You can. It would be considered a non-basic use so it has some consequences (including the 1/3 chance of never casting it again). All non-basic uses of Wish are DM decision on how to interpret the wish. The Wish Spell is more accurate than Wishing using a Djinni - because they, as the actual caster, can interpret your wish differently and twist it back on you.
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I have not used Wish since my AD&D days... but at least in our game group, you had to be extremely careful about how you worded your wish if you went for something over the top like this. The DM would scrutinize the wish for any possible loophole to find a way to make it backfire. So you want to be an ancient dragon and that's all you specify? How about being so ancient that you are 1 minute for dying of old dragon age? Sure you got your wish. Rest in peace... Or maybe you get stuck permanently as an ancient dragon and spend the rest of your days fending off knights coming to try and slay you... etc.
So I would make sure the DM is OK with it before trying something like this.
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I'd use true Poly instead and become an adult gold or ancient brass. There are sooo many ways for that to backfire that it's not worth the risk. He could make you into a young gold dragon then plop you 500 years into the future where whatever you were trying to accomplish is a long forgotten memory. Or as listed above, you are about to die of being too ancient. You could also be an ancient gold dragon bound and chained as some evil god's pet. It's just a bad idea lol
True Poly, concentrate on it more than an hour and now you are that dragon until you get hit with a dispel magic. Although an ancient brass is a higher CR of 20, an adult gold is almost identical on stats and only a CR17 so you can true poly into it at lvl 17.
Can one wish themselves into an ancient dragon? Is that a game rule or a DM decision?
You can. It would be considered a non-basic use so it has some consequences (including the 1/3 chance of never casting it again). All non-basic uses of Wish are DM decision on how to interpret the wish. The Wish Spell is more accurate than Wishing using a Djinni - because they, as the actual caster, can interpret your wish differently and twist it back on you.
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Great! That's what I was thinking. We've got our big final fight tonight and I have a feeling I'm going to have to use it that way lol.
Everything that is not specified in the spell is DM decision.
I'd be very careful about this.
I have not used Wish since my AD&D days... but at least in our game group, you had to be extremely careful about how you worded your wish if you went for something over the top like this. The DM would scrutinize the wish for any possible loophole to find a way to make it backfire. So you want to be an ancient dragon and that's all you specify? How about being so ancient that you are 1 minute for dying of old dragon age? Sure you got your wish. Rest in peace... Or maybe you get stuck permanently as an ancient dragon and spend the rest of your days fending off knights coming to try and slay you... etc.
So I would make sure the DM is OK with it before trying something like this.
WOTC lies. We know that WOTC lies. WOTC knows that we know that WOTC lies. We know that WOTC knows that we know that WOTC lies. And still they lie.
Because of the above (a paraphrase from Orwell) I no longer post to the forums -- PM me if you need help or anything.
I'd use true Poly instead and become an adult gold or ancient brass. There are sooo many ways for that to backfire that it's not worth the risk. He could make you into a young gold dragon then plop you 500 years into the future where whatever you were trying to accomplish is a long forgotten memory. Or as listed above, you are about to die of being too ancient. You could also be an ancient gold dragon bound and chained as some evil god's pet. It's just a bad idea lol
True Poly, concentrate on it more than an hour and now you are that dragon until you get hit with a dispel magic. Although an ancient brass is a higher CR of 20, an adult gold is almost identical on stats and only a CR17 so you can true poly into it at lvl 17.
hmm this is a very baddly worded wish. saying "I wish myself into a ancient dragon!" thats a good way to give a dragon a full belly lol