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One of the most frustrating
things for a DM to cope with is the
fact that natural disease
can so easily be overcome by characters once they run into a fifth-level
cleric with his all-powerful
Cure
Disease spell. What’s the use of spending all that time
rolling to see whether someone
contracts a disease, only to have
the neighborhood cleric
neutralize everything with a single,
simple spell casting?
One way of making disease-curing
clerics less powerful is to
allow only clerics of a
certain level to cure certain diseases. The
chart below lists the diseases
named on page 19 of the Dungeon <>
Masters Guide, divides
them into types of severity, and assigns a
number to each type which
represents the minimum level a
cleric must hold before
being able to cure it.
“Terminal strain” varieties
of many diseases are introduced
on the chart. “Terminal
A strain” is a normal terminal pathogen,
but “Terminal B strain”
is much more potent and highly deadly.
A “B” strain terminal disease
occurs on a 1 in 8 chance after the
disease has been determined
as a terminal case.
Cures for all but Terminal
“B” strain diseases cost 100 gp
times the number on the
chart. Terminal “B” strain cures are
twice as expensive as other
cures.
Note: Definitions of headings
on the chart are as follows:
MA=mild acute case; MC=mild
chronic; SA=severe acute;
SC=severe chronic; T(A)=Terminal
A; and T(B)=Terminal B
| Disease | MA | MC | SA | SC | T(A) | T(B) |
| Blood/blood-forming organs | 9 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| Bones | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
| Brain/nervous system | 9 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| Cardiovascular-renal | 10 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
| Connective tissue | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
| Ears | 6 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 9 |
| Eyes | 6 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 9 |
| Gastro-intestinal | 6 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 9 |
| Generative organs | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 11 |
| Joints | 6 | 6 | 7 | 8 | - | - |
| Mucous membranes | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | - | - |
| Muscles | 6 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 9 |
| Nose-throat | 7 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 10 |
| Respiratory system | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | - | - |
| Skin | 6 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 9 |
| Urinary system | 7 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 10 |
| Parasites: | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cardiovascular | 6 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 9 |
| Intestines | 9 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| Muscles | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 11 |
| Respiratory system | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
| Skin/hair | 10 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |