I think going per round is a little too steep. What happens if sleep is cast on him and he over sleeps the correct time to take it. Might want to change the "frequency" to every half hour or fifteen minutes.
As for cost and balance give him another trait and make it cost as much as twice the amount of daily rations(2gp)(Since thats basically what it is). Sounds fair and fun enough :)
The cost shouldnt be what makes the effect worth giving a trait, the cost should be trivial. It should be the fear of the effect itself that defines the sickness ;)
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Poisons sounds like a good idea.
Well your the GM, what you decides goes.
If you are looking for "realism", another part of Diabeties is testing the amount of "sugar" in your blood stream. Perhaps a leach that turns colors the worse it is?
I'm not sure what to suggest about the "medicine". Medicine is expensive. Perhaps have him pay 5 gp per dose?
Perhaps he should save up for a Cure Disease and be rid of it. In the long run it would be more cost effective.
Dose your player want a character saddled with this ?
I know I would not want a character with such a disease.
Good luck
I'm not familiar with the movie, but it doesn't sound like actual diabetes.
So let's call it super diabetes. To model super diabetes, I would say uncurable, he needs to take a shot 2x/day, and the cost should be somewhat expensive, say 3 gold per shot, so 6 GP/day. That should be crafted price. If he has to buy it at a store, it should be basically impossible to find, very expensive, or both.
I would also make the shots spoil after say 2 or 3 days. He shouldn't be able to simply make a stockpile. This means he can't go off away from civilization for long periods of time (he's going to need a lab to make these.)
Because the downside is going to be very situational (its rarely going to affect him), I'd say just give him a free trait. I would also make sure he is aware that it will hurt him at some times (not all the time, but there will be situations where the negatives come into play.)
I'd make it something like if he doesn't get his shot, then he has to make a Con save every round, with an increasing DC each round. On a fail, he becomes exhausted & stunned. Basically he shouldn't be able to take any attacking actions, but he can grab his shot and inject himself.
Maybe the shot takes 1 or 2 rounds to actually take effect as well (again, not sure how quickly this occurs in the movie.)
Bleh :p
You should be having these conversations with the player. I would be pretty ticked off as a player if my GM told me that I have a "flaw" that is uncurable, a huge time and money sink at low level, and could kill me in mere rounds, and is likely to crop up during combat because that us cool sounding and reminds the GM of this one movie one time.
If the player is OK with it then go for it. (By OK with it, I mean that it was their idea originally and just asked you how you thought it should work mechanically.)
Flip this around and ask yourself this question: if a player said I have a great idea for a boon - I am super awesome at things. I take a shot everyday that I pay for and I will give up a feat, but once a week at a time of my choosing I get to become unquestionably the most strongest and powerful person in the room. Doesn't matter who else is there, I'm better for 10 rounds.
You would say no to that in a heartbeat. Because it takes control of the world away from you for 10 rounds and that us unacceptable. You are suggesting that he would lose control of his character for 10 rounds, basically at your whim, and for that he should get an extra trait (or maybe a feat, but he's gonna pay more for it!)
Really, have this conversation with the player.
Isn't the character's lifestyle (going on physically strenuous adventures and living on a medieval diet) pretty much the textbook method for avoiding nearly all symptoms of type II diabetes (which is what the character contracted from the weight gain and excessive sugar in his diet forced on him by the witch)?
The movie takes extreme liberties with a lot of things. For example, in one scene the hand-cranked electromagnet they used as a stun gun/taser earlier in the film is used as a defibrillator to revive a minor character that had died from falling off a cliff. If you thought the car-battery thing in the Evil Dead remake was stupid, you will groan out loud at this point in the movie.
The diabetic character is played by Jeremy Renner (the guy who played Hawkeye in the Avengers) and he is seen injecting himself with some kind of steampunk insulin injector. I didn't think they even knew insulin helped manage diabetes at the point in history where the film took place.
Call it Diabeetus.
Why? It is totally a fantasy condition.
If you do that, He will stick his fingers through your cheek and then turn into a dog monster.
EDIT: Has He been in ANY other big movies? I can't think of a single one.
I'm seeing the roleplay side but certainly not the gameplay, you're forcing a player to waste resources on a trait that gives him a serious disadvange. What you've suggested sounds like it could easily outright kill the guy in a few rounds, I don't care what the trade off is but a free trait/feat isn't worth it.
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If your player is happy to take on such a task I'd suggest:
The interpretation of diabetes into pathfinder closest resembles con damage. If the player doesn't take medicine x times a day their con mod goes down a score every 8 hours.
This affects their saves vs disease, reduces their hit points and makes them very difficult to stabilise in negative hp.
The problem with putting a value on medicine is it's too expensive at early levels and trivial at higher levels. Honestly I can see this guy dying either immediately early game or this effect never affecting him for the whole career. I don't see it needing a real cost, maybe more a heal check administered via healing kit. He rolls a heal check and it basically tell you how effective he was at administering his medicine. A successful DC15 lets him ignore all effects for 8 hours, every 5 points past that is +2 hours of safety. A failed check represents the medicine having little effect and a hidden D8 roll by GM will tell you when things start taking effect.
As a suitable trade? It'd really have to be something good or big. I'd give the player a few options.
*Player starts with a +1 weapon
*Gains the feat defiant luck to represent his heroic perseverance.
*Player gains at will detect magic and favoured enemy (like a ranger) bonus vs arcane casters
*For every penalty to con he takes, he gains a +2 to will saves (this encourages him to dance in the danger zone).
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1st round: Staggered & Constitution Check DC 10(+1 ea. successful save(Medicine resets DC and ends effect)) or be stunned.
Each round of stunned: Constitution Check continued from above or go unconcious (0 hp).
Each round of unconcious: Constitution Check continued from above or begin Dying (-1 hp).
Each round of Dying: Constitution Check continued from above or DEAD!
Bonus: DR 5/- for Nonlethal damage and +4 bonus to saves vs Pain (possibly including the sugar sickness saves) effects.
He is the mayor in American Hustle.Call it Diabeetus.
Why? It is totally a fantasy condition.
If you do that, He will stick his fingers through your cheek and then turn into a dog monster.
EDIT: Has He been in ANY other big movies? I can't think of a single one.
Holy crap that's awesome.
high carbonate foods.
What does the CO3 -2 anion have to do with this?
The movie also had witches with magic from dark powers. Perhaps it wasn't intended to be entirely historically accurate.