Mummy Rot

Details: Supernatural disease, Fortitude DC 16+, Incubation period 1 minute; damage 1d6 Con and 1d6 Cha. The save DC is Charisma-based and scales to higher DCs with stronger mummies. Unlike normal diseases, mummy rot continues until the victim reaches Constitution 0 (and becomes helpless) or is cured as described below.

How to remove: When first exposed to mummy rot, the full curse is not immediately applied. Instead, you have 1 minute to Remove Disease before it applies the supernatural curse and disease to you. At that point, to eliminate mummy rot, the curse must first be broken with break enchantment or remove curse (requiring a DC 20 caster level check for break enchantment, but none for remove curse), after which the mummy rot can be magically cured as any other disease. Mummy Rot is not removed by rest. Exiting a quest without curing it means you'll still have it.

Expanded Detail: Mummy rot, as the name suggests, comes from an attack from a mummy. It's unique for a disease. At first it is only a disease, and can be removed easily with a simple remove disease. After you fail a save versus mummy rot, it applies a curse that does not show up in your buff bar. This "curse" has the same effects as the mummy rot "disease", but is coded to reapply mummy rot when the next stat damage tick is up.


 * To remove mummy rot that you've failed a save against, it is safest to first remove the curse, then the disease, in this order. If you remove only one of the afflictions or in the wrong order, mummy rot may return.


 * Parties without a Cleric or Favored Soul to help with curses and diseases can utilize potions of remove curse and remove diseases.

Note: Mummies have a second similarly special melee attack called Mummy's Curse. Do not confuse this with mummy rot, they are separate things in DDO (In PNP they are combined). Mummy's Curse is a simple -50% incoming healing curse which may be removed with remove curse. It is not considered a disease so you may still be cursed if you wear a disease immunity item.