Can Clerics Cure Cancer?

[Sejs]

Cleric: (to the paladin) You're drunk!! You can't get drunk, you're a paladin!
Paladin: There's nuttin' in the *hiccup* . . . There's nuttin' in the *hiccup* . . . There's nuttin' in the scriptures against drinkin', is there?
Cleric: Well, no, but . . .

Paladin: Then wheresh the problem? LESH GO SCHMITE SHOME EVIL! WOOOO!!

 

[Fieari]

If the Cancer Mage from the BoVD is any indication, cancer would be damaged by a remove disease spell, but not nessesarily destroyed instantly. That's the closest I can see to an actual printed rule on the subject...

 

[Dracandross]

Unless it was unique to that paladin I don't see how it voids the requirements that all paladin's codes share (well the LG variety anyway).
Besides I could see a dwarven paladin with a racial fondness for ale.

Im not meaning some drinking but as one suggested pally that smokes and drinks like theres no tomorrow because he cant catch cancer (pancreas or lung in this case). Laying wasted every day in the nearest corner isnt really way to go.

-Dracandross

 

[saucercrab]

Im not meaning some drinking but as one suggested pally that smokes and drinks like theres no tomorrow because he cant catch cancer (pancreas or lung in this case). Laying wasted every day in the nearest corner isnt really way to go.

-Dracandross

And a paladin that smokes constantly could cause cancer in others, via second-hand smoke.

 

[ruleslawyer]

To me, alcohol overuse, heavy smoking, and casual sex would all fall under the heading of acts that violate personal discipline, and thus are "chaotic" in nature. I can see how others might disagree, but this is certainly one of the ways in which I see the lawful-chaotic axis IMC.

As for what cures cancer: I'd say heal does it. It's one level higher than raise dead, and as Ridley's Cohort said, it fits with clerics... er, saints being able to heal things like lameness and leprosy.

 

[Piratecat]

And a paladin that smokes constantly could cause cancer in others, via second-hand smoke.

He needs to use those useless remove diseases on something.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

I would run with Remove Disease, but I would impose a minimum level on the cleric/paladin removing the disease.

Leprosy and the Black Death are identified as Dread Diseases in my homebrew, requiring a Heal spell - going beyond the normal limits of disease, and being thought a judgement from God. The Crab is not quite so feared - it does not so easily spread to those you hold dear.

The Auld Grump, Ring Around the Rosie, a Pocket Full of Posies....

 

[Sejs]

He needs to use those useless remove diseases on something.

Mental image forming... FR... paladin of Sune...

It's all about the love, baby.

 

[saucercrab]

He needs to use those useless remove diseases on something.

But if he's causing cancer in others, wouldn't that be grounds for losing his paladinhood, or at least having to atone?

 

[saucercrab]

Mental image forming... FR... paladin of Sune...

It's all about the love, baby.

Or a paladin of freedom of Sharess even more.