Creative Cursing

[LadyIslay]

Your fairy tale and mythological refferences got me thinking. Another common fairy tale curse (usually for offending a fairy) is to have toads and snakes fall from your mouth whenever you speak. Blindness/deafness/dumbness for people that have seen/heard/said what they shouldn't have works well too.
How could we forget the curse of Cassandra? 100% correct divinations... but no one believes you!

 

[Kemrain]

5. if you engage in sexual activity, you drop to 0 hp and become stunned for a day.

The sexual curses are nasty.

Cursed to recieve no release from sexual relations.
Cursed to be forever aroused, and see above.
Cursed to be unable to be aroused.
Cursed to be aroused only by members of the 'wrong' sex. (Whichever that may be.)
Cursed to be a member of the 'wrong' sex. (Always great fun.)

I'm definately a fan of Transformative Curses. They make the best punnihment.

Cursed to resemble a hated or feared creature. (Looking like a werewolf or growing the horns and tail of a Succubus.)
Cursed to become the object of your own hatred or fear. (Make someone afraid of spiders into a Drider.)

The nastiest curses I can think of don't directly harm the cursed, but target the people around them.

Cursed to be the carrier of a deadly commuicable disease.
Cursed to inciting a mood in all people around. (Such as rage or jealousy.)
Cursed to transform those you love into horrible creatures with but a touch.
Cursed to age anyone who touches you by a decade.
Cursed to cause all food within 100 yards if you become putrid.
Cursed to cause those whom you love to slowly forget you.

These are powerful, and very mean.

I like this thread. Very creative, and evil.

- Kemrain the Damned.

 

[Ferret]

A dwarf traps engineer in one campaign was cursing a lot and the cleric got annoyed by it, so he cast a curse on the dwarf that instead of cursing she had to say flower names. It was pretty funny as the dwarf didn't know that many flowers names.

I like that .

Also:

Cursed to try and go around the point you are talking about.
Cursed to get straight to the point. (Then they need to do a task that requires care and time )
Cursed to only talk in native language.
A curse that doesn't lower your intelligence, but lets them only act like a beast (Growling, snarling, not walking on four legs)

 

[LostSoul]

Here's a dying curse that I plan to use in an upcoming adventure:

"You think you have defeated me? My work lives on! You will see. You will see what I see!"

After this curse, the PC has disturbing hallucinations. Things sometimes take on a pseudonatural appearance - a cat walking on a mass of ropey tentacles; words and sounds explode from someone's mouth as a roiling mass of pustules; opening a door into a swirling void of oblivion. The character can take a full round to shake away the images (or he can act on them: "Die die die!" "Um, why is Sir Chopsalot hacking that loaf of bread?"), but can take no other actions that round. These hallucinations appear at the whim of the DM (and hopefully the Player will get into it as well), but should be no more troubling than Bestow Curse.

 

[Elder-Basilisk]

Actually, I remembered a nasty one too:

everyone who loves you will die.

Probably a bit beyond the power of Bestow Curse, but it can make for great stories (like Steven Donaldson's "The Djinn who watches over the accursed")

 

[Zappo]

You are no longer affected by healing magic.
You automatically fail the first saving throw against any disease.
You must speak in rhymes.
You must make a Balance check, DC 20, every time you move more than your base movement rate in a single round, or fall.
You cannot refuse any sexual avance.
Your skin becomes green. Every time you sleep, it changes to a new hue.
You have to pee. Every ten minutes.
You suffer from severe myopia. Opponents have partial concealment in melee and total concealment at range. You have a -8 to Spot and Search checks.

I wanted to say that I'm going to steal Talon5's signature's "Best Quote" for the first time I'm playing a spellcaster and I get into a fight.

 

[rbingham2000]

One I used for a swordsman character: Every magic-user that you meet will find something about you that inspires unabiding hatred, and will use whatever powers are at his or her disposal to make your life a living hell (character was the son of an evil sorcerer, and he told his father to go to hell after he learned that the sorcerer wanted him to follow in his footsteps).

And another one I kinda like: Every person you strike down is doomed to rise as an undead horror, his or her soul denied its proper place in the afterworld.

 

[rbingham2000]

Considering I'm the one who killed this thread, I figure I gotta be the one to ask.

Would anyone with access to the Search function be so kind as to post a link to the curse thread on the House Rules forum? Thanks.