Just break the @#$!& thing!

[ThirdWizard]

I never liked teleporting cursed items anyway. I say break it and its gone.

What's next? Chopping off a finger won't get rid of a cursed ring? (Done that myself!)

 

[Stalker0]

There is actually a good argument for a cursed weapon being broken and still being cursed. Dispel magic doesnt' work on curses but does normally work on magic items, so there's some precendent to say sunder the weapon won't break the curse.

 

[SorvahrSpahr]

IMO, and as Jubilee sugested, breaking the sword would end the curse, but something should happen, a huge explosion strong enough, to make the players think twice before destroying a cursed item again, or maybe a disease...

 

[Al the Absentminded]

This isn't precisely canonical, but here's how I'd house-rule it.


The item effectively casts a spell on whoever activated the curse (in this case, used the sword in battle). Break the item and its ability to cast curses ends. Remove Curse on the character and the curse on _him_ ends (although it can be renewed if he's foolish enough to activate the curse again).


Now, that said, I prefer to have curses be a matter of moral retribution more than anything else. Harass the old woman - ie, needlessly and unlawfully encroach on her personal sovereignity - and she has the _right_ to curse you and make it stick. Rob a grave and any curses against graverobbers aren't even going to slow down for spell resistance and saving throws. Anything where the victim didn't earn the curse is just a magical compulsion and should be zappable with dispel magic.

(A sword that belongs in a grave might give a grace period to someone who picks it up without knowing what it is - but as soon as the sword can arrange for the appropriate info to be available, the curse hits if the new user doesn't make an effort to return the blade to its rightful resting place.)


Oh, and, first post on this board, hi everyone.

-Albert

 

[Infiniti2000]

What's next? Chopping off a finger won't get rid of a cursed ring? (Done that myself!)

Ex-wife?

 

[ThirdWizard]

Ex-wife?

LOL, priceless. Reminds me of the time my best friend was fidgeting with his ring and it fell into the trashc can while his wife's back was turned. I had to distract her while he rooted through the trash. I bet he wished there was a way to get it to stick in that particular case.

 

[frankthedm]

The Fact the sword is not broken is a sign snapping it may not work. After all someone else already had the curse on them, if breaking it was an option then it would already be broken

 

[TheEvil]

The Fact the sword is not broken is a sign snapping it may not work. After all someone else already had the curse on them, if breaking it was an option then it would already be broken

The problem with that logic is that most mods don't take the possiblity into account and the rules give nothing for it. The general line of this thread does make me think it would be safer to wait for the Remove Curse, then have the wizard blast the thing from a distance. If the GM is RB enough to make it blow up, I am all for forcing him to make it have an unreasonable blast radius if he wants it to hit players. Of course, this could start the war of Who is willing to be the most stubborn about 1000 gp worth of mithral...
The fact that the sword in question was lying abandoned in an empty room really should have been a better clue.

 

[frankthedm]

The fact that the sword in question was lying abandoned in an empty room really should have been a better clue.

You fell for that?! Does your group have much experience with cursed items?

You are lucky you are still alive. An item found in that situation likely has enough curse juice to snape your spine as you snap it's blade.

 

[Taraxia]

The curse has a mental effect -- it forces the cursed character to draw *and use* the weapon even though he knows he shouldn't. It has a hold on him, in other words.

I would totally extend this to the character absolutely refusing to throw away the sword or allow it to be destroyed -- the curse controls him and prevents him from doing so even if it's what he knows he should do. Even to the point of violently resisting should one of the other party members try to destroy the sword.

Sure, another party member can sunder it, but they have to overpower the cursed player first.