disease-pointless vs. 5th or higher lvl party?

[Hand of Evil]

So you tell your players they have a disease?

You make the roll and keep it from your players, times goes by and next thing they know they are loosing stats speading their VD all over the place. Sure, they go to see the cleric but all their drinking buds are there before them. Then there is the cost of the remove. What, you don't think the cleric is going to fix you for free, what have you done for the church lately? What you worship so and so, well, sorry we have a few issues with that god at this time so you better take yourself to one of his temples, closes one I know of is 30 days that way!

 

[Rashak Mani]

darn... you beat me to the Venereal Disease comment...

Might be hard telling your LG Cleric of Chastity that you have some stuff you got from the Bar Maid last week...

 

[JacktheRabbit]

In my campaign world all diseases have a level equivalent to them. When a cleric tries to cure that disease the cleric has to make a caster level check as if he was dispelling the disease. So some diseases will resist the effects of a low level cleric.

 

[Piratecat]

I once emptied a country of wizards with the threat of a disease called ebon magerot; feeding on magic, it only infected spellcasters, but it would worsen if treated magically. Seemed to work pretty well.

I love the SR idea. Yoink.