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A tattered treasure map and the whispers of an old god lead to a cyclopean temple on a remote island. Will you plunder the ancient gold of Namthu, or become a slave to the call from the abyss? "The Call from the Abyss" is a stand-alone sword and sorcery adventure module, inspired by the pulp...

And yet, here we are, with 69 posts stretching over 7 pages of discussion. But hey, you've got it all figured out, so move along...

Good for you. Hopefully the rest of us can still discuss issues that are beneath your wunderkind's attention?

"The alchemist did mention that it would take several seasons for it to take effect.... regardless, I have loaded the rest of your prescription on that cart for you.... " :ROFLMAO:

Also, in the 2024 PHB, you can now drink an Antitoxin to negate the Poisoned condition for 1 hour. So just stack up on these and you are immune to disease... :)

Why does everything have to be magical? Sewer Plague, from the 2014 rules, is specifically nonmagical (and also includes a description on how to nonmagically recover from the disease).

That would be great, but are there any details on that in the core rules somewhere?

Of course, that depends on what you classify as "the average D&D game", but I'll just quote from the 2014 SRD: https://www.5esrd.com/gamemastering/diseases "A plague ravages the kingdom, setting the adventurers on a quest to find a cure. An adventurer emerges from an ancient tomb, unopened for...

Under 2014 rules, you are not also "Poisoned" when you are diseased. I guess they will rewrite any monsters that cause disease for the 2024 MM to make them inflict the Poisoned condition instead, but for compatibility with 2014 monsters and third-party monsters that cause disease, they might as...

Except the official variant, "Diseased Giant Rat", https://www.dndbeyond.com/monsters/288142-diseased-giant-rat Also, Red Slaad, etc.

Lesser Restoration in 5E 2014 reads: "You touch a creature and can end either one disease or one condition afflicting it. The condition can be blinded, deafened, paralyzed, or poisoned." Lesser Restoration in 5E 2024 reads: "You touch a creature and end one condition on it: Blinded, Deafened...

I typically allow the "lesser" fire spells such as Burning Hands and Flaming Sphere, but not Fireball as that's where I feel we are leaving Sword & Sorcery and crossing into standard "High Fantasy D&D Superhero" territory.

Truth be told, I've never run a Sword & Sorcery campaign, in any game system, without at least 1 PC as a magic-user. I think that even though the ("purist Conanesque") fiction doesn't have magic-users as protagonists, RPGs are a different medium and it's okay to have PC casters, as long as you...