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Simple post, I been feeling that I want to have crazy items, then I remembered that in DOS2 DE, cursed items already existed. Then when replaying this update, I felt odd how they where completely missing in a D&D game. Here are some recommendations.


1) Amulet of the Feaster:

The amulet grants user the ability “grow claws” as natural weapons, and scale with dex. Deal 1d20 + 1d4, enemy must roll a DC of 31 or be knocked prone. Each swipe costs you 10% or your PC hp. If attack is a critical, HP cost is negated.

2) Longsword of Frost:

this long sword is exclusively 2H. Deals 1d6 frost damage in a cone of 5M, on hit target must roll a DC20, or get slowed. The weapons come will heal the enemy the 1d6 if the cone hits any of the PC party members.

3) Divine Gaze:

The amulet gives the user a 3 round advantage, taking any damage will transform the buff into 3 rounds of disadvantage


4) Ring of Eagle Eye

The user gets 5 rounds of +2 on all bonus from terrain elevation. Any movement by user will result in 5 rounds of paralysis + sundered armour. Shove counts as movement

5) Phoenix Dive

a returning spell from dos2. Consume 3 superiority dices to dive to enemy.


6) Amulet of the dragon

- consume a rank 3 spell slot to produce a breathe attack. Deals 15d30 to all targets in a 40M cone by 1M. The user dies after using the ability and can’t be raised for 2 rounds.


What do you think about these? Got any of your own. Let’s have a fun discussion

there are two magic weapons that also hurt the user and a glove you don't want to use if you don't have the mark of the absolute + of course the option to get that mark which i will allow people to find on their own... in general these are fine by me and I don't want this to be more of DoS3 game than it already is

In BG the only cursed items that were enjoyable for me were the Helm of Opposite Alignment and the Girdle of Masculinity/Felinity. The Claw of Kazgoroth was cool, but only if you liked having the blur image visual effect on constantly hehe. The visual wow of stuff like stoneskin, barkskin, mirror image etc. wears off pretty quickly, but the claw was ok, cause blur was also the default ghost/spirit look too, so it had that going for it. The cursed sword of berserking had a bit of novelty as well, I guess, but pretty niche there.

I wouldn't mind if they did the Vecna artifacts. The Hand or the Eye or the Book of Evil, but only if they really made it a big part of the story, just cause they're so famous in the lore. I think an artifact like a dragons orb or baba yaga's hut would be fun to see done up as a 'cursed' version, but those aren't really arms and armor type items.

Talking swords are always fun, if going more Mormegil style, but I think a masochistic shield might be funnier than a sadistic sword for a BG3 game. I like the idea of cursed equipment and such, but only if the curses have some story elements built out around them.

To me the archetypal curse is some form of ongoing polymorph, like Lucius in the Golden Ass, so I wouldn't mind seeing a D&D riff on that. As long as there's a rose petal at the end I guess lol. I think they could do something fun with the concept. I find that a curse is more interesting if there's a witch or a warlock or whatever behind it, or as some kind of active ongoing quest unto itself, as opposed to just chancing on random backbiting weapons. Cursed items that only have a malus with no boon, aren't very interesting at all, so unless they have some plot to excuse them I'd stick to stuff that actual has some utility or at least some solid story vibes.

As a custom party player, I don't really care about premade party members, but in the specific case of Gale, I'm surprised that there are so few cursed items to get rid of with his "curse to consume artifacts". First of all, of course, there is the question of whether cursed items automatically count or should count as artifacts. Maybe I'm wrong, but right now he can't consume the Gloves of Power. I think he should be able to do that.

Fun Fact: He could solve Larians' box problem by consuming Shadowhearts box hehe. However a game-changing artifact and Gales curse... The whole thing wasn't really thought through...