Cookie of Misfortune (5e Equipment)
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food, uncommon A cookie of misfortune is the cursed counterpart to a cookie of fortune, and is a small, stiff crescent-shaped baked good that is hollow on the inside. They usually come in packs of 1d3. As an action, you can crack open the cookie, causing it to emit momentary sparkles and a crunching sound, and read the small strip of paper inside. As a separate action or part of the action used to crack open the cookie, you may also choose to eat the cookie. Doing so grants you 1 temporary hit point. Reading the piece of paper grants you a misfortune, rolled randomly on the table below, as well as a set of 5 unlucky numbers obtained by rolling a d20 five times. As long as you possess this fortune, whenever you roll a d20 and roll one of your unlucky numbers, you must reroll the d20 and take the lower of the two rolls. Alternatively, when you make a d20 roll, the DM can choose to use an unlucky number as the result of the roll. Once a unlucky number is used in this way, it is permanently removed from your pool of unlucky numbers. You cannot gain any additional fortunes or misfortunes while under the effects of the cookie. If try to use another cookie while the misfortune is still active, the paper inside the cookie grants you the same misfortune and unlucky numbers as you previously had. A misfortune is a bad omen or sign of doom. How the misfortune is concluded is up to DM discretion. A remove curse cast on the affected creature can end the effects of the cookie if the DM allows it. |
| d8 | Misfortune |
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| 1 | The road least traveled is least traveled for a reason. |
| 2 | You will lose everything in a fire. |
| 3 | Trust not the door nor the coat rack nor the table. |
| 4 | You will lose someone close to you. |
| 5 | A goblin may acquire some of your possessions. |
| 6 | You will soon feel a knife in your back. |
| 7 | Never trust a man with pointy shoes. |
| 8 | All of your money will mean nothing. |
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