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From: kechkayl@pur-ee.UUCP (David L Kechkaylo)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: Re: interesting uses of wishes
Message-ID: <1015@pur-ee.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Oct-83 03:39:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: pur-ee.1015
Posted: Fri Oct  7 03:39:28 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Oct-83 08:15:11 EDT
References: ihuxe.360
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About the article from ihuxe!rainbow, as a DM, I would never allow any of the
wishes he specified. For instance:

1) He awished that a magic item of his would not hacve to make saving throws
   when it normally would have to (ie. After fumbles, and {I think} after
   being fireballed, lightning bolted, disintegrated . . . etc.) Unfortunately,
   if the DM allows this use of a wish he has to allow any reasonable 
   extrapolation of the wish, such as "I wish that my Vorpal Sword would
   never break" or "I wish that my Horn of Blasting would never break". One
   nice way a DM has of achieving a "turnover" of magic items is item saving
   throws. A case where the wish is ok, but the precedent is not.

2) He wishes that two very nice magic rings (+3 protection and invisibility)
   would merge into one functional ring. The 2 ring limit is there for a very
   good reason. For instance, picture a high level mage wearing a double
   ring of Wizardry that doubles (say) third and fourth level spell. An ugly
   thought ?? It should be. Rings tend to be high magic, and two rings will
   likely be all that you would want to see any player wearing anyway.

3) Finally, he wishes that his fighting ability would be as if he were one
   level higher. I, personally, am against wishes permanently affecting 
   fighting ability. I agree that as specified (ie. a 16th level thief),
   the wish doesn't have all that much effect (If the campaign is fast enough
   so that 16th to 17th level thief doesn't take all that long). However, in
   other worlds, this would be disastrous. Can you see all the 7th level
   rangers trying to get a wish so they could get 3/2 earlier? I have such a
   character in a world where magic tends to be medium rich, but experience
   more scarce. I would love to get a wish and get 3/2 rather than almost
   doubling my experience.

I think that in all these cases, my objections are all on a long term basis.
If you allow a specific type of wish, you are almost forced to allow reason-
able extrapolations from them. Therefore if you can forsee cases in the future
where you would not like another wish of this type to come along, you should
not allow the first wish.

					A conservative at heart,

						Tom Ruschak