Change Corpse Blight

[Egon the Monkey]

Playing a bard again, I just remembered what a terror the Corpse Blight is to them and sorcs. Other classes can just ignore it and end up infecting others, especially on the way to sewer quests. The reason it's so destructive is that the spellslots lost to CHA damage aren't replaced when you get cured, so one infection can knock you out of usefulness until you can rest. You need a huge amount of Fort/disease save gear to be safe,
 but ironically, much of that is found on sewer quests.

I think it would be better if it was changed to STR or CON damage, and the timer for how often it hits reduced. Something you can recover from without any further penalties, and that affects the majority of PCs negatively, so they don't just ignore it while down there.

[Thomas_Not_very_wise]

Supported.

[Mort]

Invest in Resist Disease, instead. DC is low and easily dealt with.

[Egon the Monkey]

Neither Bards or Sorcs have Fort as a good save, and the save is also spammed on you in sewer areas so much you're bound to fail eventually unless you're high enough to be immune. Other classes don't have to take feats to go through common areas without losing all their abilities. Imagine if the webbed woods spiders would sap all your AB for 20 min if they poisoned you?

 The best way to get light, handy anti disease gear is sewer quests though. Few PCs bother to sell it as the Corpse Blight's the only scary disease, and then only for 2 classes. Which it murders.

It hits so fast that unless you chug a Cure Disease (and no other potion works) immediately, you just lost your highest level spellslots and your next slots will be going in a couple of rounds. And then of course, you face the NEXT infection. You can be rendered useless in under a minute and once you faill the second save, all CHA dmg is automatically applied until you are cured.

It's not that easily dealt with. This post was triggered by a new player running around chasing a sorcerer who lost all her slots, and then my PC getting infected and having to rush off to buy a cure, by which time he's lost L2 spells. It's very easy to purposefully or accidentally grief a bunch of PCs with it. I'm honestly surprised nobody's deliberately infected themselves and gone after Orgeribbit as biowarfare :P

[Pup]

I'm honestly surprised nobody's deliberately infected themselves and gone after Orgeribbit as biowarfare :P

LOL>  Instead of saying that in public, you should've just done it!

[Winston Martin]

Speaking as someone who is currently playing a wizard, if you spent some time actively looking for resist disease gear, the sewer disease won't be much of a problem. At one point I was wearing clothes, boots, amulet, belt, gloves AND helm so I wouldn't have to worry about this. I didn't need to get them by going into sewers, this stuff is very common.

Obv. this is worse for Cha casters but just means you'll have to go do one of the 50ish other quests that aren't in the sewers - or prepare.