I have been the proud owner of a Blade of Hanlon for a decade and drink from my Dullard's Glassware set every day 😌 (Also pointy hat (me) sends his (mine) regards)
The Razor could be actually useful for an assassin : being convinced you are a complete moron means your opponent will ALWAYS underestimate you !! Imagine... you infiltrate a place, eliminate your target and just walk out and if you are caught, you just tell them you were looking for the latrines and they just kick you out, not even supposing you might be an intruder because you're obviously too stupid looking to be a threat to them lol
You could do what "Angel" in Windmill of The Gods did, she is a conventionally unattractive person who always slurs her words like she's drunk and just generally acts like rabble. She is angel but pretends to be his girlfriend/contact so everyone thinks they are meeting with Angels incompetent contact while they are meeting with Angel herself
@@parkerdixon-word6295 A mere contract condition matter : you propose an affordable alluring prize but the catch is that if you succeed the mission under a certain limit of time they would of course never believe you could deliver, your client must pay an hundred times that same prize, and voilà !! Remember : THEY think you're stupid but you are not (depending of your INT) lol
@@Kaito57 I dunno, If I'm trying to order a hit on someone, I see an idiot as a liability to get involved, moreso than any sort of competent but deniable asset.
One of my faves was from a grimtooth's traps book, a pair of sturdy boots with a small concealed knife sewn in a sheath. you can remove and test the knife, put it back, put the boots on, take them off, all without penalty. The point is for it to be forgotten about until they try to draw the knife while wearing em, hopefully during combat. at that point it magically glues your hand to the knife, the knife into the sheath, and the boots onto your feet, leaving you awkwardly hopping about one-armed
"Never attribute to malice what could be explained by stupidity." "Sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice." "Never assume that stupidity and malice are incompatible."
I've been pointedly asked to come and thank you for your monstrous contribution! Your little pangolin fae guy is absolutely adorable. It so reminds me of tales of brownies and knockers that help with work, except your little guy is trying to be nice! It's only when they're taken advantage of that things get less nice! I love it!
The Orb would be insane. Imagine using it right before the final battle of the campaign. You literally cannot die during the fight unless it somehow manages to exceed the time limit on your life.
Alternate idea - if it is possible to pick it up without attuning it, I think it said if it touches bare flesh specifically, then you could throw it at someone and make them catch it and BAM, dead in like 5 hours
@@BurnyToast It said _using_ it requires touching it with bare flesh (and takes a minute). Attunement is just like normal, an intentional act which takes about an hour. Which unfortunately means you have to be a bit more clever to trick the BBEG into using it. "No, you fool of a bard. I do not think I will pay you for this item. Now shoo before I have you killed!" *One hour and 1 minute later* "I'm going to trip into the latrine in 3 hours!? Damn that BARD!"
Unless the death foreseen is at the hands of the BBEG. Or maybe some random goblin: knowing you're immune to death from the ancient dragon you go 1 vs 1 with it. After a devastating attack leaves you with 1HP a goblin throws a pebble at you from the peanut gallery finishing you off
Oh, maybe I can give you a little something: The looking glass: Wondrous Item, Very Rare A small, silver hand mirror, the back of which has “LET ME SEE” scratched into it. A creature can hold the mirror and speak the words “Let me see” to allow the mirror to cast Scrying (DC: 15), While concentrating on the Scrying, the creatures body is possessed. This possession and the spell ends early if for any reason the creature lets go of the mirror or loses concentration. The nature of the possession basically puts an outside mind into the creatures body, the mind may use the creature’s Strength, Constitution and Dexterity, but does not gain access to their other ability scores, class features or spellcasting, the possessing mind can use whatever spellcasting or class features they possess of their own, and doesn’t have to concentrate on the Scrying spell. The Possession will end and the Scrying will not work if the creature is under the effect of Protection from Evil and Good. At any time the Possessing mind may decide to end the Scrying spell and the possession. The fun kicker you get to control: As long as a creature is scrying with this mirror, a ghost or other creature has control of their body. Possibly allowing you to have them controlled by malevolent spirits, a trapped hag who wants someone to take her place, a demon who will attack the party for as long as the wielder is scrying for, or even just Greg the Ghost who will use the moment he has of having a physical body to do his knitting.
