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The Whispers of Death Companion

The Whispers of

Craft (Poison) Difficulty and

Raw Material Cost

Death Companion

Poison

Craft DC

Raw Cost

Small centipede poison

30 gp

Greenblood oil

33 gp

Welcome to the Whispers of Death Companion. This

product is designed to supplement Whispers of Death: A

Sourcebook for Assassin Characters. If you do not own

this book, a lot of the content in this supplement will be of

no use. Please go to www.sunderedblade.com to get your

copy of Whispers of Death.

This supplement contains a few things that were

left out of Whispers of Death, particularly new rules for

poisons. This supplement also contains an example

assassin encounter as well as a variant on the rules to

compensating assassin characters for jobs.

Medium -size spider venom

50 gp

Bloodroot

33 gp

Purple worm poison

233 gp

Large scorpion venom

66 gp

Wyvern poison

1,000 gp

Blue whinnies

40 gp

Giant wasp poison

70 gp

Shadow essence

83 gp

Black adder venom

40 gp

Deathblade

600 gp

Malyss root paste

166 gp

Nitharit

216 gp

New Poison Rules

Dragon bile

500 gp

Sassone leaf residue

100 gp

Terinav root

250 gp

Carrion crawler brain juice

66 gp

Black lotus extract

833 gp

The following section is devoted to new rules for poisons.

You will find a variant use of the Craft skill for making

poisons, as well as the DCs for all poisons from the DMG,

new feats for poison use and crafting, and some magical

poisons.

Oil of taggit

30 gp

Id moss

41 gp

Striped toadstool

60 gp

Arsenic

40 gp

Lich dust

83 gp

Dark reaver powder

100 gp

Craft (Poison) Skill

Ungol dust

333 gp

Burnt othur fumes

700 gp

Insanity mist

500 gp

You are trained in the craft of making poison.

Check: You must roll a Craft (Poison) check to

refine raw poison material into a usable poison. Refining

poison requires a Poison Making Kit, which has a cost of

25gp, and is illegal. Without this kit, all Craft (Poison)

checks are made at a –2 to the roll. Masterwork Poison

Making Kits exist, and cost 170gp, and add a +2 to all

Craft (Poison) checks.

Refining poison costs one third of the poison’s

cost in raw materials. You may reduce this cost by ½ if

you possess the unrefined components of the poison (such

as poison from a scorpion’s tail).

Follow all other rules for the Craft skill in the

Player’s Handbook.

Benefit: You may prepare a poison to be

delivered differently. You could, therefore, prepare a

Contact poison to be used as Injury poison. Doing so

requires raw materials equal to one tenth of the base price

for the poison, and a successful Craft (Poison) check equal

to half the DC for making the poison. This process takes

one hour per dose of poison.

Special: When crafting new poison, you can

create it using any delivery method at no additional cost.

Craft Empowered Poison (General)

You can craft poison that cause greater effects.

Prerequisite: Craft (Poison) 10 ranks, Craft

Improved Poison.

Benefit: You can create poison that has its effects

increased by one-half. Multiply any numeric effects (such

as ability damage) by 1.5 when dealing the effect of this

poison. Creating such poison costs raw materials equal to

double the price of standard poison.

Poison-Related Feats

Alternate Delivery Method (General)

You can deliver poisons with different delivery methods.

Prerequisites: The ability to apply poison to a

weapon without accidentally poisoning yourself, such as

the Assassin’s poison use ability, Craft (Poison) 10 ranks.

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Broken Might: The broken might poison is

designed to inflict massive damage to the target’s strength

score. Broken might is purple worm poison with an

enchantment of ray of enfeeblement cast upon it. When the

target is injured by broken might, he must make a

Fortitude save as normal for the purple work poison (DC

24). Immediately afterward, whether the save is

successful or not, the target must make another Fortitude

save to resist the ray of enfeeblement effect. The standard

DC for this extra Fortitude save is 11 and the effect lasts

for 6 minutes. ( Note: The DC for magical poisons may be

different depending on the creator. All DCs for magical

effects are the lowest possible to cast the spell.)

Caster Level: 6 th ; Prerequisites: Craft Magical

Poison, ray of enfeeblement ; Market Price: 1,000gp.

Cloud of Shattered Faith: Kept in a jar, the cloud

of shattered faith is a misty poison that must be inhaled by

its target. It is insanity mist poison enchanted with bestow

curse . Upon inhaling the mist, the target must first make

the standard poison initial Fortitude saving throw for

insanity mist (DC 15). Whether or not this save is

successful, the target must also make a Will save to resist

the effect of the bestow curse spell. The standard DC for

this Will save is 16, and the curse effectively lowers the

target’s wisdom by 6 points to a minimum of 1. ( Note:

The DC for magical poisons may be different depending

on the creator. All DCs for magical effects are the lowest

possible to cast the spell.)

