Diseases, poisons

[Winter83]

-"I am feeling sick from drinking stale wa-"
-*uses a healing bandage to cure the other's affliction"
-"Thanks."


Uhm, would it be possible to remove the curing abiltiy of healing kits?

Use an antidote if you are poisoned.
Find a priest or rest it out if you are diseased. Maybe have the tavern-resting cure sickness. Or NPC priests too.

Since diseases are kind of slow to take effect, and when they do, they have meager affects.

Would encourage new opportunities of rp

[DirtyDeity]

The opportunities for RP are already there. No one said that a 'Healing Kit' is a bandage. That's simply the most common perception.

It can be regarded as anything from potion-ish concoctions, herbal mixtures, capsules, whatever fits your character.

[AdreannaDrea]

A 'healing kit' is exactly that: a kit of various useful salves, tonics, tinctures, stitches and bandages for the wayward adventurer. At least, that's how I've always perceived it.

[Winter83]

My problem is not with the healing kit itself.
More with the low DCs of diseases. How they absolutely have no effect in the module. They are nothing more than a nuissance to waste a +1 kit on.
I am yet to see anyone roleplaying or mechanically being affected by disease at all.

[The Rambling Midget]

I am yet to see anyone roleplaying or mechanically being affected by disease at all.

It happens more than you might think, but most of the time poisons and diseases are encountered mid-adventure, and unless you're with a super hardcore group of RPers, most players aren't going to want to have one of their party members walking slowly, stopping often, and regularly emoting their horrible cramps and projectile vomiting. So, it gets a nod and it's dealt with quickly, and the good but courteous RPer drops the occasional reminder that something bad has happened, without being a wet blanket.

PvP poisons and diseases get WAY more attention, and I think that's how it should be.

Besides, any character above level 10 would be a god, by Human standards. Makes sense that they should have a fair chance of shrugging off damage and disease.

[Hunter548]

Any DnD/NWN character beyond level 6 or with higher than 18 in any attribute is super-human by definition. Wizards laugh at just about every law of physics I can think of that deals with energy or mass. Your average str-based meleer can put my car on his shoulders and do sprints without it impacting his performance. Clerics can replicate most of the miracles in world religious tradition by, what, level 9? Barbarians can survive your average atmospheric re-entry as long as they have some protection against fire damage from level 6 (Assuming Arelith uses PnP's fall damage rules).

I'm really not sure that chickenpox or tetnus should be huge obstacles for these people.