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Revision as of 08:38, 1 December 2015

Version 0.16: This article may not be up to date for the latest stable release of Crawl.

The Poison Magic school concerns itself primarily with the poisoning of monsters, allowing skilled practitioners to deal massive amounts of damage to most natural monsters. It also offers a few less aggressive spells, such as a single Summonings option and the ability to remedy poison in your own system.

Although Poison Magic is very effective in many of the earlier portions of the game, you will inevitably come across a wide variety of monsters that are almost completely immune to its powers. As such, practitioners are advised to eventually branch out into some other school of magic.

List of Poison Magic spells

Lvl 1
Sting.png Sting Poison Magic/Conjurations
Lvl 2
Cure poison.png Cure Poison Poison Magic
Lvl 3
Ignite poison.png Ignite Poison Poison Magic/Fire Magic/Transmutations
Mephitic cloud.png Mephitic Cloud Poison Magic/Air Magic/Conjurations
Spider form.png Spider Form Poison Magic/Transmutations
Lvl 4
Alistair's intoxication.png Alistair's Intoxication Poison Magic/Transmutations
Olgreb's toxic radiance.png Olgreb's Toxic Radiance Poison Magic
Lvl 5
Venom bolt.png Venom Bolt Poison Magic/Conjurations
Lvl 6
Poison arrow.png Poison Arrow Poison Magic/Conjurations
Poisonous cloud.png Poisonous Cloud Poison Magic/Air Magic/Conjurations

Sources of Poison Magic

Main Texts
Young Poisoner's Handbook (Sting, Cure Poison, Mephitic Cloud, Olgreb's Toxic Radiance, Venom Bolt)
Book of Envenomations (Spider Form, Alistair's Intoxication, Olgreb's Toxic Radiance, Poisonous Cloud)
Book of Annihilations (Poison Arrow)
Other Texts
Book of Changes (Spider Form)
Book of Clouds (Mephitic Cloud, Poisonous Cloud)
Book of Minor Magic (Mephitic Cloud)
Book of Party Tricks (Alistair's Intoxication)
Book of Power (Venom Bolt, Poisonous Cloud)

Poison Magic Aptitudes

From Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup 0.12 in-game documentation:

At Ba DE Dg Ds Dj Dr Fe Fo Gr Gh Gn HO Hu Ko Mf Mi Mu Na Op On Sp Te Tr Vp VS
-1 1 1 -1 0 N/A 0 -1 3 0 0 6 -1 0 0 1 -3 -2 3 2 N/A 0 0 -3 -1 0

(Green Draconians have +2.)

The average poison magic aptitude of whole species, excluding coloured draconian, is -0.462.

See Also

Skills
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