Caster Level: 10 th ; Prerequisites: Craft Magical

Poison, bestow curse ; Market Price: 3,500gp.

Mage-Bane: This magically enchanted id moss is

enchanted with a feeblemind spell. When ingested, the

target must first make a Fortitude save to resist the initial

effect of the id moss (DC 14). Whether this save is made

or not, the target must also make a Will save to resist the

effects of the feeblemind spell. The standard DC for this

save is 17, and anyone ingested with Mage-Bane that is an

arcane spell caster suffers a –4 penalty to the Will save.

( Note: The DC for magical poisons may be different

depending on the creator. All DCs for magical effects are

the lowest possible to cast the spell.)

Caster Level: 12 th ; Prerequisites: Craft Magical

Poison, feeblemind ; Market Price: 3,125gp.

Repulsive Charm: This ungol dust poison is

enchanted with a bestow curse spell. Upon inhalation, the

target must first make the initial Fortitude saving throw

for the poison (DC 15). Whether this save is successful or

not, the target must immediately make a Will save to resist

the effects of the bestow curse spell. The standard DC for

this save is 16, and the curse effectively lowers the target’s

charisma by 6 points to a minimum of 1. ( Note: The DC

for magical poisons may be different depending on the

creator. All DCs for magical effects are the lowest possible

to cast the spell.)

Caster Level: 10 th ; Prerequisites: Craft Magical

Poison, bestow curse ; Market Price: 3,000gp.

Craft Improved Poison (General)

You can craft poison that is harder to resist.

Prerequisite: Craft (Poison) 8 ranks.

Benefit: You can create poison that has a higher

DC to resist. Add 2 to the DC of any poison created using

this feat. Improved poison requires raw materials

equaling 1.5 times the price of standard poison.

Craft Magical Poison (Item Creation)

You can imbue poison with magical effects.

Prerequisite: Spellcaster level 5 th +

Benefit: The character can create any magical

poison whose prerequisites the character meets. Crafting a

magical poison takes 1 day for each 1,000 gp in its base

price. To craft a magical poison, the character must spend

1/25 of its base price in XP and use up raw materials

costing half of its base price.

Some magical poisons incur extra costs in

material components or XP as noted in their descriptions.

These costs are in addition to those derived from the

magical poison’s base price.

Craft Maximized Poison (General)

You can craft poison that delivers maximum effects.

Prerequisite: Craft (Poison) 12 ranks, Craft

Improve Poison.

Benefit: You can create poison that has all

variable, numeric effects of maximized. Maximized

poison deals the maximum amount of possible ability

damage. Creating maximized poison requires raw

materials equaling 3 times the price of standard poison.

Craft Quickened Poison (General)

You can craft poison that deals its secondary damage

quicker.

Prerequisite: Craft (Poison) 15 ranks, Craft

Improved Poison.

Benefit: You can create poison that has its

secondary damage take effect one round after the initial

damage. Quickened poison requires raw materials

equaling 4 times the price of standard poison.

Normal: Poison deals its secondary damage one

minute after its initial damage.

Magical Poisons

The following poisons are standard poisons that have

been enchanted with magic. In addition to the standard

save for the poison, the poisoned character must also roll a

save to resist the effects of the spell. Unless otherwise

noted, the spell effect occurs after the initial effect of the

poison.

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Sever Shadow: This giant wasp poison is

enchanted with a bestow curse spell. Upon injury, the

target must first make the initial Fortitude saving throw

for the poison (DC 18). Whether or not this save is

successful, the target must immediately make a Will save

to resist the effects of the bestow curse spell. The standard

DC for this Will save is 16, and the curse severs the

target’s connection with the shadow world. Until the

curse is removed, the target suffers a –6 to all Hide and

Move Silently skill checks. ( Note: The DC for magical

poisons may be different depending on the creator. All

DCs for magical effects are the lowest possible to cast the

spell.)

With this situation, the assassin is getting paid depending

on the difficulty of the task, not just his skill alone.

Example

Encounter

The following encounter is designed as an example of the

material presented in Whispers of Death , but also serves as

a tough battle for an unprepared party of adventurers.

Fitting this encounter into any adventure is easy. It takes

place alongside any road in your campaign, and you can

easily work it into an adventure that the main villain has

hired these shadowblades to remove of the adventurers.

