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Message: <blockquote data-quote="werk" data-source="post: 2247231" data-attributes="member: 29663">I like the 'i wish the army was interested in something else' idea.  very subtle.It does say that the wish may pervert your intent, seems to me that the opinion of most people is that the wish will always pervert your intent.  Is this based on experience or are you just saying what could happen worst case?  I'm not looking for worst case, but more how you would play it or have seen it played.  (I've never seen a Wish used for anything beyond those things listed in the spell description.)So aside from the DM, um..., unfairly disadvantaging the caster, what is the draw-back of the spell?  In the Ur Priest example, he got wish 3x/day...seems like he could eventually get it right and/or seriously twist a game.What I'm hearing is that Wish works great when used to do one of the things detailed in the spell description, but when you go outside that, either the character dies or the game is basically ended.  That seems odd that that would be the intent of leaving the spell open like it is.</blockquote>