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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gilladian" data-source="post: 6308166" data-attributes="member: 2093">Are you presuming viral or bacterial diseases that function "scientifically"? (In my campaign world, diseases literally come from "miasmas" that are created by evil. There are no germs, so none of the rules of science matter).If so, what sort of disease are we discussing? How contagious? Spread by an airborn vector? Or by touch? How long does it last when not in contact with a host? And what is the source of the disease? If it was a single person infected by direct contact with a single animal with a mutated viral strain that transferred ONCE, then getting rid of it is as simple as curing that person before anyone else is infected (and maybe isolating all who came in contact with him, curing any of them if needed). One or two clerics of the proper level could do that. But instead, suppose the "source" of the disease is a flock of migrating birds who ALL have the mutant virus, and it spreads via their meat; peasants shoot/trap/whatever the ducks as they fly north for the winter, eat the food; thousands fall ill all across the region at nearly the same time. Voila! No number of clerics can handle bird flu in that proportion.Basically, it isn't hard to come up with an idea that makes a major pestilence easy to happen even in a world with cure disease; what's really going to change is that the powerful/wealthy in scenario two are going to be protected; as soon as they are aware of the plague, they'll isolate themselves WITH their clerics, and keep using cure disease any/every time it is necessary.</blockquote>

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