Venomous vs. Poisonous

You know those annoying folks who are always so worried about what words you’re using when they still know perfectly well what you meant?  Yeah - Not our favorite either.  Whether I call it dirt, soil or earth, you know what’s sticking to my shoe.

When it comes to venomous vs. poisonous, there is a scientific difference.  But I hate scientific differences.  I like common sense.  So here is the best way I have heard it described:

If it if bites you and you die, it is venomous.

If you bite it and you die, it is poisonous.

So, since this month it’s All About Spiders - we are primarily talking about venoms.  If it were All About Mushrooms, then it would be poisons.

Should you care?  Probably not!  We are equipping you to better understand the difference and protect yourself from those annoying word police folks.  But, you know what?  We’re going to keep using poison, venom and toxin as interchangeable.  Yeah, we’re rebels like that!

This post was written as part of the recently released Savagery of the Spider Men aka All About Spiders and Poisons, the latest in our Small Bites editions.  Each Small Bites book looks deeply at one subject, a character archetype, a race/monster, a style of questing, or some other role-playing/world building subject.  This one details everything having to do with spiders and poison, but with a full defined mission showing both the stats for point-based characters (like in Legend Quest) and class-based characters like in most of the die-20 games.  Not only that, but we get into what it takes for a GM to put a bit of that fear back into your missions (not cosmic horror, but some jump scares and some nervousness).  Some of the sense of uncertainty that FRPGs had when they were new.

We hope we’re getting you interested.  If you want to see the World Walker edition for FREE!! click the link here.  If we’ve hooked you and you want to get the full 68 pages of content in the Game Masters’ edition, click here.