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You gain advantage on Persuasion checks.
 
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=== Frail ===
 
'''Source:''' Advanced Options: Oracle’s Curses. Copyright 2010, Super Genius Games. Author: Owen K.C. Stephens.
 
 
Your body simply can’t take serious damage without draining you of your vigor. Whenever you have less than 50% of your full hit points, or have any Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution damage or drain in effect, you are fatigued.
 
 
You work harder to compensate for your weak frame with cunning and knowledge. You gain +1 additional skill point at each curse level. You may choose an additional skill to be a class skill at 5th, 10th, and 17th levels.
 
 
At 6th level, you are only fatigued if you have less than 25% of your hit points, or suffer a drain or damage to two of the listed ability scores.
 
 
At 17th level, you are only fatigued if you have less than
 
10% of your hit points, or if you have ability damage or
 
drain to all three of the listed ability scores.
 
  
 
=== Grotesque ===
 
=== Grotesque ===

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The Crazed are odd and disquieting, but also have deep insights. You suffer some mental trauma that weakens you, but this is compensated by a gift or ability that makes you exceptional.

Alienated

You have problems making yourself understood and understanding others. You suffer disadvantage on Insight and Persuasion checks. You gain proficiency in Arcana History, Intimidation, Nature, Religion, or Sleight of Hand as well as in two tools, gaming sets, or musical instruments to reflect your background and interests.

Choreomania

You suffer bouts of compulsive, ecstatic dancing. You must dance when casting and preparing spells. You must move at least 5 ft. each round before acting. You cannot use the Stealth skill. All your spells have somatic components, and these components cannot be removed. If you carry more than 5 lb. times your Strength, wear armor, or use a shield, you suffer disadvantage on all attack rolls and Dexterity ability checks.

You should select a type of Martial Arts Defense. You learn the Mobile feat.

Cyclopean

You have only a single large eye in the middle of your brow.

At 1st level, your eye puts a great demand on your body, consuming enormous amounts of energy. You eat as much as two normal people of your race. You are instantly recognizable because of your eye, and suffer a -10 penalty on all Charisma checks to disguise your appearance. People gathering information about you have advantage.

You have flashes of prophetic vision. You can choose to roll 20 on any one ability check, attack roll, or saving throw. You can use this ability once and regain it on a long rest.

Deluded

You believe in something that is generally considered false by the people around you. Select a pretty broad opinion you have that is very controversial. Examples might include that the world is cylindrical, that ageing is a myth, or that a different sun rises each day, not the same old sun. Whether this thing you believe in is true or not is irrelevant, the important point is that almost everyone disagree with you.

If you roll a 20 on a Arcana, Deception, History, Insight, Investigation Nature, Perception, Persuasion, or Religion check, your delusions interfere with what you are doing, read the result as if you rolled a 1 instead.

You gain proficiency in one of the skills you risk fumbling on. Your unconventional beliefs appeal to others who are also mental outsiders, You gain advantage on any Charisma check against an aberration or fey.

Preposterous

You have a vision you believe is true but the world disagrees. No matter what you say, people will not take your words to heart, and your advice goes unheard. You have some oracular vision that is doomed not to be believed. This should be a "doom and gloom" type of prophecy, such as "the world will end in sand". Depending on the style of the game this might be predestined to happen or just an ominous possibility. Some with this strange sign are believed by their closest friends but not by strangers; for the other player characters it is a role-playing decision whether to believe you or not.

You cannot use the Help action and you suffer disadvantage on Charisma checks to convince someone of anything. You absolutely cannot convince an NPC that your vision is true. You can still use Charisma skills to influence peoples attitudes normally. People may well like you, but they don't take your predictions or suggestions seriously.

You can cast Divination once and regain the ability after you finish three long rests.

Fated

Destiny constantly hampers you, but also preserves you for future misery.

Up to three times per day you have to re-roll a lucky d20 roll. Normally, this happens when you roll a natural die result of 20, but the GM can invoke this effect at other times, as desired. After three detrimental re-rolls, you need not re-roll any more successful rolls that day. You have advantage on Constitution and Wisdom saves and never have to re-roll a successful save.

