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Steal This! 5 Really Useful Cursed Magic Items

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The wagon on the side of the road looks innocent enough, the merchant driving it looks very trustworthy, and the deal he is cutting you is not the kind you can't possibly pass up. Then you get down the road and discover the hat he sold you fits a little too well as it consumes your freakin' head.

Cursed items are a hoot. They've been terrifying players and giving Game Masters a sickening amount of pleasure for forty-plus years. These things are almost always detrimental, causing some manner of chaos for the owner, be it an uncontrollable bloodrage, or just perpetual intestinal distress. But there is nothing saying that these major drawbacks can't come with some manner of payoff. A cursed item makes the user suffer. A real cursed item makes the user want to suffer, because the benefit is almost worth the agony.

Today I give you 5 really useful cursed magic items. As per usual, these are system generic items that can be placed in just about any game, from D&D to Pat…
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Racial Bias: Half-Orcs

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Hang on to your horned helms, my friends. We are about to get 50 Shades of heavy metal today! There are many badass races that have graced the pages of our favorite role-playing games, but few can hold a candle.. screw that, few can hold a roaring torch to the monumental badassery that is the half-orc; a creature that might as well be a walking, talking Black Sabbath album (The ones with Dio)!

Half-orcs are my all time second favorite race of all time, just barely edged out by the dwarf. If only half-orcs had better beards, it would be a cinch. Sadly, they don't... because it was probably hacked, slashed, ripped or burned off in a fight with something God-awful!

Just the way it should be.


Best Of Both Worlds
Half-orcs have the glorious distinction of having the best parts of both orcs and human. From their orcish kin, they gain powerful muscles, insatiable bloodlust, and stubborn ability to tell death to wait his goddamned turn! From the human stock, they experience the ability to…
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YouTube, Patreon, And The Future Of Ed The Bard

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Some of you may have noticed that lately I have been updating a number of things, hitting a bunch of milestones, and am now involved in a number of different projects. It has been a busy few weeks in the world of Ed The Bard, and frankly, it has been slightly exhausting, give or take a slightly.

So, I figured I would take a break from the usual grind to update you folks on just exactly what I am up to and what is coming down the pipeline in the future. There us a lot to cover, or at least if feels like a lot, so I will dive on in.

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Recently, you may have noticed my quasi-blood feud with fellow blogger and Game Master, The Game Mechanic, and our feelings about flavor in Tabletop RPGs. That seemed to grab a few folks attention, and The Game Mechanic and I were approached by the RPG Brigade about hosting a live Brigade Panel, a civil discussion/debate about the importance of "Flavor" in RPGs, how much is too much, and the implications of including it. It should be a hoot…
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