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Okay, I left a shiny blue glowing stone that my group's mage grabbed. At first, I wasn't sure what it was, but it isn't magical for sure. Anyway, the mage still has it on his person, and I've finally figured out what it is.
It's radioactive, not at a massive level, but enough that it should be starting to have an adverse effect on him.
My question is, how am I going to play this?
I don't want to right out tell him "you've got radiation poisoning". I want him to try and figure out what's going on, and then why, and finally figure out "get rid of the glowing stone".
Any hints?
dot
Have him progressively feel sickened, then nauseated, then CON damage.
He will think of it as a story device and cling to it until it kills him.
Just so you know...
Just make sure that his hair falls out at some point!
This. Plus lots of vommiting.
This deep green volcanic
glass is similar to obsidian
but is formed when
molten rock is tainted with anomalous trace minerals from
deep beneath the earth whose emanations are toxic to living
things. It can be fragmented to razor sharpness, but even a
tiny amount of viridium contacting the bloodstream can pass
on a wasting sickness.
Any successful hit with a viridium weapon causes the
target to contract leprosy (Fortitude DC 12 negates). On a
successful critical hit, a tiny fragment of viridium breaks off
within the target, affecting it as though with greenblood oil
(Fortitude DC 13 negates).
A creature carrying a viridium weapon must save every
24 hours or contract leprosy unless the weapon is kept inside
an extradimensional space (such as an efficient quiver) or a
scabbard lined with lead.
Oozes, plants, and outsiders are immune to the deadly
emanations of viridium.
Viridium weapons have half the hardness of their base
weapon and have the fragile quality. Viridium can be magically
strengthened at an additional cost of +1,000 gp for a weapon
or +20 gp for ammunition. This removes the fragile quality
from the item but does not otherwise affect its abilities
Take cues from that. It's basically a radioactive special material.
It's Viridium from UE.
Poison.
Remember, you have power as a GM to do whatever you can. As long as it is consistent, you can make whatever system you want for dealing with it. Modelling it on previous poisons or diseases is fine, especially with something like viridium already existing (Nice find, btw!).
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I aim to please.
Star Wars Saga Edition (I'm sure folks are tired of me referencing that at this point) handles radiation as follows, converted to PF:
Type/Damage/Heal DC
Mild (CR 2)/2d6/15
Moderate (CR 4)/4d6/20
Severe (CR 7)/6d6/25
Extreme (CR 10)/8d6/30
DC = 10 (or 15) + 1/2 the CL of the Effect.
Each round of exposure you check for contamination (i.e. a fort save); no problem if successful Fortitude Save. On a failed save, they suffer the damage indicated each round until they die or a successful heal check is made.
You could decrease the frequency check to daily, hourly, whatever.
Hope that helps.
Edit: Just noticed Ringtails version. Way better than what I posted from a published work, no less. Another example of "published" isn't necessarily better.
Would Radiation Poisoning count as a poison or disease for spells and effects?
Radiation Sickness affects a person over a significant amount of time sometimes even weeks, to me this is much more like a disease for in-game terms.
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Edit: Just noticed Ringtails version. Way better than what I posted from a published work, no less. Another example of "published" isn't necessarily better.
We used the 3.5 "Unearthed Arcana" Taint Score as a base and expanded upon that.