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Also, in the 2024 PHB, you can now drink an Antitoxin to negate the Poisoned condition for 1 hour. So just stack up on these and you are immune to disease... :)

Why does everything have to be magical? Sewer Plague, from the 2014 rules, is specifically nonmagical (and also includes a description on how to nonmagically recover from the disease).

That would be great, but are there any details on that in the core rules somewhere?

Of course, that depends on what you classify as "the average D&D game", but I'll just quote from the 2014 SRD: https://www.5esrd.com/gamemastering/diseases "A plague ravages the kingdom, setting the adventurers on a quest to find a cure. An adventurer emerges from an ancient tomb, unopened for...

Under 2014 rules, you are not also "Poisoned" when you are diseased. I guess they will rewrite any monsters that cause disease for the 2024 MM to make them inflict the Poisoned condition instead, but for compatibility with 2014 monsters and third-party monsters that cause disease, they might as...

Except the official variant, "Diseased Giant Rat", https://www.dndbeyond.com/monsters/288142-diseased-giant-rat Also, Red Slaad, etc.

Lesser Restoration in 5E 2014 reads: "You touch a creature and can end either one disease or one condition afflicting it. The condition can be blinded, deafened, paralyzed, or poisoned." Lesser Restoration in 5E 2024 reads: "You touch a creature and end one condition on it: Blinded, Deafened...

I typically allow the "lesser" fire spells such as Burning Hands and Flaming Sphere, but not Fireball as that's where I feel we are leaving Sword & Sorcery and crossing into standard "High Fantasy D&D Superhero" territory.

Truth be told, I've never run a Sword & Sorcery campaign, in any game system, without at least 1 PC as a magic-user. I think that even though the ("purist Conanesque") fiction doesn't have magic-users as protagonists, RPGs are a different medium and it's okay to have PC casters, as long as you...

DM me with proof of your Lulu purchase and I'll send you a link to download the PDF for free :)

Well "ackshually".... :geek: While ASSH is a cool game in the same genre, the following terms are often confused due to similarity in spelling: Conan's adventures, as written by Robert E. Howard, take place in the HYBORIAN AGE ( Hyborian Age - Wikipedia ) , sometime between the sinking of...

A mysterious message leads to Yaatana, a city of furtive sorcerers, and strange and depraved cults. Will you steal the treasures of its temples, or succumb to the charms of the Daughters of Rahma? "The Daughters of Rahma" is a stand-alone sword and sorcery adventure module, inspired by the...

"Pteor-Voth, Sorcerer-King of Shargallah, looked out across the sands of the arena, littered with the bones of dead champions. He raised his hands and shouted: "Release the Krathuul!" The small group of men and women who stood in the arena, naked except for simple loincloths, nervously grasped...

You can feature [whatever] in your [whatever], but this thread is specifically about how to replace demihumans and goblinoids in a high fantasy book to make it humanocentric.

The suggested ancestries would make an awesome Stone Age campaign. But the typical sword and sorcery setting is more Bronze Age (ziggurats, temples, cults, etc) plus some pockets of Medieval tech level. "Regular" humans (ie Homo Sapiens) will be the most common for player characters, but the...

Are you sure you are Zapp and not a helpful AI chatbot? :LOL: Yes, I agree it could be clearer. Since the Kickstarter for Shadowdark pulled in a cool 1 million USD, I kinda assumed that most folks here on EN World would be familiar with it...! I've edited the title and first paragraph slightly...

I forgot to mention that this reflavoring from high fantasy to swords and sorcery also works well for regular D&D, such as OD&D and even 5E (but the latter requires more restrictions and rework on available classes and magic, so you might instead want to check out the free Player's Guide to the...

I have recently been reading through Shadowdark RPG, published by The Arcane Library last year. Shadowdark is a rules-lite blend of OD&D and 5E. The main rulebook defaults to the standard D&D fantasy setting with elves and orcs. But since power levels are limited (character levels only go from...