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modern medicine vs. D&D magic

Actually a specialist with a focus on medicine is as good as a modern doctor. Seriously, in D&D that's what a doctor is. A specialist who put's as many skill points as they can into medicine and then skill focus into medicine, combine it with decent intelligence and you have a level three character as good as any modern doctor.
 
Pandora's_Folly said:
ok i am a dying hog farm. now how do i find this cure disease that you speak of?

or plop the plague or ebola or just the spanish influenza in a small port city. what happens then?
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Most days if the local mechanisms are overwhelmed, one of the gods with the relevant portfolio will take action, possibly while the war gods of their pantheon are holding the resident gods of disease in a metaphorical headlock. Presuming a bar on direct action, every third level and higher paladin available gets sent into the breach as uninfectable first responders, with fifth level and higher clerics and 6th level and higher paladins providing treatment, and gated or planar allied in astral daevas or leonal guardinals for constant curing of 14400 infected people per day if the situation warrants. 3rd level clerics drops zones of truth to enforce quarantine and identify those who have been exposed to the infected.



so lets break down the trained hireling's average wage of 3sp. if the spell without components cost 90gold pieces and iirc its 10sp to 1gp then its 300 days of work to pay for the cure disease. that just covers mercenary's, warriors, smiths, and other Trained people.
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So...just like real life then?

I bet the peasantry is basically at the whim of gods, clerics, paladins, and merciful lords.

though I didn't think about using cure disease to cure difficult things like mental disorders. that's pretty damn spiffy.

I still think modern medicine as a societal force is more effective and increasing the culture's health levels than dnd magic.

I wonder....how long do the fucking nobles live? thats gotta be like almost another species. 200 to 400 year old magically extended lifespans ruling over a sickly mound of peasants.
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72 years is the apparent minimum age before croaking of natural causes for any human in a D&D world, with the average being 92, and the max without aid 110. A noble of sufficient means can easily afford a polymorph any object spell one off to crank that to 570 years by virtue of saying 'elf please' to the casting wizard. Edit: sufficient means being 1200 gp
 
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Pandora's_Folly said:
ok i am a dying hog farm. now how do i find this cure disease that you speak of?
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Go to the nearest Large Town (population 2000+) there is a 51% chance there will be a Cleric there who will charge you 150gp for a casting of the spell. In larger communities this chance goes up. This is about the cost of a good horse. This is if, and only if, he decides to charge you for the privilege.

Or see below.

or plop the plague or ebola or just the spanish influenza in a small port city. what happens then?
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What's the population of the city?

Anyway, what likely happens is a bunch of 1st level Experts show up. Assuming they have have a Wisdom of 12 and 4 ranks in heal and skill focus heal they can take 10 and have a nurse on hand (ie, anyone without a negative Wis score) to aid them they will get a 20 on their Heal check. This replaces the targets saving throw against disease and thus will be enough to cure any disease which is two more than the DC needed to heal supernatural diseases created by demons to destroy humanity.

This takes ten minutes of effort per person infected so a standard Expert Healer and Nurse aid (ie, one trained and one untrained worker) can treat in a standard eight hour work day about 48 people. So the cost per day is... 4sp per day.

If its really bad, some clerics start showing up.
 
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.......now we know why elf birth rates just don't matter. H.mmm that would be an interesting story, humans nobles gradual replaced by polymorped elves.


Edit. Reads thru aarons post.

Welp it wasn't meant to be a disease simulator.

I retract my previous statment.
 
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Pandora's_Folly said:
Welp it wasn't meant to be a disease simulator.

I retract my previous statment.
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And they can do this kind of stuff with no equipment of any kind. That's right, having a first aid kit is considered a +2 bonus on that roll. A standard human medic would likely have Self-Sufficient as well. So a trained human healer with a portable healing kit and a nurse assistant will regularly be hitting DC 24 if they take 10 on Heal checks to Treat Disease. This is a level 1 Expert, basically the equivalent of a pre-med student.

The chance of having a level 1 Expert in a community is 100%, though obviously not all of them will be focused on Healing.
 
consequences said:
It's an aberration, that may not count as close enough to mammal for Polymorph any object to make the jump to permanent.
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So you add a bit of extra cash for permanency. God knows wizards can turn a rock into a human permanently and make the transformation innate with a wish spell. So basically, Nobles will become elves. Kings and Emperors on the other hand can afford to become Elans.
 
Malbutorius said:
So you add a bit of extra cash for permanency. God knows wizards can turn a rock into a human permanently and make the transformation innate with a wish spell. So basically, Nobles will become elves. Kings and Emperors on the other hand can afford to become Elans.
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Yup, that costs like 27K gold, since allowing permanency to affect any kind of polymorph would be a DM call, and thus not something that can be relied upon and wishes are frelling expensive. Much harder to put together than 1200.


Sydonai said:
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They "reproduce" by converting humanoids into more Elans.
Entirely voluntarily, you even have to petition their High Council to get a chance of this happening to you.


"Elan are a race of aberrations with psionic powers. Originally human, they are changed into a new form by other elan. While still humanoid looking, they are immortal and able to sustain their bodies with psionic power instead of food and drink.
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A bunch of elitist exclusionary pricks are unlikely to take kindly to some rich human jerkholes trying to muscle their way into the club, especially if they aren't even having the decency to bribe the appropriate authorities. Them having a custom method to achieve it would make sense in setting if you have to go to them.
 
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Malbutorius said:
So you add a bit of extra cash for permanency. God knows wizards can turn a rock into a human permanently and make the transformation innate with a wish spell. So basically, Nobles will become elves. Kings and Emperors on the other hand can afford to become Elans.
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So would Batman be even more powerful in the world of D&D?
:D
 
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