Wishes & Perversions - Post Yours

[Angelsboi]

What are some of the wishes you could think of that PCs would wish for and how could you pervert them?

I wish i was the most intelligent creature in the world.

*BAM*

Hes now a Mind Flayer.

I wish i was the most powerful Spellcaster in the world

*BAM*

Now hes a Lich!

POST YOURS!!

 

[Furn_Darkside]

Well, I only twist wishes if the pc is trying to be abusive about the wish.

The one that comes to mind is something along:

"I wish death on all those who have caused me harm."

This pc had caused almost all the grief he suffered (by going adventuring in the first place, and being a jerk in the second).

He died.

FD

 

[Greatwyrm]

I wish I was the most powerful (fill in the blank) in the world.

Ok, you're transported forward in time to 20 minutes after the apocalypse. There are no other living creatures on the planet. Not only are you the most powerful (fill in the blank) on the planet, you're the most powerful ANYTHING on the planet. What a bargain, eh?

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(classic standby)

I wish for a million gold pieces.

Ok, the million gold pieces fall from the sky, directly above you. They do 1 hp each. You're at about negative 999,925 hp. Save against instant death from massive damage. Oh, and your buddies will have to dig you out before you can be raised.

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I wish for a million gold pieces.

Ok, you turn to gold and collapse into a million small, jigsaw-like pieces. Your friends can put you back together and revive you, if they don't die of old age first.

 

[DarkCrisis]

I wish for # more wishes!

A # Efreet appear and you may now attempt to bargin for a wish from each of them.


Thank you Poison Elves! =P

 

[derverdammte]

I am totally disappointed. This is one of the most misleading thread titles I've ever encountered.

 

[takyris]

Player you know is abusive: I wish for [x]

DM: A lightning bolt streaks out of the sky and hits you for 2,000 points of divine damage.

Player: What? How did my wish end up getting twisted around to have me get struck by lightning?

DM: Look, it's a big universe. I'm sure there's some way your wish could have been interpreted that way.

-Tacky

 

[Khan the Warlord]

I once had my players up against an enemy that they just couldn't defeat -- a method of teaching them humility and when to RUN.

They didn't.

ONE player out of the five present finally got the hint and in the middle of combat, wished the following:

Player: "I wish for myself and my companions to be taken away from our enemy."

I wanted to reward him and not pervert the wish, since he was basically trying to save the idiots of the group, but...

Me, the bastard DM that I am: "Your wish is granted. You and your companions are now standing in the hallway directly outside the room you were in. Your enemy spots your forms and begins to charge..."

One rule I always tell my players -- be SPECIFIC.

 

[wolff96]

"I wish i was the most intelligent creature in the world."

When I was new to D&D, I played a wizard. He was smart, but not really wise. So when I obtained a wish (I don't recall how, but I wasn't very powerful yet) I made that same wish listed above.

The DM had every single being in the world more intelligent than I was drop dead.

Do you have any idea how hard it is (in a low-magic campaign with very few scrolls or other items) to find spells when all the other spellcasters are dead??

 

[Marius Delphus]

"I wish [something absurd, ridiculous, or otherwise out of bounds]."

My response: "Nothing happens."

I'm tired of trying to be fiendishly clever or twisted when it comes to poorly worded or too-greedy wishes. My players are careful, bless them, but one or two have still had the "you wasted a wish" punishment leveled against them. Peer pressure prevents recurrence: I've heard more than once the remonstration to "remember what happened last time...."

I only smile. Well, actually, if I'm in character as an intelligent, wish-granting NPC/monster/deity/whatever, then I say something breathtakingly profound like, "No Can Do!"

 

[Pielorinho]

I might be willing to post my wishes on a D&D messageboard, Angelsboi, but there is no way I'm gonna post my perversions.

Daniel