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NamelessHero May 31, 2015 3:26:14	There's an interesting thread comparing the old 1e wish to the new 5e wish here: http://community.wizards.com/forum/product-and-general-dd-discussions/threads/421982   So I started wondering-- what are some of the coolest, most memorable, best nerfed, most perverted, or otherwise interesting uses of the wish spell you have ever seen in your time playing DnD? I’m excited to see what we come up with!
#2 CCS May 31, 2015 14:12:21	We made one a few years back that's still rearing it's ugly/amusing head from time to time.... The party was contracted by a middling govt. Official. We acomplished the job (and then some!) And in the process freed a noble djinn who granted us a wish. At the moment we didn't know exactly what we wanted, so the djinn gave us several days to consider it. In that time period we completed the job, reported back, & the petty beuracrat decided to screw us over reward-wise. So we players decided to use our wish to screw the govt lackey. We wished for 100k indestructible (by mundane means) copies of a cursed wanted poster to be created & magically distributed across the kingdom. Anyone -except our characters at the time - who reads one of these things is geas/quested to hunt down the bueracrat. Bring him into us ( our characters in that campaign) alive & receive a 50k gp bounty. No reward for dead. During that campaign we paid out that bounty several times. Each time releasing the fool so he could be hunted down by more hoards.... Well, here we are several years, several campaigns & many characters later - and our cursed wanted posters still show up during play. And yes, they affect our current characters. They get used to suck our characters into various adventures, siphon off wealth if we have the geas broken, etc.
#3 Zardnaar May 31, 2015 16:00:37	We were using the potions as fruit rules from Darksun and we started an all wizards party at level 18 or 19 IIRC. Some people took specialist wizards others took the generalist. We got the idea form the Compete Wizards handbook at the time and were also ran an all thiefs game. We were also allowed to start the game with a spell form the spell compendium so somepeople picked Power Word Liquefy (as power word kill but turns you to water) while I took the stasis clone spell.    Inter PC congflict was encouraged as due to things like clone spells death was no permanent. One PC created an illusionary pub with an iron golem disguised as a barman,, another PC rigged a toilet seat with a power word liquify trap so you get turned to water and end up in the "ship" so to speak. It was a bit of a crappy situation really.    I decided to abuse the wish spell. Were were also allowed to start with some magic items other took things like robes of the archmage or rings of protection I took some fruits of potions of longevity. I needed to use a few of them to get the ball rolling on my wish abuse the rest I needed to plant them to grow new wish fruit. The trees that grew new potions also required them to be tended by wizard or rangers so I created a few simulacrums to do the job for me.     Now I knew that the PC or rotating DMs could striike at my nice garden of fruit trees. I need somewhere to be able to grow them. I went to the plane of elemental fire and creaed a prismatic sphere spell and used a wish to make it permanent. inside the sphere I created 4 mordenkainens magnificent mansions and used 4 wishes to make them permanent and another wish spell to clear out the effects of the plane of elemental fire creating a bubble. Behind each door to each of the mansions I created permanent prismatic walls that as the caster I could walk through.     Then I warded the hell out of the prismatic sphere including a Spell Engine spell and 4 golems inside it. The spell engine spell sucked up any spells cast inside the sphere so anyone teleporting inside gets to fight 4 golems in a magic dead zone in effect. If they prevail against that they still suffer the effects of walking through the prismatic walls if they try and enter my mansions. A couple of PC wizards used legend lore spells to figure out where my lair was and promptly died to golems when they tried to breach it.     Inside those mansions was my actual home. 3 of them were out right death traps where even I did not go when I had finished with them. It was full of sigils and things like that with spell effects on the 4th one was my actual home and in that one was where I planted my potions of longevity forest. They were there to offset the aging via wish and stasis clones were used to avoid the death from system shock thing. A small army of golems and simulacrums were also there should anyone manage to figure out what the real home was and manage to breach the outside defenses. Al also used simulacrum on high level fighters to get some variety in the defenses.   That was a themed game where not only we were all wizards we were all archmages. My goal was to have access to a lot of wish spells. My wizard died a lot the 1st time the others thought it was funny and they assumed I lost a level via the normal clone spell. We needed spell components as well and went on a great troll hunt and I died again to a hold person spell cast by a troll shaman (flunking my save 80% chance of making) and the rest of the troll pack tore me apart and the other wizards teleported off. It also turned out supplying wish spells to the other archmages was a good way to make friends and allies so one could manipulate them into doing a variety of misdeeds to each other as we all lived in a vale in towers, a house and a ramshckle shed in my case as the real home was my priismatic sphere bubble.
#4 Artifact Jun 01, 2015 5:39:06	CCS wrote:
#5 Regin_Vargtass Jun 01, 2015 6:30:01	In thirty years of D&D, I can only remember using Wish twice. First, after finishing the original Ravenloft module back in the eighties, the party decided to wish for Castle Ravenloft to be fully renovated (we had already conquered it). Second, last month, all PCs were granted one Wish each at the conclusion of a rather low-level campaign. My gnome paladin wished that a senator of the neighboring country (which was helped to power by the party) and his descendants were granted the power to discern lies at the Senate's podium in the capital.   Both wishes were granted! I am on a roll!
#6 Orethalion Jun 01, 2015 6:44:31	We had just helped save a barbarian tribe from certain destruction.  As a reward, they gave us a wish that their gods grant them once every 100 years.  Not wanting to be greedy, but still wanting some nice things, we wish for "powerful magic items that would allow us to defend the tribe in times of need." figuring that their gods would be more likely to grant us things that weren't just for us.  It worked out better than we imagined.  We all got items that would qualify as major magic items or even in some cases, minor artifacts.  This was from a DM who was stingy on magic items.
(Reply to #4) CCS	Artifact wrote:
#8 Artifact Jun 01, 2015 11:17:57	CCS wrote:
#9 Shasarak Jun 03, 2015 17:52:43	The most memorable Wish that I can think of happened in one of my friends campaigns.  The group was getting trashed by the BBEG and one of them wished "that this had never happened".   So the DM rolled the game right back to the start.   And that was the end of that campaign.