This encounter involves two assassins from the

Order of the Shadowblade. One assassin, Sarren, is an

elite assassin who is prepared to take on any task.

Krennar, Sarren’s assistant, is here to sneak attack the

adventurers from the nearby forest.

This encounter is designed for characters of

levels 10-12. You could increase the difficulty by adding

another sniper in the forest to back up Sarren’s tactical

assault, or remove the sniper altogether to lessen the

difficulty. Another way to scale the difficulty of this

encounter is to give the assassins access to poison.

Caster Level: 10 th ; Prerequisites: Craft Magical

Poison, bestow curse ; Market Price: 3,000gp.

Alternate

Compensation

Rules

The Compensation table in Whispers of Death is very

similar to the table for awarding experience. As the

assassin attains higher level, he gets paid less for lower CR

kills, while a lower level assassin would get paid more for

the same kill. This can be a little strange depending on the

case. To make up for the strangeness, consider the

following alternate table for compensating your assassin

characters.

This table is designed with the freelance assassin

in mind. He would charge more as he goes up in level,

even if it is a lower CR assassination. The original table

from Whispers of De ath is good for compensating the

career assassin, who gets paid directly from his guild.

Area 1: The Campfire

Depending on how you want the PCs to encounter the

assassins, you can have them come across the campfire

during a journey, or it can be the party’s resting place.

Regardless of the situation, the campfire is the area that

the PCs are going to encounter Sarren, and the place that

all the action is going to happen.

If you choose to have the PCs come across the

campfire during a journey, Sarren will begin his attack

once the party has reached the crossroads and perhaps

Compensation for Assassin Characters (In GP)

Assassin

Level

CR 1-2

CR 3-4

CR 5-6

CR 7-8

CR 9-10

CR 11-12

CR 13-14 CR 15-16 CR 17-18

CR 19-20

1-2

100

300

500

700

900

1,100

1,300

1,500

1,700

1,900

3-4

300

900

1,500

2,100

2,700

3,300

3,900

4,500

5,100

5,700

5-6

500

1,500

2,500

3,500

4,500

5,500

6,500

7,500

8,500

9,500

7-8

700

2,100

3,500

4,900

6,300

7,700

9,100

10,500

11,900

13,300

9-10

900

2,700

4,500

6,300

8,100

9,900

11,700

13,500

15,300

17,100

11-12

1,100

3,300

5,500

7,700

9,900

12,100

14,300

16,500

18,700

20,900

13-14

1,300

3,900

6,500

9,100

11,700

14,300

16,900

19,500

22,100

24,700

15-16

1,500

4,500

7,500

10,500

13,500

16,500

19,500

22,500

25,500

28,500

17-18

1,700

5,100

8,500

11,900

15,300

18,700

22,100

25,500

28,900

32,300

19-20

1,900

5,700

9,500

13,300

17,100

20,900

24,700

28,500

32,300

36,100

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stopped to rest at the campsite.

If you choose to have the campfire be the resting

place of the PCs, Sarren will most likely make his attack at

night. This situation also serves as a method of increasing

the difficulty. Not only are the PCs surprised, but also

they are also completely unprepared to engage in combat.

In this situation, Sarren will instead attack whoever is on

watch first.

Sarren’s combat tactics are detailed below, and

Krennar will follow Sarren’s lead at all times.

Area 2: The Forest

Whichever way Sarren decides to attack the PCs, Krennar

has his bow ready up in the nearby trees. Krennar should

get sneak attacks every round until someone has located

him, though you may wish to award Krennar a bonus to

his Hide check due to the immense amount of time he has

had to prepare.

Sarren, Shadowblade

Sarren is an experienced assassin, and will use any tactics

necessary to complete his tasks. When dealing with larger

groups of adventurers, Sarren will remove of the largest

threats first. He will utilize his magical abilities before

moving in to attack with a weapon.

The PC spell caster is likely to be Sarren’s first

target. Sarren will use his blindness/deafness spell to

attempt to disrupt the caster’s spells. The next threat to

Sarren is any fighters, paladins, or rangers in the party.

He will pick out which one he feels to the most powerful,

and utilize his hold person spell to keep that PC out of the

action. Sarren’s last priority is a PC rogue or assassin, as

his uncanny dodge ability negates the PC’s sneak attacks.

Sarren’s last spell will be black edge , which will give his

longsword the edge it needs to slice through the party’s

armor.

While casting these spells upon the PCs, Krennar

will be launching an attack with his bow to confuse the

party. Once the party has moved closer to the forest,

Sarren will utilize his ability to hide in plain sight and

sneak attack the next most powerful warrior in the party.

