Afterwards, see if sneaky stabbies/uppercutties are too strong.

Sharee wrote: »

Just a guess, but I believe this will be coming with the update that brings dark brotherhood/thieves guild in the game, and has been planned from the beginning.

Otherwise Emetic Russula makes no sense

You could be right^^
And there're more than just Emetic Russula which doesn't make any sense atm.

I'd like them to be usable but I can't think of any viable way to do it.

Weapons already have enchants, so I'd assume weapon poison would just be a temporary buff applied pre-combat that only lasts for a few strikes. You'd have to make it pretty powerful to be worth using, bringing in balance issues.

As for putting them in pockets, yeah that could work, but would it really be worth using up a potion just to kill some random NPC and get 50g in return? There would have to be targets that are actually desirable to sneak up on and poison.

My guess is poisons will share the potion cooldown, and will buff you attacks for a duration, so you need to make a choice between offensive or defensive.

As long as the differences in poisons are meaningful in gameplay, yes. Poisons for rogues in WoW added another dimension to playing that class. When WoW started to dumb down the game and reduce the number of poisons and the necessity of actually picking and choosing to buy certain types of poisons for your rogue, it removed some of the fun from the class.