The White Plague (5e Disease)
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The White Plague[edit]
This is diseases is meant to be used with the dire diseases variant rule.
Contracting The White Plague[edit]
The White Plague is contracted via contact with the bodily fluid of undead creatures. On contact with undead bodily fluid, a creature must make a DC11 Constitution saving throw or contract the disease. If bitten by an undead creature, the bitten creature instead must make a DC13 Constitution saving throw.
Effects[edit]
Each day at dawn, the infected makes a Constitution save with a DC of 10 + number of days since they last failed this daily save. On failure, they gain the next symptom of the first stage of this disease.
- The early sighs. Coughing and small white flakes under the eye. A DC 16 Medicine check can identify the disease at this stage.
- The White Mark! The skin becomes a pale white.
- White hair.
- Pale eyes. Your eye color becomes a pale whiteish color. Your vision begins to decay, you have a disadvantage on all Perception checks and can no longer see in color. Additionally, you begin to suffer visual hallucinations of the ghosts of those who died with this disease.
- Decay. Each day at dawn, the infected must make a DC16 Constitution saving throw. On failure their maximum hit points are reduced by 10. If the infected is reduced to 0 hp due to this effect, they rise as an undead after 1d100 days if the corpse is not destroyed.
If the infected has their max health reduced by 50% by the previous effect, they move on to the second stage of the disease, gaining the following effects:
- Sickly. Now your skin is as white as snow and you have disadvantage on all Constitution saving throws.
- White Eyes. Your eyes fade fully to white. You are blinded to all planes except the Ethereal Plane, which you can now see into at all times.
Treatment[edit]
The White Plague can be cured with lesser restoration in it's first stage, or greater restoration in it's second. Additionally, if 3 consecutive daily saving throws are made during the first stage of this disease, the infected recovers fully.
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