Rogue Archetype - Athasian Bard

Athas is a world of intrigue and treachery, of shady deals and secretive organizations - in short, a rogue's paradise. Within the secure walls of the city-states, many typically roguish occupations have become institutions unto themselves. Assassins, bards, and thieves alike have become pawns of the wealthy, deployed in deadly games of deceit between nobles and bureaucrats.

Crafting Posion

Foraging

A character may spend time during rest, travel, or downtime between adventures foraging for plants, animals, or minerals from which remedies or toxins may be derived. To forage ingredients, a character must make an Intelligence (Nature) or Wisdom (Survival) check. The result of this check should be compared to the foraging DC table appropriate to the region in which the character is foraging to determine what, if any, ingredient materials they were able to source. A character must spend 1 hour foraging to obtain enough material to create one full dose of its antidote or poisonous product. This time encompasses searching, harvesting, and safely storing the materials, as well as travel time to and from the material's location. For every hour spent foraging, the character may harvest a different ingredient from the environment, as long as its foraging DC falls under their original Intelligence (Nature) or Wisdom (Survival) ability check total.

Each listing of the tables provides; material names; a brief description of its appearance; the useful parts of the material and the forms the poison might take; the specific effect that might be crafted from the material; and it's foraging DC. A single material might have multiple possible products, but only one may be produced at a time. An easy shorthand is that a semi-colon means "or".

Crafting

The brewing of poison requires access to a poisoner's kit and proficiency to use one. The poisoner's kit contains 5 vials in which to properly store and preserve poisons for use. Additional containers must be purchased and secured if a character wishes to craft and carry more products than this kit can hold.

Proficiency with a poisoner's kit lets you add your proficiency bonus to any ability checks made to brew, harvest, or identify poisons using this kit.

Brewing Poison

To brew poisons from raw materials using a poisoner's kit, a character must use a full dose's worth of ingredients, spend 1 full hour, and make an Intelligence check using the material's foraging DC as the craft DC. A successful check provides a poison of the desired effect (of which the ingredients are capable). An unsuccessful check expends the time and materials with the outcome often an unfortunate case of unintentional self-affliction (self-afflication occurs if a character fails the check by 8 or more).

For every additional hour spent preparing a single dose of poison, the DC is lowered by 1. Additional ingredients may be added to a concoction if they share an effect outcome with the primary ingredient. For every additional full dose's worth of an ingredient contributing to the preparation of a single dose of poison, the saving throw DC is increased by 1.

A creature subjected to a crafted poison must succeed on a Constitution saving throw equal to DC 15 + 1 for every additional dose's worth of ingredient used in it's preparation. If a poison would cause immediate damage to the target, that target takes half damage on a success and shrugs off all other effects. Ongoing damage does not affect a target that makes a successful saving throw.

Harvesting Poison

A character can also attempt to harvest poison from a poisonous creature, such as a large snake, wyvern, or silk wyrm. The creature must be incapacitated or dead, and the harvesting requires 1d6 minutes followed by a DC 20 Intelligence (Nature) check. (Proficiency with the poisoner’s kit applies to this check if the character doesn’t have proficiency in Nature.) On a successful check, the character harvests enough poison for a single dose. On a failed check, the character is unable to extract any poison. If the character fails the check by 5 or more, the character is subjected to the creature’s poison.