Unusual or Embarassing Magical Powers

What are some unusual magical powers that a character in a fantasy game might have but be embarrassed to use?

>The party rogue can transform into cats.

>Plural.

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>The party rogue can transform into cats.
cute
>plural
my point still stands but how the hell does it works if one of the cats dissapears or goes away?

>Bard can find any listeners "brown-note" and play it on command.

>It's the only thing they can reliably play.

I'd imagine that losing a cat would leave the rogue with an injury of some kind, but that the rogue, could stand to lose several before reforming without them would leave her with a grievous injury like a missing limb or internal damage.

Given time and proper medical attention, I'd guess she could "regrow" those missing cats too.

At his strongest, the party mage can pull a meteor from orbit and crash it into the earth

... but he needs to strip down, no underwear allowed, AND he's knocked out for a full day afterwards.

The ability didn't come up much, thankfully.

The rogue shrinks, duh.

What happens if one of those cats has kittens?

Maybe the rogue can maintain one cat independent of her reformed human for to act as a sort of spy or "familiar."

I guess changelings' ability should feel sort of weird.

Also, a burly fighter who can imitate a voice of 13-year old girl / a kitten due to his specific vocal cords. Pretty good for deception, hard to live down.

Such things should be illegal.

Or she could shoot parts of her body off and turn them into cats. Like a rocket punch.

Why is this an embarrassing power again?

Party Druid can heal any wound or disease with their urine.

It does seem to be gaining more utility than expected. Maybe she's allergic to cats?

Biomancer has a 50% chance to recycle any ingested potion through any other orifice.

Yes, this means a prude player can drool/drain earwax into a bottle to get the potion back.

It's weird, it's stupid, but it's... a thing.

>It's the only thing they can reliably play.
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>Barbarian changes into a little girl while raging

...

He has 9 cats and if they all disappear he dies

You know how in some legends, vampire can turn into a swarm of bats? I guess it's a pussy version of that.

That sounds like baller for scouting tho. No one looks twice at a cat.

>society of exiled isolationist sorcerers, scientists and etc
>they generally don't care about moral, pure utilitarists with really short set of rules like "don't kill your kin"
>1\3 of them mad as fuck because of curse
>hundreds of various schools with different extent of madness and wackyness
Imagine being born more or less normal in any following circumstances:
>your ancestors practiced noble art of wonderbreath: after consuming magic seals and ingridients you can vomit storms, fire, ghost processions, abominations, etc
>your granddad was fond of bald cats, and you was teached to cast spells through cat perfomances only. Cats are good foci and have their own manapool, but some of them are dumb or capricious, lazy or able to speak like drunk retards. They all huge and bald. Gramps also left you a battle golem. It looks like a snake with humanoid face, swears, roasts everyone in sight, casting powerful spells.
>Your noble house signed a contract with demonic lodge: they will provide you, your vassals and your relatives great powers and knowledge in exchange for rituals. Rituals are basically murderfucking.
>Copromancy
>Talented line of necromancers decided that infesting dead bodies with demons is great idea. Flesh constructs are nice, keen, obedient and artful. Most of the time.
>An ancient family which controls huge chunk of other races aristocrats with courtesan golems. Some of them have hidden bombs, poisoned weaponry and so on, but main problem is "taxation": all members of family need to make one new golem for every 3 times they use constructs for machinations. Golem needs to be teached, and you can give it books, but voice, acting, manners et cetera should be provided from some source.
cont?
And so on.

Go on, but don't expand on the coproancy.

You don't like excrementals?

Cont.
>one of most chaotic and destructive methodologies is to notice runes and pentacles in your surroundings and compose incantations from crowded bazaar blabbering instead of drawing and reciting on your own.
>Magic school which does not concerns with efficient use of energy, they cast spells of great impact, but only when they are linked to literally pools of liquified magic inducing materials, pools should be linked to their brain or blood vessels
>Mages who have ability is to extract energy from disputes. The dirtier, the better. Excellent demagogues, bad politicians.
>Melding practice lets compose things into one, but to properly use it, you need to shatter something. Stone+man=statue and Mind+shatter=schizophrenia.
>Particularly stubborn sorcerer learned to transcend heat and shining of stars to the fields of battle. Honing this technique, calculating, inventing and composing formulaes for different stars and worlds leaves no time for learning anything else.
>circle of mages that excel in writing poems, novels or anything else, while weaving symbols into the order of letters and spells into the sequence of words in such way that reader will unknowingly cast something while reading.

