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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neo" data-source="post: 2209143" data-attributes="member: 4139">This is a debate I have had with my players before, and after a number of unfortunate incidents they no longer take wishes for granted and are very careful about what they ask for and checking out who exactly is granting it.For me it depends greatly on the source of the wish..  for example if a high level priest casts miracel, or a high level wizard casts wish..they pay the xp and they get more or less what they asked for with no perversion or literal interpretations of wordings or hidden consequences, they have paid the price and the get the benefit.However if they are granted a wish by someone else (who is paying the price)..then their interpretation of what they want is moot it is the granters interpretation that counts and in such circumstances their may be twisting of intention or consequences or price to pay.With regards to wishes and the like from items..again it depends very much on the origin, creator and itent of the item.. a wish granted from a luck blade made by a lawful good silver dragon and worshipper of Paladine is likely to work far differently than one used from a Ring of Wishes produced by the Pasha of the Efreets who for generations has wanted nothing more than to get a foothold in the prime material plane..I guess what im saying is wishes shouldn't be straight forward unless the PC is powering it himself.  Otherwise they are in reciept on some of the most powerful beneficial magic available and it is entirely reasonable that such a boon should come with complications and/or consequences.  There is an old saying "There is no such thing as something fopr nothing".  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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