About disease names
Invented ailments like "Explosive Euphoria" and "Desolation Rage" are itemized in clinical lines, listing how common each is, what makes it worse, and treatments such as "Heavy suppressants". The format suits a healer NPC's case files or a plague arc, and the staged worsening of complaints hands you a built-in timeline for how bad things get by act three.
How disease names are built
This is not a name generator but a healer's case-file builder. The templates lay out an invented illness as chart entries: bulleted symptom lines (some marked seldom charted), "On the same chart" lines pairing one sign with another that worsens it, "Notes on its course" passages staging how it develops, a "What I judge to be the root" cause line, and follow-up lines set a handful of days further along. The symptom bank is the workhorse at 111 entries, and the course notes stage how complaints shift over days. Bank outputs include "What I judge to be the root: Rest cut short and worry piled on top of it." and "- an ankle that flares when pressed (seldom charted)".
What I judge to be the root: Rest cut short and worry piled on top of it.
field: root cause + slots: cause drawn from the cause banks
- an ankle that flares when pressed (seldom charted)
field: symptom + slots: complaint + rarity flag
A handful of days further along, the sign of a leaden weight pressing the spirit comes back for roughly half I have seen, reading as heaviest through the small hours.
field: progression + slots: symptom + frequency + timing
Naming notes
Each pull returns one chart line, so you build a full case file by rolling several symptom bullets, an "On the same chart" aggravation pairing, the "Notes on its course" passage, a root-cause line, and a later follow-up in order. The staged "within two or three days" and "a handful of days further along" phrasing hands you a built-in timeline, useful for pacing a plague arc across acts. Treat the assembled lines as a healer NPC's notes or a sickbed handout rather than a single name string.
Questions about disease names
- Does this make disease names or full descriptions?
- Descriptions, in chart lines. One roll gives a symptom bullet, another an "On the same chart" pairing, others the course notes, the root cause, or a later follow-up, so a complete file is several stacked pulls.
- How long does the progression run?
- The course notes run from first signs that may strike within two or three days, through the point the illness takes root, to follow-ups a handful of days further along, giving a short timeline of how the illness develops rather than a single moment.
- Can I drop these straight into a game?
- Yes. The chart layout, symptom bullets, root-cause judgment and course notes read like an NPC healer's case file, and the staged worsening gives you ready pacing for a plague subplot.