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<blockquote data-quote="Stalker0" data-source="post: 8261638" data-attributes="member: 5889"><p>So the trick with magic as far as plagues go. Obviously everyone immediately looks to Lesser Restoration, a 2nd level spell that can cure disease. But it can be argued that 3rd level clerics still aren't a dime a dozen, and only 2 uses a day might not stop a full virulent plague.</p><p></p><p>However, the real anti-plague magic, is Detect Poison and Disease. This is a 1st level RITUAL, and lasts for 10 minutes, and will instantly tell you if someone is diseased. So you can literally have a 1st level acolyte priest just stand in the square, and have people walk past him, and he can instantly determine if they are diseased and need treatment and/or quarantine. As a ritual he can use it all every day.</p><p></p><p>So how might that affect your world building?</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You should expect any decent town or city to have a priest at the front gate with Detect Disease on. They would stop any diseased person from entering the town (whether there was plague or not, that would be good practice). Its such a trivial cost that every town worth its salt should do this if it has continuous commerce from other places.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">If plagues are a thing, its either because there are diseases that get past detect spells, or....perhaps in your world people do not know that diseases are contracted from other people....therefore quarantine methods are not utilized. So yeah the clerics can tell someone is sick, but other than wait for the greater authority of their god (aka lesser restoration) there is nothing that can be done. You might even use this as an intentional angle, allowing religions to maintain higher authority as "only the gods can cure disease", which was a common belief in medieval times.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You might use this in a world with high clerical authority. Religion is the law, and if a land does not want to obey the high cleric, well that's fine....we will just withdraw our disease curing services. Lets see how long you last when your people get plaques and mine don't.</li> </ul></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stalker0, post: 8261638, member: 5889"] So the trick with magic as far as plagues go. Obviously everyone immediately looks to Lesser Restoration, a 2nd level spell that can cure disease. But it can be argued that 3rd level clerics still aren't a dime a dozen, and only 2 uses a day might not stop a full virulent plague. However, the real anti-plague magic, is Detect Poison and Disease. This is a 1st level RITUAL, and lasts for 10 minutes, and will instantly tell you if someone is diseased. So you can literally have a 1st level acolyte priest just stand in the square, and have people walk past him, and he can instantly determine if they are diseased and need treatment and/or quarantine. As a ritual he can use it all every day. So how might that affect your world building? [LIST] [*]You should expect any decent town or city to have a priest at the front gate with Detect Disease on. They would stop any diseased person from entering the town (whether there was plague or not, that would be good practice). Its such a trivial cost that every town worth its salt should do this if it has continuous commerce from other places. [*]If plagues are a thing, its either because there are diseases that get past detect spells, or....perhaps in your world people do not know that diseases are contracted from other people....therefore quarantine methods are not utilized. So yeah the clerics can tell someone is sick, but other than wait for the greater authority of their god (aka lesser restoration) there is nothing that can be done. You might even use this as an intentional angle, allowing religions to maintain higher authority as "only the gods can cure disease", which was a common belief in medieval times. [*]You might use this in a world with high clerical authority. Religion is the law, and if a land does not want to obey the high cleric, well that's fine....we will just withdraw our disease curing services. Lets see how long you last when your people get plaques and mine don't. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]
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