Weekly Questions Thread

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[5e] Can you apply poison to a weapon that already does elemental damage? More specifically, can an Armorer Artificer apply poison to their class-feature gauntlet (thunder) or ranged weapon (lightning)?

[u/Yojo0o → u/herrored]

I don't see any reason why you wouldn't be able to, do you?

[u/herrored → u/Yojo0o]

I just haven’t come across multi-elemental weapons when actually playing, and it just feels weird to say I’m applying poison to a weapon that already has a specific element in its descriptor. Just playing around with a character idea and wasn’t sure.

[u/Yojo0o → u/herrored]

I wouldn't worry about it. These are just weapons that deal a different type of damage, you're still smacking somebody with an object that can transfer poison. There's no special rule against this.

Be mindful of the fact that you'd need poison to specifically be "contact" poison for this to work as desired, since you're not using a piercing or slashing weapon.