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<blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 9609531" data-attributes="member: 15538">Can Zeus make Morain a halfling thief of middling experience? Depending on the cosmology, probably &quot;no&quot; or &quot;Yes, if he got the drop on him.&quot; But in no case would I allow that as a Wish. If you Wish that in my game, some halfling out there somewhere, who is a middling thief, now happens to be named Moradin. Moradin is still Moradin.Can Zeus shorten the year by two days? Depends on your cosmology. In my games, probably not in a routine basis, but if he were determined and got some help, and expended significant divine resources, quit possibly. Can a Wish do this in my game? No. If you Wish this, you disappear two days into the future, making YOUR year shorter by two days.I never said a god can do all those things. I questioned whether EVEN a god can do those things. In my mind, a Wish cannot do those things. Not straightforward. A wish is not, as was said upthread, &quot;being the GM.&quot; Quite the opposite, it's an attempt to alter reality, and the GM is encouraged, even obligated, to curtail what that does. I know in previous editions of D&amp;D, like the BECMI series, wishing blue dragons can't breathe lightning was given as an example of something a Wish can't do. Explicitly, it cannot change any macro conditions of the game world.In my mind, altering the game world cosmology, even by just a few astronomical minutes, is outside the bounds of what a Wish can do. If you Wish for something like that, it alters events locally to produce a similar result. Period.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pawsplay, post: 9609531, member: 15538"] Can Zeus make Morain a halfling thief of middling experience? Depending on the cosmology, probably "no" or "Yes, if he got the drop on him." But in no case would I allow that as a Wish. If you Wish that in my game, some halfling out there somewhere, who is a middling thief, now happens to be named Moradin. Moradin is still Moradin. Can Zeus shorten the year by two days? Depends on your cosmology. In my games, probably not in a routine basis, but if he were determined and got some help, and expended significant divine resources, quit possibly. Can a Wish do this in my game? No. If you Wish this, you disappear two days into the future, making YOUR year shorter by two days. I never said a god can do all those things. I questioned whether EVEN a god can do those things. In my mind, a Wish cannot do those things. Not straightforward. A wish is not, as was said upthread, "being the GM." Quite the opposite, it's an attempt to alter reality, and the GM is encouraged, even obligated, to curtail what that does. I know in previous editions of D&D, like the BECMI series, wishing blue dragons can't breathe lightning was given as an example of something a Wish can't do. Explicitly, it cannot change any macro conditions of the game world. In my mind, altering the game world cosmology, even by just a few astronomical minutes, is outside the bounds of what a Wish can do. If you Wish for something like that, it alters events locally to produce a similar result. Period. [/QUOTE]

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