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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 6775876" data-attributes="member: 6785785">Have the new PCs that replace the slain ones come with the express purpose of ridding the barbarian of this curse. Have the previous owner of the sword show up, or someone who knew the previous owner. Make it their mission to retrieve the sword. Make it so that they've prepped to take on this mad barbarian and have hired folks to assist. Even simpler, have a high powered cleric show up and remove the curse. Say he heard about it and came to help. Then the sword is laying there and the Barbarian can be free of it...OR he can choose to pick it back up and embrace the curse. At that point, I think he's an unrepentant villain, and you can declare him as an NPC or have the cleric and the other PCs battle him. These are all more story based options for dealing with it. Just a few options....but that's how I'd approach the topic. Address it in world. The PCs don't live in a vacuum....have folks react to this madman.</blockquote>