Disease

Disease is a status effect that causes a single ailment from the following list:
#Poison damage over time, ticking like a clock
#Penalty to one base stat
#Slow, functionally equivalent to the Slow effect
Which ailment the victim receives is entirely decided by who or what causes the disease. For example, the Contagion spell inflicts four different Disease effects, three affecting base stats and one causing slow.
Other ailments exist, but they are not used in the unmodded game. See IESDP
==Gameplay==
* Every time the poisonous Disease "ticks", a certain amount of Poison damage is dealt to the sick creature. This damage will be affected by its Poison damage resistance stat.
* The rhythm at which the poisonous Disease ticks is affected by Haste and Slow effects — creatures that are both sick and hasted will take more damage because the Disease effect will tick more often but through the same total duration.
*The slowing Disease is a full fledged Disease effect. While the slowness is functionally equivalent to that of the real Slow effect, immunities and cures have to target the Disease effect to work. Targeting the Slow effect will yield no result.
*Still, the Haste effect will be able to neuter the slowing Disease just like it does with the real Slow effect.
* As is true with all status effects, application details vary depending on source — what is causing the effect. Duration may vary or even be permanent. Sometimes the illness is deadly and sometimes it can be shrugged off. Check the source you're interested in for such details.
==Diseases that are not a Disease effect==
The Disease portrait icon is sometimes used for afflictions that are not actually a Disease effect proper. One example of this is the Ghast, whose attack may inflict a cumulative +2 THAC0 penalty along with a Disease portrait icon, lasting for 200 seconds. Since no Disease effect is involved whatsoever, immunity to it will not help.
In Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition, Cure Disease, Neutralize Poison and Greater Restoration should however be able to cure this type of illness in most cases. Failing that, Dispel Magic should often work as a cure of sorts.
Category:Negative status effects