poison spell

[Etruan]

Is it possible to make a spell that puts a poison on your weapon? If so, how?

[ric36]

sort of. you need to decide what effect the poison has and then you have a number of ways of achieving the effect. The easiest way is as an enchantment, but the downside of that is that you cannot add extra enchantment to the weapon, so you couldn't have a magical poison blade, for example.

 

The other way would be to attach a script to the weapon, but I have not experimented with that from a finding the script target point of view. Easy to identify the wielder, but after that it becomes complicated.

 

From a simplicity point of view, I'd go with an enchantment.

[SpeckledGuar]

Yea, unlike Morrowind, I oblivion doesn't have "poison" as an effect by itself. You need to make a potion, enchantment, or spell with a drain or damage effect. That's how the diseases work too. Although I am not sure how exactly the cure spells work. I know alot of the magic mods out there have used custom icons and shaders to achieve the green texture of typical Morrowind style spells. You can modify those mods in your CS to let your character use them in any way you choose. You can also alter the Weapon in the CS to take more effects and alter it's enchantment. If you make a potion with all "ill" effects it is considered a poison by the game, and you can apply it to your weapon for one use. Just keep reapplying potions to your weapon.