Rose" with Sean Connery


Throwing cards sounds more like the superhero genre. One of the Marvel mutants comes to mind.

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