Ronin Arts' Deadly Diseases Now Available

[philreed]

Fantasy worlds are filled with deadly hazards, but few are as insidious as diseases which can spread unseen from person to person, be ingested in food or drink, or take hold in even minor injuries. This 15-page PDF presents twelve diseases ready to be added to any campaign, bringing new threats and fears to adventurer and commoner alike.

This PDF is designed so that each disease fits a single page and each disease includes space so that the DM can customize it to suit his campaign's needs.

Written by Sam Witt. Available now at RPGNow and DTRPG.

BONUS! This PDF includes a new Campaign Planner form so that the DM can create his own diseases.

 

[Eosin the Red]

Curiosity is killing me....are these real world or fictional diseases?

 

[philreed]

Curiosity is killing me....are these real world or fictional diseases?

Fictional. After all, where's the fun in reality?

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Fictional. After all, where's the fun in reality?

You get bubonic plague.

You die.

Your mother dies.

Your sister dies.

Your cat dies.

Whats not fun about that?

The Auld Grump, now sinusitus on the other hand..., that's funny...

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Yuck! My players are going to hate some of these...

Doxie Scab sounds just right for my OGL Steampunk London...

The forms will come in handy as well.

The Auld Grump

 

[Sam Witt]

Yuck! My players are going to hate some of these...

My work here is done. Though if you're running a steampunk campaign, you might find a modified version of forge pox (perhaps the residents of industrial areas are treated as dwarves in regards to this diseases) just the thing to keep travelers on their toes. And when goblinoid anarchists find their way to the city's water supply, a raging epidemic of goblin gut would certainly provide incentive for someone to go down into the sewers and see what's going on. . .

Sam

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Hmmm, I like the format quite a bit, the 1 page one disgusting disease works well, with plenty of room for the Customization section.

Forge Pox is nifty, but Doxie Scab fits the current scenario better, the PCs have no reason to go to the dwarf tunnels, but London is full of drabs.

The only disease that I didn't much like was Dire Kuru... the real thing is both scarier and deadlier. This version is not so much dire as minor. Mind you, the fact that there is no cure for the real world version does not bother me, it is unlikely that the PCs are going to be eating longpork head cheese any time soon. Prion transmitters are such fun... one step lower in evolution than a virus. The cure described just would not work, if anything it increases the chance of exposure. Like treating Mad Cow by giving the cattle hamburger.

Given that I have Goblins living where I do Goblin Gut works wonderfully. I wish that I'd had that a few weeks ago, when they were down in the depths of Goblin Town... Night Wrack and Screaming Twitches also have their place in the world. Screaming Twitches I picture spreading like syphillus through the unclean wards. (Victorian asylums were a horror.)

A few others involve critters that do not exist in my games worlds. Still nifty though.

The Auld Grump

 

[TheAuldGrump]

The sheet has already come in handy, I did up three diseases with them while at Wendy's...

St. Bartholomew's Pox, AKA Doxie Pox, AKA Drab's Scabs - a milder STD.

Sour Pneumonia, AKA French Lung Rot, AKA Prussian Lung Rot, a lung affecting mildew that first appeared in the Franco-Prussian War (in game).

The third is not yet named, my convention is to name diseases after where the most notabely appear. This one involves cold sea fogs...

The Auld Grump