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<blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 8494338" data-attributes="member: 6988941">Elites (which I think is what you really mean, because noble status was a different thing that may or may not go hand in hand with wealth or power in some medieval contexts) did have several advantages vs. disease. While communal sleeping was the norm in the middle ages they were less likely to be sharing a bed with more than one person, whereas a poor family might very well all be in one bed. They were also unlikely to be sleeping in close quarters with livestock. They also potentially had the means and distant social contacts to head elsewhere during the heights of epidemics (ie: the premise of the Decameron's frame narrative is rich Florentines spending two weeks at a country villa while the plague ravages their city. Perhaps most importantly they were much more likely to have space to quarantine a household member. While a lack of understanding of what was actually effective made these advantages less useful than they would otherwise be, on a pure statistical level (such as that represented by a D20 die and a DC) I think it merits giving them some advantage.While their food was at times and places less healthy than that of their social inferiors they consistently got enough of it. Perhaps rather than factoring diet into a save vs disease roll it would make more sense to just let them forgo a peasant malnourishment roll.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Benjamin Olson, post: 8494338, member: 6988941"] Elites (which I think is what you really mean, because noble status was a different thing that may or may not go hand in hand with wealth or power in some medieval contexts) did have several advantages vs. disease. While communal sleeping was the norm in the middle ages they were less likely to be sharing a bed with more than one person, whereas a poor family might very well all be in one bed. They were also unlikely to be sleeping in close quarters with livestock. They also potentially had the means and distant social contacts to head elsewhere during the heights of epidemics (ie: the premise of the Decameron's frame narrative is rich Florentines spending two weeks at a country villa while the plague ravages their city. Perhaps most importantly they were much more likely to have space to quarantine a household member. While a lack of understanding of what was actually effective made these advantages less useful than they would otherwise be, on a pure statistical level (such as that represented by a D20 die and a DC) I think it merits giving them some advantage. While their food was at times and places less healthy than that of their social inferiors they consistently got enough of it. Perhaps rather than factoring diet into a save vs disease roll it would make more sense to just let them forgo a peasant malnourishment roll. [/QUOTE]

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