The "Blade of Hanlon" is easily the funniest thing I've ever heard of in terms of D&D curses. Thank you for that. 🙂 Yes, I *will* use this in my games.
It’s good that the wand of shrinking only affects a creature’s overall height instead of being able to target specific parts. Players would just keep reducing a creatures heart size or whatever till it died of a heart attack. Or worse, reduce the size of their arteries
meanwhile I'd be fine it being able to only target extremities since "ok I know how to cure the bard of his bardness..." also it gives a really dumb but funny idea for a quest "so we decided to set on on our quest to get that poor sod a D%^& enlargement"
It would be really funny to have an NPC use the Orb, only to die near instantly from a heart attack. An idea I have for a cursed item is a cloak that can make you invisible to a target creature, but also makes all your clothes transparent to everyone else.
I love that you’re showing yourself in this video! It shows more of your passion and personality and makes your content funnier to watch. I love that and want more of you
The "Holiday Spirit"™ creature you made for Pointy Hat's video was really cool. I loved how it could be both cute and creepy. I'm gonna give one to my players for sure.
I like the Blade of Hanlon. You could be the greatest menace to society and people might be like: "Ah, he's just an idiot. Run him out of town, but he ain't worth punishing." The Orb of Mortal Foresight, if the players know about the curse, makes for great drama before the final BBEG fight. I can imagine a cleric using it to guarantee that they'll be there to keep the rest of the party in the fight at the expense of not being there to celebrate the victory.
loved all of these, so inspired and fun to toss in. I think imma give them the frying pan thats always on fire first. merry christmas to u and ur fish!
Have a coin of falsehoods. Everytime you take a short rest make a will saving throw or have lie's whispered into your mind. The coin also has the curse of returning to the last holder of the coin. To be rid of the coin you have to somehow spend it backwards. Good luck and merry Christmas!
@benthomason3307 you have to go up to a vendor and say "I would like to buy this coin" to the vendor then present the coin to the vendor then the vendor has to give you gold for the coin and then you have to say"that's a nice coin you have there can I buy it please?" Then the vendor has to say "I have come into possession of a shiny coin would you like to buy it?" Then you have to say" Oh sorry I just spent my last coin on a worthless object I'm sorry but I can't buy it" Now the vendor has to somehow sell the coin in reverse too or be cursed by the coin!
@@Bad_Grandpa92 wtf? that makes no sense. wouldn't it be simpler to simply use the cursed coin _as_ a coin and use it to buy something without ever saying anything?
@@benthomason3307 if you had a campaign run in reverse it'd make sense. Just play the game in reverse starting out having just defeated the big bad evil guy then landing the killing blow suddenly bringing him back to live after a long reverse battle. Then the villain taunts the party into attacking him then the villain walks away in reverse as you and your party walk backwards through the trap filled dungeon putting back to the surprising traps and then reverse exiting the dungeon. Then in order to end the campaign your party split's up and return's to the day they all met each other and then the DM says " And this is how the story ends".
@@Bad_Grandpa92 bro none of that makes sense. why is the campaign happening in reverse? wouldn't that invalidate the player's choices since all their decisions have already been made for them? are you high?
Thanks for the monster! Thrilled that you and Pointy did a birthday version just for *my* birthday! I feel so special. (Also, love strange magic items.)
I am here at the behest of the Hat. Of course I'm also here because I'm subscribed to the channel. Thank you for the holiday monster who just wants us to chill for a while.
I love aquarium keeping. I used to have a big Oscar tank and another planted tank with platies and guppies and catfish that bred and would feed the Oscar. THE CIRCLE OF LIFE!
I made a homebrew barbarian subclass that basically does more damage the more damage it takes. It would actually benefit quite a lot from the Succubus Piercings
Question: what actually qualifies as "food" for the purposes of that frying pan's curse? Could I just cut off the hand of a bandit I killed and turn it into scrambled eggs? what about a zombie's hand? a skeleton's? a t-bone that still has a few bits of steak on it? a rotten fruit I found on the ground? a chunk of saltpeter? a leather boot? depending on how broad a definition the pan uses that "curse" could easily be used to turn easily found inedible materials into perfectly edible food. furthermore, could I just pick up and re-cook the same dish over and over again until it specifically turns into a ham?
