Poison Bomb

“Deadly Secrets Unleashed: The Terrifying Power of the Poison Bomb!”

Dangerous and dishonorable, the poison bomb is a deadly weapon that strikes terror in the hearts of foes. Its inner core contains alchemist’s fire, surrounded by thin bladders filled with potent poison. The bomb delivers various types of poisons, including contact, injected, and inhaled, unleashing death and mayhem upon its detonation.

Construction and Payload

The poison bomb is a carefully crafted weapon designed for maximum lethality. It comprises an alchemist’s fire core enclosed within thin bladders containing deadly poisons. For injected poisons, the bladders also hold small shards of metal to facilitate poison delivery. Filling the reservoirs of this bomb requires a full 40 doses of poison, making this weapon as costly as it is dangerous.

Deadly Effects

Upon detonation, the poison bomb inflicts both bomb damage and unleashes the effects of its deadly payload, causing havoc among those caught in its blast radius. The bomb offers different delivery methods based on the type of poison used:

• Contact Poison: Anyone within five feet of the detonation automatically suffers the poison’s effects, with no chance to avoid it. Those within 15 feet must make a Reflex save (DC 20) to dodge the poison spray, while those within ten feet face an automatic -4 penalty on their Reflex saves.
• Inhaled Poison: The poison bomb creates a poisonous cloud with a 30-foot radius, affecting everyone within that area.
• Injected Poison: This is the deadliest variant of this bomb. Within a ten-foot radius of the detonation, each individual is struck by 1d8 doses of the poison, with no chance to avoid the swarms of hot, poisoned metal flying through the air. Those between ten and 20 feet of the explosion must make a Reflex save (DC 20) to avoid being hit by a shard of poisoned metal.

Expensive and Lethal

The poison bomb’s effectiveness comes at a steep price. Priced at 150 gp, the bomb requires an additional cost for the 40 doses of poison used in its construction. The weight of the poison bomb is 25 lb, excluding the poison payload.

3.5 Version

Ultimate Equipment Guide II

Author Greg Lynch, J. C. Alvarez

Publisher Mongoose Publishing

Publish date 2005

Dangerous and dishonourable, the poison bomb is a deadly weapon. The inner core of alchemist’s fire in one of these bombs is surrounded by thin bladders filled with poison. In the case of an injected poison, the bladders are also filled with small shards of metal to help deliver the poison. Poisons delivered by means of a poison bomb are either contact, injected or inhaled poisons. It takes a full 40 doses of poison to fill up the reservoirs of a poison bomb, making this weapon at least as expensive as it is dangerous. It does bomb damage in addition to the effects of its deadly payload.

• A poison bomb filled with contact poison will affect everyone within five feet of the detonation automatically, with no saving throw possible to avoid the poison (saving throws against the poison’s effects are still possible, of course). Everyone within 15 feet of the detonation will be required to make a Reflex save (DC 20) to avoid the spray of poison. Those within ten feet of the detonation suffer an automatic -4 penalty on their Reflex saves.
• This bomb filled with inhaled poison creates a poisonous cloud with a 30-foot radius.
• A bomb filled with injected poison is the deadliest of all poison bombs. Everyone within a ten-foot radius of the detonation will be struck by 1d8 doses of the poison, with no saving throw to avoid the swarms of hot, poisoned metal flying through the air (saving throws against the poison’s effects are still possible). Everyone between ten and 20 feet of the explosion must make a Reflex save (DC 20) to avoid being hit by a shard of poisoned metal.

Poison Bomb: 150 gp + price of 40 doses of poison to be used in the bomb; 25 lb. (weight given is without the bomb’s poison payload)