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<blockquote data-quote="Holy Bovine" data-source="post: 4907000" data-attributes="member: 203"><p>My experience with diseases in 4E has been very positive.&nbsp; I ran a DCC adventure that heavily featured diseases so I modified them to be in line with 4E disease tracks and the PC managed to contract almost a dozen different diseases over the course of the adventure.&nbsp; They were 4th level and had no access (or any way to get access) to the Cure Disease ritual.&nbsp; They toughed it out for over a week with lost surges and ability damage (yes I brought it back for diseases as it just makes too much sense for diseases to affect your physical and mental state).&nbsp; The paladin especially suffered greatly seeing his surges reduced by 4 and taking some 10 points in ability damage all totaled.&nbsp; I also made the recovery process slower with ability damage coming back at a rate of 1 point per day per ability&nbsp; (ie if he had ability damage on Str Dex and Cha he got back 1 point in each per day).&nbsp; It worked really well and eventually the party managed to shake off all of the diseases.&nbsp; It really helped that they were over a week away from any sort of civilization so there was no 'instant cure' available.&nbsp; Oddly they never sought out the Cure Disease ritual once reaching civilization...</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Holy Bovine, post: 4907000, member: 203"] My experience with diseases in 4E has been very positive. I ran a DCC adventure that heavily featured diseases so I modified them to be in line with 4E disease tracks and the PC managed to contract almost a dozen different diseases over the course of the adventure. They were 4th level and had no access (or any way to get access) to the Cure Disease ritual. They toughed it out for over a week with lost surges and ability damage (yes I brought it back for diseases as it just makes too much sense for diseases to affect your physical and mental state). The paladin especially suffered greatly seeing his surges reduced by 4 and taking some 10 points in ability damage all totaled. I also made the recovery process slower with ability damage coming back at a rate of 1 point per day per ability (ie if he had ability damage on Str Dex and Cha he got back 1 point in each per day). It worked really well and eventually the party managed to shake off all of the diseases. It really helped that they were over a week away from any sort of civilization so there was no 'instant cure' available. Oddly they never sought out the Cure Disease ritual once reaching civilization... [/QUOTE]

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