#1 With a Bullet Point: 5 Magic Diseases by Owen K.C. Stephens is a role playing game supplement published by Rogue Genius Games (originally Super Genius Games) for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. As such it is covered by the Open Game License and some parts are considered to be Open Game Content as a result.
The supplement is available as a three-page PDF from DriveThruRPG for $1 but was purchased at a reduced price as part of a special bundle. One page is the front cover and one the Open Game License and Credits.
The first page has some standard text for the #1 With a Bullet Point range explaining the philosophy and what the supplements contain.
The High Concept is a short paragraph explaining what the supplement contains.
Ashenblood is a disease whose common origin is fire damage from a fire elemental. This gradually increases a subject’s fire resistance, potentially gaining the fire subtype and eventually dying and becoming a fire elemental.
Barrow Plague gives a penalty to saves against necromancy, negative energy effects, level drains and death effects, with becoming a corporeal undead the end result.
Fury Fever causes the infected to become furious, as per the barbarian rage class feature.
Green Guts causes nausea and results in the victim vomiting up green slime, and they are not immune to this. Death results in them spawning a gelatinous cube.
Spellblains causes the infected to treat spells as one level higher when preparing and casting them, and has an optional new vector, arcane, where anyone affected by a spell, spell-like ability or supernatural ability by a victim can be infected too.
#1 With a Bullet Point: 5 Magic Diseases in Review
The PDF lacks bookmarks and is short enough that this isn’t a problem. Navigation is fine. Unusually for old Super Genius supplements, the text follows a three-column portrait format and there was one major error; every disease is missing the Cure information that explains how many saves are needed to beat it. There is a single piece of stock art on the cover. Presentation is okay.
The five new diseases are all definitely interesting and many are guaranteed to ruin the infected person’s day. Or life. These are far more interesting than the standard diseases; it’s just a shame that the supplement is let down by the error. #1 With a Bullet Point: 5 Magic Diseases can be found by clicking here.
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