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pseudoidiot 03-07-05, 04:22 PM	okay, we've all seen it happen. a little carelessness on the player's part, and some creativity on the DM's part. what some interesting ways you've seen wishes go wrong? 1) mid-level player uses a wish to wish for a staff of the magi. it appeared, unfortunately there was a very angry high-level spell caster holding it. TPK 2) (to show the best laid plans can go wrong). we were asked to retrieve a large diamond, and given a ring of wishes with 3 wishes. one party member was smart enough to know the best way to ensure nothing going terribly wrong with a wish is to wish for a spell, with very specific intentions. i was playing a barbarian, and i'd spent the skill points to be literate, and i got talked into using the wishes to get to the diamond (btw the diamond was very large and had a name). so, anyway, i had a note written out for me with 3 very specific wish usages. the first was to teleport me near the diamond, the 2nd was to dimension door me next to the diamond in case i wasn't close enough or there were obstacles, the 3rd was to teleport back to the party. reasonably well thought out plan. 1st teleport goes off without a hitch, i can see the diamond about 100 feet away. unfortunately, 60 feet away from me is a death slaad. he wins initiative. i die. slaad rummages through my belongings, finds the note and ring. slad teleports and slaughters large number of villagers. oops
Artemician 03-07-05, 04:51 PM	Once I was playing a wizard who had his spellbook stolen by some very-powerful thing I can't remember, so I wished to be next to my spellbook :P Thing was it, it was like 6,000 miles underground and my party and I were choking due O2 lack, so I wished to be back on the surface. We appeared in the top of a VERY high moutain, and a party member (brass half dragon, fire subtype, double damage from cold) was dying due to cold conditions (as common on VERY high altitudes) and we were choking again due to (guess what) O2 lack, so I just wished to be back on the place were i casted my first wish. On another ocassion, a party member died, and, without a cleric, the wizard wished the frenzied berserker would be rebirth... :raincloud he was birth again by his mother. We had to take care of him until something happened (can't remember what)
Luminous Crayon 03-07-05, 04:55 PM	The first time I ever played DnD, I had a cleric character who contrived to save a village of elves trapped in some ghostly half-existance in the Ethereal Plane. I managed to destroy the ghost that was preventing outsiders such as myself from journeying to the village and rescuing them (only because the DM, also new, read the chart wrong and had me do way too much turning damage.) After disposing of the guardian, I found a large jewel, with apparently one Wish still in it. The rest of the party lets me handle this, since I'm the only one who can See Invisibility and interact with the ghosts here. So I wish for the elves' ancient imprisonment in the Ethereal Plane to be ended at last. The whole table groans in disgust. "What's that for?" I ask. The DM explains that since I wasn't specific enough, they were released from imprisonment, directly into death, having exceeded their natural lifespans while in the Ethereal and instantly becoming thousands of years old. Apparently, it was some minor release for them, even though it included death, but if I had worded it in an airtight way, I could have restored them to life as well. That almost turned me off to this whole damn game. Stupid wish-wording.
green_yawgmoth 03-07-05, 07:08 PM	The first time I ever played DnD, I had a cleric character who contrived to save a village of elves trapped in some ghostly half-existance in the Ethereal Plane. I managed to destroy the ghost that was preventing outsiders such as myself from journeying to the village and rescuing them (only because the DM, also new, read the chart wrong and had me do way too much turning damage.) After disposing of the guardian, I found a large jewel, with apparently one Wish still in it. The rest of the party lets me handle this, since I'm the only one who can See Invisibility and interact with the ghosts here. So I wish for the elves' ancient imprisonment in the Ethereal Plane to be ended at last. The whole table groans in disgust. "What's that for?" I ask. The DM explains that since I wasn't specific enough, they were released from imprisonment, directly into death, having exceeded their natural lifespans while in the Ethereal and instantly becoming thousands of years old. Apparently, it was some minor release for them, even though it included death, but if I had worded it in an airtight way, I could have restored them to life as well. That almost turned me off to this whole damn game. Stupid wish-wording. This is why I think it should be a rule written into the spell saying that the DM has to say "are you sure?" if he plans on mucking around with the wish. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v91/yawgmoth/kittyjig.gif