Infected

Condition Severity: Weak

   An illness has made its way into your system, causing discomfort, weakness, and distress.

Effects

• Infected is usually the result of a weaker disease affecting a creature's system. Diseases with an intensity of infected have the following differences from stronger diseases:

• A saving throw is permitted at the point of the disease's introduction, prior to the second interval's effects, and prior to the third interval's effects.
• They have either no fruition, or if they do, it never has a duration greater than 1 week (usually just 1 day).
• They are not contagious.

• Here is an example of an infected intensity disease (see Afflictions for details):

Filth Fever (Injury vector; Infected intensity)

Fort DC 17; frequency: 1/day for 3 days

Effect: 1d2 DEX and 1d2 CON damage per interval; fruition: incapacitated for 1 day.

Ended By

If the ability, trap, or effect description includes specific directions for how the condition is ended, then that is the primary means of ending this condition. In many cases, it is the only way to end the condition. If nothing is specifically listed for ending the condition, then the following methods can be used to end it, instead:

• Curing the Poison: You get a saving throw versus the poison's listed DC immediately upon being subjected to the poison (to resist the first interval's effects), and a second saving throw just before the second and third intervals. If any of these saving throws are successful, the poison is shrugged off, and causes no further effects (though the existing damage and effects linger, as described below).

• If a Neutralize Poison (Spell) or some similar effect is cast on the victim of a tainted condition, the condition immediately ends, as though the victim had successfully made a saving throw against the poison or drug in question.
• Unlike most conditions, restoration spells and similar effects which broadly cure weak status conditions do not work on Tainted creatures, unless they explicitly state they can be used to treat poison. If the spell, ability, or effect can be used to treat poisons, the tainted condition is immediately ended by such a spell, ability, or effect, when applied to the tainted creature.
• If not otherwise cured, the poison or drug runs its course when after all three intervals of its frequency occur. If the poison has a "fruition" effect, it occurs at the same time as the third interval's effects.

• Curing Damage: Any hit point damage (including non-lethal damage) caused by the effects or fruition of a poison or drug with an intensity of tainted can be cured normally, even before the poison itself has been cured.
• Curing Effects: All effects (excluding hit point damage or non-lethal damage) that are inflicted by the effects of a poison or drug with a tainted intensity linger until the creature takes a full-night's rest, regardless of any successful saving throws made by the tainted creature. Any status conditions caused by the effect of the poison or drug are also cured after a full-night's rest, even if these conditions cannot normally be cured with a full-night's rest.

• This full-night's rest may only be taken after the poison has been cured or has run its course.
• The poison or drug effects may also be cured separately, if the creature isn't willing to wait for a full-night's rest.

• Curing the Fruition: Poisons with an intensity of tainted do not usually inflict a fruition effect. However, if they do, the fruition is always cured by a full-night's rest, if it doesn't end sooner than that. Fruitions can always be cured with a Wish (Spell) or Miracle (Spell), but are not otherwise curable by any other magic, including Restoration, Greater (Spell), unless the spell, ability, or effect specifically states it can cure the fruition of a poison or a disease. Note that permanent fruitions, such as death, can only be removed by a Wish (Spell) or Miracle (Spell).

Array

Infected → Diseased → Plagued