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#1 ephealy May 02, 2006 8:14:53	In ONW 1-07: Hunters Hunted, Kerrigan introduces a new affliction called the "Wyrm of Syrul" - a terrible worm that crawls inside wounds and causes divination magic to reveal false information through misdirection. Q0: Are there any other sources for the Wyrm of Syrul? Q1: Would you consider this a parasite or a disease? Rules-wise, does it even make a difference? I'm not aware of any rules for parasites, per se. Q2: Assuming it's a disease, would you consider it extraordinary in nature (a la filth fever) or supernatural? I'm leaning toward supernatural because of the odd "damage" the WoS does. It also helps that the WoS is associated with a deity. Q3: How would you go about figuring out the DC for the Fortitude save. Misdirection is a 2nd-level arcane spell, if that has any bearing on it... Q4: What incubation period would you use for the WoS? Would it be immediately effective, like when contagion is cast? I'm thinking the worm should take a least an hour or so to find it's way to the host's brain (or wherever) and dig in. Q5: How would you quantify the damage, both primary and secondary? Would you apply a penalty to the host's effective caster level on all divination spells? I've never even heard of a disease that does something like this before...
#2 mortellan May 02, 2006 9:28:13	Q0: Are there any other sources for the Wyrm of Syrul? I doubt it, sounds new to me. Q1: Would you consider this a parasite or a disease? Rules-wise, does it even make a difference? I'm not aware of any rules for parasites, per se. I don't think it makes a diference. Cure disease IIRC kills wormy grub type stuff. Q2: Assuming it's a disease, would you consider it extraordinary in nature (a la filth fever) or supernatural? I'm leaning toward supernatural because of the odd "damage" the WoS does. It also helps that the WoS is associated with a deity. Supernatural, it's essentially a misdirection spell in living form. Q3: How would you go about figuring out the DC for the Fortitude save. Misdirection is a 2nd-level arcane spell, if that has any bearing on it... How about use the Save for the spell but apply it to Fort instead of Will. Q4: What incubation period would you use for the WoS? Would it be immediately effective, like when contagion is cast? I'm thinking the worm should take a least an hour or so to find it's way to the host's brain (or wherever) and dig in. Effective would tip off PCs too soon and it's not likely they would use a divination so soon, I'd have it dormant until a divination spell IS cast. Q5: How would you quantify the damage, both primary and secondary? Would you apply a penalty to the host's effective caster level on all divination spells? I've never even heard of a disease that does something like this before... I'd say no damaging, that will once again tip off the afflicted before the worm has a chance to do its thing. Also, if this parasite is in a LG mod, shouldn't it be stated up already? Kerrigan wouldn't be that sloppy surely.
#3 Mortepierre May 02, 2006 11:31:39	In ONW 1-07: Hunters Hunted, Kerrigan introduces a new affliction called the "Wyrm of Syrul" - a terrible worm that crawls inside wounds and causes divination magic to reveal false information through misdirection. Despite LG being played by fans of GH, the latter aren't always informed of everything that's going on in every corner of the Flanaess. Actually, it's quite the contrary as we suffer greatly from a near-total lack of info. Even if we do hear about something, game stats usually stay secret (just in case another author would like to pull the same trick) First time I hear about that worm myself and I play in the same MR as Onnwal ! So, your best bet would be to head for the Onnwal message board and ask. Given the mod. is retired, they should be willing to answer those questions (assuming they aren't keeping it secret for another plot, of course). http://www.onnwal.org.uk/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi