Repeating Wish

[Aust Diamondew]

In the final epic battle of my campaign a few days ago the sorcerer casted a repeating (tome and blood) wish (he took improved spell capacity 4 times), since he had a butt load of 'excess' xp I didn't worry about it at the time. But looking back on it I was wondering if he would have to pay 10k or 5k xp to cast repeating wish.
Thanks!

 

[dragnmastr85]

Im the epic sorceror. In this battle I also had energy admixtured sonic meteor swarms. And yes, we earned these characters since level 1 MUHAHAHA. Great campaign Joel!!!

 

[Felix]

Doesn't [Repeat Spell] say something like "If the spell has material components, the caster must provide the components for each iterative casting of the spell; if the spell has an XP component, the caster must pay XP for each casting of the spell."?

If it has either of those two bits, then he has paid 10k XP.

Would you mind posting the wording of [Repeat Spell] metamagic feat?

 

[dragnmastr85]

SHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

 

[dragnmastr85]

This should clear things up

 

[UltimaGabe]

That actually didn't seem to clear anything up at all. The wording isn't very specific- due to, of course, the fact that none of the 3e splatbooks were very well-worded to begin with- but, after all, the wording DOES state that the spell is cast again at the beginning of your next action. Therefore, I'd say it would indeed take an addition 5,000 xp, but not until the spell goes off (so, for example, if something happened after the initial spell but before the secondary spell that would stop it from being cast, he wouldn't lose the xp because the spell was never cast a second time).

 

[Hypersmurf]

That actually didn't seem to clear anything up at all. The wording isn't very specific- due to, of course, the fact that none of the 3e splatbooks were very well-worded to begin with- but, after all, the wording DOES state that the spell is cast again at the beginning of your next action. Therefore, I'd say it would indeed take an addition 5,000 xp, but not until the spell goes off (so, for example, if something happened after the initial spell but before the secondary spell that would stop it from being cast, he wouldn't lose the xp because the spell was never cast a second time).

Careful, though... if you're using the fact that the spell is 'cast again' to justify a second requirement of an XP cost, why not a second requirement of a verbal or somatic component as well?

If the caster casts Repeated Wish, then walks into a Silence spell, does the second Wish occur?

-Hyp.

 

[dragnmastr85]

Id have to agree with the last post. not just because I was the caster but because it actually makes sense. I gave my DM the scenario of; I cast repeating wish (or any other spell for that matter), then cast a quickened teleport. I wont be there, but the spell will still go off. Its a tough call.

 

[dragnmastr85]

Another issue that came up but didnt need to resolved because of what I did was, if I use repeating wish, can the wish be something else or does it have to be the same wish. I was thinking as a resolve if the wish is different, it might require the extra exp. But if the wish is the same, you have already paid the cost at casting a repeating wish, therefore you shouldnt have to pay. What do you guys think?

 

[UltimaGabe]

Another issue that came up but didnt need to resolved because of what I did was, if I use repeating wish, can the wish be something else or does it have to be the same wish. I was thinking as a resolve if the wish is different, it might require the extra exp. But if the wish is the same, you have already paid the cost at casting a repeating wish, therefore you shouldnt have to pay. What do you guys think?

Well, considering that a Repeated spell has to be able to target the same targets as the initial spell, I'd say that it implies very strongly that it has to be the same Wish.