Re-Doing Cursed Swords

I've been thinking again about ways to fix cursed swords and other cursed magic weapons. The problems with cursed magic items as they are currently described are that you have to make a cursed weapon undroppable, if you dont want players simply to ditching the weapon once they realize it's cursed, Even so, they can still carry an ordinary weapon in their other hand and attack only with that weapon, to avoid the curse. And also, a simple penalty on the attack roll seems so bland...

One solution is to apply the penalty to other random rolls, particularly random selection rolls like yesterday's Embedded Relics table. Of course, unless you are using a lot of tables like this, constructed with a mix of bad stuff on the low numbers and good stuff on the high numbers, this won't matter much. You could, however, apply the penalty to other rolls, like the wandering monster roll: instead of a 6 indicating a wandering monster, subtract 1 or 2 (depending on the curse value) from 6 to get a new target number.

These kinds of penalties would apply to the character who took the cursed weapon, regardless of whether the character keeps the weapon or uses it. Only Remove Curse corrects the problem.

Another idea is that, when making an attack, a roll of 1 (or 1-2, with a cursed -2 sword), would cause something bad to happen, like hitting a friend or animating a corpse of a recently-slain enemy. Something to make a cursed weapon seem scarrier than a mere "you thought you hit, but you missed instead." In fact, I'd make cursed weapons act like +1 or +2 magic weapons, in all respects, to give players a temptation to keep the weapon a little longer.