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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 7884840" data-attributes="member: 6704184">Well, no. The clerics belief about them would be entirely irrelevant. Detect Poison and Disease would simply tell the cleric what they are. DnD is not the real world, modern or medieval. The modern understanding of disease is relevant because it is superior to that of the medieval world. Most groups treat the world as working pretty much as modern science tells us that it does, except where magic changes it. That means that modern understanding of disease is relevant to a discussion of the truth of disease. Comparatively, the medieval world knew less than nothing. If we were to use that as a basis, Lay On Hands would be as likely to kill you as to cure you, and more likely still to just make you sick in a different way. Thing is, I’m not treating Clerics like physicians of any era. I’m treating them as magical healers with access to an absolute ability to detect disease, and Paladins as magic healers with access to an absolute method of curing diseases and removing poisons.</blockquote>