Follower

You suffer disadvantage on Dexterity checks for initiative. Whenever you cannot perceive an ally within 30 ft., you suffer disadvantage on ability checks and attack rolls, and enemies gain advantage on saving throws against spells you cast.

You can use Help as a bonus action or a reaction and need only be within 30 ft. to do so. You must decide to to use this ability before the action you are helping is rolled.

Forthright

You cannot lie or dissemble, and you cannot use the Deceit skill. If asked a question and not prevented from answering (any distraction or a simple say-so from your allies suffices), you will give a honest and exhaustive answer. If an ally tells what you know to be a lie, onlookers who can see your face gain advantage on Insight due to your grimaces.

You gain advantage on Persuasion checks.

Grotesque

Publisher: Trailseeker and Legendary Games.

You have one or more physical deformities, that clearly mark you as different. While clearly noticeable, your body is fully functional. You might have bird legs, the ears of a donkey, one single leg, your face on your chest and no head, or other similar weird form. Even if you magically change your shape, your deformity remains, adjusted to your assumed shape.

You suffer a -10 penalty on Disguise checks, and creatures using Diplomacy to gather information about you get a +10 bonus. Non-good humanoids start with an attitude no better than unfriendly (see Diplomacy). You gain a +4 bonus on Perform (comedy) checks and can choose one of the following abilities, as appropriate to your deformity: +10 bonus on Acrobatics checks to jump, blindsense 10 ft., climb speed 10 ft., darkvision 60 ft., lowlight vision, scent, or swim speed 30 ft.

At 1st level, select two additional abilities from the selections available at level 1.

At 6th level, you gain constant feather step (sp).

At 17th level, you can use countless eyes and monstrous physique III (sp) three times per day each. You can use both of these abilities together as a standard action to assume the form of a monstrous humanoid with countless eyes already in effect.


Healing Icon

Publisher: Trailseeker.

Anyone who touches you is healed. This saps your spiritual energy, forcing you into seclusion to avoid harm.

Your healing powers trigger when you are touched by a living creature, regardless of if you want to or not. Even casual contact can do this to you, which means you need to abstain from touching and have to avoid crowds. Even light crowds count as difficult terrain for you, and dense crowds (those that cost other people additional movement) are impassable. Moving through friendly occupied squares cost you twice the normal movement. You can ignore this limitation, but each round that you do, you lose one spell slot of your choice. A round in which you are grappled or hit by an unarmed or natural attack, you lose a spell slot as above. A living creature can move into your space or make a melee touch attack to forcibly trigger this effect. You can only lose one spell slot each round in this fashion. If you run out of spell slots, touch inflicts one point of Charisma damage on you instead.

A living or undead creature that touches you as outlined above is healed of a number of hit points equal to your caster level. A creature can only benefit once per round, but several different creatures can be healed in the same round, and you still only lose one spell slot that round. You cannot heal yourself in this fashion, but you can deliberately touch another to give them the benefit as a free action you can take even out of your turn. You can touch another to deliver a touch spell without triggering this ability. Creatures in your space, such as swarms and troops, are affected regardless of your wishes.

At 1st level, creatures touching you are cured of the dazed, diseased, fatigued, shaken, and sickened conditions in addition to the hit point healing.

At 6th level, creatures touching you are cured of the cursed, exhausted, frightened, nauseated, and poisoned conditions in addition to the previous effects.

At 17th level, creatures touching you are cured of any fear effect as well as the blinded, deafened, paralyzed, and stunned conditions in addition to the previous effects.


Insomniac

Source: Advanced Options: Oracle’s Curses. Copyright 2010, Super Genius Games. Author: Owen K.C. Stephens. Revised.

Sleep often eludes you, and the slightest nighttime disturbance can leave you tired for an entire day. If you do not get 8 hours of sleep without any interruptions at all, you are fatigued for all of the following day. You are immune to sleep effects.

