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Message: <blockquote data-quote="olshanski" data-source="post: 3813727" data-attributes="member: 7441">There is something I don't like about diseases.In D&D, you slowly get worse and worse until you get better or die.I would imagine that for things like the plague, smallpox, etcetera, you get sick very fast (24-48 hours) and possibly die, but then you have a longer recovery period.There also isn't a mechanic for chronic illnesses... things that keep you moderately hindered until you are cured.  Just like you have blindness or deafness that sticks around until you are cured, I could imagine a use for diseases like consumption or hemophilia that stick with you but don't necessarily kill you outright, and cause some problems until you are magically cured.-----One of my main gripes is and always has been falling damage, but we already have multiple threads dedicated to it.------The rules for getting lost in 3.5 are really screwy. -------The rules for cold damage are a little screwy.  If you are well protected, you can survive for long periods of time in very cold weather.  If you are on a march and wearing decent clothes, you can be comfortable at -20 degrees.  If you were to stop marching and just sit still, you might be dead in 10 hours.  If you managed to get soaking wet and then stand in a temperature of -20 degrees, you might be dead in 10 minutes.</blockquote>