Disease

Diseases are categorized in the same way as poisons, with Rarity, Lethality, and Transmissibility. Disease stat blocks have five parts: Infection, Outbreak, Contagion, Symptoms, and Treatment.

Infection explains what must happen for a creature to become infected.

Outbreak is an optional tool that an MC can use when facilitating the outbreak of a disease.

Contagion explains how quickly the disease might spread, and how to determine whether it spreads to certain heroes or relevant NPCs.

Symptoms convey on an hour-by-hour or day-by-day basis what happens to an infected creature.

Treatment informs you on the steps you must take to cure a disease. This will typically involve making multiple INT/ Medicine check. Certain expensive ingredients or magical healing abilities might make this process easier or be required to even attempt this process.

Some Notes:

• Cumulative Symptoms persist until stated otherwise. The MC may also rule that certain circumstances, such as receiving Greater Restoration, may end a symptom early.

• A quick note for epidemiology nerds and other smart people: The term “disease” is used here despite its inaccuracy as an umbrella term for any disease, infection, or virus. Furthermore, some of these diseases have been highly fictionalized and have had fantastical elements added to them. This is not intended to represent any real world medical information and should not be used in such a fashion.
• If your table is uncomfortable with some disease names, here are Alternative Names for re-world diseases.

Diseases

Name of Disease	Rarity	Lethality	Transmissibility	Source
Anthrax	Rare	High	Medium	Harker's
Beasian Boils	Very Rare	Medium	High	CRB
Boil Plague	Common	Low	Extreme	CRB
Bubonic Plague	Uncommon	Medium	High	Harker's
Chicken Pox	Common	Low	Medium	Harker's
Common Cold	Common	Very Low	High	Harker's
Danse Macabre	Rare	High	Low	Harker's
Deathboil Plague	Rare	High	Medium	CRB
Deepshroom Poisoning	Rare	High	Low	CRB
Dysentery	Rare	Medium	Low	Harker's
Fleshling Fever	Rare	High	Low	CRB
Gangrene	Uncommon	Medium	Low	Harker's
Gift of the Chosen	Rare	High	Medium	CRB
Influenza	Uncommon	Medium	Medium	Harker's
Leprosy	Very Rare	High	High	Harker's
Lycanthropy	Rare	Low	Medium	Harker's
Malaria	Rare	Medium	Low	Harker's
Pneumonia	Common	Low	High	Harker's
Polio	Common	Low	High	Harker's
Rabies	Uncommon	Extreme	Low	Harker's
Scarlet Fever	Rare	Low	High	Harker's
Scarlet Sickness	Rare	High	High	CRB
Stonerot	Uncommon	Low	High	CRB
Shingles	Rare	Low	Medium	Harker's
Tetanus	Common	Low	Low	Harker's
Tuberculosis	Common	Medium	High	Harker's
Typhoid	Common	Low	Low	Harker's
Vampirism	Rare	Low	Low	CRB
Zombie Plague	Uncommon	Extreme	High	CRB