Elementalist Spell Specification

Class: Enchanter

3. Cure Disease

BTS: 60% (Co)

ULT: 80 hours (including some basic knowledge about symptoms of common Diseases)

Materials: some healing herbs

Actions: apply Materials to Target (or gesture doing so if Cast at Range)

Effect of Throw:

-1 to 8 Insanity

9 to 11 Caster contracts random Disease of DL d12 / d10 / d8, no st

12 to 15 No Effect

³ 16    % Chance of Success = 5(T-15)%

Max. Disease Level ("DL") Cured:    -3DL     (Caster may specify the Disease he is attempting to Cure or its symptoms, rather than attempt to guess the DL required, or may specify he is leaving the parameter open.  The Elemental will set the necessary parameter based on the Disease most nearly described by Caster, or the highest level Disease suffered by the Target if left open.)

where the DLs of some common Diseases are as follows:

Disease Level Diseases
1 common cold / grippe, sores
2 influenza, salmonella, grippe & sores
3 measles, mumps, lesser sexually transmitted diseases
4 pneumonia, tetanus
5 syphilis
6 rabies
7 typhoid, cholera
8 smallpox
9 cancer
10 leprosy
11 anthrax
12 plague

Lycanthropy has Disease Level = ML of infecting Were

Mummy Rotting Disease has Disease Level = UL of infecting Mummy

Range: d ft    -d(d-1)/2    (lay on hands to Cure for Range 0)

Notes:

  1. Cast on a single Target living Being, who may choose whether to make a ST (Exception: Lycanthropes will always make a ST, even before they have first assumed Were form).
  2. If Target chooses not to or fails to save, roll d100 for each Disease Target is suffering from (whether known or not) up to Max. DL Cured.  If roll <= % Chance of Success, that Disease is completely Cured.  It may however take Target some time to recover from the physical results of the Disease.  Physical damage to the body, such as spots, scabs or buboes are Healed, but weakness and debilitation are not.  If the Disease has caused effects such as blindness or loss of limbs, these will need to be separately Healed.
  3. Diseases are caused by Organisms, which the Spell kills.  Cure Disease does not cure mental diseases, which are classifed as Madness, or poisoning by Poison (as opposed to food poisoning by Organisms).
  4. May also be Cast on objects or carriers which are infected with, but not suffering from, Diseases in order to cleanse them of infection.  Carriers which are living or Undead Beings get a ST.
  5. Cannot be Cast on someone in advance of infection in order to Protect vs Disease.