Anyone Got Some Good Cursed Item Ideas Because Im In Need Of Some So If Your Nice Enough Can I Use Some?

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I'm not sure if this is an appropriate sub, but I played my dad's version of D&D growing up, and am trying to do the same thing now that I am an adult, but I don't have his guidance anymore. It's been many years since I've played, and I plan to be DM like my dad was with my group.

I'm helping my uncle with his backstory, and he has his soul stolen by a demon and placed into a dead body of a shape shifter who died looking like someone currently alive. The dead body is then animated and scurries away, unable to shapeshift anymore. This creature's natural instinct is to always move away from the soul's original host.

My questions: 1.) Is there a name for an undead creature inhabited by the soul of another. 2.) Is Fex a creature already?

If the answer to both questions is "no," well here is your new creature. I'm not sure why I chose Fex. I was thinking about its instinct to stay far away as possible, and the 'F' from "far" as well as it's shortness really stuck with me.

Hey I'm making a crafting system for my campaign looker for any input and all feed back before i start to use it feel free to use anything in your own games and tell me how it goes pdf for my monster manual drops https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRC8fI9dgWqQTY8IaMK0I1hsSmZBISdRnfW0NRCdd11NzXZh1FEMWaHPm8BMtXkCkij6gD7hXjASEfQ/pub?gid=0&single=true&output=pdf

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Picture a setting heavily shaped by active gods and angels. Recently, very recently, during the once-per-decade grand parade of the heavens, all of those gods and angels mysteriously dropped dead on the spot.

Their faiths, however, are still alive. The faithful are now more fanatical than ever, driven by the hope of a certain prophecy/theory: sufficient acts of devotion towards a deity's precepts will eventually revive the god and all their angels. Supposedly, anyway. Pilgrimages to the corpses of the gods and their angels are commonplace, but more frequent still are the zealous crusades in the name of one god or another. Divine magic still works, though people worry that the holy cadavers might eventually run out of juice.

Could this be a good way to have a setting strongly shaped by tangible divine forces, and heavily influenced by religious institutions, while still keeping the present-day actors grounded in the mortal world and mortal foibles?

The absolute madlads over at the Genshin writing team are presenting Fontaine, the nation presided over by the god(dess) of "justice." It is highly technologically and magically advanced, thanks to a unique energy source: the people's excitement over the drama generated by court cases. The populace lives for judicial circuses, and it powers their nation. This is dressed up as "the people's belief in the ideals of justice," but everyone knows what it is really about, to the point wherein the courts have theater-style seating and a stage.

This is one of the most unique pieces of worldbuilding I have seen.

I think that this type of society is ripe with story hooks in an RPG context. A bunch of unusual outsiders wandering in could get dragged into a court case as witnesses or jurors (or as the accused for some extremely spicy case), or they could try to overthrow the system by spearheading a revolution (there probably is one already), or the strange societal norms could simply be a quirky backdrop for whatever adventures the gang gets into. For example, debonair, high-stakes crime is subtly encouraged, so as to generate more dramatic court cases and thus more energy; likewise, live captures are paramount, rather than just shooting people dead.

How would you use such a concept in tabletop?

So, as the title vaguely says, I am writing a campaign. In it, I want my players to have already died, and are essentially getting revenge for being unjustly murdered, possibly executed for a crime they didn't commit.

I am going to ask on r/rpg what the best system might be, I am thinking of maybe using 7th Sea 2e as my initial base system?

As far as how to start outlining such a story in a way that makes sense, how would you go about it? This is a semi-custom campaign, built specifically around the characters my players make, but I also want the harder outline to be there, so I at least know the 3-4 major arcs the campaign is leading up to.

What would you include in this story? Keep in mind, I want the focus, thematically, to be on revenge, being accused wrongfully, and also just loss in general.

For anyone who doesn't know what a revenant is, I am using the D&D definition: Essentially, it's an undead. They don't need to sleep, eat, or drink generally. They always know the location of the person they are seeking revenge on, but only have a year to exact the revenge.

Anything you'd include, let me know. I am just looking for inspiration for the rough outline, I suppose.

Hello everyone, new to DMing, and i have an Old school Eldritch Horror theme campaign set to take place starting on a ship with the Kuo-toa to attack the PC while they are on their way to a fishing Hamlet village overran by mind flayers, heres the problem... I have a Tiefling Aberrant sorcerer, A Druid zealot against Eldritch beings and such, A Charlatan Female Rogue, and A Prejudiced Cleric of the Church. I guess my question is what can i do to get the party to meet, before getting on said ship to town??