>Society is governed by council which consists of patriarchs and matriarchs from oldest and most powerful families. Despite this society crafts best prosthetics in the setting, councilors recieve wooden limbs, eyes, tongues and other parts, unmechanized and madly resistant to magic, purpose of those is secret. Those parts are actually doorknobseed, when activated, they turn any surface into a door to the hidden palace. When councilor dies, his palace dwindles and doorknobseed approves it's second part: councilor resurrects, growing from the seed.
>They can't produce those themselves
>Who gives them to council is unknown.
>Strangely, when needed, they unite, become extremely polite to each other, and never quarrel despite otherwise ever-present rivalries

Can you position the cats in such a way you can get back stab against 9 different targets at once?

Turning into cats is useful in the same way Multiple Man or Billy Numerous are useful. She's a one person scouting party.

Nah, just go out in cats form and recruit some new cats into the herd. Sure, your left foot might be calico now, but it's certainly a novel method of healing.

So with being able to catsimulate she can live forever by phasing out older cats.

the last part is clusterfuck, i need to sleep, sorry.

>Society is governed by council which consists of patriarchs and matriarchs from oldest and most powerful families. Despite this society crafts best prosthetics in the setting, councillors recieve wooden limbs, eyes, tongues and other parts, all parts are unmechanizeable and violently resistant to magic, their purpose is secret. Those prosthetics are actually doorknobseed, when activated, it turns any surface into a door to the hidden palace. When councillor dies, his palace dwindles and doorknobseed justifies it's name's second part: councillor resurrects, growing from the seed.
>Counil can't produce doorknobseeds themselves
>Who gives them to council is unknown
>Sometimes how they get wooden limb is unknown even by it's wielder
>Strangely, when needed, this malicious and cranky bunch unites, becomes extremely polite to each other, and never quarrels in hard times despite otherwise ever-present rivalries.
>When younglings ask where doorknobseed comes from, adults say that it grows on a doorwood, which's chamberroots are diffused in the matter all over the world. Ancient leader of this society hides in doorwood tree.

I hope thread leaves to see my passages on urinomancy and use of dog's wool in occult science.

*will live to see
fastfix

Ahhhh. You beat mw to the punch with this post

Aren't we describing a very flexible Lich? does each of the cats carry a piece of her soul? what if she is infected with lycanthropy or vampirism? do the cute cat bites turn people into vampires?

Somehow it always goes full circle into loli
>have half the cats scout constantly
>turn into a 10(actually 24) year old girl

>ability to summon divine casters

...

I really like the "nine cats, nine lives" angle."

I'd imagine that there's some serious utility in this rogue being able to divide herself into nine little inconspicuous spies for scouting and threat-evasion, but at the same time she would probably have a great deal of difficulty trouble focusing her attention nine different ways at once, and she would quite literally need to herd cats in order to do so.

Bringing in fresh cats to replace ones that get lost is an interesting idea, especially if the addition of those cats brought changes or some additional "cattiness" to the rogue's appearance or personality, at least until the new cat was fully incorporated.

>The party monk can manipulate his body size and the growth of his body as a whole or only parts of it.
>The problem is that he can't seem to find clothes that won't be torn up by this ability. Even magic clothes barely survive.

It would start with:

>Noticably cat-like moods and mannerisms

But may include one or more of the following depending on how many cats she'd had to replace:

>Slitted pupils and enhanced night vision
>Clawed hands and feet for slashing and scaling
>Patches of fur on her limbs and improved reflexes
>Cat's ears and improved multi-directional hearing

The alterations come with additional cat-based abilities, but would be unseemly, embarassing and hard to hide.

>The Druid can turn into a variety of animals from land, sea and air.
>All of them are cutesy little critters without much combat utility.

>The wizard has learned a much more powerful version of magic missile.
>It takes the form of an iridescent pink heart that trails magic sparkles.

>The barbarian somehow knows just what to say to demoralize any foe.
>It always just winds up being rude, childish and dishonorable trash talking.

>the wizard has learned a more powerful version of magic missile
>it takes the form of an iridescent pink heart that trails magic sparkles

Cure Happy is that you?

>the Tengu can assume the full form of a crow, including flight
>but his ability to resist instincts is toast; this doesn't do much to his higher thinking with how smart crows are, but it does mean shiny things distract him with 100% success