My PCs will question Ghelve tomorrow. Ghelve knows about the Vanishing. My question is: does he know everything written in the book? How the disease is transmitted and how it is cured?
My PCs will question Ghelve tomorrow. Ghelve knows about the Vanishing. My question is: does he know everything written in the book? How the disease is transmitted and how it is cured?
It's really up to you, but personally, I think that's making it too easy for the players. In my game, the gnomes knew that the Vanishing was connected to the magic items they created, but even they didn't know why (e.g. they didn't know anything about the spellweaver connection). But that was 75 years ago. I played it that no one really knew that much anymore about the disease/curse, other than that it had happened and had led to the abandonment of Jzadirune, and even that wasn't common knowledge.
My characters (going on 6th level in the middle of Flood Season) still have a chest full of all the magic items they took from Jzadirune and the Malachite Fortress because they're paranoid about what might be infected with the Vanishing.
Doesn't it seem like the game should have a detect curse spell?
My PCs will question Ghelve tomorrow. Ghelve knows about the Vanishing. ...
It's really up to you, but personally, I think that's making it too easy for the players. In my game, the gnomes knew that the Vanishing was connected to the magic items they created, but even they didn't know why (e.g. they didn't know anything about the spellweaver connection). But that was 75 years ago. I played it that no one really knew that much anymore about the disease/curse, other than that it had happened and had led to the abandonment of Jzadirune, and even that wasn't common knowledge.
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My game just finished this section, and how I handled it was that the gnomes as a whole knew about the Vanishing as a dangerous disease. They were scared of it. Very few gnomes knew the full details that the magic items were getting infected. Only the King and the Librarian left messages about it, and most gnomes didn't know.
As soon as a member of the adventuring group was known to be infected, Skie freaked and wanted nothing to do with anything from Jzadirune until it was verified where the infection came from and that everyone was cured. Vortimax Weer played a big part in this verification, as he is a "mentor" for our mage in the group. He took the clear spindle-shaped ioun stone as payment for cleaning all of the infected magical items and curing all infected party members.
No one knows that the Spellweavers are involved with the Vanishing, though I did have Vortimax drop a hint about an ancient race that may have been responsible after he examined the infections using a True Seeing. I looked at it as foreshadowing for the Spellweaver stuff later.
Other games may use the dependence on the Church of St Cuthbert for the Remove Curse spells.