An UH without disease protection? Seriously?
Sharguild
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I won't get into why Viconia is in my Undead Hunter Paladin's party but she is.
She also has "Unholy Blight" as a spell.
Now, even vanilla IWD recognized that all Paladins were immune to disease but I guess in their wisdom, in the BG series it was determined "nope, yer strong enuff, scratch that".
But my goodness, not even an Undead Hunter?
So If Viccy whips this out, my UH goes cook hot-dogs for the group at camp I guess.
So another valuable spell relegated to the "don't use" pile.
Sad to see that.
Personally, I would suggest that he be immune to the disease spells inflicted by undead as well as "Ghoul Touch" and "Vampiric Touch" as well.
m2c
She also has "Unholy Blight" as a spell.
Now, even vanilla IWD recognized that all Paladins were immune to disease but I guess in their wisdom, in the BG series it was determined "nope, yer strong enuff, scratch that".
But my goodness, not even an Undead Hunter?
So If Viccy whips this out, my UH goes cook hot-dogs for the group at camp I guess.
So another valuable spell relegated to the "don't use" pile.
Sad to see that.
Personally, I would suggest that he be immune to the disease spells inflicted by undead as well as "Ghoul Touch" and "Vampiric Touch" as well.
m2c
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However, on a failed save, it does weaken the victim a bit, IIRC. It is like a ghast's disease ability, -2 to thac0. I wonder if the op was referring to this?
Is an undead hunter immune to ghast's disease, mummy rot, and contagion spells? Mummy rot is a magical curse, and paladins are not supposed to be immune to it, btw. Ghast's disease, is also supposed to be the disgusting smell of rot and decay that weakens the living. So it is up to debate as well. A paladin is supposed to be immune to non-magical diseases. So no measles or common cold or bloody diarrhea for eating spoiled food for the shiny knight. Magical diseases like Contagion spell, I dunno.
The BG description of Unholy Blight makes no mention of disease. Just energy from the Negative Material Plane. So, as others have said, disease immunity providing immunity to Unholy Blight makes no sense. Even 3rd Edition considers Unholy Blight a curse (i.e., remove disease will not cure its effects, but remove curse will).
if you really want to test it out, give your paladin the ring of gaxx, that ring makes you immune to disease so if you are wearing that ring and its still happening then you know that there is a bug somewhere perhaps?
The original game classed mummy attacks as disease and ghast attacks as non-disease, and we're keeping those classifications.
BG/BG2(EE) paladins are not immune to disease, though they are in IWD(EE). When disease causes damage, it causes poison damage so items/abilities that reduce poison damage can help against some disease.