Questions tagged [curses]
For questions primarily about cursed items, curses laid upon a character, and so on.
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Want some critique and suggestions for a homebrew item I made for a 5e campaign
D&D Homebrew Item Review
Campaign: Ghost of Saltmarsh (2014 Ruleset) | Party Level: 6
Request: Balance assessment of item's curses vs. benefits and potential tweaks
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Type: Ring | Rarity: ...
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How can the curse of witch's blood be removed mechanically? And is it even possible? [closed]
Roughly speaking, a character with a witch's blood curse [Hexblood] was created, cursed from birth. Is it possible to remove this curse with the help of game mechanics or spells so that it can be ...
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Does this NPC's curse from the Curse of Strahd published adventure remain active even after the NPC dies?
The NPC Ezmerelda d'Avenir from Curse of Strahd (p. 230) has this action (emphasis mine):
In my game, Ezmerelda was dominated and used this curse on a PC to give them fire vulnerability. Shortly ...
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Does bestow curse's third option prevent you from using bonus action and reaction?
Bestow curse's third option prevents the target from using its action:
While cursed, the target must make a Wisdom saving throw at the start of each of its turns. If it fails, it wastes its action ...
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Looking for a way to make a cursed swarm item (squirrels, rats, flies...) while the item is slowly taking the person over [closed]
One of my players has a wicked idea for a story hook:
He wants some kind of cursed item, that has like another person, god,... in it that slowly takes him over.
Every time he does take over, he emits ...
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Does a druid in Wild Shape who's attuned to a Sword of Vengeance have disadvantage on claw and bite attacks?
If you're attuned to a Sword of Vengeance, you have disadvantage on attack rolls made with other weapons.
Does that include the natural weapons of a druid in Wild Shape?
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How does Shield of missile attraction work with friendly fire?
Let's say the tank is attuned to the shield of missile attraction and a fellow team member fires a bow/crossbow at an enemy within 10ft of said tank. Does the team member's projectile hit the tank ...
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Was the Tremere Curse not allowing the Banu Haqim to feed off each other deliberate or accidental?
The Clan weakness of the Assamites was, starting with the Convention of Thorns till the modern nights, the Tremere Curse:
Due to the Tremere blood-curse, should an Assamite consume the blood of ...
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How have other GMs handled 'Cursed items' in Index Card RPG? [closed]
I'm curious how other GM's handled 'Cursed Items' in Index Card RPG?
I know that the rules are loose but I'm wondering what others do with items tagged as Cursed or from the Cursed Loot Table?
Thanks.
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Can a single Shield of Missile Attraction curse an indefinite number of creatures?
The description of the Shield of Missile Attraction says, in part (emphasis mine):
This shield is cursed. Attuning to it curses you until you are targeted by the remove curse spell or similar magic. ...
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Augury to detect cursed items
Could you use Augury to detect a cursed item by asking
"Am I safe to attune this item?"
The GM would have to say either "weal and Woe" if the item is both beneficial and cursed or ...
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Am I being unreasonable with my role playing of a cursed item?
If a player from my campaign sees this, please don't take any offence to it. It's just I'm really not enjoying the item and can't RP it in a way that other players will care about.
My character ...
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How does oracle's burden interact with the god-meddled curse?
Oracle's Burden makes
The target creature suffers all the hindrances and none of the benefits of your oracle’s curse class feature.
The God-Meddled Curse does
Bizarre side effects occur whenever ...
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Cursed Item Drawback Price Reductions: Do They Stack?
The rules for intentionally crafting cursed items in Pathfinder 1e lists the different curse types and how they modify an item's price.
If a cursed item possesses multiple types of curses, for example,...
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Forceful separation from a cursed item
For my group of (un)willing adventurers, I have a session coming up where the plan is essentially to render them all unconscious, separate them from all their gear and leave them in a dungeon to ...
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Does the Loadstone curse compound every use or only once?
The Loadstone description reads as follows (emphasis mine):
Curse. The stone is cursed, but its magical nature is hidden; detect magic doesn’t detect it. An identify spell reveals the stone’s true ...
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Does the Plagued curse cancel out the drawback of the Covetous curse?
A player of mine is building a Dual-Cursed Oracle. They want to take the Covetous and the Plagued curses. That brings up a question.
The Covetous curse states (emphasis mine)
You must wear fine non-...
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Is adjusting damage type an appropriate power level for bestow curse?
A rather creative cleric in my game's party has presented with a new curse they want to use. The new curse is:
All damage the target creature takes is treated as the damage type to which the creature ...
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When the Shield of Missile Attraction changes the target of an attack, does the attacker have to make a new attack roll?
I got interested in the cursed item Shield of Missile Attraction, but I have some doubts about how it works. Consider the following scenario:
Thurin the dwarven fighter is walking along the city ...
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Oracle's Curse and Handy Haversack
Would a Handy Haversack alleviate a Haunted Oracle's curse?
Retrieving any stored item from your gear requires a standard action, unless it would normally take longer. Any item you drop lands 10 feet ...
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Can a person attuned to Living Gloves cast Remove Curse on themselves to remove them?
The living gloves (E:RftLW, pg. 278) have the feature Symbiotic Nature:
The gloves can’t be removed from you while you’re attuned to them, and you can’t voluntarily end your attunement to them. If ...
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Can the Feign Death spell remove attunement from a cursed item?
When a creature dies, their attunement to any magic items (including cursed items) ends.
Will the feign death spell (PHB, p. 240) trick the curse into ending early?
You touch a willing creature and ...
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Do pact archetype wizards have full curse progression?
I'm pretty sure that I can't be reading this right, but the pact wizard archetype from 5th level says you gain an oracle curse and you count your oracle level as half your wizard level. Looking up the ...
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What happens when you attack with a non-attuned cursed weapon?
Cursed weapons often have a flat bonus such as a +1 associated with them, however the negative effects of a cursed weapon tend to only be associated with being attuned to said item.
Could a player (...
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How can I deal with the Remove Curse spell spoiling my plot hooks?
My players met Fiachra, cursed to be a raven unless she brings the Scepter of McGuffin to Ebil Wissard III (grand son of the legendary Ebil Wissard).
Of course, the Cleric in the group casts the ...
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