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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 7884890" data-attributes="member: 6704184"><p>So, 30 ft, 10 minutes at a time, as a Ritual. Detects not only the presence of disease and poison, but also what kind each one is. </p><p></p><p>So, yeah, Clerics “by strict RAW” probably aren’t operating under medieval ideas of what diseases are, unless the DM has decided that those are the objective truth of the setting. </p><p></p><p>Since the premise of the thread includes the assumption that biology works as it does in the real world unless magic changes it or requires a change, then the question is simply whether a chemical addiction would register as a disease, andthe answer has nothing to do with medieval popular conceptions of anything at all. </p><p></p><p>IMO, the chances that this spell isn’t part of regular temple service is...small, anywhere that has a Priest or two capable of casting 1st level clerical rituals. Giventhe PHB assumptions on services available in small towns and cities, communication even in the real world amongst clergy of major faiths (even if it takes years, information and doctrine is being communicated)...the local priest knows that the village drunk has a disease, and that the physical components can be healed, of that is the decision of the GM as to what chemical addiction is as an objective truth, in the setting. </p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]117179[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Again, the Cleric or Paladin or Druid or Ranger casting the spell knows that a person within 30ft has a disease, <em>and what it is. </em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 7884890, member: 6704184"] So, 30 ft, 10 minutes at a time, as a Ritual. Detects not only the presence of disease and poison, but also what kind each one is. So, yeah, Clerics “by strict RAW” probably aren’t operating under medieval ideas of what diseases are, unless the DM has decided that those are the objective truth of the setting. Since the premise of the thread includes the assumption that biology works as it does in the real world unless magic changes it or requires a change, then the question is simply whether a chemical addiction would register as a disease, andthe answer has nothing to do with medieval popular conceptions of anything at all. IMO, the chances that this spell isn’t part of regular temple service is...small, anywhere that has a Priest or two capable of casting 1st level clerical rituals. Giventhe PHB assumptions on services available in small towns and cities, communication even in the real world amongst clergy of major faiths (even if it takes years, information and doctrine is being communicated)...the local priest knows that the village drunk has a disease, and that the physical components can be healed, of that is the decision of the GM as to what chemical addiction is as an objective truth, in the setting. [ATTACH type="full"]117179[/ATTACH] Again, the Cleric or Paladin or Druid or Ranger casting the spell knows that a person within 30ft has a disease, [I]and what it is. [/I] [/QUOTE]
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