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From: bane@umcp-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: Re: interesting uses of wishes
Message-ID: <3033@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Oct-83 17:15:56 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  7 17:15:56 1983
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Wishes should be run according to the principle of conservation of effort
expended to grant them.  This of course assumes a lazy wish-granting entity.
For example, "I wish my sword of cold would never break" should be granted
by turning the sword into a very strong non-cold (hence non-brittle) sword.
Some GM's I know grant wishes for a magical item by teleporting the item away
from the nearest being who owns one. This gets interesting since the owners
are usually high-level NPC's or easily irritated PC's.
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