Poison arrows?

[Axatax]

I don't know exactly where this question should go, so -- there's clearly the concept of poison arrows in BG(x), but AFAIK, in none of the games can you actually obtain any as a PC or for your party NPCs.  I think there's maybe one character that can create poison arrows, but it's something rare, while various low-level enemies use them very often.

Not really a question, but maybe an idea would be for a store to sell them, or a generic spell to poison arrows (or bladed weapons).

 

[CamDawg]

I'm going to move this to general mod discussion, as it seems a more natural place for this suggestion.

As for poison arrows, yes, it was an innate ability of Eldoth in BG to create them.

[AnnabelleRose]

There are the Arrows of Biting in BG1 & 2.

https://baldursgate.fandom.com/wiki/Arrow_of_Biting

[Axatax]

Do they actually work properly, though?  The poison effect isn't reported (in the same fashion as a party member being poisoned or an enemy poisoned with something like the Dagger of Venom - ie. "X takes Y poison damage").

 

[Dan_P]

They're working for me, with the same poison messages as Dagger of Venom (on BG2EE v2.6.6). Character is poisoned, then you get the yellow poison damage text a bunch of times. It doesn't do 30% hp. It lasts 20 seconds and does 1 damage per second, sometimes stopping at 19 damage, for some reason. This is the arow05 item, same one you can buy from stores in BG2.