Drugs, Medicinals, Poisons, and Serums

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Drugs, medicinals, and poisons appear by category on Table 7–34: Drugs, Medicinals, and Poisons and are detailed on the linked pages. The table includes pricing for individual types of these items, and they all have negligible bulk. The rules for how drugs and poisons can affect a character can be found in Afflictions.

Drugs

Though numerous pharmaceuticals and similar substances can be referred to as drugs, this entry refers specifically to narcotics that are not typically used for medicinal purposes. Drugs are normally weaponized by loading a single dose into a weapon with the injection weapon property, such as an injection glove or needler pistol. Drugs can also be slipped into the food or drink of a target, normally requiring both that a character succeed at a DC 20 Sleight of Hand check and that the imbiber fail a separate DC 20 Perception check to notice the change in the drugged food or drink. For more information about drugs, including stat blocks for specific drugs and details about addiction and their other effects, see Afflictions.

Medicinals

Though numerous pharmaceuticals and similar substances can be referred to as medicinals, this entry refers specifically to substances primarily used to treat ailments and which lack addictive properties. However, many medicinals can also be used to help incapacitate a target or capture one largely unharmed. Medicinals can be delivered in the same way as drugs, including via a successful attack with a weapon with the injection weapon special property.

The three most common categories of medicinals are described here. Regardless of a medicinal’s effects, its price is tied to its tier, as shown on Table: Drugs, Medicinals, and Poisons.

Analgesic

An analgesic deadens sensory input and is used by medical professionals to reduce sensations of pain. If you take or are injected with an analgesic, you are flat-footed for 1 round per tier of the medicinal. You also gain a bonus (equal to the analgesic’s tier) to saving throws against pain effects for 10 minutes per tier of the medicinal.

Antitoxin

An antitoxin is a broad-spectrum medicinal designed to weaken all poisons in your system. When you take or are injected with an antitoxin, you gain a bonus (equal to 3 + the medicinal’s tier) to saving throws against poison for a number of hours equal to its tier.

Sedative

Numerous mild sedatives commonly available for purchase have legitimate medical uses, but they are also popular among some bounty hunters to help capture their quarries alive. If you take or are injected with a sedative, you take nonlethal damage. A tier 1 sedative deals 1d4 nonlethal damage, a tier 2 sedative deals 2d4 nonlethal damage, a tier 3 sedative deals 4d4 nonlethal damage, and a tier 4 sedative deals 8d4 nonlethal damage. When suffering from an emotion or fear effect that allows a saving throw to negate it, you can take or be injected with a sedative that permits you to immediately attempt a new saving throw with a bonus equal to the sedative’s tier to end the effect, as long as it’s not a permanent or instantaneous effect.

Poisons

Poisons are normally weaponized by loading a single dose into a weapon with the injection special property, such as an injection glove or needler pistol. It’s also possible to add a dose of poison to a melee weapon that deals piercing or slashing damage, though this takes a standard action and requires the poison to be in a vial that’s already in hand. For more information on poisons, including their effects and how they work, see Afflictions.

Table: Drugs, Medicinals, And Poisons
Substance	Level	Price	Dose
Drugs
Hyperleaf	1	95	1
Dreamshiver	5	2,500	1
Transdimensional pesh	10	14,000	1
Megaopiate	12	22,000	1
Medicinals
Tier 1	1	150	1
Tier 2	5	3,000	1
Tier 3	10	15,000	1
Tier 4	15	23,500	1
Poisons
Amblaree	2	175	1
Biocide	4	340	1
Blue whinnis	8	1,400	1
Deathblade	20	132,500	1
Green lotus extract	8	1,500	1
Hydrofluoric Acid	14	10,500	1
Id moss	2	175	1
Insanity mist	4	4,000	1
Turbocurarine	3	260	1
Black lotus extract	20	140,000	1
Ungol dust	9	12,500	1

Serums

Serums are vials of magic liquid that you can imbibe as a standard action, inject into a creature with an injection weapon, or carefully trickle down the throat of a helpless or unconscious creature as a full action. The following serums use the standard serum rules.

Table: Serums
Item	Level	Price	Bulk
Polymorphic serum, mk 1	3	250	—
Rad-out serum	3	225	—
Polymorphic serum, mk 2	6	675	—
Regeneration serum	6	600	—
Polymorphic serum, mk 3	9	2,100	—
Polymorphic serum, mk 4	12	5,700	—
Polymorphic serum, mk 5	15	18,000	—
Polymorphic serum, mk 6	18	60,000	—