Hi all,
I had a devious thought:
If one smeared the tip of a wand with contact poison and then used the wand and proceeded to touch the opponent with it (in theory, the wand covers all requirements for casting and requires no free hands...and spell effects are generated from the wand...so seems reasonable that one touches with a wand instead of his bare hand)...
...would this poison the opponent and cause him, if he fails his save against the spell, to suffer the penalty to his saving throw against the contact poison?
What is your opinion?
This seems especially amazing with a Poisoner rogue....
Skarm
Technically, the wand lets you cast a spell, and require that the wand be generally pointed at the target (unclear how this actually works with a touch spell, say you want to cast shocking grasp with a wand and hold a charge until you enter a room) but the spell effects are not exactly 'generated from the wand.' Nothing in the rules says that touch spell cast using a wand are required to be delivered via touching with the wand or even that you can use the wand instead of your hand (although the latter is often treated as a house rule).
More importantly though, attacking with a contact poison (without doing injury anyway) is never clearly defined. In most cases it certainly wouldn't be a touch attack though, since the contact poison has to touch bare skin, while a touch attack will go through clothing or even armor (hence the ignore armor portion of AC.)