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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AeroDm" data-source="post: 5847056" data-attributes="member: 13650">Decaying magic items instead of charges. It was not a rule of my own creation, but it entirely changed the way people used magic items (for the better!) and made tracking much easier. The gist is that instead of 50 charges, an item might be a d10. Every time you use a charge, you roll the d10 and if it comes up a 1 then the item decays into a d8. Repeat until d4 and then destruction. It was much more tense and people were willing to use them more often.At some point, I turned it on its head. All of the players were cursed by a demon. The demon grafted itself onto the soul of one player in particular. Anytime he failed a d20 roll by 1, the demon whispered in his mind "Would you like to succeed?" If he said 'yes', he rolled a d10 and saw if his soul decayed. If it decayed, his 'soul' became a d8 and  if he failed a d20 roll by up to 2 the demon made the same offer and so on. Within a few sessions he had decayed to a d6 (adding up to +3 to any d20 roll) and just decided to shut it down cold turkey. You'd be amazed how many times you fail what feels like a really critical d20 roll by just a point or two.</blockquote>