A Role-Playing Game Sourcebook for Medical Maladies (d20)
You have never read a game book quite like this one! Written by a practicing medical doctor¸ Insults & Injuries presents real world illnesses in OGL 3.5 system game terms. Why afflict characters with "filth fever" when you can give them rabies¸ the black plague¸ or the flu?
Within this sourcebook¸ you will find dozens of sicknesses that your players already know and fear in a format that allows them to be easily and realistically brought into your games. You will also find expanded rules for more effective non-magical healing.
This detailed book is divided into an introduction¸ 13 chapters¸ and five appendices and includes:
* Rules for more than 50 diseases and disorders¸ their game effects¸ and how they can be treated by both mundane and magical means.
* A chapter on the effects of alcohol¸ drugs¸ and poisons.
* A chapter on mental illnesses and their game effects.
* Rules for adjudicating surgical procedures.
* Three new prestige classes dedicated to nonmagical healing¸ the Alienist¸ Chirurgeon¸ and Physician.
* Special rules on the effects of illnesses upon non-Humans like Elves¸ Dwarves¸ and Orcs.
* New spells¸ equipment¸ and feats.
With this book¸ your players will never look at diseases the same way again!