At 1st level, you are so used to being tired that even if you gain the fatigued condition while already fatigued, you do not become exhausted (you just remain fatigued for the duration of the longest of your multiple fatigued conditions).

At 6th level, any effect that would normally give you the exhausted condition instead gives you the fatigued condition.

At 17th level, you take no penalties for being fatigued. You are immune to exhaustion.


Jinxed

Publisher Legendary Games

Everyday luck is against you, but fate protects you for greater things. Whenever you roll a d20, a natural roll of 10 (the die shows a "10") is treated as a natural roll of 1 and is an automatic failure on an attack roll or saving throw. You can still take 10 normally. You can reroll any one d20 roll that you have just made before the results of the roll are revealed. You must take the result of the reroll, even if it’s worse than the original roll. You can use the re-rolls from this curse once per day, plus one additional time per day at level 5 and ever 5 curse levels thereafter. The level 1, 5 and 10 abilities all count against this limitation.

At 1st level, an immediate action, you can allow a creature within 30 feet to re-roll any one d20 roll that it has just made before the results of the roll are revealed. The creature takes the result of the reroll only if it’s better than the original roll. Once a creature has benefited from your fortune, it cannot benefit again for 1 day.

At 6th level, as an immediate action, you can force a creature within 30 feet to re-roll any one d20 roll that it has just made before the results of the roll are revealed. The creature take the result of the re-roll only if it’s worse than the original roll.

At 17th level, you can use the level 5 ability at will, it no longer counts against the daily limit. You can still only affect a particular creature once per day.


Leper

Publisher: Trailseeker & Legendary Games.

This curse explores the consequences of prejudice. It should only be selected if all players are comfortable with it.

You suffer from some obvious and frightening medical condition that can never be cured. This need not be leprosy, it can be any horrid-looking ailment. This condition is not contagious or debilitating, but looks obviously unhealthy. Most NPCs have a base attitude of hostile towards you (see Diplomacy), and harass you or treat you as if you weren't there. They will not provide you services or lodging at any price. The hostile attitude only applies to you; your companions are not affected, and might even impress others by their benevolence in being willing to be around you.

Your experience with hardship gives you a +5 sacred bonus on Survival checks.

Creatures of your own type (usually humanoid) are unwilling to interact with you for fear of getting tainted. A creature trying to target you with an attack or effect, or to move adjacent, must make a Fortitude save (DC equal to 10 + ½ class level + Charisma modifier) or lose the action. They can try to act against you again on a later round to gain another saving throw. Once a creature has saved against this ability, it automatically succeeds at any saving throws against this ability for the next 24 hours. Including you in an area effect does not require a saving throw. This is a mind-affecting fear effect. Creatures with a helpful attitude are immune, this includes all party members.

At 1st level, all animals, humanoids, magical beasts, and monstrous humanoids avoid you as above, in addition to your own type.

At 6th level, you become immune to all disease, infection, and parasitic infestation, including magical ones.

At 17th level, all living creatures avoid you as above.


Misshapen

Source: Advanced Options: Oracle’s Curses. Copyright 2010, Super Genius Games. Author: Owen K.C. Stephens.

You were born with a twisted, uneven body and your form continues to change and hunch as you gain power. You have difficulty keeping your balance and defending yourself from complex maneuvers. You take a -4 to your CMD and to Diplomacy checks. Your form can be frightening. You gain a bonus to Intimidate checks equal to half the curse's level (minimum +1).

At 1st level, as a move action you may make an Intimidate check to demoralize a foe.

At 6th level, as a standard action you may make an Intimidate check to demoralize all foes within 30 feet that are able to see and hear you.

At 17th level, as a move action you may make an Intimidate check to demoralize all foes within 30 feet that are able to see and hear you.


Peaceful

Source: Advanced Options: Oracle’s Curses. Copyright 2010, Super Genius Games. Author: Owen K.C. Stephens.

It is against your nature to do violence to other creatures, requiring an act of will for you to do so. You cannot take attacks of opportunity and suffer a –2 penalty to all attack rolls. This does allow you to devote more attention to protecting yourself from the violence of others, giving you a +4 bonus to AC against attacks of opportunity you provoke from others.

