Medicum Morbo Adhibere
I've been having a lot of conversations lately about BX/lotfp-compatible disease mechanics, and it seems like there's not a lot of resources out there for something more complex than 'PC picks up disease, suffers from it, maybe dies, maybe passes it on to their party members'. Me being the person that I am, I'm kinda obsessed with disease - the spread of disease, the effects of disease on a population, etc. I mostly blame Ice Pick Lodge's absolutely genius plague-based horror survival sim Pathologic, but the ongoing global pandemic has kinda... intensified my fixation a bit. So I've been running a campaign since last September where Eastern Europe is being ravaged by the Red Death. Like from the Edgar Allan Poe story and Zzarchov Kowalski's excellent module The Punchline. And, given that there doesn't seem to be a lot of this kind of thing out there, I thought I'd share the disease/pandemic mechanics I've been using. These mechanics assume ...