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<blockquote data-quote="Wofano Wotanto" data-source="post: 9280026" data-attributes="member: 7044704">It really wasn't.&nbsp; The Belt/Girdle of Dwarvenkind is never called out as cursed and its effects are almost entirely beneficial.&nbsp; At worst you spend five minutes with a straight razor each morning and occasionally offend non-Dwarves you wouldn't have otherwise.&nbsp; Nothing stopping you from taking it off whenever you want either, so you don't even have to shave or be more boorish if you don't wear it at dawn or to the royal court or other important social event.The Girdle of Femininity/Masculinity (what a mouthful) in the DMG was definitely called cursed, but it was less intended as a very questionable joke than as a &quot;trap item&quot; for players who just couldn't wait to see which variety of Girdle of Giant Strength they'd just found.&nbsp; Those and the &quot;sex change&quot; one were the only girdles in the DMG, and the giant strength ones were stupidly OP.&nbsp; Problematic as the thing is today, at first it was mostly a rather mean-spirited anti-metagaming thing, very much in the mold of Gygax's fondness for &quot;gotcha&quot; moments.&nbsp; He really wanted you to spend the ~16 hours and 100gp for an Identify spell before trying on any belts for some reason, and even then it might fail. Also rarely gets mentioned, but all the original DMG girdles could only be used by clerics, thieves or fighters.&nbsp; A magic-user could wear them but the magic wouldn't work for them.&nbsp; They can't even set off the cursed one and de-magic it in the process.&nbsp; So if you run into someone whose M-U got their sex changed by one of those things, their GM was playing fast and loose with the holy writ.&nbsp; <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wofano Wotanto, post: 9280026, member: 7044704"] It really wasn't. The Belt/Girdle of Dwarvenkind is never called out as cursed and its effects are almost entirely beneficial. At worst you spend five minutes with a straight razor each morning and occasionally offend non-Dwarves you wouldn't have otherwise. Nothing stopping you from taking it off whenever you want either, so you don't even have to shave or be more boorish if you don't wear it at dawn or to the royal court or other important social event. The Girdle of Femininity/Masculinity (what a mouthful) in the DMG was definitely called cursed, but it was less intended as a very questionable joke than as a "trap item" for players who just couldn't wait to see which variety of Girdle of Giant Strength they'd just found. Those and the "sex change" one were the only girdles in the DMG, and the giant strength ones were stupidly OP. Problematic as the thing is today, at first it was mostly a rather mean-spirited anti-metagaming thing, very much in the mold of Gygax's fondness for "gotcha" moments. He really wanted you to spend the ~16 hours and 100gp for an Identify spell before trying on any belts for some reason, and even then it might fail. Also rarely gets mentioned, but all the original DMG girdles could only be used by clerics, thieves or fighters. A magic-user could wear them but the magic wouldn't work for them. They can't even set off the cursed one and de-magic it in the process. So if you run into someone whose M-U got their sex changed by one of those things, their GM was playing fast and loose with the holy writ. :) [/QUOTE]

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