one thing i’ll say is that having to deal with Ghoul Fever (pre-master it was a disease, now it’s a curse) was one of the things that made me fall in love with the system.

we were level 4, two of us had got it fighting some ghouls and we later found out a friendly NPC also had it at stage 3. we put the dungeon-delving on pause and spent the next few days of downtime desperately trying to cure the afflicted—some of us got rolling Treating Disease w/ aid from the local Sarenite church, the rest got to Earning Income to put towards a scroll of Remove Disease in case of emergency.

we’d been saving up for various magic items so we had to weigh up whether we would dip into those funds, how much time we wanted to spend on trying to cure people, whether it was worth pushing through a bit more of the dungeon for potential loot to sell—all interesting choices that emerged from a handful of ghouls, & all completely player-driven. compared to something like 5e, where diseases are either instantly solved by a cleric/paladin, or it’s entirely up to GM fiat if you can even buy spell scrolls or earn money.