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Originally Posted by Not
For game purposes, is a toxic attack a metabolic hazard, and can players buy limited immunity to it as they might against poison?
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As far as I can tell,
yes maybe.
In GURPS and DF, I'd say yes, with the caveat of "With GM Permission".
With DFRPG... again yes. In a game I ran, I'd allow it only after being affected by (and surviving) an Eye* and it would be Resistant to Elder Thing.
My reasoning, it's not really what we'd call a "metabolic hazard" so much as "weird stuff happens and your body starts dying". More that whatever the Elder Thing is doing merely resembles a Metabolic Hazard (and thus is modeled like one) rather than being one.
So monsters (or PCs) that are Immune to Metabolic Hazards† are still fully susceptible to Eyes of Death, while immune to a Wizard's Smoke cloud.
* Or another Elder Thing that did some sort of Resistible damage. In the Monster book that would only be a Demon from Between the Stars.
† Of which I've just discovered there are none (in RAW). Huh.