I mean. It only changes the taste, doesn't make anything more or less edible. But if you keep cooking something it'll just burn and become tasty but inedible.
Cursed fish tank of delights. Requires attunement. While attuned, all creatures that can see the fish tank and you at the same time are Charmed as though under the influence of the Friends cantrip. The effect persists while the creature can still see the fish tank. Every time you make a Charisma check involving a creature affected by the fish tank, roll 1d4. On a 1, you belch loudly, ending the magical effect. Previously Charmed creatures become hostile to you and the fish tank loses all magical properties until the next dawn.
I recently came up with a magic dagger that I call the Dagger of Pain's Fury that's kinda like a berserker axe in how it makes you much more formidable in melee combat and inflicts especially unpleasant wounds, but as soon as you stop grasping the dagger it stabs you (inflicting one of those same especially unpleasant wounds to you), and I was expecting stuff kinda like that from this video for some reason. I have resolved to do a better job at managing my own expectations
Pointily yours, Pointy sends his regards!
Pointily yours
Pointy sends his regards
also thank you for the monster!
I have been the proud owner of a Blade of Hanlon for a decade and drink from my Dullard's Glassware set every day 😌
(Also pointy hat (me) sends his (mine) regards)
Pointly yours
Keep on Pointin
The Razor could be actually useful for an assassin : being convinced you are a complete moron means your opponent will ALWAYS underestimate you !!
Imagine... you infiltrate a place, eliminate your target and just walk out and if you are caught, you just tell them you were looking for the latrines and they just kick you out, not even supposing you might be an intruder because you're obviously too stupid looking to be a threat to them lol
Only downside is that no client who meets you will ever believe that you could possibly be a competent assassin.
You could do what "Angel" in Windmill of The Gods did, she is a conventionally unattractive person who always slurs her words like she's drunk and just generally acts like rabble. She is angel but pretends to be his girlfriend/contact so everyone thinks they are meeting with Angels incompetent contact while they are meeting with Angel herself
@@parkerdixon-word6295 A mere contract condition matter : you propose an affordable alluring prize but the catch is that if you succeed the mission under a certain limit of time they would of course never believe you could deliver, your client must pay an hundred times that same prize, and voilà !!
Remember : THEY think you're stupid but you are not (depending of your INT) lol
@@Kaito57 I dunno, If I'm trying to order a hit on someone, I see an idiot as a liability to get involved, moreso than any sort of competent but deniable asset.
@@Kaito57 "ill kill this guy for 10 gold. But if i do it in less than a day you agree to pay me 10000 gold!"
I've never seen a Cursed Item that's fine on its own, but if paired up with another item, *then* the curse activates. This is huge.
One of my faves was from a grimtooth's traps book, a pair of sturdy boots with a small concealed knife sewn in a sheath. you can remove and test the knife, put it back, put the boots on, take them off, all without penalty. The point is for it to be forgotten about until they try to draw the knife while wearing em, hopefully during combat. at that point it magically glues your hand to the knife, the knife into the sheath, and the boots onto your feet, leaving you awkwardly hopping about one-armed
“Requires attunement by a creature with toes”
Hear me out though. A Blade of Hanlon in the hands of someone who knows exactly what it is, but is chaotic evil.
Or just already dumb and used to people thinking such
Chaotic neutral is preferred.
Great on a rogue. Id hope that if you get caught by anyone while sneaking the person would just think youre lost and just so very dumb
"Never attribute to malice what could be explained by stupidity."
"Sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice."
"Never assume that stupidity and malice are incompatible."
My personal version, usually applied to internet opinions:
"Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by apathy."
Pointly yours, Pointy sends his regards
Thank you for the pointy monsters!
Regards from the Hat of Pointiness.
Also yes, on cursed objects
I've been pointedly asked to come and thank you for your monstrous contribution! Your little pangolin fae guy is absolutely adorable. It so reminds me of tales of brownies and knockers that help with work, except your little guy is trying to be nice! It's only when they're taken advantage of that things get less nice! I love it!
