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 INTRODUCTION
Welcome to this Free Preview of Poisonous Plants! This
preview contains just one of the plants found in the
Poisonous Plants PDF. You can get the all the great
content in this Top Selling, Five Star PDF right here!
Poisonous Plants features 5th edition D20 rules for
sixty-six deadly plants and one ooze from our own world
including hemlock, nightshade, and hellebore.
Each plant is presented with a stat-block outlining its
habitat, size, frequency, medical uses, damage, saving
throws, and challenge rating. Most entries feature
additional rules for creating herbal, alchemical, and
magical substances.
With this supplement you can:
• Craft insecticide from white cedar!
• Brew healing balm from nightshade!
• Extract weapon poison from bush rope!
• Empower your necromancy with baneberry!
• Fight oozes with myoporum!
• Enhance your protection spells with oleander!
• Use jimsonweed to target objects with fly spells!
• Use bay laurel to enhance your augury spells!
• Brew a sleep potion from black locust!
• Create dozens of other herbal and alchemical
concoctions!
• This material is heavily researched and the
effects of these poisons mirror reality. Some
cause paralysis, blindness, or terrifying
hallucinations. Some cause psychic damage. A
few contain acid. A couple cause creatures to
take radiant damage from the sun (known as
phototoxicity).
All types of poisons exist in the plant kingdom;
ingested, inhaled, injury, and touch. Some are only toxic
under certain conditions. Others are only toxic to certain
creatures. Many can be mistaken for something else. A
few are consumed deliberately. Those that affect herd
animals can precipitate a famine. When famine strikes,
characters are even more likely to eat toxic plants.
WHO ARE THESE RULES FOR?
These rules are primarily for DMs who want to bring a
higher level of verisimilitude to their campaigns. DMs can
use these plants to challenge PCs who forage, eat at a
tavern, or partake in a banquet. PCs might also overdose
when using these plants for medicinal or religious
purposes.
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These rules are also for anyone adventuring in the
wilderness. Anyone playing a druid will find these rules
useful and interesting. Any party without a druid will find
these rules dangerous and deadly. Wizards with herbalism
or alchemy kit proficiency can make good use of these
rules. Characters with Medicine or Nature skills will also
find these rules helpful.
Are your friends charred and burned? Acid, fire, or
radiation - it doesn’t matter! With the Medicine skill, an
herbalism kit, and some foxgloves, you can heal them
today!
Are all your healing spells and potions spent, but you
can’t rest? Brew a poultice from snowberry and keep
going!
Feeling exhausted? Worn out? Disadvantaged on
your ability checks? Try moonseed tonic and wake the
[bleep] up!
Are you frequently attacked? Do you suffer from
pain? Could you use some temporary hit points? Ask your
druid today about Elixir of Monkshood, the #1 physician-
recommended supplement for active adventurers. (Side
effects may include malaise, weakness, clumsiness, and paralysis).
Are your friends insane? Or merely confused? Or is it
you? Either way, an herbal decoction made from
mistletoe can cure mental illness and remove confusion.
Do you have secrets to pass along? Make an
Intelligence (Nature) check to know which plant’s leaves
can be inscribed with hidden messages!
Expecting necromancy? Add cassava to protection
from energy and save your life!
Using necromancy?? Add baneberry to your spells
for enhanced potency!
Paralyzed? No worries! Get your herbalism kit, grind
up some caper spurge and use it! You’ll be fine! (As long
as you make the Medicine check…)
These and many other astounding uses for deadly
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 BLEEDING HEART
The bleeding heart is a delicate, flowering plant that
blooms in the late spring. The bloom is often rosy, pink, or
white and resembles a heart. Bleeding hearts are easy to
grow and domesticated for their beauty. Dogs and horses
are the most commonly affected creatures.

Ingestion. Creatures that ingest a bleeding heart

must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or
take 7 (2d6) poison damage and be poisoned for 6 hours.
On a successful saving throw, the creature takes half as
much damage and is poisoned for 3 hours. The poisoned
creature must repeat the saving throw every hour, taking
3 (1d6) poison damage on a failed save or half as much on
a successful one. After two failed saving throws, the
creature becomes clumsy for 12 hours. After three failed
saving throws, the creature becomes weakened for 1d4
days. After four failed saving throws, the creature
becomes incapacitated with seizures for 1d4 hours. After
three successful saving throws, the damage of this poison
ends, but any conditions persist for their duration.

Analgesic. Characters proficient with alchemy Kits

and Arcana can make a DC 20 Intelligence (Arcana) check
craft a numbing salve from this plant. Characters that use
a dose of this salve gain 3d4 temporary hit points, which
fade after 1 hour. This extract also removes the pained
condition for 2 hours.

Industrial Use. The toxins in the bleeding heart are BLEEDING HEART
used in dyes, paints, and solvents. Tiny plant (herb)

Terrain Forest, urban

Insecticide. Characters proficient with alchemy kits Frequency Uncommon
and Arcana can make a DC 16 Intelligence (Arcana) check ID DC 14 (Corydalis [healing])
craft an insecticide from this plant. Any insects or insect- Type Ingestion DC 13
like creatures (including giant insects) that touch this Ingestion Onset 5d12 minutes
substance must make a DC 14 Constitution saving throw Protection from Poison Advantage and resistance only
with disadvantage, taking 7 (2d6) poison damage on a Medications Syphilis, blood disorders, tremors
failed save, or half as much on a successful one. Poisoned Symptoms Vomiting, tremors, drooling, diarrhea, and respiratory
insects must repeat the saving throw at the end of each of distress.
Traits Analgesic, industrial use, false facts, insecticide
their turns. After three successful saving throws, the
Challenge 1/4 (50 XP)
poison ends.

False Facts. Characters that fail the Intelligence

(Nature) check regarding this plant by 5 or more believe it
is corydalis, which is rumored to have healing properties.
This is not true. Instead, corydalis is mildly poisonous. If a
corydalis were found and consumed, the exposed
creature would make a DC 10 Constitution saving throw
or take 3 (1d6) poison damage. Characters must make a
DC 24 Intelligence (Nature) check regarding corydalis to
know that it is toxic, rather than curative.

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 APPENDIX: NEW CONDITIONS
CLUMSY
• A clumsy creature has disadvantage on Dexterity
checks.
• The creature has disadvantage with weapon
attacks that use Dexterity.

PAINED
• A creature suffering from debilitating pain has its
speed reduced by half.
• The creature has disadvantage on attack rolls and
ability checks.
• The creature cannot sleep

WEAKENED
• A weakened creature deals only half damage
with weapon attacks that use Strength.
• The creature has disadvantage on Strength
checks.

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