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Curse ideas needed for new class
« on: December 16, 2011, 05:45:10 AM »
http://www.minmaxboards.com/index.php?topic=2059.msg23418#msg23418

I'm making a class based on cursing.  If you'll scroll down you'll notice the spell list, and then a bunch of new spells intend to add.  I need some more ideas for nasty things to do to people though to flesh out the list.  Be inventive, be mean. 

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Re: Curse ideas needed for new class
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2011, 07:43:03 AM »
Well, a particularly mean one would be: "Whenever the target fails an attack roll, they have a 10% chance to be subject to one of the following effects," followed by a list of effects normally used for critical fumbles.  Mainly because critical fumbles are god-awful.

Then, you have things like: "The target takes a -X penalty on all attack rolls, saving throws, and skill or ability checks.  In addition, whenever it fails an attack roll, saving throw, or check, it takes 1 point of Constitution damage."  The Constitution damage can be replaced by anything bad, really.  Lost actions are a good candidate for the slot.
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Re: Curse ideas needed for new class
« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2011, 07:49:09 AM »
Boomerang Curse seems a lot like Friendly Fire...

I love Curse of Happiness.  Just sayin'.

How about something like a curse of Blight?  Crops and other random vegetation continually fail around the victim, making peasants hate them and burn them as witches.  :)

Then there's some low-level curses:
Curse of Spinach (continually have food in your teeth)
Curse of Enlarged Thighs (the pants DEFINITELY make you look fat)
Curse of Instability (mood swings!)

And then the catch-all Phobic Curse.  Give the victim one of a list of phobias, or maybe a randomly determined phobia.  Make lesser and greater versions for more crippling phobias... here: http://phobialist.com/
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Re: Curse ideas needed for new class
« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2011, 07:50:40 AM »
Hmm...

-something like Wither Limb (SpC), except you can aim it at any body part? (and I really mean ANY part)
-make swarms sprout from the target, dealing Stat damage;
-something like Extract Water Elemental (SpC), but make it extract blood instead?
-something that extract the target's eye and make it become that monster from MM3 that is two eyeballs and strangles everything? (dunno the name)
-something that extract the target's bone and make it become a skeleton?
-something that increases the effects of diseases (less incubation time, more stat dmg)

More later...

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Re: Curse ideas needed for new class
« Reply #4 on: December 16, 2011, 11:42:08 AM »
The withered line: The target's next seven descendants are born dead.
Mistrust: The target must make sense motive checks for all social interactions, he automatically fails them when dealing with the genuinely honest or friendly.
The unwelcome guest: Anyone who shares food with or gives food to the target finds that all food in their possession plus any other food they try to eat for the next 24 hrs turns to ashes.

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Re: Curse ideas needed for new class
« Reply #5 on: December 18, 2011, 02:31:40 AM »
I added a few new spells, and several more based on suggestions  :D

Feel free to peek at the list and lemme know if you can think of more.