Occult Lore

Author Keith Baker, Adam Bank, Chris Jones, Scott Reeves, and Elton Robb

Series Lore

Publisher Atlas

Publish date 2002

Plague gear protects doctors from contagion. The gear consists of a leather hood covering the entire head and thick leather gloves that reach up to the elbows. Round glass or crystal goggles permit sight. The hood’s nose is shaped as a long, pointed beak, and is filled with aromatics. The fingertips of the gloves are pointed like claws and soaked in cleansing oils. When worn, provided that all breath is drawn through the nose, plague gear gives a +8 circumstance bonus to any saving throw against disease spread through the air or by touch. The doctor’s bizarre appearance, symbolic of a carrion bird, is said to provide as much magical protection as the aromatics and oils themselves. All Spot and Search rolls made while wearing plague gear, however, suffer a -4 penalty due to sensory deprivation.

Market Cost: 30 gp; Raw Material Cost: 10 gp; Creation Check: Alchemy DC 15.