[HELP!] Limited Wish

[Iron_Chef]

What can you wish for with limited wish?

Would these be reasonable uses...

1. "I wish I knew the current password to enter Castle Maerimydra." Limited Wish could mimic contact other plane to get the correct answer without risk of insanity, right?

2. "I wish I was younger." Caster's age instantly reduced by 1d4 years at a cost of 100 XP/year (minimum 300 XP). There's a 6th level spell in the Witch's Handbook called restore youth that does this. Or, "I wish I was younger but (insert name here of person you are touching) aged the same number of years by which I became younger." Again, Green Ronin's Witch's Handbook has a 4th level spell called Steal Youth that does this.

3. "I wish the next time I become subject to any magical enchantment effect from a caster other than myself, that the magical enchantment effect affecting me would be broken." Break enchantment is then cast on the caster the next time he fails a Will save vs. an enchantment effect...

A wizard could briefly become a "virtual" cleric or fighter with this spell, causing it to duplicate any cure or raise dead spell (not to mention flame strike), or Divine Power, Tenser's Transformation...

Okay, but what about "wishing for greater effects"? What are some clever uses you've seen for limited wish? What advice do you have on using it?

 

[Plane Sailing]

1. I would judge this reasonable.

2. No, I'd have this fail. in the standard books there are no spells for reducing age, and for very good (D&D) reasons - old age is the ultimate killer.

3. It depends - if the caster was able to make the effect of a contingency "break enchantment", then this would be OK, but I believe that break enchantment is too high a level. Perhaps a contingency dispel magic though?

I think this is a brilliant spell for sorcerers, since (at a cost) it gives you the ultimate in flexibility.

 

[Jalkain]

Here's one for you...

Could you use Limited Wish to master a spellbook? Say you capture another wizard's spellbook, could you save the time and money you would normally need to spend to master all the spells.

Maybe, instad of automatic success, you would still have to roll a spellcraft check for each spell to check for comprehension of that spell, but then all understood spells are treated as yours?

Or is this just too powerful for Limited Wish?

 

[Tabarnak Smokeblower]

Here's one for you...

Could you use Limited Wish to master a spellbook? Say you capture another wizard's spellbook, could you save the time and money you would normally need to spend to master all the spells.

In the FRCS (EDIT: its in Magic of Faerun) you can use the Spellcraft Check to master a foreign spellbook (DC is 25 + highest spell level in the book). Its takes 10 days + 1 day per spell in the book.

Wishing for a +30 (for example) bonus to 1 spellcraft check isn't out of range with the description of the spell, IMO.

TS

 

[Jalkain]

In the FRCS (EDIT: its in Magic of Faerun) you can use the Spellcraft Check to master a foreign spellbook (DC is 25 + highest spell level in the book). Its takes 10 days + 1 day per spell in the book.

TS

Okay, you're suggesting using Limited Wish to make the DC check. Nice idea, but the process presumably still takes several weeks. If the approach I've described is reasonable than it might be the better way to go.

 

[Tabarnak Smokeblower]

Using the method described in MoF, the only thing you need is time (if you miss, you have to wait until you gain a rank in Spellcraft), so using Limited Wish to cut down that time (to 0, basically) wouldn't seem unbalanced to me.

TS