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[Helmaroc]

I know that some kind of doctors/sickness/hospital type of thing has been suggested for fort mode, but I have some ideas for adventure mode.
You (adventurer) could get a cold or pneumonia from being wet or in a cold/freezing area

You could get diseases from vermin, giant rats, ratmen, and that sort of thing

If you were bitten you could possibly get a disease or an infection

Permanent health issues could be added

Health issues could tax your speed and combat ability, and if you were highly contagious people could keep a distance from you

Towns could have medicine men/doctors/healers etc. to aid you and you could buy medicines or potions to cure sicknesses or prevent disease from cuts/bites. (Antivenom could be used)

Sorry if this has already been suggested, just some ideas.

[penguinofhonor]

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[Helmaroc]

Covenant-Cool idea

penguinofhonor- I should have said wet AND cold

[BDR]

It's good to have suggestions like these as it keeps support for these features alive.. *but* this is already in the dev notes and thus in the plans.

[Kagus]

Oh joy.  Now we get to be eaten by naked mole dog packs, after being webbed and paralyzed by a giant cave spider, while having your eyes ripped out by a giant AND be dying of the plague at the same time.  All we need now is spontaneous dwarven combustion.  

Oh, wait...

[Rob Allen]

I prefer to think of it as, how can I visit these afflictions upon my enemies?  Such a system would work well with alchemy.  Brew up a potion to give your enemy a nasty disease and kill him while he's weak.  Have a supply of antidote in stock in case you catch it.  I'd also be a great way to flee a battle.  Fighting something bigger than you?  Poison it on your way out.  Watch it die from a safe distance.

Now, how to make an anti-cave-spider poison?  Hmmm...

[Draco18s]

Don't forget to add some weird species that would use "disease" to reproduce.

Blue Slaad egg salad anyone?

[Red Jackard]

ratmen riddled with disease? excellent!

*renames them skaven plaguebearers*

[Fenrir]

Oooh... then we could capture diseased vermin (which is all vermin, to some extent) and release them into towns. We wait a few months, then grab plenty of medicinal plant extracts in case we catch it, waltz into town and pick their rotting corpses clean!

[DJ]

Or you could come sooner and sell them some of those medicinal plant extracts. It's not as profitable, but it's more stylish.

Also, lycanthropy should be the first disease that gets implemented.

[Rob Allen]

I vote vampirism...

[FunkyBomb]

Poisoning a town's water supply sounds like a better idea, if you plan on taking that town for yourself. With toxins, you can prepare antidotes and take those afterwards, or drop them in the water, depending on what kind of toxin and antidote you're using.

[Alfador]

quote:Originally posted by DJ:
<STRONG>Or you could come sooner and sell them some of those medicinal plant extracts. It's not as profitable, but it's more stylish.

Also, lycanthropy should be the first disease that gets implemented.</STRONG>

Seconded! I want a fortress full of wereelephants and weregibbons! And werecarp?

[Helmaroc]

I'm happy to see enthusiasm in the idea! Even though some kind of health arc is planned, this might give Toady some ideas!

[Tahin]

Hmm... How about proper zombies?
1. Get bitten
2. flee to town
3. succumb to the infection
4. return to the same town later as a different adventurer to find all it's inhabitants reanimated.