Disease track question


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So with Starfinder's disease track system, does a character who makes the initial save for a disease have to make a second save after the frequency time passes, or did they completely avoid the risks by never progressing beyond "healthy"?

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Type disease (injury); Save Fortitude DC 10

Track physical; Frequency 1/day
Effect No latent/carrier state; an infected creature that dies rises as a (redacted) 2d4 hours later.
Cure 2 consecutive saves

Is a character who passed the initial save considered "infected" for the Effect line?

Does an infected character that dies for non-disease related reasons rise 2d4 hours later, or does that only happen if the disease kills them?


No. If the character makes the initial save when she is hit by the affliction attack, she does not contract the affliction. If the character fails that initial save, she moves to the first step of the affliction.

For example, if the character is hit by an attack that gives the bubonic plague disease, she has to make an immediate saving throw. If successful, nothing happens, and she stays healthy. If she fails the saving throw, she goes to the first step of the disease track (which in this case, would be latent). From there, she makes saves to determine if she moves up or down the track. If she gets 2 consecutive saves, then she manages to kick the diseases, and starts to get better (how fast that goes might be determined by the GM).

As for the rising part, if you're referring specifically to void death from the first dead suns adventure path, the void death entry itself is iffy. However, if you read the void zombie entry, it does state that only victims who die of void death become void zombies. So as a hard yes or no, it would be a no.

However, void death is a parasitic disease, and parasites can be tenacious. In theory, if the disease has progressed far enough, the parasites could still take over if the host dies prematurely. Personally, I would say that if the character had reached the bedridden or comatose stage of the disease track and was killed then, the parasites could still take over and turn the corpse into a void zombie. However, it would take something along the lines of at least an extra day before the 2d4 hours kicks in. That also assumes nothing untoward happens to the corpse during that time frame.


Thanks Aseroth. It was Dead Suns that made me ask. It wound up being irrelevant as the the trio on the bridge managed to infect the entire party, along with knocking two characters out and leaving the rest of the party with less than 10 hp between them. As it turns out, becoming fatigued and nauseated at the start of a difficult fight is brutal.

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