Very New to Game, is this a sound course?

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Kutulhu:
I have about 180 turns until he dies of disease. The other afflictions make him useless.

I'm going to take a stab at figuring out the root of the problem. Since you're playing Miasma, I expect that you've picked a pretender that isn't cold blooded, undead, or a demon. If you've applied patch 2.11, then he probably doesn't have swamp survival. Your pretender is also vulnerable to the disease effect of the miasma domain unless he falls into one of those categories.

There are a number of ways remove afflictions, and you've identified most of them. However, I wouldn't empower a marshmaster, but instead have them build nature boosting items. These are available under the construction magic path. The cheapest of the items you are looking for are the thistle mace, treelord's staff, and the moonvine bracelet.

You should probably download the Summoned Creature Quick Reference, Magic Items Quick Reference, and the boosting items file from Sunray's library.

[Kutulhu]

Thanks for the info on the items, I will go that route. I never though of that about the pretender, that he to would be affected by miasma. He has Waste Survival, but not swamp. Darn!

[Norfleet]

If your Miasmatic pretender cannot survive his own Miasma, he will just become diseased and die again. I'd say you can struggle on without him, or you can declare the game failed and restart. Up to you: Curing him, however, won't address the underlying problem if you're being diseased by your own miasma.

[Gateway103]

Keep the pretender alive, albeit crippled, is probably better than letting him die of miasma (unless you decide to restart). At the very least, a living pretender helps maintain the dominion (ever notice how quick your dominion in provinces decline when your pretender perishes?)

A Chalice can be made, GoH casted, or Faery Queen summoned. But if he's just going to get diseased again, might as well just forge a Ring of Regeneration, and keep the crippled pretender alive indefinitely doing nothing in a safe location.

Sure he'll accumulate more and more afflictions and become more and more useless, but hey, the people needs to know that their God is with them somewhere! Perhaps 50 turns later, you can post in the affliction record thread about a incredibly afflicted pretender, and set the record

Have fun ^_^

-Gateway103

[Saxon]

Gift of Health is the way to go. I had C’tis and found a nice Lab which produced Sages. I had a large number of them researching and until I got Gift of Health, they were dropping like flies. Afterwards, the situation became quite good, with only occasional problems.

[Catquiet]

Originally posted by Gateway103:

A Chalice can be made, GoH casted, or Faery Queen summoned. But if he's just going to get diseased again, might as well just forge a Ring of Regeneration, and keep the crippled pretender alive indefinitely doing nothing in a safe location.

Can a Faery Queen heal herself or will she have to worry about getting diseased also?

[Gateway103]

Originally posted by Catquiet:

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Originally posted by Gateway103:

A Chalice can be made, GoH casted, or Faery Queen summoned. But if he's just going to get diseased again, might as well just forge a Ring of Regeneration, and keep the crippled pretender alive indefinitely doing nothing in a safe location.

Can a Faery Queen heal herself or will she have to worry about getting diseased also?

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Good question, she will have to worried about getting diseased, since she's not immune. Never played Miasma yet, so I don't know if the chance to get diseased is 100%. If not, then she can heal herself though.

If it is 100% however, then it depends on how system is implemented. If curing phase comes before getting diseased phase, then she would likely be near full health most of time (chance to heal her own disease is 25%, but she regains full hp after curing...), but she'll always be diseased. If it is the other way around, then she can be a full health without the affliction at start of a given turn.

-Gateway103