DM: Q&A - Poisonous Paladins

[monarian]

I have a question on poisons. Now clearly a paladin may not employ poisons for use. I have however two questions about poisons for this specific class.

1) There are a great many poison drops that you may find in your travels. Is it permissible to sell these items or should they be "destroyed" in-game?

2) There are a great many crafting drops that can be fashioned into poisons. For this class is it permissible to craft these drops and sell the resultant poison? 

[DM Sauron]

Jan 29, 2023 21:07:55 GMT -5 monarian said:

I have a question on poisons. Now clearly a paladin may not employ poisons for use. I have however two questions about poisons for this specific class.

1) There are a great many poison drops that you may find in your travels. Is it permissible to sell these items or should they be "destroyed" in-game?

2) There are a great many crafting drops that can be fashioned into poisons. For this class is it permissible to craft these drops and sell the resultant poison? 

1) Depends to who the paladin sells the poison items.

- Sell them to Ilmateri or other healers so that they make poison antidotes (Anti-venoms)?

Sure.

- Sell them to a general merchant?

Grey area with risks. Who knows who could be buying the poisons next.

- Sell them to the shady merchant in the dark alley?

Definitely no.


2) While it is ok to sell poison to those that would use them to make antidotes, the paladin themselves should not be making poison out of components.

Maybe in the future we can include poison antidote in the crafting list. Then that will be fine.