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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Anubis" data-source="post: 2685814" data-attributes="member: 2358">If the PC wishes for the hammer directly, the most obvious way to handle it is put the hammer in the PC's hand . . . wherever the hammer is currently located.  If this is in a monster's lair, or even worse, in a monster's hand, the PC will think twice before getting too greedy in the future.If the PC wishes for the party to get teleported to the place the hammer calls home, put them at the start of whatever stage the hammer is in.Personally, I dislike wish greatly.  For a 9th-Level spell, it's incredibly weak.  You can duplicate any spell of 8th-Level or lower . . . for 5000 XP.  This really isn't too incredibly handy.  Personally, I'd likely house rule wish to be a bit more powerful, maybe akin to what one can wish for using the Dragonballs or from a genie.  My rule would be, if it sounds reasonable for a request that can be done with the maximum non-epic power, I'd be cool with it, but any more powerful than that and it'd get dangerous and the PC better be wording it more and more carefully.Raise all your slain friends?  Okay, done, unless they've been raised before.Cast any non-epic spell plus free use of non-epic metamagic feats (i.e. maximized horrid wilting)?  Okay, sounds fine considering you're paying a massive 5000 XP for it.Become a god?  Not gonna happen, that would make the spell more powerful than the spellcaster casting it.I would also get rid of the requirement for inherent bonuses where you have to cast the spells back-to-back; it's simply ridiculous and means the minimum caster level to pull it off is 26th for a +5.  By then, this stuff should be common.  I would allow each subsequent wish at any later time to push the inherent bonus up one, without them having to be cast at the same time.Wish to acquire an artifact?  Artifacts trump wish so know, although I may tell you where it is, and you can figure out how to get it for yourself.Basically, wish is awful the way it's written.  It's a 9th-Level spell costing 5000 XP.  Be generous, but make sure that if a wish is epic power, it could backfire, and if it's too powerful, it just ain't gonna happen at all because it is "beyond your power".</blockquote>

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