I am a DM. Recently, one of my players—who plays an immortal race—successfully defeated and captured an Archmage. They are now forcing the Archmage to cast Wish on behalf of their human friend (who is currently 24 years old) to extend his youth and ensure they can stay together indefinitely."
"The player intends to have the Archmage repeatedly cast Wish to grant the friend as much lifespan as the spell possibly can. However, I’m unsure how to officially rule this. Are there any official WotC precedents or rulings regarding using Wish for immortality or life extension in this manner?
"Restore Youth" isn't a listed effect of Wish so it falls under GM's judgement. Personally, since it only effects one creature and has no actual in-game effects, I'd say that a single Wish ought to be sufficient to greatly extend the character's lifespan. Among other things, most of the named human wizard characters in D&D that are capable of casting Wish are also centuries older than normal human lifespan would allow.
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I am a DM. Recently, one of my players—who plays an immortal race—successfully defeated and captured an Archmage. They are now forcing the Archmage to cast Wish on behalf of their human friend (who is currently 24 years old) to extend his youth and ensure they can stay together indefinitely."
"The player intends to have the Archmage repeatedly cast Wish to grant the friend as much lifespan as the spell possibly can. However, I’m unsure how to officially rule this. Are there any official WotC precedents or rulings regarding using Wish for immortality or life extension in this manner?
The player plans to burn through the Archmage's Wish capacity...milking the NPC for every last Wish until the 33% failure chance finally kicks in.
You don't need wish to restore youth; just use clone.
"Restore Youth" isn't a listed effect of Wish so it falls under GM's judgement. Personally, since it only effects one creature and has no actual in-game effects, I'd say that a single Wish ought to be sufficient to greatly extend the character's lifespan. Among other things, most of the named human wizard characters in D&D that are capable of casting Wish are also centuries older than normal human lifespan would allow.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
I would note that any plan that starts with "we're going to force the archmage to cast wish" seems... fraught with danger.
I wish your whole party to the plane of carceri
Or if not danger, it just won’t work. If I’m the wizard in question, I use it to cast teleport and get out of there.