Sample DiseasesThe diseases here illustrate the variety of ways disease can work in the game. What matters is the story you want to tell. A plague might affect only constructs or undead, or sweep through a halfling neighborhood but leave other races untouched. Diseases can affect any creature, and a given illness might or might not pass from one race or kind of creature to another. The rules help describe the effects of the disease and how it can be cured, but the specifics of how a disease works aren’t bound by a common set of rules. A more complicated outbreak can form the basis of one or more adventures as characters search for a cure, stop the spread of the disease, and deal with the consequences.Ī disease that does more than infect a few party members is primarily a plot device.

Ī simple outbreak might amount to little more than a small drain on party resources, curable by a casting of lesser restoration. A warlock offends some dark power and contracts a strange affliction that spreads whenever he casts spells. An adventurer emerges from an ancient tomb, unopened for centuries, and soon finds herself suffering from a wasting illness. Check out the Player's Handbook to add dozens of more player options to the Charactermancer, the Dungeon Master's Guide to expand on the tools available for DMs, and the Monster Manual to add hundreds of more unique creatures (including token artwork) to fight!Ī plague ravages the kingdom, setting the adventurers on a quest to find a cure. These D&D 5E Free Basic Rules only contain a fraction of the races, subclasses, backgrounds, feats, items, monsters, spells, and other content available on Roll20.

Disease Infected: Plague free