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<blockquote data-quote="ThirdWizard" data-source="post: 2122656" data-attributes="member: 12037">You've seen <a href="http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=125946" target="_blank">this thread</a>. It's said in jest, but if anything like that ever happened in a game I was playing in I'd be flabbergasted. I would never expect such a thing to actually happen. The consensus seems to be that even though what he wanted was in line with the power of a wish, that its okay to screw over a player just to be funny. And this is from people on this board who I would expect to trust! You yourself condoned the behavior. I do not. It might be a funny &quot;what if&quot; scenario before we get back to the real game, but that is all.It makes me wonder if, with wish, normally very honest and nice DMs suddenly become evil caniving DMs. Frankly, and the consensus seems to back me up on this.And my position is nothing of the sort. My position is that the power of the wish and a general idea of how far the DM is willing to take it is important. Personally, if a wish is too powerful in my game, nothing happens. They have a general idea of where the cutoff is, but no specifics. I suppose if you want a wizard to waste 10k xp before knowing where that is, its your perrogative, but I would rather not.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ThirdWizard, post: 2122656, member: 12037"] You've seen [url="http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=125946"]this thread[/url]. It's said in jest, but if anything like that ever happened in a game I was playing in I'd be flabbergasted. I would never expect such a thing to actually happen. The consensus seems to be that even though what he wanted was in line with the power of a wish, that its okay to screw over a player just to be funny. And this is from people on this board who I would expect to trust! You yourself condoned the behavior. I do not. It might be a funny "what if" scenario before we get back to the real game, but that is all. It makes me wonder if, with [i]wish[/i], normally very honest and nice DMs suddenly become evil caniving DMs. Frankly, and the consensus seems to back me up on this. And my position is nothing of the sort. My position is that the power of the wish and a general idea of how far the DM is willing to take it is important. Personally, if a [i]wish [/i]is too powerful in my game, nothing happens. They have a general idea of where the cutoff is, but no specifics. I suppose if you want a wizard to waste 10k xp before knowing where that is, its your perrogative, but I would rather not. [/QUOTE]

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