Bretons 25% Magic resistance and disease.

[Daemos Avetorii]

Does Disease in the game count as a magical effect, and would Bretons have a 25% disease resistance? And also, would casting Dragonskin further reduce the chance of getting diseased?

[Dark Spark]

Disease organisms are living entities, while magic spells are energy.

[Daemos Avetorii]

LOL! And I thought "I" took things literally.

[Dark Spark]

Oblivion was smart enough to separate effects imparted by spells, disease and poison. I hardly believe they failed to include that aspect in Skyrim.

[MetaCthulhu]

Does Disease in the game count as a magical effect, and would Bretons have a 25% disease resistance? And also, would casting Dragonskin further reduce the chance of getting diseased?

I think it's spell absorption that reduces chances of getting disease, so Dragonskin would help, but I'm pretty sure the 25% magic resistance doesn't do anything.

Oblivion was smart enough to separate effects imparted by spells, disease and poison. I hardly believe they failed to include that aspect in Skyrim.

They actually messed up a lot of that sort of thing this time around.

... t is possible for Magic Absorption to negate effects of shouts, poison, diseases, weapon enchantments, various debuffs, etc.

They even messed up the coding so that chaurus venom and Falmer poison are both spells rather than actual poison (If you have poison immunity...to bad!).

[Pilaf The Defiler]

I believe Skyrim's game engine treats diseases and curses similarly to how it treats poisons, rather than magic effects, although they all come across pretty similarly in function so it's hard to tell.