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Old 11-27-2022, 12:30 PM   #30
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Default Re: 4e Cure Disease badly worded/overpowered

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Originally Posted by Witchking View Post
My take is that Cure Disease would not work.

A Restoration or a Regeneration targeting the Pancreas on the other hand would.

However it would be a GM's call as to whether or not any desperate healer in the dim and distant past tried something like that, and if it then got passed down via his apprentices or The Lancet (local edition).
The problem being, though, at what tech level the society is. The differences (and vectors) between Type I and Type II was identified over a thousand years ago, but at what point did researchers pinpoint the pancreas as the problem?

I suppose it'd depend on the ubiquity of healing in the campaign. I could see, in a high magic environment, teams just hitting one organ after the next until they had enough of a database to work with. Alright, TL 4 might not know WHY the pancreas is causing trouble, but ...
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