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My gut reaction is no. Lim Wish can mimic any wizard spell of 6th level or lower. A lower-level spell raised to 9th level by metamagic feats counts as a 9th level spell. So, I don't think a limited wish would get you there. However, I think I would allow your original example of an...

Let's see...a couple of good ones. It's hard to come up with a favorite. The first one that springs to mind is Barghaelyss the Ogre Mage. Ooh, the players hated him. HATED him. One of his many schemes was to hire a group of young, inexperienced adventurer heroes to take out his rivals. Of...

I got away from the Oriental Monk in my game world (which has no orient), with just a slight alteration in the flavor text. Since monks make such good mage-killers, I just made that their intent. The elves, who have centuries to master things like martial arts, created the fighting styles and...

You know, I never thought about it this way before, but an archer is uniquely suited to overcoming the new DR system. The complaint I've heard most about the new DR is the "golf bag syndrome"; that characters would have to carry around a weapon of each type of metal to overcome any type of DR...

I'm finding spell resistance to be a major pain for my spellcasting characters, and I'm looking for clever ways to minimize its' impact. I've already got Spell Penetration, focusing on spells that don't allow SR where possible...the ususal stuff. But I'm looking for a spell/item/effect that...

I'd allow that in a heartbeat. I'm experimenting with bards in the game I'm running now; I'm letting them choose between Perform, Bluff, Diplomacy or Intimidate to base their bardic abilities off of, and tweaking said abilities slightly to compensate. So, a standard bard with a comedy focus is...

You know what would make the issue of healing Simulacra easier? If they aquired the construct type. It seems to make sense, per the SRD a construct is "an animated object or an artificially created creature", which seems to fit. As for healing, the SRD says a construct "—Cannot heal damage on...

I think it's worthwhile to Sim yourself. Mecahnically speaking, your 7th-level sim is not very powerful. But it can be really useful from a role-playing standpoint. Having a cohort or follower to run errands is useful, having a second YOU lets you be devious. Of course, in almost every case...

Eadric looked longingly at Nwm and a dreamy expresion spread across his face as he replied "You had me at 'No Mercy', you crazy, hippie death-machine, you..."

I know this is probably not helpful, but I've found the best way to handle running a business in D&D is to take Leadership, and let a trusted follower run it for you. The day-to-day accounting is done behind the scenes, and the success or failure of the business is based on in-game factors...

I think you;re right. A Simulacrum won't detect as magic (unless it actually has some effect on it), can't be dispelled and isn't adversely effected by Antimagic. It's like a Wall of Stone; it's a magical effect that creates it, but it's self-sustaining and real once it's there. Another...

I don't know if I'd call the XP cost "prohibitive". At 20th level you can manage a 20 HD simulacrum for 2000xp. That's a lot, but that's also a lot of creature you can create. I think the thing that really brings the spell under control is the fact that it scales to HD now...unlike the...

Oooo...now THAT'S what I'm talkin about. It's an insight bonus, too, so it would stack with pretty much all of the other bonuses we've come up with. Unfortunately, I'm only 14th level at this point, so 8th level spells are still a little ways away. I think maybe I can be patient for a +21 to...

I'm sure your DM will thank me... ;)

They can't publish the written-out process for becoming a lich because, as it says in the SRD, the process is "unspeakable". Merely recording the process on paper will cause the volume it's written in to smoulder and burst into black, unholy flame. Several warehouses in Lake Geneva were lost...

Hmm...good point. I just picked the Insight bonus out of the air, didn't really check what kinds of bonuses other items/spells used. Make it the same kind of bonus as the elixirs, so they don't stack, and then it's probably a viable spell...

As an aside, what I'm doing with the spell right now is making a simulacrum of a dragon we fought, to a mutual retreat. I'm figuring him at about Old age category, which would put him right at the upper lmit of what I can create with this spell. Some blood off the paladin's sword, a bunch of...

Rather than an item, I was thinking of researching a spell...+10 insight bonus on any one skill, 12-hour duration. This will prove much more useful in future than a one-shot item, or even a permanent item keyed to Disguise. Such a spell may already exist somewhere, but I can't think of...

Fair enough. That makes sense. I'd argue that you COULD take 10 on the disguise roll, but without a skill to supplement the 10, I'd be better off just rollin' the bones and takin' my chances. Thanks Rystil

So, my wizard just picked up Simulacrum, and I'm just now exploring the horrible, horrible things I can do with this spell. Only one thing bugs me...I have no ranks in disguise, so any checks I make to create the likeness of the Simulacrum are untrained, straight CHA rolls. My question is: can...