I need ways to smite things

[Mongoose87]

I'm making a god, with a random smite table. I'm looking for various ways to smite people to put on the table. So far, I have locusts, lice, speaking in tongues, a pillar of salt, boils, a massive downpour of rain and a giant fist made of force. Can anyone suggest more smites that would fit in with a sort of Old-Testament flavor?

[Innis Cabal]

Rivers running red with blood or rust. The death of new borns (Going for the rest of the plagues you missed). Turning whole land scapes into unusable minerals. Turning grain into crab grass. Blizzards in the middle of summer. Floods...for that matter, even in mountains.

[DracoDei]

Livestock melting into a thick goo.

[Innis Cabal]

Oooh, not to steal the above. Livestock turning into well known predators.

[Shyftir]

Crushing despair settles over the land like a cloud.
Invading Army.
Kidney Stones. (both of the last two are directly from the OT)
Darkness of course is classic.
Barrenness of all women.
Drought.
Fire from heaven.
Men get menstrual pains in face of great danger. (Irish myth background.)
Horrible Deadly Disease.
Everybody gets one wish come true, but doesn't know that they do. (No getting stuff from nowhere though, always comes from somewhere.)
Everyone's alignment gets shifted by one step.

Might be a few copies in here.

[Temotei]

How about instant aging? Hmm...this baby will be born tomorrow...doh! 90 years old already! *sniff*...they grow up so fast!...

[Zeta Kai]

From a gamist perspective:

• Starvation
• Thirst
• Conditions, conditions, conditions
  
  • Ability Damage/Drain
  • Blindness
  • Confusion/Insanity
  • Deafened
  • Fascinated
  • Fatigue/Exhaustion
  • Shaken/Frightened/Panicked/Cowering
  • Paralysis
  • Petrification
  • Stunned
• Death
• Poison
• Disease
• Summoned monster hordes
• Summoned spells (fireball, meteor swarm, etc.)

[Mongoose87]

Ah, I should've been more specific - I need ways to smite individuals.

From a gamist perspective:

• Starvation
• Thirst
• Conditions, conditions, conditions
  
  • Ability Damage/Drain
  • Blindness
  • Confusion/Insanity
  • Deafened
  • Fascinated
  • Fatigue/Exhaustion
  • Shaken/Frightened/Panicked/Cowering
  • Paralysis
  • Petrification
  • Stunned
• Death
• Poison
• Disease
• Summoned monster hordes
• Summoned spells (fireball, meteor swarm, etc.)

Generally the effects I have no trouble coming up with, it's the way they are caused I need to inspire.

[Mulletmanalive]

Taking a few of the more interesting curses i've ever encountered:

Morphed into a pillar of salt.
Your name causes intense hate.
Your smile causes intense physical pain when viewed by those you love.
All you hate become lucky.
Greedy thoughts causes your eyes to weep blood for a night and a day.
Weeds grow under your body with frightening speed [straw beds can be deadly]
You lose moments of time whenever threatened [basically standing and staring]
You constantly smell of death, to the point where you draw clouds of flies
Your children turn into monsters, especially minotaurs.
You lose interest in your own species and become sexually attracted to another species, say, Orcs.
Your wounds burn with blue fire that ignites your clothing but causes you no damage.
Whenever you say a person's name, they hear it as a grave insult.

[jmbrown]

Ah, I should've been more specific - I need ways to smite individuals.


Generally the effects I have no trouble coming up with, it's the way they are caused I need to inspire.

The cause should reflect the effect. A person who takes your god's name in vein could be cursed to speak nothing but expletives. A person who reads impious books like pornography or demonic texts could be cursed to speak only the holy texts. Someone who watches women lecherously (peeping tom) could be cursed to view all people as horrific monsters.

[Caldarin]

You are cursed with complete anonymity- everyone forgets who you are, nobody listens to you, see's right through you, ignores you, ect.

[Demented]

So far, I have locusts, lice, speaking in tongues, a pillar of salt, boils, a massive downpour of rain and a giant fist made of force.

Ants, ticks, going dumb, a pillar of wax, lesions, a massive downpour of fire and a giant foot made of electricity.

From a gamist perspective:

Starvation

• Endless hunger.
• Lose teeth/mouth/tongue/throat is sealed.
• All food turns to stone/metal/crystal.

Thirst

• Endless thirst.
• Water boils.
• Liquids turn to solids.

Ability Damage/Drain

• Sickness/disease, especially syndromes.
• Soul-sucking nightmares.
• Advanced aging.

Blindness

• "Beard bedewed with eyeballs." 'nuff said.

Confusion/Insanity

• Madness.
• Pursued by hallucinations/invisible creatures.
• Possession.

Deafened

• Hear gibberish.
• Deafening sounds or hallucinations.

Fascinated

• Summon Video Game (Sp)
• Summon Tabletop Game (Sp)
• Summon Bellydancer (Sp)

Fatigue/Exhaustion

• Continuous weight or heat.
• Sleeplessness. (Nightmares?)

Shaken/Frightened/Panicked/Cowering

• Cthulu.
• Insanity/dementia: Horrifying faces; voices
• Visions of impending doom.

Paralysis

• Magical rope/chains.
• Muscles to stone.
• Inopportune freezing.

Petrification

• Transmute to salt, wax, stone, marble, metal, gemstones, force, etc.
• Encased in material thereof.

Stunned

• Fascinated, fear, paralysis, petrification. See above.
• Sudden pain.
• Hoof to the head.

Death

• Hastened effect: Aging, starvation, suffocation, digestion, disease, poison.
• Crushed by Giant X Coming From Y.
• Swallowed by the earth.
• Swallowed by Cthulu.
• Meteor/fireball/lightning.

