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<blockquote data-quote="Sejs" data-source="post: 3030268" data-attributes="member: 4910"><p><em>(Bad Taste)</em> Food spoils in your presence.</p><p></p><p><em>(Decay)</em> Items in your possession decay, losing 1 hp per day. Paper ages and cracks, metals become pitted and rusted, leather and cloth dry rot.</p><p></p><p><em>(Pariah)</em> You're automatically blamed for any wrongdoing (similar to frank's reaction penalty mentioned above). You have no idea how that stolen object came to be in your pack, or how that woman that was almost raped got a bit of cloth torn from your cloak. Or the spell creates an Evil Twin sort of effect. There's someone always unseen (by the party, natch) out there that looks just like you, doing wrong in your name.</p><p></p><p><em>(Insomnia)</em> You cannot sleep. Period. After a few days awake might collapse from exhaustion, but even then it's not restful. You're always fatigued after the first day or two and you can forget about recovering spells.</p><p></p><p><em>(New You)</em> You develop a split personality without being aware of it. Think Tyler Durden.</p><p></p><p><em>(Light-Scorned)</em> Holy symbols, holy water, and consecrated ground cause you great pain. Maybe subdual damage or the like.</p><p></p><p><em>(Bad Luck)</em> You develop horribly bad luck. Once or twice a session the DM can just declare a roll you've just made to be a fumble. Particularly if it's for something important.</p><p></p><p><em>(False Visions)</em> You keep seeing things that arn't true.. false visions of future events. You're certain that a particular woman you see is going to get hit by a runaway cart when she goes to the florist later. You KNOW it. You've SEEN it happen. The visions continue to be false, little more than an annoying distraction... until you start to doubt them...</p><p></p><p><em>(Manavore)</em> You eat magic. Beneficial spells with a duration longer than one round that affect you lapse at the start of your next turn. </p><p></p><p><em>(Vulnerability)</em> You're considdered 'off-type' for anything that has a category of things that are particularly vulnerable to it. Against fire spells, you've got the [Cold] subtype, against cold spell, you're a [Fire] creature. Banishment? You're extraplanar... somehow. Holy weapons? You're evil, even if you're not. (If you want to be particularly mean: Cure spells? ... you're undead...)</p><p></p><p><em>(Plague Carrier)</em> You're an unwitting, unaware carrier of a particularly nasty disease with an incubation time long enough such that you won't readily notice the plague you're spreading.</p><p></p><p><em>(Natural Enemy)</em> A particular category of less-than-sapient creatures <em>hate</em> you and will go out of their way to do you harm. Birds. Canines. Undead. Something.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sejs, post: 3030268, member: 4910"] [i](Bad Taste)[/i] Food spoils in your presence. [i](Decay)[/i] Items in your possession decay, losing 1 hp per day. Paper ages and cracks, metals become pitted and rusted, leather and cloth dry rot. [i](Pariah)[/i] You're automatically blamed for any wrongdoing (similar to frank's reaction penalty mentioned above). You have no idea how that stolen object came to be in your pack, or how that woman that was almost raped got a bit of cloth torn from your cloak. Or the spell creates an Evil Twin sort of effect. There's someone always unseen (by the party, natch) out there that looks just like you, doing wrong in your name. [i](Insomnia)[/i] You cannot sleep. Period. After a few days awake might collapse from exhaustion, but even then it's not restful. You're always fatigued after the first day or two and you can forget about recovering spells. [i](New You)[/i] You develop a split personality without being aware of it. Think Tyler Durden. [i](Light-Scorned)[/i] Holy symbols, holy water, and consecrated ground cause you great pain. Maybe subdual damage or the like. [i](Bad Luck)[/i] You develop horribly bad luck. Once or twice a session the DM can just declare a roll you've just made to be a fumble. Particularly if it's for something important. [i](False Visions)[/i] You keep seeing things that arn't true.. false visions of future events. You're certain that a particular woman you see is going to get hit by a runaway cart when she goes to the florist later. You KNOW it. You've SEEN it happen. The visions continue to be false, little more than an annoying distraction... until you start to doubt them... [i](Manavore)[/i] You eat magic. Beneficial spells with a duration longer than one round that affect you lapse at the start of your next turn. [i](Vulnerability)[/i] You're considdered 'off-type' for anything that has a category of things that are particularly vulnerable to it. Against fire spells, you've got the [Cold] subtype, against cold spell, you're a [Fire] creature. Banishment? You're extraplanar... somehow. Holy weapons? You're evil, even if you're not. (If you want to be particularly mean: Cure spells? ... you're undead...) [i](Plague Carrier)[/i] You're an unwitting, unaware carrier of a particularly nasty disease with an incubation time long enough such that you won't readily notice the plague you're spreading. [i](Natural Enemy)[/i] A particular category of less-than-sapient creatures [i]hate[/i] you and will go out of their way to do you harm. Birds. Canines. Undead. Something. [/QUOTE]
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