Diseases

Characters may get diseases. All diseases has the following characteristics:

Diseases in ME

In Medieval Europe it's possible to catch diseases. Currently three diseases can be caught:

• Plague
• Flu
• Bleeding Wound

How a character is infected?

A character may be infected by a game mechanics, another character.

What happens to a character that is infected with a disease?

Every disease, after some time and until is not cured:

• Applies effects to a character (for example, some Health Points are taken off)
• If it's infective, tries to infect other characters

Some disease effects cannot apply in some circumstances:

Status	Apply disease effects	Can be infected?	Can Infect?
Character is in prison	YES	YES	NO
Character is moving	YES	NO	NO
Character is being cured	NO	NO	NO
Character is in meditation	NO	NO	NO
Character age is <= 30	NO	NO	NO
Character is banned	YES	YES	YES
Character is recovering	NO	YES	NO
Character is healthy and had the disease less than 15 days ago	N.A.	NO	N.A.

The Plague

The first outburst is reported to have happened on 19 January 1314. Guglielmo di Valenza was the infector. This can be guessed by this post appeared on 20 January 1414

Attribute	Value	Description
Level	3	Disease Level (Gravity)
Diffusion	5%	Percentage of characters that are in the same regions that are infected
HP malus	Variable	How many HP takes away at each check for infection/effect.
Checkinterval	Variable	Interval for infection/effect check.
Strength malus	5	Malus on str (how many points are subtracted)
Dexterity malus	5	Malus on dex (how many points are subtracted)
Intelligence malus	2	Malus on intel (how many points are subtracted)
Constitution malus	7	Malus on const (how many points are subtracted)
Charisma malus	0	Malus on carisma (how many points are subtracted)