The Orb would be insane. Imagine using it right before the final battle of the campaign. You literally cannot die during the fight unless it somehow manages to exceed the time limit on your life.
Immunity to death is a wild status
Alternate idea - if it is possible to pick it up without attuning it, I think it said if it touches bare flesh specifically, then you could throw it at someone and make them catch it and BAM, dead in like 5 hours
@@BurnyToast It said _using_ it requires touching it with bare flesh (and takes a minute). Attunement is just like normal, an intentional act which takes about an hour. Which unfortunately means you have to be a bit more clever to trick the BBEG into using it.
"No, you fool of a bard. I do not think I will pay you for this item. Now shoo before I have you killed!"
*One hour and 1 minute later*
"I'm going to trip into the latrine in 3 hours!? Damn that BARD!"
Unless the death foreseen is at the hands of the BBEG. Or maybe some random goblin: knowing you're immune to death from the ancient dragon you go 1 vs 1 with it. After a devastating attack leaves you with 1HP a goblin throws a pebble at you from the peanut gallery finishing you off
^This. It's a great item to hand to the party right before the final battle. What would the PCs be willing to trade for the chance to save the world?
Glad to see the human familiar has great friends
My goblin merchant NPC that sells broken, jank and cursed magic items will be hawking these ASAP. Also hell yeah Pointy Hat collab!
Oh, maybe I can give you a little something:
The looking glass:
Wondrous Item, Very Rare
A small, silver hand mirror, the back of which has “LET ME SEE” scratched into it.
A creature can hold the mirror and speak the words “Let me see” to allow the mirror to cast Scrying (DC: 15), While concentrating on the Scrying, the creatures body is possessed. This possession and the spell ends early if for any reason the creature lets go of the mirror or loses concentration.
The nature of the possession basically puts an outside mind into the creatures body, the mind may use the creature’s Strength, Constitution and Dexterity, but does not gain access to their other ability scores, class features or spellcasting, the possessing mind can use whatever spellcasting or class features they possess of their own, and doesn’t have to concentrate on the Scrying spell.
The Possession will end and the Scrying will not work if the creature is under the effect of Protection from Evil and Good.
At any time the Possessing mind may decide to end the Scrying spell and the possession.
The fun kicker you get to control: As long as a creature is scrying with this mirror, a ghost or other creature has control of their body. Possibly allowing you to have them controlled by malevolent spirits, a trapped hag who wants someone to take her place, a demon who will attack the party for as long as the wielder is scrying for, or even just Greg the Ghost who will use the moment he has of having a physical body to do his knitting.
Pointily yours... hope you have more boba than kiki this non denominational winter holiday
The hat sent me - Thank you for the monster!
The "Blade of Hanlon" is easily the funniest thing I've ever heard of in terms of D&D curses. Thank you for that. 🙂 Yes, I *will* use this in my games.
Pointily yours, Pointy sends his regards! Love the monster you made for the collab!
The hat sends its regards aaaand thank you for the monsters
It’s good that the wand of shrinking only affects a creature’s overall height instead of being able to target specific parts. Players would just keep reducing a creatures heart size or whatever till it died of a heart attack. Or worse, reduce the size of their arteries
meanwhile I'd be fine it being able to only target extremities since "ok I know how to cure the bard of his bardness..." also it gives a really dumb but funny idea for a quest "so we decided to set on on our quest to get that poor sod a D%^& enlargement"
It would be really funny to have an NPC use the Orb, only to die near instantly from a heart attack.
An idea I have for a cursed item is a cloak that can make you invisible to a target creature, but also makes all your clothes transparent to everyone else.
Pointy sends his regards (?)
Pointily yours...
I love that you’re showing yourself in this video! It shows more of your passion and personality and makes your content funnier to watch. I love that and want more of you
"Tell Runesmith. I want him to know it was Pointy Hat..."
Pointily yours! Always love your stuff!!
The moment you said "prompts" I clenched. Thank god you still have your writer's integrity.
The "Holiday Spirit"™ creature you made for Pointy Hat's video was really cool. I loved how it could be both cute and creepy. I'm gonna give one to my players for sure.
Pointily yours, pointy sends his regards!
Also thank you for the monster!
