What interesting ways have you used and abused the Wish spell?
I had an interesting situation with a player recently. They had been teleported to another realm, mid combat. (A mid-level bard/rogue) with no intrinsic ability to return himself to the fight. However, a few sessions back he got very lucky on a draw off the Deck of Many Things, and even luckier on the roll, 3 wishes were his.
(This is in a late GDQ 5e game)
The wishes had been granted from a source of Chaos and unpredictability, as such, I gave him two minutes to write out all aspects of his wish, and it would be fulfilled. After the two minutes I found two holes in his plan, and rolled to see what way the wish would fall.
He wished to be retuned to the battlefield, precisely where he was one minute ago with all of his things, but not his condition of returning (Dead, incapacitated or dying) nor did he wish to 'remain' there (think blink or something of that nature) and would appear for a moment, and then return to the other plane.
It was devious to be sure, but I think it made the moment memorable! What ways have other people phrased wishes to keep themselves and their party safe? Any great exploits from wishes gone wrong?
We've used wishes to get souls back (curse you Deck of Many Things), and assist in returning people from the dead. I think the best one was the rogue using a wish from his saved wish to bring the party back to life when he was 5 hp away from being the last one standing.
Luckily for us, we never had to formulate our wish in less than two minutes. The only time we ran into one was a one-charge-remaining Ring of Three Wishes. So after a few party negotiatios, my wizard was charged with the responsibility to keep it for emergency use only. And I think that's exactly what my party was fearing from the beginning: that the DM would trick us into formulating the wish the most precise way legally to turn it against us, so we decided to not allow him, using the wish in an extreme scenario when he had to grant the wish quickly to keep the game moving.
And we did: my wizard decided to use the Wish to turn back time one round in a fight in which the fighter, the paladin and the cleric all went down with a catastrophic area spell I had to counter after using the Wish.
There was a humorous version of Castle Greyhawk that had a level that ended with a wish for all survivors ("The Temple of the Really Bad Dead Things"). One party member wished for "a bag of gems". The wish granter ("the Hack", a powerful extra dimensional author who was typing out the adventure as it was being played) misspelled it as "a bag of Jims". The player got a bog of 20 tiny first level clerics named Jim. They could each cast Cure Light Wounds once a day.
Another player asked for "a war dinosaur I can ride". Due to space constraints, the fierce triceratops battle mount ("Boo Boo") shrank and grew when dried out or hydrated.
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What interesting ways have you used and abused the Wish spell?
I had an interesting situation with a player recently. They had been teleported to another realm, mid combat. (A mid-level bard/rogue) with no intrinsic ability to return himself to the fight. However, a few sessions back he got very lucky on a draw off the Deck of Many Things, and even luckier on the roll, 3 wishes were his.
(This is in a late GDQ 5e game)
The wishes had been granted from a source of Chaos and unpredictability, as such, I gave him two minutes to write out all aspects of his wish, and it would be fulfilled. After the two minutes I found two holes in his plan, and rolled to see what way the wish would fall.
He wished to be retuned to the battlefield, precisely where he was one minute ago with all of his things, but not his condition of returning (Dead, incapacitated or dying) nor did he wish to 'remain' there (think blink or something of that nature) and would appear for a moment, and then return to the other plane.
It was devious to be sure, but I think it made the moment memorable! What ways have other people phrased wishes to keep themselves and their party safe? Any great exploits from wishes gone wrong?
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Never say "I wish a powerful magic item".....the DM just teleport the party in a vary dangerous place...
We've used wishes to get souls back (curse you Deck of Many Things), and assist in returning people from the dead. I think the best one was the rogue using a wish from his saved wish to bring the party back to life when he was 5 hp away from being the last one standing.
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Luckily for us, we never had to formulate our wish in less than two minutes. The only time we ran into one was a one-charge-remaining Ring of Three Wishes. So after a few party negotiatios, my wizard was charged with the responsibility to keep it for emergency use only. And I think that's exactly what my party was fearing from the beginning: that the DM would trick us into formulating the wish the most precise way legally to turn it against us, so we decided to not allow him, using the wish in an extreme scenario when he had to grant the wish quickly to keep the game moving.
And we did: my wizard decided to use the Wish to turn back time one round in a fight in which the fighter, the paladin and the cleric all went down with a catastrophic area spell I had to counter after using the Wish.
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There was a humorous version of Castle Greyhawk that had a level that ended with a wish for all survivors ("The Temple of the Really Bad Dead Things"). One party member wished for "a bag of gems". The wish granter ("the Hack", a powerful extra dimensional author who was typing out the adventure as it was being played) misspelled it as "a bag of Jims". The player got a bog of 20 tiny first level clerics named Jim. They could each cast Cure Light Wounds once a day.
Another player asked for "a war dinosaur I can ride". Due to space constraints, the fierce triceratops battle mount ("Boo Boo") shrank and grew when dried out or hydrated.
geek dad with 3 geek kids