I perfectly acceptable ruling, but alas... not a rule.
Rulings ftw. I think the alternative is a semantic argument that goes against RAI.
I perfectly acceptable ruling, but alas... not a rule.
Meh -- IMO it is more "Rulings? WTF!?!"Rulings ftw. I think the alternative is a semantic argument that goes against RAI.
Best ironic response yet.Meh -- IMO it is more "Rulings? WTF!?!"
RAI is a lazy way for game design. If you intend for something to work a certain way, right the rule (or whatever) so it works that way.
Honestly since the simalcra are simply illusions of snow and ice given partial reality and not real beings, if a mage in my game did that, I'd rule that having the simalcra cast wish to let an illusion of themselves break the rules of magic would require the mage to roll the wish roll for abusing the spell. Once they eventually failed and weren't ever able to cast a wish again the simalcra of them would lose that ability as well as only real beings can cast wish (my rule) and the simalcra are only able to cast it as a proxy for the mage.Wish duplicates casting the spell simulacrum that simulacra are banned from casting per the rules. I would just tell the player "no, casting the spell and duplicating the spell is the same thing." Done.
It's okay to tell no to the players.
You can't rest to recover wish after spending it on the simulacrum and then have the simulacrum cast wish. The simulacrum is created without the wish spell that way because the slot's been spent.
That doesn't actually stop repeatedly using the simulacrum spell to get a simulacrum with wish prepared slots to use it for some downtime shenanigans with a lot of money to spend.
I don't like to deviate from RAW, so in my campaigns I would totally allow this multiple simulacrums and every enemy they faced would also have Truesight and Dispel Magic, making them pretty ineffective and short-lived.
Also based on the wording of Dispel Magic, I would also say targeting the Wizard who cast it with Dispel Magic would dispel all of them.
In any case I have never seen this be the most effective PC in play and I don't forsee it being the most effective.