Diseases and Illnesses

[Luke Haer]

just wondering:
When does everyone think diseases and illnesses are useful and when are they burdensome? Also, how in depth do most people like their diseases and illness rules?

 

[Chad Hooper]

I feel like they're overall burdensome unless they are a plot point (which they may be soon in my game; the god of evil lycanthropes and the god of undeath and disease are in a little war right now...). Most of the time all I have is "minor illness" as one of the Terrain Hazard options on my random encounter tables for wilderness travel. Examples I have noted to use are, "sunburn, allergy to local plants, poison ivy/oak, rash from insect bites, etc.".

 

[Jhaelen]

Imho, the fewer rules, the better. Diseases (and curses) work best as plot devices.