At 1st level, you also gain a +4 bonus to concentration checks you make to cast defensively.

At 6th level, you gain a +4 bonus to AC as long as you do not attack or cast a spell that affects an enemy.

At 17th level, you gain sanctuary (sp) as a constant ability. The saving throw DC is 10 + 1/2 your curse level + your Charisma modifier. You can renew this ability as a standard action, forcing those who already saved to try and save again.


Phantom Arm

You lost one arm in a freak accident that also marked the beginning of your development as an oracle. The arm has never re-grown, and no power short of a god’s direct intervention can restore it or make any magic or mechanical replacement function in its place. You cannot wield a weapon in this hand or use it to satisfy the somatic components of spells. You cannot wield two-handed weapons. You still experience sensations from your severed arm, randomly feeling heat, cold, and tingling in your missing digits as if you possessed a phantom hand. All spells you cast benefit from Still Spell with no increase in cast time or effective spell level.

At 1st level, add mage hand (level 0) and spiritual weapon (level 2) to your spell list and list of spells known.

At 6th level, you can use spectral hand (sp) at will.

At 17th level, add interposing hand (5th) and grasping hand (7th) to your list of spells known.


Possessed

Publisher Legendary Games

Chose the alignment (and optionally the type and subtype) of the creature possessing you, hereafter called your spirit. Choosing an alignment similar to yours makes for less conflict, but also less interesting powers. Your alignment aura (see detect evil) corresponds to the spirit's alignment, not yours, and has a strength equal to the curse level. This counts as the cleric's aura ability for prerequisites. Any effect that depend on your alignment uses the spirit's alignment instead. You and your spirit can communicate mentally. Normally you are in control, but once per day the spirit can attempt to seize control, forcing you to make a Will saving throw (DC 10 + 1/2 the curse level), as dominate person with a caster level equal to your curse level and a duration of 1 minute/level.

The possession enhances your powers against creatures of an alignment similar to your spirit's. Any unarmed, natural, or weapon attack you make counts as having an alignment opposed to the alignment of your possessor for the purpose of penetrating damage reduction. Example, if you are possessed by a lawful good spirit, your attacks count as evil and chaotic. If your spirit has a neutral alignment, your attacks instead count as silver, cold iron, and magic for the purpose of defeating damage reduction.

At 1st level, you can count as your own alignment or your spirit's alignment in regard to effects that depend on alignment, whichever is more beneficial to you. This does not affect effects that detect alignment.

At 6th level, you gain DR 5/evil if your spirit is good and DR 5/good if your spirit is evil. If your spirit is neither good nor evil, you gain DR 5/magic.

At 17th level your DR increases to 10 and you gain energy resistance 10 against one or two types of energy determined by the alignment of your spirit: Chaotic spirits give sonic resistance. Evil spirits give fire resistance. Good spirits give electricity resistance. Lawful spirits give cold resistance. Neutral spirits (on either alignment axis) give acid resistance.


Provocative

Source: Advanced Options: Oracle’s Curses. Copyright 2010, Super Genius Games. Author: Owen K.C. Stephens.

Your appearance elicits desire in all creatures, no matter how they try to conceal it. This can desire can be physical or social as the situation and creature warrants. Foes gain a +2 attack bonus when they try to deal nonlethal damage to you with physical attacks (instead of the normal -4 penalty) and you suffer a -2 penalty on CMD. Your provocative nature gives you a bonus to Diplomacy checks equal to the curse's level (minimum +1). If you suddenly abandon the target, rudely ignore the target's advances, or fail your very first Diplomacy check against a particular creature this day, the target of the check feels spurned and its attitude changes to unfriendly (an already unfriendly target becomes hostile). This attitude change only affects you, not any companions. This is instead of the normal consequence of failing an attempt to improve attitude by 5.

At 1st level, a Diplomacy check made to change a target’s attitude toward you lasts one day for every hour you spend socializing with the creature.

At 6th level, as a full-round action you can make a Diplomacy check to influence a single adjacent creature’s attitude with a -10 penalty.

