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New blog preview is up! Tear it apart, ye savages!

http://www.fasagames.com/blog/?post_id= ... e---poison

I like it and hope there will be some nasty poisons as well as antidotes presented

When we are talking about interval. Have you considered adding this to Sustained Action abilities to know how often you need to roll?

Interval doesn't really fit as a sustained action. The point of a sustained action is that it takes up your standard action each round for X amount of time. Sine poison Resistance and Effect tests don't take up the standard action, that doesn't really apply.

In general, I've been tracking it the way I track spell effects and the like, counting down on/after the character's turn during a round.

Thanks for the update. This looks like a great revamp of the mechanic.

For me it's hard to understand why negative modifiers don't apply to Resistance Tests. Generally poison makes you weaker and it should be harder to resist with time.

Is there any difference between paralytic and debiliating poisons other than stats used to resist them? Because effect (you can't act) is the same.

Much of what you describe is actually how they function; at least, I think it is what you are describing. Though I am fairly certain you are misunderstanding how the death functions work. Against a character with a Toughness Step of 7, a debilitating poison would not need a result of 14, but 7 successes. For this to be instant, it would require a result of 37. The Iron Constitution talent improves resistance to poison and disease.

Oh, I see... but the penalty is -2 per success, so it would only take 7 successes to get a Total Penalty of 14, wouldn't it?

Iron Constitution (and Cold Purify) are both pretty rare, but I think that's OK -- poisons, and antidotes, both seem like things that are best kept in the equipment section to me.

Yeah, I did my math wrong. Apologies for that.