09-14-2019, 07:43 AM | #1 |
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Disease or Sickness?
Magic has the spells Relieve Sickness, Resist Disease and Cure Disease. In game terms, is there a difference between sickness and disease?
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09-14-2019, 09:18 AM | #2 |
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Re: Disease or Sickness?
Relieve sickness specifies that it affects symptoms rather than underlying causes, while cure disease specifies it removes the cause but leaves existing effects in place.
So in this case "sickness" refers to symptoms, while "disease" refers to causes. As with many things in GURPS, the description is more important than the name.
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09-14-2019, 08:27 PM | #3 |
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Re: Disease or Sickness?
So, if you need someone up quickly, you should cast Relieve Sickness first (and probably Remove Contagion, so no-one else gets sick), and then case Cure disease when you have ten minutes to spare. Otherwise you cast them in whatever order, or let them recover from the symptoms on their own, though if you're nice (or worried that the symptoms might kill them in the next few minutes), you'd still cast Relieve Sickness before Cure Disease.
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Re: Disease or Sickness?
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09-16-2019, 06:27 AM | #5 |
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Re: Disease or Sickness?
Environmental syndromes... possibly heat stroke or dehydration, hypothermia?
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09-16-2019, 06:28 AM | #6 |
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Re: Disease or Sickness?
Seasickness too.
That cleared things up a bit. Thanks Vicky.
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