At 17th level, a Diplomacy check you made to change a target’s attitude toward you lasts forever. The creatures attitude can still change due to circumstances, but mere time and distance has no effect.


Psychography

Publisher: Trailseeker.

You are constantly writing messages from sources beyond your ken. This is similar to the automatic writing revelation, but out of your conscious control. A character with psychography and the appropriate mystery can also pick automatic writing revelation if desired, combining both abilities.

Your hand moves by itself, writing messages or drawing pictures, especially in times of stress. If you have no writing implement, you will mimic writing in empty air. You need not look at your hand or otherwise focus attention to do this, only your hand is involved. One of your hands must constantly be reserved for this and cannot be used to hold a weapon, shield, holy symbol, or other equipment except for a writing tool, with one exception—it can still be used for somatic spell components. You can write in any language, even ones you don't know, but have no special ability to read languages, even text you've written yourself. You also gain Scribe Scroll as a bonus feat.

At 1st level, by taking a full-round action to write out a text on a specific topic, you gain a +4 circumstance bonus on any one Knowledge check, and can retry a failed knowledge check. This allows you to take 20 on Knowledge checks.

At 6th level, add divination and commune to your list of spells known.

At 17th level, the level 5 ability becomes a free action you can take once per round.


Rapturous

Publisher Legendary Games

You are addicted to magic.

You are sickened at all times except when under the effects of a spell with a remaining duration of 10 minutes/level or less, and this condition cannot be removed or ignored. When not sickened in this way you gain a +4 bonus on concentration checks and CMD.

At 1st level, whenever you are not sickened by the curse, you are immune to fear.

At 6th level the effect of any harmless spell on you is increased by 50%, as if affected by Empower Spell. A spell affecting multiple targets only gains this benefit against you.

At 17th level, when a harmless spell affecting one or more targets is cast when you are a legal target and in range and line of effect, you are automatically an additional target without counting against the target limitation of the spell.


Reverse Aging

Publisher: Legendary Games.

You perversely age backwards. You begin your career as an ancient, and grow younger as you gain experience.

You begin at venerable age. You gain the following age modifiers to your ability scores: -6 to Str, Dex, and Con; +3 to Int, Wis, and Cha. This replaces any age modifiers you may have. Your current and maximum age does not change.

At 1st level, you become old instead of venerable, but retain the venerable age modifiers to your mental ability scores. You gain the following age modifiers to your ability scores: -3 to Str, Dex, and Con; +3 to Int, Wis, and Cha.

At 6th level, you become middle aged, but retain the venerable age modifiers to your mental ability scores. You gain the following age modifiers to your ability scores: -1 to Str, Dex, and Con; +3 to Int, Wis, and Cha.

At 17th level, you become young and gain a +2 bonus to Dexterity and a –2 penalty to Strength and Constitution. You still keep your venerable modifiers to ability scores; +3 to Int, Wis, and Cha.


Scarred

Publisher Legendary Games

You carry heavy scarring that makes you classically ugly. Non-good NPC humanoids start with an attitude no better than unfriendly towards you (see Diplomacy).

You gain a circumstance bonus to natural armor equal to your Constitution bonus. The bonus stacks with both natural armor and with enchantment bonuses to natural armor. You lose this benefit if you wear armor, but you can use a shield. This curse is balanced for oracles, who have medium armor proficiency. If you are proficient in heavy armor, increase the armor class bonus by one. For each of light and medium armor proficiency you lack, reduce the Armor Class bonus of this ability by one. This makes you a sort of intuitive practitioner of way of the body martial arts.

At 1st level, you gain a primary natural slam attack that deals 1d6 bludgeoning damage (1d4 if Small)—this can be a head bash, kick, or tackle as appropriate and does not use your hands. All natural attacks gained from this curse can choose to deal nonlethal damage with no penalty on your attack roll and are treated as both a manufactured weapon and a natural weapon for the purpose of spells and effects that enhance or improve either manufactured weapons or natural weapons.

