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<blockquote data-quote="Oracular Vision" data-source="post: 201483" data-attributes="member: 2265">Sure, no problem.Wishes are like dragons, special and mysterious. He hasn't said how he got the ring, but if I remeber right, it has a very high value, and is probably more than he was supposed to get according to the DMG player/loot ratios. But lets say he killed off a major bad guy, and is high enough level, and somehow really should have gotten a treasure this good. The DM obviously didn't want him to have it, as he is screwing him over. Wouldn't he have been better off with a same-value magic item that he could use all the time without any &quot;value judgements&quot; from the DM? If used fairly, you could get three stat bonuses from a ring of three wishes, and that's very powerful.Truthfully, the ring is better used for other things anyway, though, as he could get stat bumps from magic items for less money value also.Consider this, a party member fails a save and dies, and he was the parties only cleric. &quot;I wish he had made his save.&quot; Poof! Bad thing fixed. There is no other magic item that can undo the bad things that happen, so it can be very helpful in these circumstances. Because he is using them immediately on himself, he is not demonstrating an understanding of the true usefulness of the ring, and is not worthy of it I think.But, what the hey, Monty Haul rewards goes right along with the three times faster character advancment and monster dumbing down of 3rd Edition.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Oracular Vision, post: 201483, member: 2265"] Sure, no problem. Wishes are like dragons, special and mysterious. He hasn't said how he got the ring, but if I remeber right, it has a very high value, and is probably more than he was supposed to get according to the DMG player/loot ratios. But lets say he killed off a major bad guy, and is high enough level, and somehow really should have gotten a treasure this good. The DM obviously didn't want him to have it, as he is screwing him over. Wouldn't he have been better off with a same-value magic item that he could use all the time without any "value judgements" from the DM? If used fairly, you could get three stat bonuses from a ring of three wishes, and that's very powerful. Truthfully, the ring is better used for other things anyway, though, as he could get stat bumps from magic items for less money value also. Consider this, a party member fails a save and dies, and he was the parties only cleric. "I wish he had made his save." Poof! Bad thing fixed. There is no other magic item that can undo the bad things that happen, so it can be very helpful in these circumstances. Because he is using them immediately on himself, he is not demonstrating an understanding of the true usefulness of the ring, and is not worthy of it I think. But, what the hey, Monty Haul rewards goes right along with the three times faster character advancment and monster dumbing down of 3rd Edition. [/QUOTE]

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