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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 3035517" data-attributes="member: 22424">Introducing such a thing alters the way the Rogue's trapfinding skill works. Players have a right to know if it's possible. In theory, the player of the Rogue might decide to choose to play something else if he knows that, no matter how high he raises his modifier, there will exist traps that he simply cannot detect. (That might be an extreme reaction, but it's a possible one. And, since the character is the only thing the player controls in the game, it is a choice the player has a right to make.) To be fair, the DM has to tell the player that this is a possibility.I would doubt very much that that is within the scope of the powers of the Wish spell. What you're suggesting is a trap that the God of Rogues cannot detect via Search. Would you allow a wish "I wish I can never be harmed by non-magical means"?Additionally, is it clear that the Search skill includes only non-magical means? Isn't it more reasonable to think that, in a magical universe, the Rogue picks up bits and pieces about detecting glyphs and wards, and unravelling such things? I don't know exactly how it would work (since magic is not perfectly defined), but perhaps he uses special crystals to focus the lines of power, or marks the level with runes of detection, or something.</blockquote>