Alchemy: Desert Poisons and Diseases

Alchemy: Desert Poisons and Diseases

This post converts poisons and diseases from Sandstorm for D&D 3.5.

POISONS

Crystal Scorpion Poison

Distilled from the venom of monstrous scorpions, this alchemically treated poison is often sought out by warlords or assassins who want to see a victim suffer for days. The process of treating the venom renders it translucent, but with the refractive qualities of a perfect prism when held up to the light in a clear container. This victim must make an HT roll or be paralyzed for 5 hours per point of margin of failure.

Form: Contact Poison.

Cost: $990 (singular); $360 (5-batched).

Recipe: $99; 6 days; defaults to Poisons-4.

Statistics: Affliction 1 (HT; Contact Poison, -5%; Extended Duration, 100x, +80%; Paralysis, +150%) [33].

  

Volcanic Gas

Active volcano craters, mud pots, and similar features often vent a poisonous mixture of gases. This is a respiratory agent. This poison flask can be thrown (range is STx3.5). Hitting a hard surface, it breaks, creating a cloud of poison gas in a 2-yard radius. The cloud persists for 10 seconds and may drift with the wind. Any creature that inhales the gas must make an immediate HT roll or suffer 1d-2 fatigue damage. Every 10 seconds for 4 more cycles he must make another HT roll to resist or take the same amount of damage.

Form: Grenade.

Cost: $450 (singular); $160 (5-batched).

Recipe: $45; 2 days; defaults to Poisons-2.

Statistics: Fatigue Attack 1d-2 (Area Effect, 2 yards, +50%; Drifting, +20%; Cyclic, 10 second, 4 cycles, Resistible, +100%; Grenade, +25%; Persistent, +40%; Resistible, HT, -30%; Respiratory Agent, +50%) [15].

DISEASES

Sandeyes

A creeping blindness caused by desiccated eye tissue.

Statistics: Contact; HT-1 to resist; 1 day delay; 1d-2 toxic damage (with Blindness after loss of 2/3 HP; if the victim loses all his HP, he becomes blinded permanently); 24-hour cycle with six cycles. Mildly contagious.

  

Volcanic Fever

This disease spreads through the inhalation of ash, which causes the victim’s body temperature to rise to an unearthly heat. A character killed by volcanic fever crumbles into fine ash within 24 hours.

Statistics: Respiratory; HT-2 to resist; 1d/2 days delay; 1d-2 toxic damage (with ST-2 and DX-2 after loss of 1/3 HP; DX-4, ST-4, HT-4 after loss of ½ HP; and agony after loss of 2/3 HP); 12-hour cycle with six cycles. Not contagious.

  

Wasting, The

This is a supernatural disease spread by demons and other foul creatures of the waste. Skin and tissues slowly dry and toughen, mummifying the victim.

Statistics: Blood; HT-3 to resist; 1 day delay; 1d-1 toxic damage (with DX-2 after loss of 1/3 HP; DX-4 after loss of ½ HP; and Numb and terrible pain after loss of 2/3 HP); 12-hour cycle with ten cycles. Not contagious.