Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grog" data-source="post: 3872311" data-attributes="member: 6183">That is exactly what they encourage. As an example, the 1E rules for wish suggested that if a player wished for the petrification gaze of a basilisk, the DM should have him grow a second basilisk head in addition to his own.Yes. And what is unfair, unrealistic, or otherwise game-breaking is completely up to the DM. And since the player has no way of knowing whether something he's going to wish for falls into the "unfair" category in his DM's judgment before he makes the wish, he had no way of knowing if the wish would result in his character being permanently crippled, disfigured, or otherwise screwed over. That's a badly-designed spell.Again, one of the examples given for an acceptable wish was the character gaining the use of a +1 sword for the duration of a single combat, so wishing for anything more powerful than that (outside of a few things explicitly spelled out in the rules, like 1/10th of a point stat increases) made a PC fair game for whatever nastiness the DM might choose to visit upon him. That's hardly an "ultimate" spell, now is it?</blockquote>