Wishing a magic item unbroken

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

Within the rules as written you are certainly free to view it this way.

Thanks for the permission!

 

[evilbob]

In general, I think it would fall within the standard wish ruleset to allow this. However, it is possible that a player could abuse this situation with a staff. For example, a wizard might break his own staff of power to cause it to explode, using it offensively in that manner. Afterwards (if he's still alive), instead of making a new staff, he just wishes it back together. A staff of power is extremely expensive (>200,000g) and getting one back together for only 5000 XP would be quite a bargain. Now, maybe this is just a brilliant use of the wish spell combined with using staff-breaking offensively, but I'm sure other players more clever than I am can come up with more broken (sorry, pun intended) examples.

 

[Artoomis]

Thanks for the permission!

You are very welcome! My pleasure.

 

[TYPO5478]

Hadn't thought of that, evilbob. Interesting idea, although it seems like the original wish ("I wish my staff had never broken.") would also erase the damage done by the retributive strike.

 

[NilesB]

And as I just pointed out above, a wish requires double the normal item creation XP + 5,000 XPO. Doubling of the half required for repair = the normal XP amount.

Potions, Scrolls, Staves and Wands cannot be repaired at half price. I think it would cost him the same to repair any of those limited charge items as it would to make new ones. But otherwise you seem to be right.