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Jon_Dahl
2012-02-09, 03:00 AM
CONTAGION, LESSER
Level: Blackguard 1, Clr 1, Drd 2, Hexblade 2, Sor/Wiz 2
Components: V, S
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Touch
Target: Living creature touched
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Fortitude negates
Spell Resistance: Yes

The subject contracts a disease selected from the list below, which strikes immediately (no incubation period). The DC noted is for the subsequent saves (use contagion’s normal save DC for the initial saving throw).

Name of the disease / DC / Damage
Diarrhea / DC 9 / 1d2 Con 1
Pharyngitis / DC 11 / -1 penalty to attack rolls, skills check and ability checks 2
Flu / DC 10 / 1d2 Str
Whooping cough / DC 11 / 5% spell failure with spells that have verbal components 2
Chlamydia / DC 10 / 1d2 Dex
Cystic acne / DC 11 / 1d3 Cha 3
Autism / DC 11 / 1d2 Wis
1 Diarrhea has a special 20 % failure chance (no re-rolls).
2 Penalties don't stack and they are removed immediately when the disease ends.
3 This score cannot drop below 1.

Yitzi
2012-02-09, 09:40 AM
Some of those aren't really diseases (e.g. not contagious). Others are far underpowered in the mechanics (anything that produced a real-life epidemic should be similarly powerful in the mechanics. That could be the result of being easily spread rather than doing a lot of damage, but even that would justify being a substantially higher level.)