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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Artoomis" data-source="post: 1067342" data-attributes="member: 111">Clear limits.  That's not really true.Note that this statement does not deliniate what a wish cannot do, but leaves that up to the DM to adjuticate.A wish may do ANYTHING, but it's DANGEROUS to produce greater effects than those listed.  The DM must adjuticate.What happens when you wish for something more powerul than what is listed is totally and completely up to the DM.  The wish may get perveted or partially fulfilled, but other things may happen as well, including having the wish just plain out-and-out granted.Thus my statement that you can do anything with a wish.  Obviously, if you ask for a +2 inherent bonus to stat (how would you phrase that?), you're not going to get it unless it's perveted into something else - like a reduction in one stat to boost another, a change in creature type, or something else unanticipated.  But it can happen - just probably not the way the wisher intended.There is no actual limit to the power of a wish.  A list of things that are pretty much sure things is provided, but beyond that there is no real limit except whatever the DM decides is appropriate.  In other words, I can pretty readily tell you waht a wish can do, but I cannot tell you what a wish cannot do.So one cannot even definitively state  that you cannot gain a +2 inherent bonus to a stat from one wish.  You might get it, along with some other unexpected thing that happens.This is not just semantics.  It the difference between:"Sorry, that does not work, you asked for something a wish cannot do."and"You say you want a +2 inherent bonus to STR?  Well, here it comes... Whoops - it looks like it came with an inherent penalty of -2 to Dex.  Bummer, eh?"</blockquote>

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