I am excited to share with you a confounding and captivating collection of arcane curiousities to add a spark of the strange and silly to your #TTRPG of choice.
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Corva's Curious Compendium: systemless spells, items and oddities for your home game.
Corva's Curious Compendium is for the compassionate adventurer who prefers non-violent solutions.
All entries are welcome to be used for personal and home games. In fact I encourage it!
I'll share a new one every week until I run out of ideas, get bored, or forget.
ENTRY 1
Ever wanted to harness the power of a housecat in your adventures?
Now you too can spend decades studying the intricacies of arcane magic in order to force someone to remain seated in a non-hostile manner.
ENTRY 2
Sometimes what a studious spellcaster really needs is to be given some space.
Fortunately, Corva's Curious Compendium has just the spell for you!
Soap not included.
ENTRY 3
Poisoning people is wrong. Making people think they are poisoned is ... still wrong but certainly has its uses!
Corva's Curious Compendium provides a wondrous magical item that will certainly make a banquet more interesting ...
ENTRY 4
Sometimes to get through a tough time, what you really need is for someone to believe in you.
If friends are temporarily absent, magic can provide!
Corva's Curious Compendium provides a spell for just this eventuality.
ENTRY 5
It's dangerous to go alone. But don't take a sword -- take a magical creature!
It might seem inconvenient to bring a firebreathing lion or an allosaur with you wherever you go, but Corva's Curious Compendium has the space-saving solution you've been looking for.
ENTRY 6
Sending letters takes a long time and sometimes the intrepid arcanist needs something a little speedier.
Enter this spell from Corva's Curious Compendium, which will get your message across lickety-split.
Well ... more or less ...
ENTRY 7
Not every creature you encounter wants to kill you. That doesn't mean they aren't dangerous!
Enter the Slobbafrog, a sticky-tongued monster with a fear of cats, catalogued by Corva's Curious Compendium.
How will your party fare?
ENTRY 8
When is giving people wings *ever* a bad idea?
Corva's Curious Compendium says: never, that's when!*
*mythological precedents apply
ENTRY 9
There are many strange and powerful artifacts in the universe, but none so dangerous as those that challenge who we are.
Corva's Curious Compendium asks: when faced with who you could have been, what do you do next?
ENTRY 10
Walking a day in someone else's shoes?
It might be easier than you think, thanks to this innovative spell from Corva's Curious Compendium.
ENTRY 11
Sometimes what the intrepid adventurer needs isn't a spell or weapon, but a good laugh.
So here's a classic jape courtesy of Corva's Curious Compendium.
ENTRY 12
We at Corva's Curious Compendium think the most important part of any curse is the omens. So why bother with the rest?
Here's the perfect spell for the spooky season.
ENTRY 13
The age old question: how does an adventurer keep their treasure safe?
Corva's Curious Compendium has the answer ... if you're not afraid of a little bite, that is ...
ENTRY 14
Sometimes it's more exciting to find a magical item for your pet than for yourself, don't you think?
Corva's Curious Compendium has just the item, provided you can get your hands on so rare an artefact ...
@FiXato It's not a NICE spell. It's just a spell I think would be interesting in a roleplaying context that doesn't rely on direct harm or violence.
The collateral damage doesn't seem especially bad to me but absolutely is within the parameters of the spell.
@vicorva i want these
of course, my character can turn into a bird more reliably now that she's level 8, but still, these are really cool
@DialMforMara ^_^ Yay!
You can never have too many way to have wings. The more wing options, the better!
@Primo I've been fine with it. Most of the animals they've befriended aren't going to help them fight, or else are more something they are worried about dying than something they want to fight alongside them.
Love the Owlbear!!
@tuturto I did actually do this to one of my players -- our rogue pissed off the wrong wizard.
She went around for a whole day desperate for a spellcaster to remove it and kept getting told 'Have you tried a bath?'
She thought I was trolling her.
I mean ... I was. But not the way she thought!
Eventually she found a wizard who just dumped soapy water on her. 😂
This is brilliant& I'd love to use it in my next game!
Also seriously considering this for OOG use when trying to social distance at the market.
@AgentCarter_SSR Thank you! If you do use it, let me know how it goes! 
It's very funny when people don't know what's happening yet. XD
Also heh. Whatever it takes to get people to STAY AWAY and WEAR A MASK!
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