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Players when you give them an obviously cursed item be like: (infosec.pub)
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[–] jtrek@startrek.website 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I loved giving my players items with obvious drawbacks. I presented the wizard this item (heavily inspired by Crawl: Stone Soup) :

Hat of Pondering

  • Advantage on wisdom, charisma, and intelligence saves
  • Advantage on saves against effects that move you against your will
  • Intelligence, Charisma, and Wisdom increase by 2 to a maximum of 22
  • Disadvantage on dexterity saves
  • Cannot use reactions
  • Speed is reduced by half and cannot be increased
  • Cannot take the dash action

His reactions as he read each line item were pretty great. "Oh? Oh! WOW. Oh. Hm. Hmm."

Of course he used it for several sessions, and of course it almost got him killed.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Put it on when you need to figure something out, take it off when it's fightin' time.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Ah, but implicit from my understanding of D&D standard magic items (and I should have been explicit) is the effects persist so long as it's attuned to you. Good thinking, though.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago

Ah, I wasn't actually familiar with that mechanic. Good way to balance magical items!

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Nah, you need to be wearing the item. Most often require attunement as well (so you can't just stack a ton of magical items on someone, generally you can only attune to three items). So if you take it off, generally the effects go away.

That said, you could easily make the item give you a permanent debuff while attuned and a buff only while wearing it.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Good feedback. The intent is to prevent hot swapping it in combat, so if I used it again I'd probably write something explicit like the benefits require attunement and wearing the hat, and the penalties persist while attuned.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago

Could just toss on it that it takes an action to put it on or take it off.