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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 3247121" data-attributes="member: 9037">I was just like a an opinion on something that happned in our game. In our first session which was months ago we killed an assassin and I picked up his daggers. I first put them in my backpack. Several times I took them out and showed them to people to see if we could get them identified. We couldn't. I then moved them onto my bandolier of daggers. Later we were attacked by another assassin using the same style of daggers. I took these and put them in sheaths  in my boots.Months go by in game and we end up in a huge city and the rogue of the party offers to take them to a contact he has that knows a lot about assassin guilds so I take the ones out of my bandolier and hand them to the rogue who goes off and finds out about them.When he comes back he says the daggers are cursed and that handling them is dangerous he then shows us his bare palm which now has blood coming from it he says the daggers stuck him.Now our rogue does not wear gloves and I always do. So I take one of the daggers off my boot to look at it. The DM asks me of I am handling it by the hilt or the blade and I say the hilt. He says that all of a sudden I get stabbed by something that comes out of the hilt. When I asked why it had never happened before he says that I never handled the daggers by the hilt. That he was waiting for me to do so.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> Now this is what confuses me, I own knives and daggers in real life and I usually always handle them by the hilt. The only time I handle one by the blade is when I am handing one to another person. I can't figure how my character put one in the bandolier much less a boot sheath without handling the hilt. Anyway I end up cursed. The rest of the party almost dies because of it and some of them are pissy over it. They want to know why I choose to handle it even after the rogue said it was dangerous. I tried to explain that I thought my gloves were the reason I was protected because I assumed I had handled the hilt many times.  I thought the gloves would protect me and if the daggers were cursed I wanted them off my body anyway. And the only way I knew of to get them off was to pull them out of the boot sheaths by their hilt.But according to the DM and some of the players it was a stupid thing to do and it endangered the party and also according the DM since I had never said I was handling them by the hilt he assumed I was handling them by the blade.I am a little bit ticked over this, for one reason I feel as if the dM was making a bad call personally I don't think he had planned the curse when we first found the daggers and just added it later, months later because he thought it was cool. And secondly I don't really think it was stupid to asume that leather gloves were a good way to get them off my body. We don't have a mage to mage hand them off. How else was I supposed to get them off?Am I just not seeing their point of view and I am looking at it the wrong way? What would you have done differently to get the dagggers off or would you have assumed like me that leather gloves would have protected you?</blockquote>

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