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   Craig P (craigp@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 20:57:40 JST Craig P

   You know, I was thinking about cursed gear in RPGs. Why does it exist?

   I mean, yeah, it creates tension when the player is grabbing loot, but why IN WORLD?

   Do wizards routinely create joke gear and randomly throw it in dungeons? Did a ghost settle in? What's the explanation for cursed gear?

   This is a lot more interesting to me than the gear itself. Imagine the ramifications!

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 20:57:39 JST silverwizard

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     @Craigp a lot of game systems I've seen have curses result from enchanting failures, and that outrightly makes sense. To become a skilled enchanter you gotta make a lot of cursed and hard to destroy stuff that ends up around.
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     noah !! (noah@wetdry.world)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 22:16:00 JST noah !!

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     @Craigp my go-to headcanon is that teenage wizards thought it was funny to make absurd things on their break

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     hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 22:16:25 JST hypolite

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     @Craigp It is not hard for me to imagine spiteful wizards making cursed gear they would never have a use for (swords, armors, bows, etc...).
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