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These charts are designed to provide a method of determining how
long it takes a disease to kill a person and what the symptoms are.
This is
mainly for use with curses and Cause
Disease spells from anti-clerics
where diseases of unknown characteristcs are involved.
Fatality Interval
1 | Immediate |
2 | 10 minutes |
3 | 20 minutes |
4 | 40 minutes |
5 | 1 hour |
6 | 3 hours |
7 | 6 hours |
8 | 12 hours |
9 | 24 hours |
10-15 | 2 days |
16-20 | 3 days |
21-25 | 4 days |
26-30 | 5 days |
31-40 | 6 days |
41-50 | 7 days |
51-60 | 8 days |
61-70 | 12 days |
71-80 | 16 days |
81-89 | 20 days |
90 | 24 days |
91 | 36 days |
92 | 48 days |
93 | 3 months |
94 | 4 months |
95 | 5 months |
96 | 6 months |
97 | 7 months |
98 | 8 months |
99 | 9 months |
00 | 10 months |
Number of Symptoms
1-3 | 1 symptom |
4-5 | 2 symptons |
6-7 | 3 symptons |
8 | 4 symptons |
Symptoms
1 | Pain |
2 | Shortness of Breath |
3 | Paralysis |
4 | Sensory Loss
1-Sight 2-Hearing 3-General numbness |
5 | Fever |
6 | Chills |
7 | Skin sores |
8 | Nausea |
9 | Rash |
10 | Drowsiness |
11 | Insanity |
12 | Bleeding |
13 | Hyperactivity |
14 | Coughing/Sneezing |
15 | Chest Pains |
16 | Loss of Energy |
17 | Diarrhea |
18 | Tumors |
19 | Swelling |
20 | Hallucinations |
A saving throw may be given and if the person saves, he suffers the
symptoms for the given period of time and then recovers.