If someone got the ability to cast any spell from any edition of D&D as often as they want, could the cure disease spell treat any disease? Does this include mental illness?
Yeah it is lesser restoration I must have gotten it confused with cure wounds series. What if it was in actual reality. Like if say you found a genie in a soda can and you wished to be able to cast any spell from any edition from D&D as much as you want, would that cure someones schizophrenia, autism, or down syndrome
Do you think the existence of a diety would function as a DM if that were the case. Then again in D&D the DM does exist above the dieties. So perhaps for such a hypothetical spell system to work it would require a sort of abstract philosophical interpretation of god. One that isn't necessarily teathered to a specific religion. That is unless the interpretation is sort of more along the lines of a satanic (church of Satan) interpretation. Where we are all Gods of our own reality and it would function as if you were playing D&D by yourself.
Well in the hypothetical reality, I don't think Down Syndrome and from what we understand about Autism, would be curable as such, as it isn't a disease per se. To fix something like a mutation or an extra chromosome you would need to define first what is the "perfect" person. Yikes, this is a philosophical mine field. Adding in it an arbitrary Deity who would impose on everyone a cookie cutter perfect person to which everyone else would be measured... this sounds like some 3rd Reich style D&D style utopia.
(edit - just so everyone understands the utopia part was sarcasm)
How was my response not part of your "thought experiment"? Your first post states the following;
"could the cure disease spell treat any disease? Does this include mental illness?"
I'm putting it back to you to ask can you define mental illness? Who are you, to judge what constitutes mental illness? How would a Deity define the perfect person for all cure spells to use as a template to determine whether or not you are sick?
"Where we are all Gods of our own reality and it would function as if you were playing D&D by yourself."
In this reality where everyone cure spells were based on their own personal interpretation of what constitutes illness, how would you impose this on others? Think of people who have grown up deaf, but do not want to have a cochlear implant installed as it conflicts with their personal identity.
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If someone got the ability to cast any spell from any edition of D&D as often as they want, could the cure disease spell treat any disease? Does this include mental illness?
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D&D Beyond FoundersThe spell in question would be Lesser Restoration and what constitutes a disease or not is up to the DM of that campaign.
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Yeah it is lesser restoration I must have gotten it confused with cure wounds series. What if it was in actual reality. Like if say you found a genie in a soda can and you wished to be able to cast any spell from any edition from D&D as much as you want, would that cure someones schizophrenia, autism, or down syndrome
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D&D Beyond FoundersAs above, in a D&D campaign, it is the responsibility of the DM (Dungeon Master) to make such decisions.
Real life isn't (to my knowledge) managed by a DM, So I don't believe that it's really a comparison that can be made.
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Do you think the existence of a diety would function as a DM if that were the case. Then again in D&D the DM does exist above the dieties. So perhaps for such a hypothetical spell system to work it would require a sort of abstract philosophical interpretation of god. One that isn't necessarily teathered to a specific religion. That is unless the interpretation is sort of more along the lines of a satanic (church of Satan) interpretation. Where we are all Gods of our own reality and it would function as if you were playing D&D by yourself.
Well in the hypothetical reality, I don't think Down Syndrome and from what we understand about Autism, would be curable as such, as it isn't a disease per se. To fix something like a mutation or an extra chromosome you would need to define first what is the "perfect" person. Yikes, this is a philosophical mine field. Adding in it an arbitrary Deity who would impose on everyone a cookie cutter perfect person to which everyone else would be measured... this sounds like some 3rd Reich style D&D style utopia.
(edit - just so everyone understands the utopia part was sarcasm)
Are you not capable of abstract thought? This is a hypothetical I know it's not real. It's a thought experiment.
How was my response not part of your "thought experiment"? Your first post states the following;
"could the cure disease spell treat any disease? Does this include mental illness?"
I'm putting it back to you to ask can you define mental illness? Who are you, to judge what constitutes mental illness? How would a Deity define the perfect person for all cure spells to use as a template to determine whether or not you are sick?
"Where we are all Gods of our own reality and it would function as if you were playing D&D by yourself."
In this reality where everyone cure spells were based on their own personal interpretation of what constitutes illness, how would you impose this on others? Think of people who have grown up deaf, but do not want to have a cochlear implant installed as it conflicts with their personal identity.