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**** To be fair, however, if the dragon already had their eye on the person, then the money itself didn't bring harm or attract unwanted attention...
*** In the ''[[Binder of Shame]]'', Ab3 of RPG.Net fame notes that some [[Killer Game Master|Killer Game Masters]] do this as their ''very style of running a game''. In the RPG.Net rant, "A Night At the Inn, A Day at the Racists," he recounts the tale of Psycho Dave, one particular such Game Master:
{{quote|''As you can see I soon realized that Psycho Dave ran a game in roughly the same way that Warwick Davis in the film ''[[Leprechaun (film)|Leprechaun]]'' [[Jackass Genie|granted wishes]]. Everything you said your character did was scrutinized for some way to screw you over and the dice ruled all. He was the only guy I know who used a random monster encounter chart for ''[[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)]]''. You haven't lived until you've had a character [[Go Mad From the Revelation]] because he saw a [[Eldritch Abomination|nightgaunt]] sitting in a restroom stall reading a copy of the [[Artifact of Doom|Necronomicon]].''}}
** ''[[Ravenloft]]'' also has a monster called a Wishing Imp, a magical statue that you CANNOT get rid of, that will explicitly try to pervert anything even remotely possible to be interpreted as a wish... It DOES classify as a curse though, the idea is that you should want to get rid of it.
*** Similarly, the Dark Powers seem to spend a lot of time thinking up ways to give Darklords exactly what they say they want and take away what they actually want. Such as Strahd's desire to evade death bringing with it the deaths of everyone he cared about.
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