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<blockquote data-quote="DM-Rocco" data-source="post: 2966098" data-attributes="member: 14451"><p>I did have one other PC with me who was a cleric, also 1st level, who knew I had a disease, so I did know, but couldn't do anything about it until I got back to the city, which was fine, cause it was on our to do list before night fall, several hours away. </p><p></p><p></p><p>No BOOM, just a, "as you contemplate downing down the stairs you suddenly find yourself in a field of rolling hills with your horse and both henchmen. On a hill infront of you are three strangers, roll Initiative," of course the other three people on the hill were the other PCs. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused :confused:" data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I was bit, I made a 26 on my knowledge Flora check (used in the wilderlands campiagn setting) to figure out that it was a dire rat and that its bit had most likely infected me, plus the cleric confirmed the infection with a heal check. Regardless though, the DM was kind of a dink about it. It is a new game and I haven't played under him for a long time, so I tried to see it from his perspective and give some freedom, but I think that was a crappy way to go about things, specially since I lost so much cause I wasn't near as prepared as I would have had I had a moment in town first. I would never go into the woods without certain gear and to deprive me a chance to buy what I needed and to take care of things like diseases was just a bit unfair. That and he clearly stated that his first priority was to kill my NPC Sage cause I took at least 1 point of knowledge in all local regions and he didn't was to give me a write up on those regions. Yes, he was one of the first to die.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DM-Rocco, post: 2966098, member: 14451"] I did have one other PC with me who was a cleric, also 1st level, who knew I had a disease, so I did know, but couldn't do anything about it until I got back to the city, which was fine, cause it was on our to do list before night fall, several hours away. No BOOM, just a, "as you contemplate downing down the stairs you suddenly find yourself in a field of rolling hills with your horse and both henchmen. On a hill infront of you are three strangers, roll Initiative," of course the other three people on the hill were the other PCs. :confused: I was bit, I made a 26 on my knowledge Flora check (used in the wilderlands campiagn setting) to figure out that it was a dire rat and that its bit had most likely infected me, plus the cleric confirmed the infection with a heal check. Regardless though, the DM was kind of a dink about it. It is a new game and I haven't played under him for a long time, so I tried to see it from his perspective and give some freedom, but I think that was a crappy way to go about things, specially since I lost so much cause I wasn't near as prepared as I would have had I had a moment in town first. I would never go into the woods without certain gear and to deprive me a chance to buy what I needed and to take care of things like diseases was just a bit unfair. That and he clearly stated that his first priority was to kill my NPC Sage cause I took at least 1 point of knowledge in all local regions and he didn't was to give me a write up on those regions. Yes, he was one of the first to die. [/QUOTE]
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