A mage character I'm creating has the ability to make people sick at varying degrees but I'm not entirely sure on the best method.

I was considering recreating a few of the common diseases with drain/damage attribute spells but it's not the same. Common diseases slowly drain attributes over longer periods of time, not really possible for a Morrowind mage to reproduce without a massive amount of magicka.

So I'm now thinking about using some real-world diseases as inspiration. From the common to the rather more fatal. These would all use damage [attribute] spells to get the effect.

I was just wondering how other people might go about it? What diseases would you incorporate and what effects would this add to the spell? Or could you personally not consider it as roleplaying if you used real-world afflictions in your game?

You would need mwse for sure. I made a plague spell rather easily with it, you know something like a necromancer or shaman might cast.

Unfortunately this is the Xbox version. I'm unable to play the PC version due to both my laptops being permanently !@#%ed.

Shame really.

Then that's impossible.

This is giving me some ideas for a new character... Does anyone know any mods that allow you give people diseases, or even corprus?

You cannot give Diseases to other people in-game, because all Diseases have a Range of Self, which is hard coded into the game (cannot be changed.)
You could make a mod that had Spells that imitate the Diseases, but they would wear off quickly unless you made the Duration very large.

You could of course, make some scripted spells that give Diseases to NPCs.

Well no, not entirely. I just need to be a bit creative. I can create a spell called Influenza which would basically be a damage endurance, damage strength spell. Or perhaps spread some polio round: damage endurance, damage speed, damage strength. There's lots of diseases/illnesses I could create this way. Even mental disorders. Imagine suddenly being hit with Agoraphobia while trying to beat down some skinny guy in a robe? Demoralize Humanoid, Increase Speed.

Of course this does kinda take you out of the game world and in to the real one. But could be quite fun...

When you make enough money, you should enchant robes with negative constant effects and then sell them to merchants.

make sure to add calm or demoralize to every spell you use so they don't KILL YOU or you don't waste magicka because you have to kill them anyway.