How do you determine if a character is diseased?

[bestone]

Thats an entirely subjective argument there green

Sometimes when your sick, you can feel a little drain of energy (as in feeling weak, not as in someone cast an energy drain spell on you) before any real symptoms, like you pointed out show. However i'll agree with you, if you started having symptoms like that, you'd no somethings up. Im just saying if its just a single stat loss, some strength sapped away, it might not be immediately noticeable.

Your feeling a bit weak for a while, then the real symptoms come into play.

 

[green slime]

Thats an entirely subjective argument there green

Sometimes when your sick, you can feel a little drain of energy (as in feeling weak, not as in someone cast an energy drain spell on you) before any real symptoms, like you pointed out show. However i'll agree with you, if you started having symptoms like that, you'd no somethings up. Im just saying if its just a single stat loss, some strength sapped away, it might not be immediately noticeable.

Your feeling a bit weak for a while, then the real symptoms come into play.

Yep. But in RL, I can't fight for 6 minutes in 50 lbs of armour, wielding a Greatsword, and not feel tired.

So if that level of exhaustion doesn't register on the scale, nor does a little lack of sleep (which personally leaves me feeling quite drained: I'm very prone to drowsing off, I'd make the worst night guard alive, ever), then why get all worked up because some player metagames a little? What else, is by the RAW, going to cause a stat drain, in a less than obvious way?

 

[Jhulae]

You might feel the stat drop *slightly* but i dont think it'd be so noticeable as to be able to say "hey i lost a stat, i must be diseased*. If you have an 18, and your stat drops by 1 thats a reduction of approximately 5.5 percent (.99 is 5.5 percent of 18). Anyways, I doubt if your strength is sapped by 5.5 percent your going to immediately know somethign is wrong.

You could attribute it to fatigue,overworking yourself in a combat, waking up on the wrong side of the bed, bad soup, any number of things.

A lot of the characters in the party I am in push the light limit for their encumbrance. If they can carry 66 lbs of gear before hitting medium encumbrance, they're carrying 65.5 lbs of stuff. Taking one point of Str damage puts them into medium load which *instantly* drops their movement speed (unless their a dwarf).

So, yes. A strength reduction is immediately noticeable.