"Dangerous"?

Hellboy · #1 June 30th, 2007, 01:16 PM

In the manual, under the description for the Gift of Kurgi artifact p281, does anyone know what the "Dangerous" attribute means?

Endoperez · #2 June 30th, 2007, 01:36 PM

The user will go insane, and randomly start not obeying your orders and doing something else instead, such as "search sites" "become prophet" or "ia ia Chtulhu Fhtagn". He'll also get severely horror-marked, and cursed as per the spell.

Quitschi · #3 June 30th, 2007, 01:41 PM

your cammonder gets insane and horror marked
both attributes increase over time, what results in loosing him to an (doom)horror sooner or later
and you slowly loose control over his actions due to the insanity

Hellboy · #4 June 30th, 2007, 01:54 PM

Sounds like great fun! Thanks for the replies.

Quitschi · #5 June 30th, 2007, 02:01 PM

oh and its cursed

Meglobob · #6 June 30th, 2007, 02:08 PM

As anyone come up with some good uses for the Gift of Kurgi given those harsh drawbacks or is the wielder ultimately doomed to die?

Baneslave · #7 June 30th, 2007, 02:31 PM

What does Gift of Kurgi do anyway? Are there any good things about it?

I'm too lazy to pickup my manual... It is there somewhere, maybe million other things stacked over it...

quantum_mechani · #8 June 30th, 2007, 02:52 PM

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Meglobob said:
As anyone come up with some good uses for the Gift of Kurgi given those harsh drawbacks or is the wielder ultimately doomed to die?

The biggest drawback is the auto-feebleminded and further hit to MR. On the positive side you get flying, ethereal, luck, and a lot of + defense. The best use I've heard of for it is on a heroic mr no-magic hero from ritual of rebirth.

PvK · #9 July 2nd, 2007, 12:46 AM

Drawbacks of the most powerful magic are one of my (many) favorite aspects of Dominions.

Gift of Kurgi I tend to use to launch horrors at enemies. I give it to someone disposable, and just try to get my blood's worth in horrors, which usually works out (i.e. torments my foes) nicely and economically.

I bought an evil traps book as a GM and would let my players know it, but I don't remember actually using anything from it, especially not the super-evil stuff. Not that I didn't have plenty of my own evil stuff - just in my own style. But reading the savage ideas I did find interesting and got me thinking of different kinds of possibilities.

PvK

Gandalf Parker · #10 July 2nd, 2007, 11:15 AM

When I GM'd I kept a box of index cards. It was full of all sorts of random events for city streets, dungeon halls, woodland, etc. And when players did something interesting I would make a card out of it which was fun also.

But one thing that used to really piss off the players were some cards that said something like "giggle and put down the card" or "roll a 6 sided diced and then humm".