Does this spell suppress ability damage caused by disease for the duration of the spell? Here is the spell description:
You quell feelings of illness and nausea in the target, giving it
a +4 morale bonus on saving throws against disease, nausea,
and sickened effects. If the subject is already under the
influence of one of these effects when receiving the spell, that
effect is suppressed for the duration of the spell.
Our rogue swallowed some frog guts and after failing a saving throw, he lost points of dex.
I know it won't cure it, but will it suppress it?
No. The disease is suppressed (i.e. the next save is delayed for the duration of the spell). All damage already taken remains as it is.
No. The disease is suppressed (i.e. the next save is delayed for the duration of the spell). All damage already taken remains as it is.
Thanks for responding.
Do you have a reference for that? Because I don't read it that way. The description says "that effect is suppressed" and the only effects it lists are "disease, nausea and sickened effects." The loss of dexterity is clearly an "effect" of the sickness the rogue has.
Your interpretation doesn't seem to match the way I read the spell.
Can't really give you a reference because I'd need to search for it which is tedious on a cell phone. However, damage of any kind is never suppressed if the source is suppressed. If a mage stands in an incendiary cloud that has already damaged him and surpresses the cloud with an antimagic field, the damage dealt doesn't suddenly disappear.
Basically, damage dealt - regardless of the source - is an instantaneous effect which can't be surpressed as suppression by definition requires an ongoing effect.
If it were ability drain, then it would rely on the ongoing effect and could be suppressed. Damage is damage though, it isn't reliant on the disease being there.
For example, if you cure the disease completely, the damage is still there, and needs to be cured independantly.