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Hot take: if you as a DM pull something like this but aren't otherwise running a "survival" campaign with enforcement of other environment-related rules like encumberance and starvation, you're a jerk.
That's just poison gas that has no color or odor. That's standard dnd shit. CO has detectable symptoms.
Now you want to be evil? CO2 just feels like shortness of breath. Want to be diabolical? Very high nitrogen has no symptoms. You just die.
Not on the body. Which is why it is high in the statistics of cause of death for farmers. Silo gases are dangerous, heavier than air too.
Btw, candle doesn't help: you're dead before the flame extinguishes.
No symptoms? https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/carbon-monoxide-poisoning
Not symptoms you notice until it's too late.