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Just saw (and subsequently accidentally reset my feed therefore losing) a post about magical item whump (magic euphoria) and remembered a concept I thought about a while back

Magic ring that gives you some kind of amazing power, be it healing or super strength or something. But every time you use it, it eats a little bit of your body. You put it in your finger, and when you wear it, you’ve got a cool looking fake finger, but when you take it off, it’s gone.

You use it more and it becomes a bracelet, slowly eating more and more of your body with each use. And the magic is so good! So helpful, useful, powerful. Especially if the person using it was burdensome in a fight before, but now they can finally protect their loved ones!

How long before they stop taking it off altogether? Do their loved ones know the effects? Or do they hide it with gloves and long sleeves? At what point is it impossible to remove without severe damage to the user? At what point is their body entirely made of magic?

That sure is a convincing zombie costume!

…it is a costume, right?

Cursemark Tomes! I’ll reiterate the Players and Cursemarks note: these aren’t meant as loot or for players to just find. They’re meant to be plot items, wielded by a powerful NPC or villain. Obviously, you can give them to your players. Do so with caution. I mean, they have pretty long cooldowns between uses.