So me and my companion's encountered and captured a Noble Gkin, and as such, were granted three wishes. After wishing for our ship to be repaired and our NPC friend revived, we have 1 last wish. I was wondering how all of you have used your wishes in the past? Our DM said we could be creative and not nessecarily (sp?) stick directly within the parameters of the guide book.
We are looking to be really creatice and perhaps surprise our DM, so all ideas are welcome. Thanks guys!!
Powerful item of choice.
Special Abilities. (Another feat, daily power,something along those lines.)
Rare mounts.
Some sort of home-base/safe house. (If you play a campaign where that would be useful.)
Teleportation rings (Teleport 1/day or 3/day.. a little item that has saved my ass a few times, or just generally come in handy.)
Various types of magical camping equipment. (Not sure whats avalible in 4ed, but in 3rd ed there's an absurd amount of magic items that makes travelling that much more comfterble.)
If possible save it for later. (Wish for a ring of wishes with one wish on it, then you can save the wish for when you really need it.)
Ofcourse it would depends on what your DM would allow, but atleast it doesn't sound like he's trying to screw up your wishes.
If the literal and "guaranteed" results aren't that appealing, wish for something as benign and "goodly" as possible like the rebuilding of a destroyed town. At least you accomplish several things, even if they aren't related directly to the adventure, and the DM probably won't screw with such a simple and "good" wish.
As soon as you start asking for things that directly benefit you the players without following the rules, DMs tend to get creative with their interpretations.
any other ideas guys? we have a week to mull it over until our next session...
A filmar or psi crystal as a retro class ability .
perminicy of low level spells .
feet foot 2 inch above the ground at all times .
Magic horse bonded of course of course, have to check the monster guide , undead , flying , elemential , etheral .
extra body parts , tail, wings ,extra pair of arms,
really lucky coin +1 luck bonus to ac or saving throws .
wish for a small township. every adventuring party needs a small township.
wish for teleportation rings, but throw one into the ocean and give the other to the BBEG as a reconciliatory gift.
wish for an immunity to a certain powerful poison, then have the rogue keep his hands coated in it at all times. wonderful instant assassination.
wish for more wishes?
do NOT wish for a deck of many things
wish for a map to the nearest unguarded treasure worth more than 50 platinum
wish for a map of all the portals and destinations in sigil (it would have to be an ever changing and very complicated map, but may make travelling much quicker)
wish for amnesia dust
wish for a bag of flour that can have no ill effects on anyone, but that all enemies believe to be magical death dust.
wish for the instant friendship of the next person you speak to, then stay silent until you see a king or god.
Hey - he's a noble Gkin. That's worth at least as much as a generic king, right?
Actually, in general, using the last wish (in some appropriately gracious and polite way) to ask for his goodwill, rather than enmity, might be a good idea. Along similar lines, "well, actually, we're doing pretty well. Is there anything *you'd* particulalry want?" (assuming that Gkin can "grant another's wish" but don't actually have the ability to grant their own.) If he makes bitter noises in response, wish for his goodwill. If he makes a deeply evil request in response, wish that he be reformed (in whatever way would make sense).
Yeah, why not. It worked out well in Disney's Aladdin.
-DF
"I want to be the King of my own Kingdom!"
Awesome. I hope you enjoy it! I'm sure that whole civil war thing will blow over soon. And I hear the black plague wasn't really as bad as everybody said.
"I want to be 5% tiefling."
Great idea! Oh did I mention that while you were gone, tieflings have become hunted like animals throughout the entire world? Hopefully those horns don't grow too large...
"I want our NPC buddy to be raised from the dead."
What a sweet and endearing sentiment! Makes me feel really bad that I accidently possessed his body with a powerful and wholly evil demonic spirit.
Because really, what's the point in just giving things to players? That takes all the fun out of it.
Step 1: Make two wishes for magic items, like an airplane or plasma canon.
Step 2: Head to the nearest center of higher learning and research Noble Dijinn. Verify they match their description in the Monster Manual.
Step 2: Made a trip to a local temple and ask for documentation on a candle of invocation, including its construction and abilities conferred. Verify the item matches the DMG description.
Step 3: Wish for 1 candle of invocation, as you understand it from its description on this research.
Step 4: Use the candle to cast Gate, calling forth a Noble Dijinn. Do this in front of the one which granted you the candle originally to ensure you do not get the same one, which has already granted you wishes.
Step 5: Make two wishes for magic items, like an plasmaplane or air canon.
Step 6: Wish for 1 candle of invocation, as you understand it from its description on this research.
The traditional use for 3 wishes is as follows:
Step 1: Make two wishes for magic items, like an airplane or plasma canon.
Step 2: Head to the nearest center of higher learning and research Noble Dijinn. Verify they match their description in the Monster Manual.
Step 2: Made a trip to a local temple and ask for documentation on a candle of invocation, including its construction and abilities conferred. Verify the item matches the DMG description.
Step 3: Wish for 1 candle of invocation, as you understand it from its description on this research.
Step 4: Use the candle to cast Gate, calling forth a Noble Dijinn. Do this in front of the one which granted you the candle originally to ensure you do not get the same one, which has already granted you wishes.
Step 5: Make two wishes for magic items, like an plasmaplane or air canon.
Step 6: Wish for 1 candle of invocation, as you understand it from its description on this research.
