When trying to cure an natural born lycanthrope of their curse or save an dear ally from the ranks of the infernal legions after they have been slain by an hellfire engine, is it sufficient to use wish in order to replicate the apropriate mundane spell of 8th level and lower such as remove curse or ressurection, and thus not incurring any of the risks of using wish or must i use the more free form, Open ended version of wish with an 33 percent chance to never be able to use wish ever again, the version of wish whose limitations are determined by the dm? Will using wish to cast remove curse be treated as me casting remove curse normaly, or is there something special about the spell when cast in this manner?

Using wish to replicate remove curse is just like casting remove curse, which means it can’t cure a natural lycanthrope.

Idunno what a hellfire engine is, but if its rules text says resurrection won’t work, using wish to replicate resurrection won’t work either.

You have to actually wish for the lycanthrope to be cured or for the hellfire victim’s soul to be saved or whatever.

I don't know of many GMs that would not allow you to spend your wish wishing fro your companion to be alive and/or cured.

UNLESS the effect specifies "not even a wish can prevent this" or some such.

Agreed, would be a valid Wish, but you’re off in “novel effect” territory and thus subject to the heightened risks.

If you use Wish to cast remove curse or resurrection, this will work exactly the same, in all respects, as just casting remove curse or [spell]resurrection[/spell.

So if the normal versions were good enough to solve the problem, the wished ones will work too; if the normal versions of the spells weren't good enough, then the wished ones won't either, and you'll have to use the freeform version of Wish with its drawbacks.

I have my own question on wish, I am a DM and one of players as cast wish to not have to roll for heightened risks when using wish in the future, I don't really know how to say it is impossible to do this but I odn't want to break the game. Any ideas?

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I have my own question on wish, I am a DM and one of players as cast wish to not have to roll for heightened risks when using wish in the future, I don't really know how to say it is impossible to do this but I odn't want to break the game. Any ideas?

Yeah, this is what I'd do. I'd just straight up warn them and that it's not going to go well for them. If they still insist on making that wish, I'd remove their ability to cast the spell entirely, as if they'd hit that 33% chance. That way they won't have to roll for it in the future, and their wish is granted.

I don't really like DMs who use wish to **** with their players without warning, but DMs also shouldn't let players use it to **** with them.

Yeah, that's like "wishing for more wishes" level of obviously begging the DM for a backfire :)

"This spell might simply fail, the effect you desire might only be partly achieved, or you might suffer some unforeseen consequence as a result of how you worded the wish. "

It's always an option that the spell just... doesn't work.