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<blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 8202796" data-attributes="member: 6988941">You can cast the spell being duplicated as any level from its own base level up to level eight, because any of those is a spell of level 8 or lower that exists. [MEDIA=twitter]930977942305251329[/MEDIA]Even in the face of such authority I certainly think it's reasonable, based on the wording of Wish, for a DM to potentially rule otherwise, and not allow upcasting. But I don't think that really jives with how the game generally treats upcasting. Also never forget that this whole casting lesser spells is just a way for the&nbsp; game to represent wishing for whatever you want without it becoming unmanageable, and having whatever you want be upcast a bit hardly seems gamebreaking when they already get to skip the material components and drop long casting times. Wish is supposed to be a bit broken; that is the lore of Wish.I would caution a DM tempted to not allow upcasting to double-check if they have any reason to do so beyond enforcing their first glance reading of the spell, and if they do have a reason then to triple check that they are not laying down a general ruling on how the spell can work to deal with a very specific problem unlikely to recur.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Benjamin Olson, post: 8202796, member: 6988941"] You can cast the spell being duplicated as any level from its own base level up to level eight, because any of those is a spell of level 8 or lower that exists. [MEDIA=twitter]930977942305251329[/MEDIA] Even in the face of such authority I certainly think it's reasonable, based on the wording of Wish, for a DM to potentially rule otherwise, and not allow upcasting. But I don't think that really jives with how the game generally treats upcasting. Also never forget that this whole casting lesser spells is just a way for the game to represent wishing for whatever you want without it becoming unmanageable, and having whatever you want be upcast a bit hardly seems gamebreaking when they already get to skip the material components and drop long casting times. Wish is supposed to be a bit broken; that is the lore of Wish. I would caution a DM tempted to not allow upcasting to double-check if they have any reason to do so beyond enforcing their first glance reading of the spell, and if they do have a reason then to triple check that they are not laying down a general ruling on how the spell can work to deal with a very specific problem unlikely to recur. [/QUOTE]

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