Can Exsanguinating ammo + an applied injury poison both work on one shot ?

[Silver666]

Hi folks — quick scenario, curious about rules sense and table practice:

I apply Scarlet Mist to an Exsanguinating Ammunition in the morning .
Then in combat I activate and fire. Both have clear trigger/consumption rules, but the books don’t explicitly say whether it works . RAW reads to me like it should work, but RAI and balance/GMs’ comfort might differ.

What do you think ? How do you rule at your table? Any developer posts or rulings you’d point me to? Open to RAW/RAI/balancing opinions. Thanks!

Relevant quick links:

Exsanguinating Ammunition — https://2e.aonprd.com/Equipment.aspx?ID=1193

Scarlet Mist (poison) — https://2e.aonprd.com/Equipment.aspx?ID=2012

[Trip.H]

As far as I know, there is no rule preventing special ammo from having a poison applied to it. Just be sure that the shot will do the slash/pierce damage, as required for injury poisons to trigger.

Poisons suck in general, and there's not really much of a balance worry.

My own Alch has used Exsanguinating Ammo with the Wounding property rune, which allows you to apply a bleed on the same shot that imposes a bleed weakness and recovery DC increase.

[Silver666]

Thanx , I considered doing that also , but unfortunately the wounding rune is for melee weapons , I think , wouldn't work with my bow .

[Trip.H]

Silver666 wrote:

Thanx , I considered doing that also , but unfortunately the wounding rune is for melee weapons , I think , wouldn't work with my bow .

Hunh... oops. Totally didn't notice that, yikes.

Odd that the restriction exists, but it does.

[Silver666]

Any other opinions ?
Confirmation or disagreement welcomed !

[shroudb]

Can't see why it wouldn't work.

You put a bleeding poison on a bullet that can deliver basically a bloodthinner.

Raw seems fine, Rai/balance wise neither consumable ammo nor poisons are very powerful, so even in conjunction with each other, I doubt they'll break anything.