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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mordane76" data-source="post: 855885" data-attributes="member: 7172">Overall, I'm pretty stingy on found treasure, and I don't really look at the cursed items when players are purchasing items, so we haven't had a cursed item yet in my games, and we've been playing since 3E came out.I think that it's just not as appealing or easy to find them, players (IIRC) never really enjoyed them, but WotC didn't want to gore a "sacred cow" of D&D by not including them in the release, so it put them in the DMG as something that COULD be used, but most likely won't see too much use.  There isn't even a chance in the random item creation rolls, IMS, for an item to be cursed.In all honesty, from a DMing perspective, the random chance of an item being cursed might throw me off if I'm in a story, so I'm sorta glad they didn't include it in the tables; I know that as DM I can disregard what comes up in the rolls, but I generally let fate take the players and me where it will.  From a player's perspective, the even miniscule chance that any item I pick up is a cursed item seems to inject a sort of underlying fear and tension -- I don't think this would be a good thing.</blockquote>