At 6th level, your fists become primary natural weapons dealing 1d6 bludgeoning damage (1d4 if Small). They still work normally as hands. All your natural attacks are now considered magical weapons with an alignment damage type matching your alignment. Your way of the body armor bonus counts as if it had the ghost touch armor property.

At 17th level, your natural attacks all deal 1d8 damage (1d6 if Small) and gain the ghost touch property.


Solipsism

Publisher: Trailseeker & Legendary Games.

You are only half in this world. Not only do you have a hard time taking the real world seriously, the real world also has trouble interacting with you.

You are constantly staggered, this condition cannot be negated or suppressed except as noted in this curse. You gain a +4 bonus on all saving throws and take half damage from all spells and supernatural effects.

At 1st level, you can focus on reality and suppress this curse for one round as a free action taken at the start of your turn. This allows you to act normally this round, but also negates the protection offered by this ability. You do not lose your bonus feats. You gain Vital Strike, Improved Vital Strike, and Greater Vital Strike as bonus feats as soon as you fulfill the prerequisites of each feat.

At 6th level, you gain a +4 bonus on CMD and take half damage from all physical attacks.

At 17th level, you can ignore reality almost completely. You can use ethereal jaunt (sp). This is not an action for you, you can do it even when helpless or otherwise unable to act, but you can activate it only on your turn. You can use this a number of rounds each day equal to your curse level, these rounds need not be consecutive.


Somnambulism

Publisher: Trailseeker & Legendary Games.

The line between being asleep and awake is not at all clear to you. You walk around when sleeping, and may fall asleep when walking around.

You suffer bouts of somnambulism both when asleep and awake. Whenever you roll a "1" on an attack roll or skill check, you momentarily fall asleep, move your speed in a random direction, and then wake up. This is in addition to any normal movement for the round. You cannot take any voluntary actions when sleepwalking, but have your normal defenses. You do not trigger attacks of opportunity and can move through enemy occupied spaces, but must end movement in an unoccupied space. If somnambulism would move you into impassible terrain (such as a wall or pit) you instead move along the edge of that terrain.

You can sleep in armor or on uncomfortable ground at no penalty, and even sleep standing up. In addition, you are not considered helpless when you sleep.

At 1st level you become immune to confusion and sleep effects.

At level 10 you no longer provoke attacks of opportunity for moving out of an enemy's threatened area, asleep or awake.

At 17th level, you can specify a place you want to get to and sleepwalk there, guided by higher faculties. This is similar to find the path except you are sleepwalking—you are staggered and can only walk and perform any necessary actions to facilitate your passage. You can use this ability at will, but can only specify one destination per day, resuming sleepwalking to this location as desired.


Squeamish

Source: Advanced Options: Oracle’s Curses. Copyright 2010, Super Genius Games. Author: Owen K.C. Stephens.

You cannot stand to see your actions cause the ruin of another’s flesh, spill blood, or cause burns and scars. If you deal hp damage to a target within 30 feet of you, you are sickened for 1d6 rounds. Your sensitive nature does make you more alert to the needs of injured allies, granting you a bonus to Heal checks equal to half the curse's level (minimum +1).

At 1st level, you can attempt a Heal check for any purpose as a full-round action.

At 6th level, if you make a single Heal check to treat disease or treat poison for a target, it receives a +4 bonus to all its saves against that disease or poison for twenty four hours.

At 17th level, if you make a Heal check to treat disease or treat poison and the result exceeds the affliction’s save DC, you immediately end the disease or poison.

Turmoil

Publisher Legendary Games

Your inner demons are stronger than the magic of others.

You suffer a -2 penalty on Will saves and the DC of using Intimidate against you decreases by 4. You are immune to fear conditions except shaken, all other fear conditions count as being shaken to you.

At 1st level, when you suffer the shaken condition, you can choose to replace the condition with the effects of the rage spell. This is not an action, and you choose which effect to apply at the start of each of your turns.

At 6th level, you can replace any mind-affecting effect you suffer with the shaken condition. This is not an action.

