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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 375896" data-attributes="member: 813">I've never understood the screw the players school of wishing. I mean. Why put the players in a position to find a wish bearing item or entity if you are just going to twist anything they say. In our group we know better than to do this because we rotate DMs to often. A wish either works as intended or fails completely in our group. We make the assumption that the universe knows what the wisher means when it attempts to grant the wish.Afterall, it is a 9th level spell. No other spell tries to twist your meaning. You don't launch a fireball and see it whip around in a circle and land at your feet just because you are using a 3rd level spell to kill someone outright. Why should a 9th level spell twist your words when you use it to kill someone outright?Of course, the 5 year penalty in 1st and 2nd was much more harsh than the 5,000 xps in 3rd ed. But then 3rd ed also explicitly disallows the outright slaughter of an enemy so it balances.</blockquote>