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Chapter 8: Skills
Toxicology
This skill allows a character to do several
things: find a poison, identify a poison, and to properly
extract or prepare a poison. This is not to be
confused with Herbalism, which is instead concerned
with the healing effects of plants on wounds or ailments.
Check: Roll 3d10 and apply the modifier
from the Intelligence ability. A separate check must
be made for finding, identifying, and extracting or
preparing poison. Finding poison means that the
character is attempting to find it in nature, such as
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searching a forest for a poisonous plant. The exact
poison found is determined by the Aedile. A list of
poisons is provided in Chapter 17: Natural Substances.
Identifying poison means that if a character beholds
a substance that they suspect is poisonous such as a
tankard of beer handed to them by an immoral
kobold, then they may possibly detect whether or
not the wine is poisoned. Finally, extracting poison
refers to properly removing it from nature, such as
from a spider’s sac. Preparing poison means to properly
prepare the extracted poison, such as how much
to mix with what kind of liquids, such as wine, etc.
TH Find Identify Extract Prepare
< 13
Nothing Nothing Sampleruined Sample
ruined
13Common Nothing Simple Easy
14-15Common Obvious Simple Easy
16Common Obvious Simple Easy
17Common Obvious Moderate Easy
18-19Common Obvious Moderate Average
20Uncommon Ordinary Difficult Average
21-23Uncommon Ordinary Difficult Average
24-29Rare Obscure Difficult Hard
> 29
VeryRare Obscure Impossible Hard