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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BryonD" data-source="post: 3809772" data-attributes="member: 957">I think that with the 3X assumption of crafted items it kinda became a default assumption that all items were crafted.  Therefore, the idea of cursed items was set to the side.  I agree that people could and would still make them for their own purposes.  But that just wasn't a focus in the game.I'd rather see the game embrace the idea that magic items may be made, but that sometimes they also just happen.  An honest warrior unknowningly sleeps in a fairy glade and in the morning his cloak is now enchanted.  Or he throws himself in the path of an assassin's arrow aimed at a priest and finds that his shield suddenly has been filled with divine energy (+1).  Or any of thousands of comic book origin stories.  And if a knight betrays his lord and stabs him in the back, the sword could suddenly become cursed.A wizard can still sit down and make an item.  But if magic infuses the world, then all sorts of sudden, unexpected good and bad can come with that.  And that makes cursed stuff work better, to my mind at least.</blockquote>