Foresight! I’d be able to pick winning stocks all day every day!
100% This! Foresight all day everyday!
Again, to remind, Foresight doesn't work that way, and will not provide any benefit at all to stocks or lottery or any such things.
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Foresight! I’d be able to pick winning stocks all day every day!
The spell only gives you the immediate future: the next several seconds. Enough time to dodge a sword, but not enough time to play stocks/lottery.
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My choice would be Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion. The material components aren't that expensive or difficult to get and can be re-used. Casting this everyday gives me a nice place to live, unbeatable security (only those you permit can enter, if you close the door it cannot be opened by anything not even they tried to Nuke it, it's invisble when closed, you're in a pocket universe so you could surive the end of the world - in fact, nothing stops you making a new one while inside one, so you need not ever return to the real universe ever again if you didn't want to), plus servants I don't have to trust or be nice to since they're not real just creations of the spell and their entire existence is bound to being loyal to me and there's the copius amounts of free food.
Now, you probably might not get electric (but that is debatable, since it can create anything, so more likely you have all the electric you need, but only within the mansion) and you definitely won't have wifi - but I'd solve this by just renting a super cheap flat/apartment, with the services, and then make the mansion, leave door open while I use those services - easy enough with cheap relays/extension cords.I'll still save on water and food.
So, you want to make a TARDIS?
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I started in 2e when DMs were encouraged by the rules to hose players who make wishes. Wish for a mountain of gold, one falls on you. Wish for a King’s fortune, the king would come looking for it. Wish to kill a demon, a worse devil would show up. I haven’t had a character learn Wish since the ‘90s, and I would never want to cast it IRL.
So, this is why you need to be super specific with your wish. For example, wishing that you had a mountain of gold, locked in a dragon proof vault beneath the lonely mountain and that only you and those you chose, would gain access to it.
Wishing that three days from Thorin's Day, good King Wenceslaus changes his will to leave you his entire fortune, four hundred million gold coins; and then gets assassinated by his son, who claims the throne and can not be dissuaded from honouring his father's last will and testament.
In these scenarios, you have specified exactly where your mountain of gold will reside and who has access to it, or exactly how you will receive a kings fortune. Both scenarios leave little room for the DM to mess with you.
Making a wish is like striking a deal with the prince of lies himself. The devil is in the details.
I started in 2e when DMs were encouraged by the rules to hose players who make wishes. Wish for a mountain of gold, one falls on you. Wish for a King’s fortune, the king would come looking for it. Wish to kill a demon, a worse devil would show up. I haven’t had a character learn Wish since the ‘90s, and I would never want to cast it IRL.
So, this is why you need to be super specific with your wish. For example, wishing that you had a mountain of gold, locked in a dragon proof vault beneath the lonely mountain and that only you and those you chose, would gain access to it.
Wishing that three days from Thorin's Day, good King Wenceslaus changes his will to leave you his entire fortune, four hundred million gold coins; and then gets assassinated by his son, who claims the throne and can not be dissuaded from honouring his father's last will and testament.
In these scenarios, you have specified exactly where your mountain of gold will reside and who has access to it, or exactly how you will receive a kings fortune. Both scenarios leave little room for the DM to mess with you.
Making a wish is like striking a deal with the prince of lies himself. The devil is in the details.
Until the son in turn is assassinated by his brother who finds he cannot legally break the will so he declares war on you. Wish screwed.
I started in 2e when DMs were encouraged by the rules to hose players who make wishes. Wish for a mountain of gold, one falls on you. Wish for a King’s fortune, the king would come looking for it. Wish to kill a demon, a worse devil would show up. I haven’t had a character learn Wish since the ‘90s, and I would never want to cast it IRL.
So, this is why you need to be super specific with your wish. For example, wishing that you had a mountain of gold, locked in a dragon proof vault beneath the lonely mountain and that only you and those you chose, would gain access to it.
Wishing that three days from Thorin's Day, good King Wenceslaus changes his will to leave you his entire fortune, four hundred million gold coins; and then gets assassinated by his son, who claims the throne and can not be dissuaded from honouring his father's last will and testament.
In these scenarios, you have specified exactly where your mountain of gold will reside and who has access to it, or exactly how you will receive a kings fortune. Both scenarios leave little room for the DM to mess with you.
Making a wish is like striking a deal with the prince of lies himself. The devil is in the details.
Until the son in turn is assassinated by his brother who finds he cannot legally break the will so he declares war on you. Wish screwed.
I was looking for a way to upvote this and forgot that I wasn't on Reddit lol. Never the less you rolled with advantage there.
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Hm. That is a tricky one. Mordenkainan’s mansion is appealing for several reasons, but I think I might actually go for polymorph or wall of stone, for different reasons. Polymorph because I’ve always wanted to change shape, and have always wanted to fly, which this would let me do, and wall of stone because Growing up in a desert, stone is one of the most common features, and it takes on a nearly esoteric importance. Being able to pull up walls of stone from the ground? That’s practically a dream come true!
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"La luz del Sol brilla mas al que no esté acostumbrado a su furor."
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Don’t waste it on Martin when you can duplicate Patrick Rothfuss.
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Don't waste it on Rothfuss when you could duplicate Sanderson.
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100% This! Foresight all day everyday!
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Then that simulacrum could learn wish...
Wait, aren't we thinking small here? We could True Resurrection Tolkien.
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If we’re going that rout I vote Michael Crichton.
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Screw the time limit on True Resurrection. I vote Socrates.
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So, you want to make a TARDIS?
A caffeinated nerd who has played TTRPGs or a number of years and is very much a fantasy adventure geek.
So, this is why you need to be super specific with your wish. For example, wishing that you had a mountain of gold, locked in a dragon proof vault beneath the lonely mountain and that only you and those you chose, would gain access to it.
Wishing that three days from Thorin's Day, good King Wenceslaus changes his will to leave you his entire fortune, four hundred million gold coins; and then gets assassinated by his son, who claims the throne and can not be dissuaded from honouring his father's last will and testament.
In these scenarios, you have specified exactly where your mountain of gold will reside and who has access to it, or exactly how you will receive a kings fortune. Both scenarios leave little room for the DM to mess with you.
Making a wish is like striking a deal with the prince of lies himself. The devil is in the details.
A caffeinated nerd who has played TTRPGs or a number of years and is very much a fantasy adventure geek.
Until the son in turn is assassinated by his brother who finds he cannot legally break the will so he declares war on you. Wish screwed.
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I was looking for a way to upvote this and forgot that I wasn't on Reddit lol. Never the less you rolled with advantage there.
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My first thought is goodberry . there's a line in "Fiddler on the Roof" I love. "If we didn't have to eat we'd all be millionaires."
fabricate and stone shape are both appealing to the artist in me.
regenerate is equally tempting, but once word got out, I'd never get a moments rest.
I think I'd have to pick imprisonment . I'd cast the slumber version on myself till clinical immortality becomes available.
That would suffer the same problem as modern cryogenic companies: who do you trust to take care of your body if (when) the money runs out?
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Hm. That is a tricky one. Mordenkainan’s mansion is appealing for several reasons, but I think I might actually go for polymorph or wall of stone, for different reasons. Polymorph because I’ve always wanted to change shape, and have always wanted to fly, which this would let me do, and wall of stone because Growing up in a desert, stone is one of the most common features, and it takes on a nearly esoteric importance. Being able to pull up walls of stone from the ground? That’s practically a dream come true!
"La luz del Sol brilla mas al que no esté acostumbrado a su furor."
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