I have TWO wishes. Help please!!

[Oracular Vision]

I'm a 5th-level human Wizard. The ring belonged to my mother, also my teacher, and when she died of old age I inherited her ring. I later found out I couldn't take the ring off.

Anymore questions?

-Justin Sluder

Ring of Three Wishes: Price - 97,950 gp
Recommended treasure cap for 5th level character: 9,000 gp

So, he has a magic item 10 times as large as his character should have. So, I was right all along, like I figured, and the DM is incompetent. But we already knew that.

The answer is to get another DM, yours is defective, I'd check the warranty and get your money back if you can.

 

[Hejdun]

I agree, your DM is a malicious bastard.

Your wish should be "I wish that this ring was real so that I could throw it at the DM".

 

[Fade]

Wish that you become smarter than you ever have been before. If this works, you can continue being a wizard, and just ignore the last wish. If he screws you over again, you character is useless (can't cast spells), so retire him. Then 'retire' your DM.

 

[Zappo]

Damn! I wrote a post yesterday and the boards gobbled it.

I was thinking that a cursed ring of three wishes, like this one seems to be since it can't be taken away, which perverts the meaning of any wish you make to screw you acrobatically, is a cool plot element. Maybe the DM is just planning something.

...or, more probably, he is a bastard and you should trash him. If you don't want to trash him, try "I wish this ring to have never existed" or "I wish to have never found this ring" or "I wish the thief who sold me the map to the dungeon where I found this ring got horribly killed in a dark alley before meeting me, and the rats chewed away the map", or "I wish whoever son of a bitch forged this ring contracted ebola and died in horrible pains and without possibility of resurrection the moment he thought about forging this ring". The last one might be very bad if the DM decides that it was you who forged the ring in the future and then traveled in the past to give it to your mother, though.

 

[Arravis]

I would ask your DM, VERY carefully, if this is simply a plot element or is this the way he handles wishes. If it's a plot element of some sort, as the "cursed ring of wishes" mentioned above, that's one thing, if this is the way he handles wishes, you have an entirely different problem.

If this is the way he handles wishes, that also means he's handing out items of tremendous power at a time he shouldn't be. I am guessing that your DM (and probably yourself) are relatively new to D&D. If that's the case, then talk to your DM about this issue and in general what you expect from a DM. Send him the URL to this site and this board. He clearly has a good deal to learn, but then again, when we started, we all did.

If your DM is an experienced DM, and the ring is not a plot element, I would quit the character and leave his game immediately. I'm guessing this is still fairly early in the game and hopefully you haven't gotten too attached to your character. Either way, it's not worth the waste of time and pains this is likely to put you through. Quit while it's early, let him know he's handling this badly.

Just my 2 cents.

-Arravis