Disease
Lenny Buettuer
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Dungeons & Dragons - Dragon magazine - The Dragon #24

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.