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You Succeed - The Curse

One of the strangest curses I ever gave to a PC was the "you succeed" curse. The specifics of this went something like this: If it's a Dexterity/Constitution/Strength Check, you succeed. If it's a Saving Throw, you succeed.  If it's an attack roll, you hit, and the target dies. Immediately. If it's a game of chance, you succeed. What it didn't cover:  Social Skills and Abilities.  Those do not succeed automatically, and the player needs to roll. The player, of course, loved this. Initially. You can dungeon crawl, and evade every trap, pass every saving throw, and slaughter everything in a single go. Hey, what's not to like? Except that the other characters start giving the character the stinkeye. Go into town, gamble, win everything. The NPCs start giving you the stinkeye. You get into a fight in the tavern - every single blow you land kills.  Whether you want it to or not. The bodies pile up, and the city guard are called. You can evade them easily. O...