Questions tagged [curses]
For questions primarily about cursed items, curses laid upon a character, and so on.
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Is it possible to permanently remove a curse from a cursed magic item?
Is it possible to permanently remove a curse from a cursed magic item?
An example of such a cursed item would be the Berserker Axe:
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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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Blocked Movement & The Sword of Vengeance (and Teleport)
A PC in one of my games has been cursed with a [Long]Sword of Vengeance. During a recent combat he took damage and failed his DC 15 Wisdom saving throw, therefore "swearing vengeance" ...
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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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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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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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Can a magic item be multi cursed when using the Blood Artisan feat to add new abilities to the item?
The Blood Artisan feat was a 3.0 feat that was upgraded to 3.5 in the Dragon Mag #318 (p39) Oriental Adventures update article.
Benefit: When you make magic arms and armor or wondrous items, you pay ...
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How balanced is this for a cursed item? part 2
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Emblem of the ever lasting plague
Wondrous item, legendary (requires attunement)
As an action, you can summon 4 (8 at lvl 9, 12 at lvl 13 or 16 at lvl 17) swarm of insects. You can use their ...
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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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Do cursed items require attunement in order to curse you?
Most cursed items, like the Armor of Vulnerability, require to you attune to them in order to become cursed.
Curse. This armor is cursed, a fact that is revealed only when an identify spell is cast ...
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For the Demon Armor magic item, does someone have to cast the Remove Curse spell every time for you to be able to doff it again?
I just read about the Demon Armor magic item (DMG, p. 165). Its description says, in part:
Curse. Once you don this armor, you can't doff it until targeted by the remove curse spell or similar magic. ...
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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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Can players mitigate the curse from a Shield of Missile Attraction by using thrown weapons?
The Shield of Missile Attraction states (emphasis mine):
This shield is cursed. Attuning to it curses you until you are targeted by the remove curse spell or similar magic. Removing the shield fails ...
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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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How can lycanthropy be cured?
We are playing the published adventure
where they will most certainly encounter a wereboar.
The wereboar has a Tusks attack, which can apply the wereboar lycanthropy curse on the target.
If one of ...
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How does the spell Remove Curse interact with a Sword of Vengeance?
One of my players recently acquired, and become attuned to, a cursed Sword of Vengeance (DMG, p. 206).
The descriptive text for this item says:
This sword is cursed and possessed by a vengeful ...
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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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Does Hex / Hexblade's curse end the spell Time Stop?
Time stop states:
This spell ends if one of the actions you use during this period, or any effects that you create during this period, affects a creature other than you or an object being worn or ...
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Issues with Clay Golem's Cursed Wounds?
If a character is wounded by a Clay Golem they gain Cursed Wounds.
is this curse on all their received damage or just this blow?
does it including damage they already have and future damage?
does ...
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How to forcefully remove curse in Barovia?
I'm a fledgeling DM and I used an AL Dark Gifts resurrection on a character in a home game of Curse of Strahd. He randomly got his eyes removed for 60ft blindsight, and at the time I kinda assumed ...
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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 conga line of creatures cursed by the same Shield of Missile Attraction transport ammunition instantaneously across the globe?
Let's say I have a single Shield of Missile Attraction:
Whenever a ranged weapon attack is made against a target within 10 feet of you, the curse causes you to become the target instead.
Let's say I ...
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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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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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Cursed Item Transfer
Scenario:
Party obtains a cursed weapon.
Player A willfully attunes to Item and doesn't use it, in hopes of avoiding Player B using it, as Player A doesn't trust Player B's motives.
Player B steals ...
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Can a Lycanthrope become a Vampire?
As a DM, I'm wondering whether a Lycanthrope curse is canceled when such a monster is killed by a Vampire bite and becomes a Vampire Spawn. There doesn't seem to be indications against it in the ...
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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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What happens when you are not attuned to the Berserker Axe and you take damage while wielding it?
So the scenario is that I have a barbarian who's just picked up a Berserker Axe, without knowing what it is. They have NOT attuned to it.
From my reading, they get the +1 bonus to attack and damage ...
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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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Is changing prepared spells a 'benefit of a long rest'?
This problem came up during a post-game discussion in my D&D 5e campaign last night. It concerns the curse ability of the Rakshasa and how that interacts with preparing spells. In game we managed ...
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What to do when a curse makes a character useless?
It happened in a DnD 4th edition game but it could happen in any game.
My group of players fought a Weretiger and the two melee-type characters now have claws and can't use weapons. Since those claws ...
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Can you be cursed with multiple types of lycanthropy?
Can a single humanoid be cursed with multiple types of lycanthropy ?
Like let's say a Weretigerboar, or a Werewolfrat ?
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How do Resurrection spells work with someone who has died of old age?
In a campaign I run, one of the characters faces the real danger of succumbing to a curse that will add enough age to them that they would easily exceed their race's life expectancy. The curse ...
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What level Curse does Lycanthropy count as?
I'm reworking some of my older campaigns in Pathfinder 1e and transferring them into Pathfinder 2e. One of the custom items I had in an original dungeon was a supposed "Wand of Wish" that ...
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Can a PC cursed with lycanthropy voluntarily shapeshift if they don't embrace the curse?
Recently, I wrote an answer to this question: When does a character cursed with lycanthropy become aware that they are cursed?
At the end of the answer, I pointed out that the character's alignment ...
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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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After you attune to a cursed magic item, are you aware that it is cursed?
After you attune to a cursed magic item, are you aware that the item is cursed?
For example, if you are attuned to a sword of vengeance, would you be aware that the item is cursed, even if you desire ...
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If a warlock activates the Maddening Hex eldritch invocation, does it damage all targets cursed by the warlock?
One of the Eldritch Invocations warlocks can take is Maddening Hex (Xanathar's Guide to Everything, p. 57):
(Prerequisite: 5th level, hex spell or a warlock feature that curses)
As a bonus action, ...
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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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Choosing the Ability for a Hex
The Hex spell allows afflicting a target with a Disadvantage on Ability checks. I'm having a hard time deciding which Ability to target when hexing a target. What factors are there that should ...
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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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A PC in Curse of Strahd is cursed by Mother Night and eats a dream pastry. What happens?
A PC in Curse of Strahd has the opportunity to be cursed by Mother Night, at which point they are (emphasis mine):
On the other hand, a PC who eats a dream pastry (emphasis mine):
As luck would have ...
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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 a druid use Wild Shape to get rid of a cursed item?
The relevant part of the description of the druid's Wild Shape feature says:
You choose whether your equipment falls to the ground in your space, merges into your new form, or is worn by it. Worn ...
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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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How to permanently curse an existing item?
By permanently, I don't mean 'until dispelled', which can be achieved by using upcast bestow curse. I want to make those items that cannot be unattuned, except by casting remove curse on the wielder. ...
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Can a character detect that an item is cursed?
In 5e, is there any way to detect that a magic item is cursed?
The DMG (p. 139) says about cursed items:
Most methods of identifying items, including the identify spell, fail to reveal such a ...
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