The problem here is that it's a relatively flimsy attempt at game-breaking, using rule bits that have "DM's discretion" written all over them. This will work exactly as much as your DM wants it to, and give said DM more than enough rope to destroy you utterly at whim. Sure, if your DM loves nothign more than to shower the PCs in loot, then this gives him an excuse to shower the PCs in loot, but that doesn't seem to be terribly useful.
The traditional use for 3 wishes is as follows:
Step 1: Make two wishes for magic items, like an airplane or plasma canon.
Step 2: Head to the nearest center of higher learning and research Noble Dijinn. Verify they match their description in the Monster Manual.
Step 2: Made a trip to a local temple and ask for documentation on a candle of invocation, including its construction and abilities conferred. Verify the item matches the DMG description.
Step 3: Wish for 1 candle of invocation, as you understand it from its description on this research.
Step 4: Use the candle to cast Gate, calling forth a Noble Dijinn. Do this in front of the one which granted you the candle originally to ensure you do not get the same one, which has already granted you wishes.
Step 5: Make two wishes for magic items, like an plasmaplane or air canon.
Step 6: Wish for 1 candle of invocation, as you understand it from its description on this research.
Invocation candle is snuffed out by a gust of wind. Noble Djinn is now set free on this plane of existance. He is a L+10 solo. Perhaps that third wish will now need to go to sending this guy back ;)
I'm more interested in the creative, exotic things. Our game is more combat and awesomeness based than pure RPG based, so those are some great ideas.
In the way of money, we are pretty well set, and by pretty well set I mean pirate lords. We command a 5 ship fleet, have a consistant drug smuggling business, as well as other legitamite businesses. Our DM, while a fun guy, isn't that good with math, and let me put a 1000g bet on a 100 to 1 odds arm wrestling match that we fixed. So wishing for gold isn't something I'm worried about.
I'm more interested in the creative, exotic things. Our game is more combat and awesomeness based than pure RPG based, so those are some great ideas.
A flying ship, a magic intelligent parrot pet, a sentient sword, a fortress island stronghold, a conjurable skeleton army to do your bidding...more ships?
A flying ship, a magic intelligent parrot pet, a sentient sword, a fortress island stronghold, a conjurable skeleton army to do your bidding...more ships?
all our ships fly, its part of the Azura world, but the army is a nice idea...
If your pirate lords, this is useful, because you have the law, people you robbed, other pirates, monsters, all sorts of nasty gribblies who want you dead.
That, or Immunity to Mutinies (I think I spelled that right). Especially useful if your ship is run by those kinds of pirates, not the good kind.
- I really like thins one beacause from a DM 's perspective it's rife with plot - the person who recives the death mark( or marker
) could hire to PC's to remove it or try to find the PC and kill him frist , and of course you can't kill him . He is after all your get out of jail free card . Or after you "die" and your death kills the radom guy boom ghost plot . Or other simler marks show up and your party have to get to the truth of the mark . All without neg affecting the PCs . This greatly depends on your DM. Some DMs will go to great lengths to hose a wish even if it's for something minor, though it sounds like you're not having that problem if the first two went off without a hitch.
I had a DM who was keen to do this, so early in the game I researched a spell called "Power Word: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" What it did was allow the caster to say a magic word which would be understandable to any who spoke the same language as the caster, and who's meaning was defined exclusively to mean exactly what the caster meant and cannot mean anything else but what the caster meant it to mean. I explained to the Dm that this was to avoid "Diplomatic misunderstandings"
So if I say "I have a Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" it means that I have a black cat, named Tony McGyre. Never explain to the DM exactly why you would research such a spell, just roll with it.
So when it came around for the DM to hand out his dubious wishes, my Wizard was prepared and naturally "I wish for Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" Meaning I wish to become the king of the country. When the DM tried to twist it by saying "ok you are now laying dead on the throne where the previous king was" I replied, "No, that is not what I wished for at all, I specifically wished for Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious meaning the rightful and legal king and heir to the throne, and not the former dead king, and no, the word cannot possibly mean nor be misunderstood as meaning something else, it only means extactly what I meant it to mean :P
Create a new moon with your initials on it?
Raise a continent fron the sea in the shape of your face?
Make all evil dragons sterile?
Cure all vampires of their curse?
Or for fun and wackiness and retirement: Wish that whenever any one of you is wearing clothes, whatever you do is later attributed to whoever is wearing those clothes.
Why? Well the possibilities are endless.
You already used two of your wishes to great benefit so why tempt fate? Why not wish for something fun that will have no impact on the game (unless you sell it) and that will also be a great tale for years to come?
I've always found a "Get out of horrible death free" card works wonders, depending on the dm, and the amount of plot armor your PCs wear. The occasional death can (and generally will, damn dire tigers and their pounces).
I kind of like this one. I'll have to remember it.
I got one ,a tattoed type death mark - you get a small tattoo , another tattoo appers on a random person in the world and when you die your death is tranfered to them .
This is the kind of wish I would twist. The other mark would either appear on another party member (randomly) or, if they were empathic enough (which I doubt, given the wish) on a baby they would have to deal with very soon....
My last wish was at the end of a long campaign where a wish was being granted to each party member for disovering why magic was being drained from the world. We found out why (a rift) and failed to close it, but were being given the wish anyway.
My wish was that we had succeeded in closing the rift. I had a table full of opened-mouths for several heartbeats.
The DM simply said "Done" and went on to try and twist everyone elses wish.
Eric the Grey