Scabrous Touch
With the touch of a bare hand, the necromancer can infect a victim with a deadly disease (see Chapter Three for notes on the plague and leprosy, or the description for cure disease in the PHB). Alternatively, the necromancer’s touch may inflict mummy rot or a permanent version of contagion. The DM must decide on the single effect of a scabrous touch.
This power operates continuously and cannot be controlled (ordinarily, the wizard will wear a glove over the deadly hand to protect those nearby). The first symptoms of the disease appear 1–10 rounds after physical contact occurs with the wizard’s deadly hand, though it may take weeks (or, in the case of leprosy, much longer) for the disease to run its full course. This magical disease may only be cured by a wizard, priest, or paladin of higher level than the necromancer.