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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 5856866" data-attributes="member: 6669384">I used to see wishes written out like a multi-page contract.One clause I had to void was when a player would add, "... with no negative effects of any kind".  While such a precaution is understandable, considering the obscene lengths DMs used to go to when perverting Wishes, the fact remains that "negative" is a matter of opinion, and the time frame is open ended. You Wish for a magic item and years from now someone tries to kill you for it:  Is that a "negative effect"?  The Wish resulting in character death sure sounds negative to me.In 1st Ed, with the groups I played with, a Wish wasn't the ultimate reward, it was the ultimate punishment.  Some DMs just added bad effects because they could. Others listened to what you said, then paraphrased it to themselves and worked from there.  That way, no matter how careful or precise you were, they were free to abuse your character as they saw fit.Example, one PC cast Fly, then Wished that the spell be "indispellably permanent."  The DM turned him into a bird.  When challenged, he said, "Well he Wished he could fly, so...".  And no matter how we pointed out that the Wish had never even mentioned the word "fly", the DM concluded that that was what he was Wishing for, so tweet-tweet.My general rule is that "Hogs get slaughtered".  You get too greedy, you're taking a risk.The thing was that in earlier editions there really weren't any guidelines for what a Wish could or couldn't do.  They introduced the guidelines in 3.0, and when they did a lot of the abuse went away.And you know what?  I'm just as happy with Wish as a license to abuse being gone.Now, back to the original topic:  By the book, you can Wish for absolutely anything.  No real limits.  So yes, in theory a Wish could get a character Fast Heal or Regeneration.  In practice, you'd better be really careful about how you word it, lest you run into an old school DM like myself who remembers how to really twist and pervert Wishes.</blockquote>

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