I try to avoid "gotcha" DMing. It's frustrating for players to focus on what feels like an unimportant detail. If the players are wrong about what's unimportant, then give their characters a wisdom save to notice.

I can easily imagine what a stronger person would be able to lift. But I can't easily imagine what a wiser person would remember to check.

I was playing D&D (for the first time) and my party were a group of exterminators killing giant spiders on city rooftops. The first thing I did when we got up there was tie myself off to a chimney. Later, we were fighting a really big spider that was right at the edge of the roof:

Me: "I hurl myself at the spider."

DM: "You mean you try to hit the spider, or try to grapple the spider...?"

Me: "IDK, I just throw all my body weight at it."

The spider ended up splatted dead on the ground (traumatizing some unfortunate passerby), I ended up dangling off the side of the building, and one of my party members had to make a saving throw to dodge the rope as it swung through his square, LOL!

edit: Mistakes were made! Oops.

Great show.

Poison is generic. Venom is specific to normal method of delivery (e.g. snakes and bees).

Swallowing venom may or may not hurt you. Probably not a great idea, but there’s a better chance you’ll be okay.

Getting a known poison stabbed/injected intravenously seems likely to be pretty effective, but it depends on the mode of action. Blood goes everywhere in the body, so it will likely find its target eventually.

Alternatively, his blade was not very deadly unless he got it in someone's mouth.

That's for poisonous vs venomous, but poison is a generic term, the substance won't care how it got into your bloodstream.

Yes, but he said it was coated in poison, not venom. Licking it was a proper way to administer the dose.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poison

“a substance that through its chemical action usually kills, injures, or impairs an organism”

Poison doesn’t have to be swallowed

Confirmed😂 +1

an inept hero who sets out to find the cure to a plague, but ends up fighting a larger evil. Yoshihiko is guided by a comedic Buddha, and accompanied by an incompetent wizard, a woman who wants to kill Yoshihiko because she thinks he killed her father, and a warrior who will kill Yoshihiko as soon as the warrior finishes telling Yoshihiko his stories.

That's a great setup. It's like a reverse 1001 Nights.

Feels familiar but I can't place the title... 🤔

That die has too few sides