Gypsy Death Curse

Which brings me back to my first question.

Do you have to know your target's full name?  Their real name?  Or just be able to identify them unambiguously?

Which brings me back to my first question.

Do you have to know your target's full name?  Their real name?  Or just be able to identify them unambiguously?

This is how it works:

1.) Dave Morris walks up to you in full disguise.  You have no idea it's Jonathan, you think it's some hoodlum named Joe Chill.  "Joe Chill" takes out a shiv, shouts "DIE DIRTY GYPSY" and stabs Tobar to death.  You can Gypsy Death Curse Joe Chill, despite the fact that it's Jonathan.

2.)  Dave doesn't give you a name in his disguise.  He just comes up behind you and shivs you anyway.  You can Gypsy Death Curse "that a-hole who stabbed me in the back".

3.) You never meet Dave in his disguise.  Dave uses a cunning and clever plan involving many twists and turns to get Birnum Pyre and Antrim to kill you.  You could Gypsy Death Curse Pyre or Antrim, but if you wanted to Gypsy Death Curse  Dave Morris: Napoleon of Gypsy Genocide than you would have to find out that it was Dave (as Jonathan) behind the whole thing.


So essentially, if they are DIRECTLY the cause of your death you do NOT need to know their name.  If they are INDIRECTLY the cause of your death than you need to find out their name.

Joe is correct. To further explain the last part, attempting to curse someone who was not present for your murder, but might have had something to do with it, is based completely on in-game suspicion. If your character was highly suspect of Bill the butcher being the one who orchestrated your death, because he has always hated you, you can try to curse bill the butcher. I would then approach the player of bill the butcher and find out if he had a hand in the series of misfortunate events that took your like, if he in fact did not, than the curse does not work.

Do you have to know your target's full name?  Their real name?  Or just be able to identify them unambiguously?

So, I don't think this question actually got answered, and, in fairness, it's a really complex question. So, here's the situation:

Let's say, hypothetically, I suspect that a PC orchestrated my death, but my character is only aware of their first name, or their last name, or perhaps some kind of nickname that everyone uses for them. Do I need to know the characters FULL name, IG, in order to attempt to place a gypsy death curse on them? Or do I simply need to identify them in an unambiguous way?

Again, let's say, hypothetically, I suspect that a PC orchestrated my death, and place a gypsy death curse on her. However, the name I know this PC by is not the PC's true name, but rather, a false name that they have been using all along in order to conceal their identity for a complex reason, probably concerning their backstory. If they were involved in my death, does the gypsy death curse still land? (IE, is knowing the name they are widely known by enough to identify them for the purposes of GDC?)

The name/truename/fulleorpart name of the person you are attempting to curse is not terribly important. As long the gypsy reasonably has cause to suspect someone had an involvement in their death they can attempt to curse them.  Wether they know the persons actual in-game name or not is irrelevant as long as they can identify what character they are trying to curse. 

For example... you don't know Blade's name... for some odd reason

However, you saw Blade pointing at you, making a slitting motion across his throat, then paying the Count a large sum of gold, to which the Count gives a big thumbs up, heads straight toward you and kills you saying "Sorry, Buddy, it's only business".

You can curse the 'huge cigar smoking ogre that rips men's hearts out of their chest and shows it to them before they die.' with out knowing Blades name.