Depending on the time allotted between casting his spells

and the PCs engaging the situation, this attack may be a

death attack as well. From then on, Sarren will utilize his

ability to hide in plain sight, as well as his shadow meld

ability, to keep out of the reach of the PCs while

simultaneously whittling down their hit points.

If at any time Sarren doesn’t have control of the

battle, he will make no hesitation to escape. In this case,

Sarren is prepared with many spells, including expeditious

retreat , which is perfect for escaping monk PCs, and

darkness. He will also use his shadow meld to disappear

from existence for just enough time to slip away and leave

the PCs confused. Sarren has little regard for the life of

Krennar, and will escape even if i t means Krennar will be

killed. If Krennar is captured and held for questioning,

Class/Level : Rogue 6/Shadowblade 6

Sex/Race: Male elf

Height/Weight: 5 ft. 3 in./107 lbs.

Challenge Rating: 12

Hit Dice: 12d6+12

Hit Points: 72

Initiative: +4 (+4 Dex)

Speed: 30 ft.

Armor Class: 22 (+4 Dex, +3 Int, +2 bracers, +1 ring, +1

amulet)

Attacks: +14/+9 melee (Longsword +1)

Damage: 1d8+2 melee (Longsword +1)

Special Attacks: Death attack (DC 19), Shadowblade (Dex

bonus to attack), Sneak attack +6d6

Special Qualities: Evasion, hide in plain sight,

shadowblade (Int bonus to AC), shadow meld 2/day,

uncanny dodge (Dex bonus to AC ), uncanny dodge (can’t

be flanked)

Alignment: Chaotic evil

Saves: Fort +7, Ref +16, Will +6

Abilities: Str 12, Dex 18, Con 12, Int 16, Wis 11, Chr 16

Skills: Disable Device +19, Hide +22, Listen +19, Move

Silent +20, Open Lock +22, Spot +19, Tumble +20

Feats: Alertness, Dodge, Mobility, Skill Focus (Hide),

Weapon Focus (Longsword)

Possessions: Amulet of natural armor +1, bracers of armor

+2, cloak of resistance +2, longsword +1, ring of protection

Shadowblade Spells Known (cast per day: 2/2/2):

1 st – Expeditious retreat, hold portal.

2 nd – Blindness/deafness, darkness, invisibility.

3 rd – Black edge, hold person, invisibility sphere.

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Sarren will enlist the aid of other shadowblades to either

assassinate Krennar before he can slip any information, or

to finish off the PCs.

Krennar, Sniper

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Class/Level : Rogue 7/Sniper 3

Sex/Race: Male elf

Height/Weight: 5 ft./ 96 lbs.

Challenge Rating: 70

Hit Dice: 10d6+10

Hit Points: 47

Initiative: +3 (+3 Dex)

Speed: 30 ft.

Armor Class: 13 (+3 Dex)

Attacks: +8/+3 melee (shortsword) and +11/+6 ranged

(longbow +1)

Damage: 1d6+1 melee (shortsword) and 1d8+1 (longbow

+1)

Special Attacks: Death attack (DC 15), ranged death

attack 10’, ranged sneak attack 45’, sneak attack +6d6

Special Qualities: Evasion, uncanny dodge (Dex bonus to

AC), uncanny dodge (can’t be flanked)

Alignment: Neutral evil

Saves: Fort +4, Ref +11, Will +3

Abilities: Str 12, Dex 17, Con 13, Int 14, Wis 10, Chr 8

Skills: Disable Device +17, Hide +16, Listen +15, Move

Silent +16, Open Lock +18, Spot +15, Tumble +16

Feats: Far Shot, Point Blank Shot, Precise Shot, Rapid Shot

Possessions: Longbow +1, shortsword.

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Krennar is Sarren’s assistant. Despite his high level, he is

an initiate in the Order of the Shadowblade, and once

worked on his own as a sniper. Krennar is nowhere near

being a natural leader, and has resorted to following

orders from Sarren in order to get money.

Krennar is hidden in a nearby tree. Due to the

amount of time Krennar has had to prepare his hiding

place, you should give him a +5 bonus to his Hide check

and/or allow him to take a 20 on his Hide check.

Krennar will begin his first attack whenever

Sarren begins to cast spells on the PCs. This first attack is

either a ranged sneak attack, ranged death attack, or

standard attacks depending on how far away the PCs are.

Krennar will continue to make ranged attacks on

the party until he is found. Krennar will then attempt to

relocate himself to another area, or defend himself if any

PC gets close enough to attack. Krennar will not attempt

to escape unless Sarren gives him the order to do so.

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