I can't help but imagine how Avantris or NADDPOD would deal with these. Merry Chrysler, Logan
I like the Blade of Hanlon. You could be the greatest menace to society and people might be like: "Ah, he's just an idiot. Run him out of town, but he ain't worth punishing."
The Orb of Mortal Foresight, if the players know about the curse, makes for great drama before the final BBEG fight. I can imagine a cleric using it to guarantee that they'll be there to keep the rest of the party in the fight at the expense of not being there to celebrate the victory.
Pointily yours, Pointy sends his regards AND i need to say ty for the cool monster!
Thank you so much for the items, and the holiday spirit! Keep it pointy
Pointily yours, Pointy sends his regards! Thank you for the monster! ^_^
pointy hats off to you, ever pointily yours
The Hat sends its regards. Btw, thank you for the monster !
Thank you for the monster.
Thank you for the monster! Pointy Hat summoned me lol
Pointy sends his regards.. 😂 great video, new subscriber, thank you for the monster ❤
Love the framing AND the fish tank ❤ Merry Christmas Papa Runesmith!
adding a comment, pointy told me too, but i have to say, love your videos, this one was amazing
Thank you for the monster!
Pointy sent his regards...
Thanks for the thing... I loved it so much! My favorite of the 3, actually!
thank you for the monster!
Love the video! Very creative
- pointily yours
Oh no, not the Goatse mirror!
I also saw this. The internet is a terrible place.
Pointily yours, thanks for the monster
The orb that lets you see how you die is basically that one episode of Rick and Morty where you're Immortal until you fulfill your fortune.
These are amazing! ROFL.i think some of these are going to find their way into my NPC Hag's shop
Also, yes, curses are not revealed until a creature attunes* to a cursed item.
loved all of these, so inspired and fun to toss in. I think imma give them the frying pan thats always on fire first. merry christmas to u and ur fish!
Have a coin of falsehoods. Everytime you take a short rest make a will saving throw or have lie's whispered into your mind. The coin also has the curse of returning to the last holder of the coin. To be rid of the coin you have to somehow spend it backwards. Good luck and merry Christmas!
what does "spend it backwards" mean?
@benthomason3307 you have to go up to a vendor and say "I would like to buy this coin" to the vendor then present the coin to the vendor then the vendor has to give you gold for the coin and then you have to say"that's a nice coin you have there can I buy it please?" Then the vendor has to say "I have come into possession of a shiny coin would you like to buy it?" Then you have to say" Oh sorry I just spent my last coin on a worthless object I'm sorry but I can't buy it" Now the vendor has to somehow sell the coin in reverse too or be cursed by the coin!
@@Bad_Grandpa92 wtf? that makes no sense. wouldn't it be simpler to simply use the cursed coin _as_ a coin and use it to buy something without ever saying anything?
@@benthomason3307 if you had a campaign run in reverse it'd make sense. Just play the game in reverse starting out having just defeated the big bad evil guy then landing the killing blow suddenly bringing him back to live after a long reverse battle. Then the villain taunts the party into attacking him then the villain walks away in reverse as you and your party walk backwards through the trap filled dungeon putting back to the surprising traps and then reverse exiting the dungeon. Then in order to end the campaign your party split's up and return's to the day they all met each other and then the DM says " And this is how the story ends".
@@Bad_Grandpa92 bro none of that makes sense. why is the campaign happening in reverse? wouldn't that invalidate the player's choices since all their decisions have already been made for them? are you high?
Like I wouldn't notice that goatse reference with the mirror hahahaha
Blade of Hanlon is actually an awesome item
I love being cursed
POINTY SENDS HIS REGARDS! Pointily yours and keep on pointin’
Use the orb when you have a decent amount of clones, and it’s a perfect immortality switch for tough fights.
Happy Holidays Mr. Rune guy ❤
Pointily yours
So glad you guys collabed, now i've got one more channel to scratch my dnd itch on
Love the monster you created over on pointy hat. It was my favorite. 😍
Thanks Pointy for revealing this amazing channel!
Really cool video, loved the items, but you really got me in the last 10 seconds
The pointy one is mighty impressed with your cursed [One hundred percent Pointy Hat Certified Free] objects. Thank u for ur boba tea as well
Pointily subscribed! Loved the gifts and looking forward to seeing your other works!
