{"id":604,"date":"2021-09-15T20:41:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T20:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bloodstone-press.com\/dir\/?p=604"},"modified":"2021-09-16T02:24:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T02:24:00","slug":"design-diary-poi8sonous-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodstone-press.com\/dir\/2021\/09\/15\/design-diary-poi8sonous-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Diary: Poisonous Plants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Poisonous Plants is coming along nicely. 19,000 words now&#8230;.. It currently contains rules for 55 toxic plants. There are about 5 more I still need to add. We&#8217;ve been play-testing them lately and reworking some. Plant-based weapon poisons are far more common and easily obtained than I expected. Also, the <em>protection from poison<\/em> spell only neutralizes ONE poison. That\u2019s an interesting loophole, since many plants contain multiple toxic substances. Such plants pose significant challenges for 2<sup>nd<\/sup> and even 3<sup>rd<\/sup> tier characters since the <em>protection from poison<\/em> spell cannot neutralize them and only grants advantage on the saving throw and resistance to the damage. Characters of 1<sup>st<\/sup> to 4<sup>th<\/sup> level can easily be killed by some of these poisons, so one of our objectives right now is to determine rough APLs for these poisons and draft some guidelines for their use in games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I really like all the other uses of the poisons that are included. Weapon poisons is a big one. There are also a lot of medicines and even a few spell enhancements that can be derived from toxic plants if the PCs have the right skills (usually alchemy kits or herbalism kits).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far play-testing has revealed a few interesting nuances about 5e that I didn\u2019t expect. Basically, these poisons can even hamper high level parties if the characters don\u2019t have the right skills, spells, or saving throws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It will be a few weeks until it\u2019s done. When it is ready, it will be available on DriveThru.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone who has purchased a copy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drivethrurpg.com\/product\/17885\/Natures-Wrath?affiliate_id=76849\">Nature\u2019s Wrath<\/a> will receive a discount on their purchase of Poisonous Plants when it is released. So make sure you have your settings on DriveThru set to receive mailings from us, so you can receive your discount link!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, time to get to work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poisonous Plants is coming along nicely. 19,000 words now&#8230;.. It currently contains rules for 55 toxic plants. There are about 5 more I still need to add. We&#8217;ve been play-testing them lately and reworking some. Plant-based weapon poisons are far&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[6,17],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design-diary","tag-dnd","tag-poisons"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bloodstone-press.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/plants-72-6.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodstone-press.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodstone-press.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodstone-press.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodstone-press.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodstone-press.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bloodstone-press.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608,"href":"https:\/\/bloodstone-press.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions\/608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodstone-press.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodstone-press.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodstone-press.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodstone-press.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}