So Wish wasn't abolished, after all...

[Grazzt]

Heheh...

"I wish to be immortal!"

Then you pull a Twilight Zone on the immortal PC, have him/her convicted of a crime, and sentenced to life in prison.

 

[Destil]

Wish as a mechanic to allow a deal with the devil? No problem whatsoever.

 

[lbporter]

Heheh...

"I wish to be immortal!"

If you thought the problems of old age were bad at 75, immagine 300, or 700, or 2000. being alive to feel yourbody rotting away due to the ravages of time. All of that pain and you cannot die. I guess you have to watch what you wish for.

 

[robertliguori]

Then you pull a Twilight Zone on the immortal PC, have him/her convicted of a crime, and sentenced to life in prison.

If you're high enough on the food chain to get a Pit Fiend's attention, its a good guess there is not a PoL authority that could make a credible attempt at holding you. What you really need to be worried about is being buried in landslides or falling into volcanoes and such.

(Mind you, when you have long since gone out of your mind with pain and suffering and have had the Tainted Raver or moral equivalent applied to you, then you need to worry about evil cults 'rescuing' you.)

 

[robertliguori]

If you thought the problems of old age were bad at 75, immagine 300, or 700, or 2000. being alive to feel yourbody rotting away due to the ravages of time. All of that pain and you cannot die. I guess you have to watch what you wish for.

"I spend some of my eternal lifespan multiclassing. I cast Alter Self. Woohoo! I have joints again!"

 

[Ahglock]

Am I the only one who sees the once every 99 years part and basically writes off pit fiends having wish accept for some story point I as the DM wish to incorporate.

I summon the pit fiend horzath and command him to give me a wish.
"Dude you so totally should of summoned me yesterday, cause then I could help you, but now you got to wait 99 years."

 

[Wolfwood2]

Given that "Immortal" seems to be a subtype modifier that can be attached to humanoids, wishing for immorality is probably the system is designed to handle.

I expect that "Immortal" is the endpoint for a lot of Epic Destinies.

 

[Hjorimir]

Am I the only one who sees the once every 99 years part and basically writes off pit fiends having wish accept for some story point I as the DM wish to incorporate.

You say that like it is a bad thing. If you, the DM, want to let a PC summon up a pit fiend and ask for a wish you can easily go along with it or deny it. Looks good to me!

 

[Shroomy]

If I can accept Eldritch Machines in Eberron, I can certainly accept pit fiends being allowed to grant wishes every 99 years. It certainly avoids the efreeti problem.

 

[Li Shenron]

A few years ago I suggested to replace the XP cost of spells with requiring the caster to wait 1 day per XP before it could cast the spell again.

I was treated as "nuts", because "having to wait 5000 days ~ 15 years to cast Wish again is insane".

But if WotC does it, it's brilliant?