At 17th level, when you fail a Will save, you are shaken for as long as the consequences of the failed will would have lasted, with a maximum of one hour. This replaces the effect you failed to save against. This does not apply if you choose to voluntarily give up your saving throw.

Unassuming

Publisher Legendary Games

Where most oracles are lions, you are a mouse.

Whenever another creature is using the Bluff, Diplomacy, or Intimidate skills, you cannot use any of these skills at the same time and for the next minute. This applies even if you began your skill use first but are interrupted. Any class feature that is normally based on Charisma is based on Wisdom for you. This includes spellcasting and all revelations, but not skills and feats.

At 1st level, you gain a +4 sacred bonus on Sense Motive and Survival checks.

At 6th level, you gain constant nondetection (sp).

At 17th level, you can use nondetection (sp) at will.

Unbelievable

Source: Advanced Options: Oracle’s Curses. Copyright 2010, Super Genius Games. Author: Owen K.C. Stephens.

No one believes you when you make a statement of fact or opinion. You suffer a -10 penalty to all Bluff checks and all Diplomacy checks made to improve a creature’s attitude toward you for the purpose of accepting information you offer. Because you are used to having to pick allies and friends very carefully, you gain a bonus to Knowledge (local) and Sense Motive checks equal to the curse's level (minimum +1)

Unlife Curse

Publisher: Legendary Games.

Your life is tied to negative energy in a strange perversion of the natural order. You cannot take this curse if you actually are undead.

Like an undead creature, you are healed by negative energy and hurt by positive energy. You are treated as an undead creature for all effects that work differently when targeting undead. You are immune to energy drain. Your selection of spells improves; you know all oracle spells of a level you can cast with either cure or inflict in the name.

At level 5 you can use hide from undead at will as a spell-like effect, but with personal range. The saving throw DC of this effect is 10 + half the curse level + your Charisma modifier.

At level 10 you become immune to immune to bleed, death effects, disease, paralysis, poison, sleep effects, and stunning. You are no longer subject to nonlethal damage and ability drain. You are also immune to damage to your physical ability scores (Constitution, Dexterity, and Strength), as well as to exhaustion and fatigue effects.

At level 15, you gain immunity to any effect that requires a Fortitude save (unless the effect also works on objects or is harmless).

Zapped

Publisher Legendary Games

You have been exposed to harmful energies, now your body crackles with energy.

Choose one type of damage: acid, cold, electricity, fire, force, negative energy, positive energy, or sonic. You carry scars typical of this type of damage, and any damage of this type that you take is increased by 50%, as the vulnerability monster ability. You cannot pick a type of damage you have innate resistance or immunity to.

You gain a circumstance bonus to natural armor equal to the best of your Constitution or Charisma bonuses. The bonus stacks with both natural armor and with enchantment bonuses to natural armor. You lose this benefit if you wear armor, but you can use a shield. This curse is balanced for oracles, who have medium armor proficiency. If you are proficient in heavy armor, increase the armor class bonus by one. For each of light and medium armor proficiency you lack, reduce the Armor Class bonus of this ability by one. Depending on which ability score you use, this makes you an intuitive practitioner of a cross of way of life (Charisma) or way of the body (Constitution) martial arts.

At 1st level, a creature that hits you with a natural or unarmed attack takes 1d6 points of damage of the type you are vulnerable to. If this curse inflicts force, negative energy, positive energy, or sonic damage, the extra damage does not work against certain targets, depending on the energy type chosen. This is in addition to any resistance a target may already have.

  • Force damage does not affect constructs, objects, oozes, and plants.
  • Negative energy does not affect objects, constructs, and undead.
  • Positive energy only affects aberrations, constructs, oozes, outsiders, plants, and undead.
  • Sonic damage does not affect aberrations, oozes, and plants.

At 6th level, any attack you make, including spells and supernatural abilities, add 1d6 damage of the type you are vulnerable to. This additional damage is not multiplied on a critical hit and the additional immunities of the level 5 ability still applies.

At 17th level, you lose your vulnerability to damage and instead gain resistance 10 to the type of damage you used to be vulnerable to. This does not change the level 5 and 10 abilities.