# Infected Many people lead healthy and normal lives without issue from health or circumstance, nothing happens to them beyond the norm that would effect anyone. But sometimes they are effected by the bizarre, be it Strange Mood, Infernal Fever or Eldritch Enchantment something has come unto them and altered them. Now they are infected with a strange disease or incantation, that wants to spread, to flourish, infest and influence others. Their body works against them, warps and twists itself into forms more fitting for the disease. Whether or not the infection is Malicious is a different matter entirely. **Skill Proficiencies:** Due to having to manage your infection and hide it from others you gain proficiency with Medicine and Deception. **Tool Proficiencies:** Due to needing to keep your own health under control you have gained the knowledge of and start with a Healer’s Kit and Herbalist Kit. **Languages:** Your Village taught you enough to be able to survive in the world, but you do not have the breadth of knowledge that others do, You start with Common and the choice of Elvish, Dwarfish, Gnomish or Halfling. **Equipment:** One set of common quality clothes, one set of Travel clothes, one common weapon and a pouch containing 10 Gold Pieces. ### Infection Type Your infection is actively changing you and altering your being, and can be from many different origins, be it natural or unnatural. | D10 | Infection Type | |:----:|:-------------:| | 1 | Arcane (Spellplague Remnant, Chaotic, Transmutation)| | 2 | Necrotic Curse (Accidental, Intentional)| | 3 | Eldritch (Old One, Unborn, Vestige)| | 4 | Infernal (Demonic, Devilish, Abyssal, Raw Evil)| | 5 | Flora (Plantskin, Fungi, Woodland)| | 6 | Fauna (Lycanthropy, Primal, Animalistic)| | 7 | Parasitical (Worm, Mental, Symbiotic)| | 8 | Umbral (Shadow Kin, Dark Presence, Alternate Self)| | 9 | Celestial (Angelic, Godly, Modron)| | 10 | Competing (Roll Twice, Dual Infection)| ### Infectious Mutation The Disease that ravages your Body works against, you it churns and twists within you, altering and strengthening you, changing and working away on you day after day, it ultimately wants to take you over completely. Each day after a long rest roll D6 and gain advantage to the associated stat for the rest of the day until you have had a long rest. 1 Strength, 2 Dexterity, 3 Constitution, 4 Intelligence, 5 Charisma, 6 Wisdom. You are ill and unable to recover naturally that quickly from wounds, all health points healed from rest are reduced by Half your level. ### Suggested Characteristics Your Infection has changed you and continues to alter you, yet you persist and try to endure it. Someday you may find the Cure, or perhaps the Infection will grow in you and make you think about helping it spread. | D8 | Personality Trait | |:----:|:-------------:| | 1 | What? I don’t care, the gods don’t want to do anything to help me why should I care about anything they or you say?| | 2 | *Yells in pain* Infernal Body! Stop just stop! *Proceeds to pummel a nearby object*| | 3 | Calm and comfortable, Relaxed and soothing. This is the way to deal with the pain| | 4 | You know, I can handle the Pain, the random twitching and the times my body react against me, but the Voices those are the worst...| | 5 | Hmm, Oh? Me, I’m fine. No no, no need to worry, the disease is under control, I swear. What are you? NO! *Falls over as the spell hits, panting heavily* Th-thank you.. I almost lost myself...| | 6 | *Sniffs the air and starts drooling* What is that Smell.. It.. it’s heavenly.... *Horror dawns on face as you realise it’s your friends wounds*| | 7 | *Coughing and laughing in equal measure* Yes YES Get out and walk! No C-can’t do that... Oh gods, what is it doing to me...| | 8 | Come on! Come on! Come on! Let’s go! Fight me damn it!| \page | D6 | Ideal | |:----:|:-------------:| | 1 | “Suffrage” I must have done something to make this happen, what sin did I commit that lead too this Punishment. I will live and endure this until I rid myself of this Sin.| | 2 | “Revenge” I am going to find the cause of this disease, and I am going to make them suffer for it. My vengeance will be a thing the Bards sing about...| | 3 | “Co-existence” I will learn to cope with the infection, I will get used to it, overcome it and make sure no-one else has to deal with it.| | 4 | “Overcome” This thing will not win, It will not get into my mind and beat me, I won’t let it. No, no More. I will win. I will beat it.| | 5 | “Excitement” I don’t know what it’s doing to me, but I like it, I welcome it.. More and more. It’s great I need more...| | 6 | “Study” I need to understand this, learning about it will help me find out what it is doing to me, why me, all of that will help. I’m just Patient Zero...| | D6 | Bond | |:----:|:-------------:| | 1 | The Clerics of (God) really helped me come to terms with this Infection I will do everything I can for them if they ask.| | 2 | Everything I do, I do it for my Lover, I.. I can’t see her until I’m healed or at least have this under control.| | 3 | The others infected like I am need someone to find a way to stop this, I have too... I can’t let them down.| | 4 | The one who Infected me, they told me what would happen, I.. I have to find them. I can’t go through this alone.| | 5 | Everyone who stand with me is at risk, I can’t be afraid, I have to be the one to help as best as I can.| | 6 | The Apothecary that stabilised me was rather odd, but they at least helped me when no-one else would. Even if I am only a research subject for them.| | D8 | Flaw | |:----:|:-------------:| | 1 | 1 I sometimes wake up somewhere else, not having an idea of how I got there. I’m scared...| | 2 | I sometimes catch my hands doing things that I’m not thinking about. It’s generally fine, but sometimes I find them gripping my weapons...| | 3 | I can’t help but dream of strange things, odd feelings, bizarre encounters, I mean it’s normal to dream of weird things, but they shouldn’t feel so real...| | 4 | We have no problems, We are fine, We are strong.....| | 5 | I need to take a potion a few times a day to keep myself healthy, It’s hard and tastes like arse but It’s the only thing I can do to keep it under control.| | 6 | I take risks that I shouldn’t and act out against people because I want this to be over, I sometimes think Death would be a blessing.| | 7 | I can’t feel my limbs at times, I can move them, but I just can’t.. feel them. So strange, it’s unnatural.| | 8 | I don’t want to cure this, whatever it’s doing to me I’ve never felt stronger or more powerful then since I was infected, I want this... I want to spread it.| ### Variant Infected: Twisted One of your body parts is infected and the taint is slowly spreading out from there, growing though and around it, changing your limb into something else, you can harness and lash out with the infection, a grim reminder of what is happening to your body. **Variant Feature: Growing Taint** One of your limbs is infected and it cannot be hidden, Gain advantage on any Intimidation rolls that incorporates the use of the Limb. Once per Long rest you may make an attack to deal damage equal to your (your level+1/2 your level), the type of damage is linked to your infection type. You are ill and unable to recover naturally that quickly from wounds, all health points healed from rest are reduced by Half your level. Arcane=Force Necrotic Curse=Necrotic Eldritch=Psychic Infernal=Fire Flora=Poison Fauna=Piercing Parasitical=Bludgeoning Umbral=Cold Celestial=Radiant Competing=50% chance of either type.

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