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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charberus" data-source="post: 2296386" data-attributes="member: 24793">Cursed Items are fun if they are DMed right.  I had a kobald rogue/invisible blade.  he was abit too grabby for his own good.  Always wanted to try things out.  He put on a tiara that made him more charismic and gave him extra natural armor.    Unfortunatly he started turning into a medusa *including turning into a female*Although he liked the power of the item, he didnt like turning evil and a female.  After doing a few quest (and accidently turning a few npc/players into stone)...he found a way to control abit of the power.   The power of the cursed item still proved alot of hinderances then just turning people to stone.   Since i couldnt take the Tiara off, and had snake hair always hissing.  I had to come up with different ways to do things.  I feel that some of the cursed items in the DMG arent worth giving to a player.  I agree that alot of cursed items shouldnt always be cursed.  But, be a useful item that 'happens' to have a negative effect.  Sometimes the players will want to get rid of the negative effects, or sometimes they will just get rid of it.  Whatever they chose, its another way to get an 'adventure' hook <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>