To prevent this cursething Tragic, think auto-save <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />. Otherwise I like the idea. Maybe other pepole should wear cursed items and cry about it at the market, where you can lift it (=>get good algiment points) and take charge (=>maybe not good alligment points, but you'll get cash <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />). You could allso add some quests containing cursed items (for some strange reason you pou this cursed ring on, and then you have to lift the curse, and damn, the skill doesn't work. You've heard of this famous curseliftere in Verditsis...).
And allso, you should find some way to regulate money. It's simplly not fun when you're economicly independent (is that really a term in English?) half way through the game. Allso, make the items you can buy worth it to buy them. Finding it all is kind of useless (even though in the end this is what you do)...