Writober! Evil Eye! Shadowdark Post-a-Day In October

This month is Drawtober: 31 drawing prompts related to the Shadowdark RPG, 1 a day, throughout October. But I’m borrowing the prompts for short essays. Today’s prompt is “Evil Eye”.

The evil eye can have several meanings as curses, enchantments, magic items, or monsters:

• A curse that some hags, witches, and shaman can place on a creature (with a DC based on the caster’s level). It causes the victim to have to make a new check each day to avoid changing their alignment to Chaotic.  (Heal will cure the alignment change, if the curse isn’t removed first.)
• Another curse that causes a -2 penalty on spell checks made by the victim. Each day they can make the check against the curse again.
• A magical third eye added to an evil creature that gives them the ability to detect magic, thoughts, etc.
• A magical necklace with an eye attached that allows a wizard to see through the necklace.
• A spell that causes the victim to have disadvantage on attacks or checks for a period of time.
• A descendant of the Ten-Eyed Oracle: a floating eye-creature with just one or two of its powers.
• A familiar for evil wizards: a bat like creature with bat-wings attached to a giant eyeball. The wizard can see what it does.

Evil Eyes

1. An eye that magically melds with a creature’s forehead granting them Zone of Truth once per day.

Here are our previous Writober posts so far:

1. Torch – Rules for magic torch items (each is a single use magic effect spell like alarm or detect magic).
2. Skull – Goblin shaman who can turn victims’ skulls into ways to store spells.
3. Fiend – Lists of talents that Devils & Demons typically have for making your own.
4. Shadow – Easy ways to make other creatures into shadows.
5. Contagion – Discussing the purpose of diseases.
6. Valkyrie – A new 3rd party class.
7. Toadstool – A new 3rd party ancestry.
8. Witchlight – Alternate sources of “witchlight”.
9. Luck Token – Alternate ways a GM may allow a luck token to be used.
10.  Rage – The signature ability of a Barbarian class.
11. Altars – Ways to amplify priest spells into rituals when using an altar.
12. Pit Trap – Several ideas to spice up the good old pit trap.
13. Death Slug – Looking at the Death Slug’s deadliness and how that’s similar to old-school and low fantasy games.