Using Poisoned Weapons

Weapons may be poisoned using specific insinuative poisons (such as bikh) that are applied carefully to a weapon prior to combat. It requires 5 rounds to prepare a weapon with poison. Weapons must be bladed or tipped: swords, daggers, the ankus, spears, bladed polearms, javelins and so on.

With arrows, the amount of poison (and its deadliness) will be limited by the surface space of the point that is prepared. So with arrows, a poison strength of no more than vex is possible.

Once a weapon is coated, it is very easy for the wielder to error in its use and be poisoned by drawing the blade against themselves. This will happen any time that a 1 or a 2 has been rolled on the attack die, whereupon the user of the weapon must make save versus the poison. Assassins can used a coated weapon safely without needing to make save whatever the attack roll, as they have been trained to fight so as not to touch the blade.

See Attacking in Combat