Useful Cursed Items?

Bill · June 16, 2014, 08:52:29 AM

Quote from: soltakss;758081Surely, that's a blessed item, not a cursed one.

Depends hugely on just how you are using the word 'repetitive'

Omega · June 16, 2014, 10:34:06 AM

Cursed weapons that return to the user can be great when you are captured and disarmed.

Of course said cursed item might have been the reason you were captured and disarmed in the first place. aheh.

Also a cursed item you havent yet activated and locked on you would be a great "gift" for an enemy. "Here. Take this sword and leave us alone!" and you know the rest.

RPGPundit · June 19, 2014, 06:00:22 PM

In my DCC game there were also cursed collars which allowed the person wearing them (they can't be removed) to be traced by the person who owns the controlling pendant. This could also be used to some advantage in some circumstances.

Omega · June 21, 2014, 08:33:09 AM

Glancing through the Next playtest got me thinking of the following.

The Berserker path for the Barbarian has a trick where if you miss, you get an extra attack that round. A cursed weapon -1 or -2 could be seen as semi useful to such a character.

Or a really crazy twist. Take the Fighter perk that allowed you to do damage even if you miss. And arm him with a appropriate weapon that makes him always miss.

RPGPundit · June 23, 2014, 05:24:01 PM

Jesus, another good reason to hate the "you do damage even if you miss" mechanic. But still, that would only be 'beneficial' if you did as much or more damage missing than you would hitting...

crkrueger · June 23, 2014, 05:28:24 PM

Quote from: Omega;760066Glancing through the Next playtest got me thinking of the following.

The Berserker path for the Barbarian has a trick where if you miss, you get an extra attack that round. A cursed weapon -1 or -2 could be seen as semi useful to such a character.

Or a really crazy twist. Take the Fighter perk that allowed you to do damage even if you miss. And arm him with a appropriate weapon that makes him always miss.

Heh, the runtiest halfling fighter becomes a cuisinart of dual wielding cursed dagger death!

Warthur · June 24, 2014, 03:27:57 AM

The infamous Girdle of Gender Change is only "cursed" if you are happy with your current body. For some characters, those things are blessings.

crkrueger · June 24, 2014, 04:19:43 AM

Quote from: Warthur;760904The infamous Girdle of Gender Change is only "cursed" if you are happy with your current body. For some characters, those things are blessings.

I sense a new Pathfinder adventure path.

Omega · June 24, 2014, 04:53:41 AM

Quote from: Warthur;760904The infamous Girdle of Gender Change is only "cursed" if you are happy with your current body. For some characters, those things are blessings.

In my own RPG we had crystals that forced race/species change. Mostly employed by nations where certain species were treated as property with no rights.

Though one race had theirs as a program to force repopulation after a war.

One player used one to change into a species that her pursuers saw as useless and so they left in disgust and she went her merry way. This had a secondary later benefit as there were wanted posters in a city for her... and now she was some other species.

Marleycat · June 24, 2014, 10:34:59 AM

Quote from: Omega;760919In my own RPG we had crystals that forced race/species change. Mostly employed by nations where certain species were treated as property with no rights.

Though one race had theirs as a program to force repopulation after a war.

One player used one to change into a species that her pursuers saw as useless and so they left in disgust and she went her merry way. This had a secondary later benefit as there were wanted posters in a city for her... and now she was some other species.

Was this a one use deal? Was it random or could you pick or something in between?

Omega · June 24, 2014, 11:06:18 AM

Quote from: Marleycat;760978Was this a one use deal? Was it random or could you pick or something in between?

Specific race or species to each one.
Use depended on the type. Slavers had special multi use ones. Trapped one shot ones could be found in treasures, primed to discharge when picked up and held for a short time.

Dispells and curse removal would not counter it. You needed a specific counterstone to cancel it out. and those were few and far between as the secret of making the changestones was heavily guarded since theyd loose their effectiveness if the counter was easily availible.

A fairly lengthy quest ended up happening as players worked to do exactly that. One for altruistic reasons, the other because the didnt want to be stuck in that form the rest of her life.

Marleycat · June 24, 2014, 11:13:20 AM

Pretty cool.

RPGPundit · June 25, 2014, 08:04:13 PM

Quote from: Warthur;760904The infamous Girdle of Gender Change is only "cursed" if you are happy with your current body. For some characters, those things are blessings.

In my DCC campaign, I have a group of wizards called the Azure Order, whose members are all magic-users with some kind of gender issues (either from wild magic, curses, corruptions, or by choice). They have a stockpile of Brassieres of Femininity (and, one would presume Jockstraps of Masculinity or something like that, though it has not yet been explicitly stated).