Not my favorite Agar post Go to Comment

I assume the host/victim is harmed somewhat while being fed upon? How do these creatures move on their own? Could you explain more what you mean by they are social? Go to Comment

I think glowing would be a problem since it would be much easier to detect and remove them.

This one needs a lot of work! Go to Comment

Spellchecked :D

Reminds you of Shannarah? Well crap. I read the stone and a couple others in the series, hated them with a vengnace.

Now I almost want to delete the whole post ... Go to Comment

Oh. Ok then. Shows how familiar I am with those works.

Anyhow, another example of double edged items is my "Devil's Footsteps". I'm really proud of that one, and enjoy having one of the very few seige weapons here. >:D Go to Comment

Well, the king's birthday was the reason the wizard had to come to court and play the charade with his grandson.

And, in another twist, the old man died.

Didn't say how or if it was from the staff, so it doesn't have to be double edged, everyone has just been assuming that the old man died from the big bad magic item, not him being old.

This item has magical properties, I didn't check cursed. I'll leave that up to you all when you use it. Go to Comment

Spell check. Most importantly GUARD.

Other than that, I like this weapon of fairy tale magnitude. A weapon which damages your karma, making you a puppet of the GM's demented whim.

Of course, it seems to do that for anyone who touches it... including the wielder (the poor guy died after all.) So a powerful weapon with a serious hook. Go to Comment

I like this too.A weapon of Bad Luck. Go to Comment

So - a weapon that is as dangerous to the wielder as to the victim

In of itself a fairly standard idea, but this one has a nice little twist - it harms your karma, not you body - that I like a lot

Good backstory - nicely explains why the staff was created

One question - why curse the king?

I can see why he cursed the guard (revenge for his murdered grandson), but the king wasn't involved in the killing - cursing the guard was justice, but what did the king do to deserve the same fate?

Nonetheless - good item - well written and logical - 4/5 Go to Comment

I suppose this would then be considered the two-edged sword. Well yes, you CAN use the staff to take out that band of trolls, but do you really want to curse yourself in the process?

I rather like it. It's got a good purpose, a proper reason for existence, and while it's powerful, it's not overly so due to affecting the wielder with the same mis-fortune. Reminds me of nothing less than the Sword of Shannarah... Go to Comment

*laughs and shakes his head* No no no, I meant that in the fact that the actual Sword was dangerous versus all illusions, but it was like a drug: very very very addicting. It's a double-edged weapon, like the staff. Go to Comment

I like it, a useful item for cursing. Would the wielder need to know the staff is cursed and use it in a particular way, or would simply touching the staff cause the curse to spread? Maybe it's the sort of thing where one must seek vengeance to enact it. Go to Comment

I like the story of the old wizard who lost his mojo. The curse is so subtle that another take on this doesn't actually have any real power, other to make the "afflicted" people blame their misfortune on the person who delivered the curse. Go to Comment

I had wondered about the 'curse' - I went over the text and saw nothing that said the wielder was effected, only the target.

Since the man was old, him dying did not seem untoward, but clarification would be nice ("Died naturally in his sleep, a satisfied smile accross his face..."),etc. Go to Comment

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I like the story. I'm not sure how often the curse portion of the staff would be used though. I see wizards either throwing fireballs with their staffs or whacking minions as the party gets overwhelmed. Either way the curse portion wouldn't seem to come into play much ("Things were never the same for Bob the Kobold after he took a vicious swipe from that wizard")

However, those that took the time to figure out how to properly use the curse might see  this pay off in a very long campaign. Interesting idea.

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Sounds like a good seed for a mystery. How do you track down the source of a curse like this?

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You see potential? Too original? Powerful curse?

How is a curse that occasionally makes you fight with a decrotive sap untill combat is over, powerful? It's an annoyance, something to roleplay around and through, almost comedic, but if the roleplayer is getting into the atrifact possesion part where they ~want~ to use it, then it can lead to some great roleplay.

Too orignal? TOO ORIGINAL?!?! Well hell, why don't I just start posting up "Sword +3 - It's a sword, plus 3" ?!?! If you like stupid huge swords and bags of holding, stick to your GM manual and don't look for new ideas! Strolens as all ABOUT new ideas. If they're not orignal, they're not worth posting. Even old idead can be made new, with the right twist:

Really big sword:
http://www.strolen.com/items/viewitem.php?item_id=173

Bag of holding:
http://www.strolen.com/items/viewitem.php?item_id=123

http://www.strolen.com/items/viewitem.php?item_id=279

I'm glad you see potential, and per your confusion, I added a bit about how she died. There's your cursre origin. Go to Comment

"Somewhere along the line we need to ask ourselves, "Is this an item I would include in my campaign?""

No, actually, that's exactly what we DON'T need to be doing. If you're judging these on whether or not you can use them, then you're just shopping, not critiqueing.

And what's wrong with being comedic? Comedic can be quite fun, even enduring, if you have the right group. See, this isn't about making YOU happy, it's about ideas that are interesting. Go to Comment

Spell check Agar. Go to Comment