i have the flu and that ironically gave me an idea in <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/div.gif" alt="" />.

i was thinking that apart from poison fire resistances etc it would be interesting to have another one,but then i thought that why bother,why not have something similar to that which would effect the way the character moves.

then i thought of it:
disease.

basically how it would work would be there would be a bar just below the stamina one in white which represents how healthy you are.

i think that the for simplicities sake the health bar(the red thing) should be called the life bar and health now refers to if you are well or are sick/diseased.

now i thought what would be the implications of having lower health etc.
then i thought of speed... i.e the healthier you are the faster you can attack a monster and also becuase your sick you would be slighly less agile and less strong.

how it would work(and im going to need help from guys who can think in more depth than me) would be that if you got attacked by say zombies or creatures which are diseased say skeletons,ghouls this would knock off points from your health bar and as a result it would effect your speed,strength etc.

also places such as sewers and dungoens would effect the health bar if you stayed there say longer than 20 min.

some food would randomly be rotten and so that too would effect your health.

now these do not knock off the health points permanantly because after a while you would feel better but say
every 20 min in dungoen knocks off i health point.
so every 20 on normal ground would bring you back to normal.

every "diseased" creature has say a 10% chance of knocking off a point and any food has a 20% of being rotten and kncking 1-5 points off your health.

now standing outside isnt the only way to make you feel better,you can eat friut/veg which allows you to replenish the health bar by say 1-10(but beware the rotten factor!!)

or invent another type of potion with another mushroom to replenish 15 points.

i am not sure how much points should be knocked off to effetc say 5-10% of speed strength etc.