Prime Venom
Ready a venom. Your next weapon hit delivers it: main hand, off hand, ranged, thrown or a weapon cantrip. It stays primed until it lands.
How it plays
Venomists fight with a pouch of alchemical venoms. Every turn you choose: dose one target through your blade, or shatter a vial over a group. Toxin charges fuel both and return on a short rest.
Throw Vial
Hurl a venom in a 2 m burst. Everyone caught makes a Saving Throw for half damage and to resist the effect. Allies too.
Envenom
Poison damage from your weapons and vials forces a Constitution Saving Throw. On a failure the target is Poisoned until the end of its next turn: Disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks.
Venom Strike
The first time each turn Envenom poisons a creature or you deliver a venom, read its course with a Medicine check. On a success a free Venom Strike appears on your hotbar: a main-hand attack whose weapon damage is poison. A toggle switches it to your weapon's normal damage against poison-immune foes.
The venoms
Eight venoms, unlocked as you level. Primed on a blade they hit one target hard; thrown in a vial they spread a weaker dose. Saving Throw DC: 8 + proficiency + Intelligence.
Bleeding
- Primed: 1d6 poison and Bleeding for 2 turns. No Saving Throw.
- Vial: 1d4 poison; on a failed Constitution Saving Throw, Bleeding for 1 turn.
Festering
- Primed: 1d6 poison; the target can't regain hit points for 3 turns. No Saving Throw.
- Vial: 1d4 poison; on a failed Constitution Saving Throw, no healing for 2 turns.
Befuddling
- Primed: 1d6 poison and breaks Concentration. Constitution Saving Throw or Silenced for up to 2 turns, saving again after the first.
- Vial: 1d4 poison; on a failed Constitution Saving Throw, breaks Concentration and Silenced for 1 turn.
Crippling
- Primed: 1d6 poison. Constitution Saving Throw or Crippled (can't move) for 2 turns; on a success, movement halved.
- Vial: 1d4 poison; on a failed Constitution Saving Throw, Crippled for 1 turn.
Stunning
- Primed: 1d6 poison. Constitution Saving Throw or Stunned for 1 turn; on a success, Weakened (half weapon damage).
Maddening
- Primed: 1d6 poison. Wisdom Saving Throw or Maddened for 1 turn: it attacks the nearest creature.
Agony
- Primed: 2d6 psychic instead of poison. No Saving Throw.
- Vial: 2d4 psychic; a Constitution Saving Throw halves it.
Paralysing
- Primed: 1d6 poison. Constitution Saving Throw or Paralysed for 1 turn (melee hits within 3 m are critical); on a success, Slowed.
Saving Throws are made with Disadvantage when the venom lands with a Sneak Attack (choose “Sneak Attack: Venom” in the reaction prompt), on a critical hit, or while you're hidden. Bleeding targets already have Disadvantage on Constitution Saving Throws.
Features by level
3Rogue
- Prime Venom and Throw Vial
- Envenom: your poison damage forces a Constitution Saving Throw or Poisoned
- Toxicology: proficiency in Medicine
- Lasting Venoms: oils, poisons and toxins stay on your weapons 50% longer; Poisoner's Hand (Chocolate Edition) coatings last 10 turns. Effects on targets are unchanged.
- Venoms: Bleeding, Festering
5Rogue
- Venom Strike: Medicine check (DC 17) for a free poisoned main-hand attack
- Venoms: Befuddling, Crippling
6Rogue
- Toxin Tolerance: resistant to poison; Advantage on Saving Throws against being Poisoned
7Rogue
- Quick Venoms: once per turn, Prime Venom or Dip costs no bonus action
- Twin Vials: after a vial, your next vial that turn costs no bonus action
- Venoms: Stunning, Maddening
9Rogue
- Harvest Venom: killing a creature affected by your venom returns a charge, once per turn
- Venom: Agony
11Rogue
- Toxin Immunity: immune to poison damage and to being Poisoned
- Venom Mastery: +1 to your venom DC; venom damage dice grow one size (primed d6 to d8, vials d4 to d6); vials burst in 3 m
- Venom: Paralysing
Toxin charges
Restored on a short rest.
4Level 3
5Level 5
7Level 7
8Level 9
10Level 11