Alternate Plagues

[Thisguy_]

Curse of Undying Music: All devices capable of playing music intelligently select the song that would most annoy the people within earshot. The device will immediately begin to play the song, beginning to end, on loop until no longer physically appropriate for producing sound (electricity not required for operation).

[Lvl 2 Expert]

Curse of Undying Music: All devices capable of playing music intelligently select the song that would most annoy the people within earshot. The device will immediately begin to play the song, beginning to end, on loop until no longer physically appropriate for producing sound (electricity not required for operation).

This would lead to an epic worldwide game of "swap that radio" to get everyone the song they liked.

Before people would get annoyed by that music too after about half a day and would still end up destroying the devices.

[Knaight]

Some of the old style stuff still works beautifully. Crop destruction of modern monocultures, locusts, etc.

Another fun avenue would be things that change materials, and screw up machinery. All the steel in a city has its thermal expansion coefficient tripled, plastics lose their additives and turn very brittle, seals break and everything with pneumatic or hydraulic parts fails, the resistivity of circuits changes.

[Storm_Of_Snow]

Does Simon Cowell count as a curse?

Legos everywhere!

Model them as caltrops for purposes of the mechanics. You may or may not allow footwear to provide AC against lego bricks.

Lego bricks - the only thing more painful to stand on than a 3-pin plug.

All coffee tastes like it comes out of a package.

No, something worse than that - all coffee is decaffinated.

The software industry would be paralysed in less than five minutes.

More seriously - a plague of rust. Coupled with hyper fast UV degradation of plastics.

[nedz]

• Alimony suite SPAM.
• All music sounds like it's being played by someone's ipod, when they're sitting at the far end of the bus.
• Everything in the Conservipedia becomes true.

[Temperjoke]

Curse of Dragging Time - constantly having the feeling that time is running slow, when it is running perfectly fine. So it feels like hours waiting for the tea kettle to heat up, TV commercials seem like they're on for days, each work day feels like a week instead of 8 hours

Curse of Perpetual BO - no matter how many times you shower, or what deodorant you use, you have that slight smell of funk around you, not too much, just the slight smell that people notice if they're standing next to you

Curse of Constant Bad Hair - no matter how much time or money you spend, your hair will never quite style the way you want it to. Adjust one lock, another one falls out of place, think you have everything set, then you look at it again, you decide that you hate it

[Lvl 2 Expert]

Curse of Constant Bad Hair

That one is already in d&d, you just polymorph someone into highland cattle.

[nedz]

Everytime you open a door you find a (Determine randomly)

1. Sheep
2. Brickwall
3. Handle in your hand
4. Rat
5. Motorcyclist who rides straight through the doorway
6. Dragon

[DataNinja]

Everytime you open a door you find a (Determine randomly)

1. Sheep
2. Brickwall
3. Handle in your hand
4. Rat
5. Motorcyclist who rides straight through the doorway
6. Dragon

What?!? Two thirds of the time you should find a goat, and the other third a car blocking your way!

[JAL_1138]

The Ancient Curse of Domobuzzzor, of course! At first glance, it does nothing, but a few times per hour all under its effect will think they hear a mosquito buzzing past their ear. Yes, that includes at night. And it is a magical effect that bypasses earplugs and the like.

You monster.

[Lvl 2 Expert]

What?!? Two thirds of the time you should find a goat, and the other third a car blocking your way!

Unless you play it smart, then your path is blocked half the time.

[GungHo]

Mindbook: Every thought you have, no matter how banal or twisted, is instantly published on a publicly perusable profile.

[Lvl 2 Expert]

Mindbook: Every thought you have, no matter how banal or twisted, is instantly published on a publicly perusable profile.

17:44 Expert thought: "Crap."
17:45 Expert thought: "Why is this a thing?"
17:45 Expert thought: "Don't think about sex, don't think about sex."

[Wardog]

From Discworld (Pyramids): The Plague of Frog. (Which to be fair, was a very large and loud frog, and got into the ventilation ducts and kept everyone awake at night for ages).

[Segev]

"May the rising generation be EVERY BIT as BAD as the OLDEST LIVING generation THINKS it is!"

"Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump look-alike and swimsuit contest, live on every screen everywhere!"

"Social Justice Warriors are given super-powers."

[nedz]

"Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump look-alike and swimsuit contest, live on every screen everywhere!"

I thought we weren't allowed to discus contemporary politics ?