Cursed unholy dagger from HoHR


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The +1 unholy dagger in Zyrxog's lair. According to the adventure, it brings an ill fate upon the bearer (DM's Choice). So, what have you chosen? or any nice any ideas of what the curse could be?

The Exchange

Male pattern baldness or erectial dysfunction would be nice.

Seriously though, I would try something like nightmares of vile, unholy creatures(pick a type: demon, devil, aberration, undead,etc) stalking the user. After a couple nights of this the weilder becomes shaken whenever confronted with his nemesis creature type.
simple and effective, but not horribly brutal. Maybe throw in the erectial dysfunction for flavor also.;P

fh

Sovereign Court

The problem with an unholy dagger is that my group will probably attempt to sell it, realising that they'll get little use from it. Perhaps whoever they sell it to will come to an untimely end. Or maybe I could make them believe that the dagger is simply a +2 dagger.

Another possibility: The dagger corrupts the wielder, eventually turning his alignment to CE. Only in the hands of a CE wielder does the dagger gain the unholy property. Eventually, the wielder has to be stopped by his friends. Much like the doppelganger deception, this would require the player's secret cooperation. You could even make the dagger intelligent.

Dark Archive

Hagen wrote:
Another possibility: The dagger corrupts the wielder, eventually turning his alignment to CE. Only in the hands of a CE wielder does the dagger gain the unholy property. Eventually, the wielder has to be stopped by his friends. Much like the doppelganger deception, this would require the player's secret cooperation. You could even make the dagger intelligent.

LOL

The character who took the dagger IS actually CE.

Nice ideas, though. I was flipping through the DMG--cursed items section-- and I saw this interesting curse. Every day the bearer has a 5% chance of polymoprhing into a creature. So then I flipped through the MM until I got the kobold.

So it seems funny that this CE assassin becomes a kobold every once in a while. I'll consider erectial dysfunction, too.

Liberty's Edge

I replaced it with the Dagger of Denial from the Magic Item Compendium.

It didn't matter, because the party never got that far into Zyrxog's Lair.

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