Witch's Curse (Angel/Buffy the Vampire Slayer RPG)

Witch's Curse
PL: 2/-3
QuickCast: Yes

This is the basic Witch's Curse which mostly affects targets' ATTractiveness. Note that these Curses modify ATT directly, not FFS. More specific expressions of Curse are literal spells, themselves. This is Bestow Curse for Buffy.

Witch's Nose: ATT -1
    Target now has a large, crooked nose with a wart.

Crows' Feet: ATT -1
    Target's face is aged, cracked, and broken by crows' feet.

Widows' Peak: ATT -1
    Target is clearly old, her age given away by her widows' peak.

Sack Cloth: ATT -2
    Plain Jane needs to brush her hair and teeth.

Witch's Mark (Mole): ATT -1
    Located anywhere that is exposed.

Cock-Eyed: REA -1
    GM may penalize other actions.

Weakling: STR -1

Puny: CON -1

Redneck: ATT -1
    Time to turn that cap around.

Farmer's Tan: ATT -1

Unlucky: Target loses all CRIT; CRIT become regular successes (1 SL).

Scope: Noticeable +1
DUR: Permanent +3
Ritual: Lengthy -1
Piece of hair/DNA, clothing, etc. -3 (Way Rare)
Emotions: Noticeable +1
MAN: Noticeable +1

Although the lower-level spell requires a lengthy Ritual, Witch's Curse can be QuickCast by the wave of a hand once a Witch knows it well enough. You still need something with the intended target's DNA: A piece of hair, clothing, fingernail, blood, et.al. The ingredients are consumed by casting the spell: The witch folds the DNA into a piece of parchment on which is written a specific swear word in Theban, and burns it.

Note that the original Angel/Buffy the Vampire Slayer RPG used an ATTractiveness as FRIGHT system which completely ignores FRIGHT, FEAR, and SANITY (FFS); we use the FFS system, which means the targets' appearance is being changed, not the nature of their soul. Note that this is not a Damnation.

Removing a curse is always a ritual which must be completed for the curse to be removed. What that ritual is depends on the caster, who literally gets to decide. Once the aforementioned fiat trials are completed, it is as though the spell were never cast; the Witch's Curse is completely removed and things go back to the way they were.

-3 does not mean the caster receives 3 PSI, it just means there is 0 cost to casting the spell because the Magic Factor of the world is (base) 5; this number will be different in some areas. Witch's Curse is basically a cantrip for witches in Angel/BtVS RPG.

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