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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sejs" data-source="post: 3154376" data-attributes="member: 4910">Greater Bestow Curse? Hmm.  Well for starters, it seems they removed the 'there must be something that can be done to lift the curse other than just magicing it away' clause from the BoVD when they reprinted it in the Spell Compendium, which is a shame.  I was quite fond of that clause.Greater curses though, let's see.  Well there's always some of the classics: Sleeping Beauity, the one on Princess Fiona from Shrek, etc.  Cursing someone's Int down to 1 is pretty much dooming them to live out life like an animal.  Random friend or family member falls victim to a disease, and if they shrug it off or get it cured, another loved one gets sick.  The target's touch transmutes valuables into worthless dross.  All of the target's loved ones and allies now despise them.  The target cannot cast spells, use spell-like abilities, or activate spell trigger or spell completion items, becoming essentially magic-dead.  So on and so forth.  You cannot heal naturally and magical healing fails to work on you.  Beneficial spells cast on you invert and instead apply a penalty equal to the bonus they would otherwise grant: bull's strength reduces your str by 4, and a vigor spell could well kill you.Epic curses get wonky due to the no-upper-limit nature of epic magic but if I had to venture a guess?  Oh, say, all the lands under your dominion plunged into eternal night so long as any member of your line holds the throne.  Entire nation rendered sterile.  The first born of an entire nation dying in one night.  Anything endevor you undertake cursed to ruin (all dice results are treated as natural 1s, for starters).  Anyone who comes to your aid will die under some circumstance shortly after helping you.  You're reviled and despised by all who see you.  Anywhere you stay for more than a few nights will be destroyed by some sort of natural disaster.  Etc, etc.</blockquote>

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