D&D (2024) Did Someone Cast Remove Disease?

[FireLance]

Divine Health is no longer a Paladin class feature and Lay on Hands no longer cures disease.

Has the pandemic made disease the new slavery?

 

[the Jester]

I really want an at least moderately robust system of diseases in my D&D. I love the list of diseases from 3e combined with the way 4e handled them.

 

[aco175]

I went to a convention last weekend and the paladin being to remove disease kind of nerfed a whole plot point. Not sure if it was cool for us, or bad for the adventure and the higher tension it would have created if half the party was infected with worms.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

I had to look it up, but Remove Disease as a spell doesn't even exist in 5e, it's been merged into Lesser Restoration since 5e began. And Lesser Restoration is a spell that Paladins can cast.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

Divine Health is no longer a Paladin class feature and Lay on Hands no longer cures disease.

Has the pandemic made disease the new slavery?

oh man the STD free paladin may be gone... that bites

 

[Charlaquin]

It’s pretty rare that I’ve seen disease even come up in D&D. Sometimes low-level adventurers will feature excursions into a sewer and/or diseased rats, sometimes DMs will use a zombie disease, and sometimes lycanthropy is treated like a disease rather than a curse, and that’s about it.

 

[Stalker0]

It’s pretty rare that I’ve seen disease even come up in D&D. Sometimes low-level adventurers will feature excursions into a sewer and/or diseased rats, sometimes DMs will use a zombie disease, and sometimes lycanthropy is treated like a disease rather than a curse, and that’s about it.

On the flip side, disease immunity has been a thing for paladins for a long time, and it’s not that strong and ability, mostly ribbon until that once in a blue moon occasion. So why remove it?

 

[Kobold Stew]

I've used Lesser Restoration (with Clerics) to buy goodwill in new towns. NPCs are always sick, and helaing them improves their disposition.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

On the flip side, disease immunity has been a thing for paladins for a long time, and it’s not that strong and ability, mostly ribbon until that once in a blue moon occasion. So why remove it?

I mean, it's a ribbon feature until it interjects to spoil the DM's plans. It's kind of just one more thing hemming in what sort of challenges DMs can effectively throw at players, and one more thing DM's have to remember when planning, while at the same time being something that will never come up at the average table.

I'd say the better move would be to make it part of a larger, high level ribbon feature. At level 18 you are immune to disease, you never age, and your teeth always stay pearly white, or something. Then we still get the flavor, but the inconvenience of remembering it is shunted off to the levels people don't play.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

oh man the STD free paladin may be gone... that bites

Meanwhile, the STD-full bard keeps ravaging the countryside.