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Those work, but Moon Druid is one of the subclasses that will benefit least from multiclassing - you generally want to avoid slowing your wild shape CR progression.

Then they should have used language that would indicate that, rather than the opposite. I anyway think that Flesh Rot will often be stronger than Slimy Doom - there are other ways to stun and other ways to penalise the CON save, but no other method of inflicting vulnerability to all damage.

I assumed Hand of Evil was referring to real-world diseases and poisons. We know only the most sparse detail of those in the game in order to sort them.

The difficulty is our understanding of poisons and diseases will be based on real-world examples with real-world rules. Once you get to a molecular level a lot of the actual illness caused by many infectious pathogens is due to toxins. And non-infectious, partly psychological 'diseases' are...

Most of the ones I checked said not requiring air, food, drink or sleep. Same deal with the descriptions of the more elemental elementals and with angelic creatures and constructs. Disease and poison didn't get a mention there. A few oddities though, Will'O'The'Wisps apparently aren't exempt...

I'm thinking the DMG will possibly explain the oversight Uchawi, but I would have preferred for it to be addressed in the MM itself.

Paladins, Monks and Land Druids get disease immunity. Until they get True Polymorphed into a Demilich. Then they can get the sniffles or be afflicted with Contagion: Slimy Doom which will cause blood to appear from nowhere! It's so whacky.

It's even odder when you consider some of the specific diseases mentioned in the MM: Otyugh/Death Dog bites: If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 15/12 Constitution saving throw against disease or become poisoned until the disease is cured. So you have diseases delivered the...

Nope, only a single (totally puerile) reply got that response. :)

Thank you, I'm not letting the poll decide for me, I'm just genuinely curious as to the prevailing opinion :)

There are spells available which cause disease, and PCs can True Polymorph into forms which can cause disease. Maybe they were saving ink, and the DMG will clarify that disease and poison immunity are merged.

Nope, that's only incidental to the discussion. Grow up. In all of 5E only Land Druids, Monks and Paladins get explicit disease immunity. No monsters in the entire MM have disease immunity specified.

So a Banshee can catch the cold? A Skeleton can suffer from Ebola? A Fire Elemental can run a temperature from a nasty flu? In real world science diseases often cause harmful conditions through toxins they release, i.e. poison.

I can't find anywhere that says this is so, but it may simply be in the as-yet unreleased DMG. Or I'm blind. Personally I think it probably does/will. If you look at it none of the monsters you'd expect have disease immunity specificially listed, only poison. That includes all Undead...

Indeed. And to clarify this, that would mean the encounter difficulty changes. Take that into account when budgeting. I'd say give maybe half XP, or a quarter? Those are pretty huge weaknesses for a monster to have. Of course if it has dangerous special abilities which won't be affected (e.g...

The only edge case where Witch Bolt would be good is maintaining Contagion: Slimy Doom stun on a dangerous and tough-to-hit enemy while the rest of the party cleans up other opponents.

It'd be pretty handy if you wanted to RP Fred Astaire.

Or have a friendly transmuter reduce your age.

I'd probably agree. Any feature based on your humanoid physiology wouldn't carry over (e.g. Dragonborn breath, Darkvision, Sunlight Sensitivity). Those based on cultural or mental abilties or inherited magic would (e.g. Gnome Cunning, Hellish Resistance, Lucky). I think Relentless Endurance is...

It wouldn't need a sharp point to pierce the skin. It's a striking or stabbing point, much narrower than that of a clubbing weapon. It'd be similar to a triangular-bladed rondel dagger, right? They didn't have the narrowest of tips but were still stabbing weapons.