Spell resistant diseases

[I'm A Banana]

Nyambe? Is there a rule for this someplace?

Nyambe: One of THE COOLEST settings out there. It was from early 3e, but pretty much everything it did was genius.

Isn't that that African-flavoured campaign setting?

Heck yeah it is. The explanation for SR for diseases was twofold: #1 was that diseases should play a prominent role in a tropical campaign setting, especially one like Africa where virulent illnesses are born on mosquitoes and carried across the continent by groups of moving carriers. #2 was that it made biological sense: as a survival mechanism, viruses with SR would be fairly common, just as viruses and infections today have drug resistance.

 

[the Jester]

I've had engineered spell resistant diseases imc before.

I usually take the approach of "minimum caster level X to remove this disease/curse/whatever."

 

[Kae'Yoss]

That reminds me: In one FR Novel, there was something like this:


SPOILERS FOLLOW

One of the more ingenious attempts at King Azoun IV's life was a disease that was not only resistant, but completely immune to any attempt to use magic to cure it. It turned out that they saturated his blood with something that had Dead Magic on it. They finally healed him by filtering all his blood.