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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kenobi65" data-source="post: 3286074" data-attributes="member: 1515">I wouldn't say "common", but my recollection is that we encountered a fair number of wish-granting magic items in our 1E days.My biggest recollection is somewhere in the Underdark / Drow series of modules.  There's a lich encounter (he's just hanging out there in the caverns), and he killed us all.  Fortunately, our cleric had 2 rings on...a Ring of Regeneration, and a Ring of Three Wishes.  The lich was pretty beat-up by the encounter, and went off to "sleep it off", instead of looting our bodies immediately.  When the cleric regenerated back to consciousness, he used the ring to wish the party back to full health.  We then went after Mr. Lich, and cleaned his clock.Wishes seemed to backfire more often than not.  We had one player use a Ring of Wishes when the party got tired of getting beat up in a dungeon.  He said, "I wish that we, and all the treasure, and everything in this dungeon, were all back in my room in the inn."  The DM interpreted that one literally, and, for a moment, Falzar's room at the inn contained the party, and the treasure...and a tribe of orcs, and a purple worm.  The entire inn burst at the seams, and the town guards never did figure out who inflicted all those monsters on the city.In all of our 3E/3.5 play, I don't think I've ever seen Wish used, and I've seen Miracle used once.  We had a 3.5 campaign that started at 1st level (with Sunless Citadel), and went all the way to 20th (with Bastion of Broken Souls); in that campaign, my fire genasi wizard had Wish when she got to 17th or 18th level, but never used it.</blockquote>

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