D&D 5E (2024) Representing afflictions in D&D 5e - which do you think work best/least dislike.

[Stormonu]

4e's disease tracks - lots more customisable and was an extensible framework for a lot of different effects

As much as I dislike 4E, this was one of the things I thought was a great idea, and I use something similar for 5E diseases.

 

[KentDT]

This. I really should release my PDFs about poison and disease. But the tracks work great.

Please do. I'd love to see them.

 

[Lakesidefantasy]

I chose all of them. I like a wide variety of effects from afflictions so as to maintain a bit of mystery in the world and reflect the nature of real afflictions. This also helps to make afflictions non-trivial because We as Players will suck the fun out of the game by developing an efficient solution to afflictions.

 

[Zaukrie]

Someone has asked me to work on this.....how is this layout?

 

[jmartkdr2]

My actual favorite is the playtest exhaustion just a blanket -X to all rolls (and dcs) to a max of -10. Simple, affects everyone, easy to track.

 

[KentDT]

Someone has asked me to work on this.....how is this layout?

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I like it.

 

[TheSword]

Someone has asked me to work on this.....how is this layout?

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I also like the template. I’m converting some tropical diseases from Lustria book for WFRP4e into D&D for Tomb of Annihilation.

 

[Zaukrie]

I'm having issues with tables..... But hopefully I fix those later this week.