Poison

• Allergy to ordinary objects.

Disease

• Pick any. Multiply symptoms by 50.

Summoned monster hordes

• Locusts. Flies. Bees. Wasps. Mosquitoes. Dragons.
• Ants. Spiders. Beetles. Crickets. Cockroaches. Centipedes. Genius loci.
• Piranha. Leeches. Squid. Jellyfish. Stingrays. Eels. Cthulus.

Summoned spells (fireball, meteor swarm, etc.)

• Wish/Miracle.

Extreme weather (NEW!)

• Blizzards, hurricanes, tornados, extreme sunlight.
• Cold snap, heat wave.
• Flood.

[boomwolf]

You are cursed with complete anonymity- everyone forgets who you are, nobody listens to you, see's right through you, ignores you, ect.

And then you are the best assassin ever.

Not much of a curse in a killing intensive game.


Anyway...curses:
-Your eyes constantly bleed, making your sight really bad (auto fail spot checks, all enemies gain concealment 20%)
-You get an electrical shock every time you touch a metal. (say 1d6?)
-Nobody believes a word you say, ever. (auto fail intimidate, bluff and diplomacy.)
-Every time you kill you have a chance to die. includes unintelligent creatures, even pests. (1% so you won't die too fast.)

That's all I got for now.

[Icarus]

I'm not sure where I first heard this but

"May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits."

Seems like a pretty harsh smiting to me.

[ScIaDrd]

Rapidly accelerated body hair growth.. think Cousin it. Hand turn into useless gnarly claws with the appropirate panalties and/or feet turn into hoves. You sprout a tail or dokney ears, debiliating phobias ( my D cursed a mage with a phobia of magic once, fun times), You smell really bad, (we did this one too, and stench was so strong it even killed veak NPCs) crppling OCD, you take on vampire/or fey weknesses, horrible luck, extreme clumsiness. Animals hate you or you´re hounded by ghosts and criiters. You lose the ability to swin, or to read and write, A crippling irish mythology style taboo,/geis, you suddently become ridisulously fat , can´t handle specific type of item, you creep people out -getting social penalties, you sweat some foul substance , or it is honey and you suudenty attract swarms of bees, permant gender change, ca´t lie, speaks only in riddles or poetry, ddies, only to be raised to a torturous unlife-Lord Soth style, See everything as it constatly dies and decayss. Is ramly Forced to do things against his alighnment, doesn´t recognize close friends.
EDIT: Can speak only like V, or forget all languages an gain knowlege of new ones except these are dead for hundreds of years, or not spoken by anynone withun 10 miles, you become addicted something really valuable any will o to any lenghts up to and including murder, to get it. Will become grossly lazy and irresponsible and will defend himself with the combat prowess of a 10 lVl fighter when nagged about it. Is extremly shy in any social contact, Throws a taruntrum and cries likes a baby (for hours on end) whenever slighted in the least.. Willl obessseivly spout uselees and boring trivia and/or lame jokes at all time possble unless prevented by force. Fanboyism turned up to 11and/or combined with the previous item Becomes excesiivly pushy, doting and/or domineering, when things are not his way. Obsseivly worships spirits and deities of old with quirky ( and of course funny) riituals. Greets other races with nothing but racist slurs, becomes horribly indecisive (massive Init and caft penalty) Has a phobia of circles or other geometric shapes.

[The Conductor]

Cause all the mucus in their body to disappear.
You do know what happens when your stomach has no mucus...Right?

[The Demented One]

Gaining the [Evil] tag while retaining their normal alignment, making them viable for smite evil-ing and other holy mojo. If you're god's not good, adjust to the appropriate opposed alignment.

[imp_fireball]

I'm making a god, with a random smite table. I'm looking for various ways to smite people to put on the table. So far, I have locusts, lice, speaking in tongues, a pillar of salt, boils, a massive downpour of rain and a giant fist made of force. Can anyone suggest more smites that would fit in with a sort of Old-Testament flavor?

A bare foot squishing the blasphemer ala monty python.

How are lice at all threatening, besides causing itchyness?

How about the black plague and rat swarms? That's an obvious one.

How about forcing them to grow very long beards (even if they're female) and recite religious mantra completely opposite in belief to those currently main stream in the universe, thus earning the victim persecution by the populace? It's funny and it sorta makes sense.

Intense beams of light that blind and cause severe sunburn. Like skin cancer serious.

Very heavy hail.

Leprosy.

Victim becomes a blind and unwilling prophet that can communicate with angels (or whatever divine creature fits the deity) and must carry out menial divine duties on the material plane (like an unwilling messiah that's a sort of cleric). They are likely also given extreme attention by the populace, which is unnerving on their part.

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Read the old testament for some of the evil crap that god did, since I can't remember any of it (and haven't really read it).

[Mando Knight]

Read the old testament for some of the evil crap that god did, since I can't remember any of it (and haven't really read it).

Causing the earth to open and swallow a few hundred (specific) people isn't so evil when they were rebelling against your orders even though you did crazy-awesome things for them. Those guys totally deserved it.

[Temotei]

Those guys totally deserved it.

I disagree. How about...taking away the awesome gifts and making them learn their lesson by doing something less...drastic? Pretty sure killing people is mean, whichever way you look at it. Then again, we should probably stay away from this stuff, considering.

I agree with the above posts for curses. They seem to have it down.

[Bhu]

zombie apocalypse

all good bad deities gotta whip that out eventually

[dsmiles]

Check out the Crushing Fist of Spite spell in BoVD.

Smite on, Smitey McSmitester!