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Message: <blockquote data-quote="green slime" data-source="post: 3370463" data-attributes="member: 1325">In RL, most people can tell when there is something wrong with them. Perhaps not at the instant of infection, but as when the symptoms manifest themselves. What is stat damage, if not a symptom described in game terms? Let's see: I have a fever, a swelling of the lymphatic nodes, and a red aching sore where that dire rat bit me. I wonder why I have suffered stat damage...We are discussing fantastic diseases, not a mere case of the mumps, a cold, measels or malaria. I put it to you, that if the intent was to hide the fact the character was diseased, then the disease should explicitly state that fact. No, the character does not need to know at the instant the dire rat bites, if he made the Fort save DC or not, but it will become apparent when his body succumbs to the disease.</blockquote>