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Message: <blockquote data-quote="trix" data-source="post: 325363" data-attributes="member: 5337">Re: Re: Deathbane Curse(Imagines. . . Some poor sod that just killed someone in the street... thinking... "Damn that curse... sure is a bit unbalanced for Bestow Curse.  I think i need god to change the rules of the universe to disallow the curse").Okay, so maybe it aint a low level Bestow Curse, maybe, a bestow curse cast by a dying wizard/cleric is enough of a binding spell component to allow the spell to be cast ?Are their rules for creating artifacts? No.  Are their rules for major curses? No.===Personally I think the simple curses like -6 to stat X, -10% to this, -5 to a save, are a bit simple if they dont force the player to re-evaluate their frame of reference, or their context in which they place their character, hence the effective combat trigger.A simple -X to an attr can be taken in stride and the whole roleplaying aspect ignored.Someone inflicted by a Deathbane curse is going to re-evaluate what they do.  If a party member were cursed, the player / and party will hopefully reevaluate what they're going to doing.===Some curses are too intricate.  In real life it might look funny, but making a check every minute to brush ones teeth or to ensure that the player doesnt catch alight at a fire, well... silly curse.(But i'm not saying that those curses shouldnt exist.  Just, that its difficult to bring the curse to relivance within the roleplaying framework.It might be easy to bring a curse into a technical crunchy framework (you loose -6 DEX), but without that trigger and dire effect, that crunchy mechanic will never reach the roleplaying frame of thought.)-Tim</blockquote>

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