Aberrant Dragonmarks as random mutations?

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drconfoundo

Feb 22, 2010 18:42:20
I'll be starting up Eyes of the Lich Queen (converted to 4e) again soon (after a previous attempt to run it a few months back stalled due to some group changes). In some ways, it's good that there was a delay in the meantime, because I got some interesting ideas out of things that have been announced since then.

Possible spoilers for Eyes of the Lich Queen:
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Early on in the adventure, while investigating a hidden temple in the darkest jungles of Q'Barra, the party is exposed to ancient magics that give them Dragonmarks. In the adventure, it's explained that this is actually a mixed blessing because the Dragonmarks come with a curse... if the PCs don't look for some way to fix themselves, they'll flare out in spectacular fashion.

The problem is that this isn't supported mechanically by the rules of the module (in either 3.5 or 4E).