I thought Paladins were immune to disease?
Sandman
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Got the Paladin up where the Ankhegs are and was fighting a ghast and he got diseased. Is this a glitch or something?
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The Cavalier is immune to poison, but disease is a complete different category.
http://www.enworld.org/forum/d-d-pathfinder/257777-paladins-kyuss-worms-2.html
Immunity to Disease
A paladin has complete immunity to all forms of organic disease. This immunity includes diseases from rat, otyugh, and neo-otyugh bites, as well as nonlethal but disabling maladies like
measles and earaches. A paladin never catches a cold or suffers from tooth decay, and is unaffected
by parasitic monsters such as green slime, violet fungi, gas spores, phycomids, and rot grubs. His
wounds never become infected. The process occurs instantly, automatically, and painlessly; the
paladin isn’t even aware of exposure to a disease.
A paladin’s disease resistance is divinely given and can’t be transferred to another character. A
magical blood transfusion, for instance, would not grant disease immunity to the recipient. Nor are a
paladin’s progeny automatically immune to diseases, unless they become paladins themselves.
Psychological disorders. A paladin is as prone as anyone else to hallucinations, nightmares,
memory loss, insanity, and similar mental and emotional disorders, providing the disorder isn’t a
consequence of a disease (such as a fever-induced delirium).
(Some kits are not immune to disease).
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From PlanetBaldursGate.com:
Skills from AD&D that are not implimented[sic] in BG: resistance to disease (there is no disease in the game), Cure Disease, possession of a faithful war horse, and the necessity of giving away wealth and most possessions. In ToB, the Paladin can draw from a high level ability pool which gives the Paladin some extra abilities.
No disease in game? Why is there a cure disease spell and how are Ghasts able to disease you.