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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 763837" data-attributes="member: 1656">It depends how you go about it.If you Wish for a +1 inherent bonus to Strength, then you have a +1.If you come back a year later and Wish again for a +1 inherent bonus to Strength, you get another +1 inherent bonus... that does not stack with the first one.What you need to do is cast two Wish spells in immediate succession and wish for a +2 inherent bonus... that does not stack with either of the +1 inherent bonuses you already have.Then, a few years later, you're fortunate enough to find a Luck Blade with 5 wishes, and burn them all to gain a +5 inherent bonus to Strength.So in this case, to get +5 cost the character 9 wishes : 1 + 1 + 2 + 5.If, however, you'd used the Luck Blade to boost your Intelligence instead, it would only have cost you 5 wishes in total, since you hadn't wasted any on a lower inherent bonus before.In similar fashion, once you've used a Wish to boost your Dexterity by one point, a +1 Manual of Quickness of Action makes a lovely doorstop, but is otherwise of no use to you.  (Unless you sell it for vast amounts of money, of course.)-Hyp.</blockquote>