Got to use a (limited) wish!

[Voadam]

In an e-mail solo game I play in my 16th level eldritch knight just used a limited wish in the game. Its the first time I've ever used one as a player in over 20 years of playing (that one time using an artefact with unlimited wishes in the Courts of Chaos does not count). It felt really cool.

Here was the setup, I've been hunting a tiefling warlock demon pacter and his minions in his wilderness fortress among a power ritual set of stones after having been betrayed by the warlock and him having stolen most of my stuff (He taunts me by using UMD to wear my white robes of the arch magi). I've killed his high level and demonic allies one by one until it is just him and his village full of low level nonmagical minions with him up in his tower in the middle of the village. This has been going on for more than a year in real time.

I teleport into the village and make my way up to the tower. He's been crafting and doing ritual stuff and has tons of magic traps and buffs and is waiting within darkness up above in the tower with new items and magical preparations designed specifically for my weaknesses.

He's been blasting through my magical defenses and causing damage with each one dispelled.

Here is the message I sent.

If he gets an AoO then I say bring it. "Dyson! Your doom is upon you
demonspawn."

No special commands. Fly up and in, blocking the window exit with move action then limited wish antimagic. "I wish no magic to interfere with our clash."

He is higher level than me, but a scrawny straight classed warlock focused entirely on magic stuff. My EK has high strength and lots of melee combat feats including improved unarmed strike.

From the DM

Dyson, looking aghast at all of his formidable protections and
abjurations snuffed out hikes up his robes of the arch-magi and bolts
for the door. His flight is met by a vicious lotus strike from Voadam
+16 <20> hitting for d3+4 <6> damage. Dyson grunts with the pain not
that he's lost the fiendish resilience of his skin as he throws a lever
unbolting the trap-door in the floor.

Five foot step to full attack and grapple then pin then I'm going to snap his neck. Slowly.

Best 300 xp I've spent in a game.

Any cool uses of wishes you care to share?

 

[Aeric]

I can't remember the specifics of them, but I do remember spending almost an entire session writing out a Wish and poring over the words again and again to make sure there was nothing to DM could use to screw us. This was 2nd Edition, and there was effectively no limit to what a Wish could grant you.

My only experience with 3.X Wishes was in a Deck of Many Things. They were used to pump up the character's stats. Boring!

 

[Corsair]

And that is the best use of limited wish. 300 XP for being able to use any one of the lower level spells which MIGHT end up being really really really useful in a fight, but generally won't be.

 

[DrNilesCrane]

I had a BBEG use a Wish spell to bring back the party to the audience chamber they were attempting to flee from. Only one PC made his save and kept going; the rest were suddenly teleported back into the room (and a vicious fight).

Same campaign, another instance: the party was trapped in a dungeon that needed a specific key to get through a door. Magic wouldn't work, hacking through the walls would have taken days, etc. The party contacted another character outside the dungeon via Sending and asked for help. The other character had taken a ring with a Wish off an enemy and decided to use it. She knew the name of the NPC with the key, but didn't know which key the party needed or even what it looked like, so she Wished for all of the NPC's keys to appear where the party was. Suddenly, it was raining keys (they guy had a few dozen keys).

 

[VirgilCaine]

Five foot step to full attack and grapple then pin then I'm going to snap his neck. Slowly.

I didn't know you could do that slowly.

Anyway, I can't wait till I get to use a Wish for something.