Grimrock

Making me run through my Antidote potions like water....

Nasty aren't they! You can also rest to remove the poison, it does waste food though. Another option is to visit the crystal.

Daniel.

All the choices.... So costly Q.Q are they on a timer or do I have to actually rest?

Just visit the crystal, man. Insta-heal!
And don't worry about resting- as long as you don't use it TOO often, you won't run out of food anytime soon.

its on a timer, and the duration is based on your poison resistance it seems. i want to say default is something like, 5 minutes? seems that way, anyway.

resting speeds it up, as it makes "game-time" move faster.

crystals are on a 160 second (2 minutes 40) cool down, so they are a decent option also. in late game youll find yourself running back to them often.

Be surprised by venom and spiders in the firsts levels of a Dungeon is a Classic

But I must say that in this game all is more fair and less annoying than in other old examples.
And it makes later enemies less dangerous... (placebo effect?)

Ah, I see, thanks for the information. I just got to level 4 after spending a heck of a long time trying to figure out how to get the level 3 iron door and was pretty much DESTROYed by the poisonous mushroom treebeard things. So many secrets in this game >.< and my mage has 13 unspent skill points because I don't want to invest in earth or air lol.