I'm here because the Bobakiki finished all of my chores, and I want to show my appreciation by procrastinating.
Pointily yours,
Chris
Please take this as a compliment, you look like a mix of Eugene Levy and Frankenstein's monster. 10 out of 10
I thought you were meaning the Gotham Chess Levy at first and still agreed with you
Thanks for the monster! Thrilled that you and Pointy did a birthday version just for *my* birthday! I feel so special. (Also, love strange magic items.)
I like the twisted version of the ''Mainzelmännchen'' you made for pointy hat!
Oh god there's Stibblings??
I am here at the behest of the Hat. Of course I'm also here because I'm subscribed to the channel.
Thank you for the holiday monster who just wants us to chill for a while.
The piercings are perfect for barbarians, because the rage persists :)
Very cool items, thank you :)
Pointy sends his regards!
Thank you for all the cool holiday presents! Pointily yours...
Thank you for the monster & cursed items :) (from Pointy Hat's vid and you respectively)
Pointy hat sends his regards…
Oh, wait, he already did.
My regards too.
I love aquarium keeping. I used to have a big Oscar tank and another planted tank with platies and guppies and catfish that bred and would feed the Oscar. THE CIRCLE OF LIFE!
Pointily yours, Pointy sends his regards!
Thanks for the monsters
Thanks for the monster! And the curses!
Pointy sends their regards
Pointy hat sent me here, but your hilarious items and personality 100% got the sub. cant wait to look thru your videos for the next couple days
*The Rains of Castamere plays* Pointy Hat sends his regards.
I do indeed like the framing of the video. Also the content of the video. I like the video!
The Pointed One expresses appreciation for the monsters.
thank you for the monster, i love your idea so much about the holiday spirit
Pointily yours, the hat sends his regards!
Those action figures are so amazing 😂. Everything about them is just so perfect.
Thank you for the monster! and thanks for the socks!
Pointily yours
Pointily yours
Pointily yours, Pointy sends his regards.
I made a homebrew barbarian subclass that basically does more damage the more damage it takes. It would actually benefit quite a lot from the Succubus Piercings
I just saw how many subscribers he has. He deserves more
Thanks for the monster ‘pointing at you’
Pointly yours, happy holidays!
Question: what actually qualifies as "food" for the purposes of that frying pan's curse? Could I just cut off the hand of a bandit I killed and turn it into scrambled eggs? what about a zombie's hand? a skeleton's? a t-bone that still has a few bits of steak on it? a rotten fruit I found on the ground? a chunk of saltpeter? a leather boot? depending on how broad a definition the pan uses that "curse" could easily be used to turn easily found inedible materials into perfectly edible food.
furthermore, could I just pick up and re-cook the same dish over and over again until it specifically turns into a ham?
I mean. It only changes the taste, doesn't make anything more or less edible. But if you keep cooking something it'll just burn and become tasty but inedible.
Pointily yours, keep on pointin’!
Thank for the monster, Runesmith! Pointy pointed me in your general direction...
Cursed fish tank of delights.
Requires attunement. While attuned, all creatures that can see the fish tank and you at the same time are Charmed as though under the influence of the Friends cantrip.
The effect persists while the creature can still see the fish tank.
Every time you make a Charisma check involving a creature affected by the fish tank, roll 1d4. On a 1, you belch loudly, ending the magical effect. Previously Charmed creatures become hostile to you and the fish tank loses all magical properties until the next dawn.
Pointly yours, thanks for the monster and the items!
I recently came up with a magic dagger that I call the Dagger of Pain's Fury that's kinda like a berserker axe in how it makes you much more formidable in melee combat and inflicts especially unpleasant wounds, but as soon as you stop grasping the dagger it stabs you (inflicting one of those same especially unpleasant wounds to you), and I was expecting stuff kinda like that from this video for some reason. I have resolved to do a better job at managing my own expectations
Thank you for the monster. Stay Pointy.
Pointily yours. Happy holidays 💕
These are really fun additions for a game!
Thanks for the monster; keep on pointin'!
Thank you for your awesome items I love stuff like this