Ok. I'm a little heated at my GM at the moment. He created zombies with a disease that mimics zombie rot, but its onset is right away, and it happens way faster (say 1/min) We're all pretty lawyery, including him. We are also level four. He argues that since the save is so low its not a problem (its 12).
I have a few questions
Does anyone know where the rules for creating new diseases are? I already scoured paizos prd for monster creation, universal rules and the forums.
I believe without any concrete knowledge that the difference between diseases and poison is that poison usually effects you right away, and diseases take awhile.
Are there any diseases that effect you right away?
How does onset work? I'm not really clear on this. His mob hit me, i save immediately i make the save, do i still take con damage on the spot since his onset doesnt exist?
What would the cr be on a monster that has a disease that has an onset of zero rounds, and once every (1d4 rounds) you take 1d2 con damage, 2 consecutive saves to cure, when you die you are raised as a zombie the dc is 12 but the effect is on hit?
I feel like the encounter is WAY harder than CR 2 or 3, per monster.
So, yeah any one who has an idea about how this works officially would clear up some argument for us.