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Old 09-23-2024, 12:20 PM   #1
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Default Poison resistance attribute

ITL 15 - "how resistant to poisons the figure is"

Yet most poisons list no resistance roll. Should we assume that any poison that doesn't list this gives a 3/ST resistance roll?
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Old 09-23-2024, 12:57 PM   #2
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ITL 15 - "how resistant to poisons the figure is"

Yet most poisons list no resistance roll. Should we assume that any poison that doesn't list this gives a 3/ST resistance roll?
We can assume that, but as w/ most other aspects of the game I prefer a bit more nuance. My own rule revisions leverage a 'tiered' framework to define the level of challenge or (in this instance) the number of dice to be rolled vs. ST as a saving throw.

As a general guideline, for example, the potency of alchemically-derived poisons is higher than those created without magical intervention in my system. Thus the Simple Poison would require a 3/ST resistance roll while Contact Poison would be 4/ST.

More varied sources of poison with their own degree of deadliness is also desirable IMO (which we already have a Hexagram article for as I recall).
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Old 09-23-2024, 01:26 PM   #3
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I'd absolutely keep ST the attribute used for poison resistance rolls.
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Old 09-24-2024, 10:17 AM   #4
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ITL 15 - "how resistant to poisons the figure is"

Yet most poisons list no resistance roll. Should we assume that any poison that doesn't list this gives a 3/ST resistance roll?
I think most poisons that don't list a resistance roll just do damage? So in sense ST still determines how resistant the character is to poison, just in a more ablative way.

To answer your question, allowing some throwaway clarificatory clause in the character generation section to override the actual rules describing how a poison works would be weird and silly.
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Old 09-25-2024, 04:42 AM   #5
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How should game masters interpret the absence of a listed resistance roll for certain poisons in ITL 15, and what guidelines can they use to determine the effects of these poisons on character...
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