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ShadowRanger
ShadowRanger
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Your wish is far from ironclad.

Actually, the rules imply the more you try to make your wish ironclad, the more the GM is encouraged to seek paths to pervert your wish. Let me pull an example told to me by a GM: he had a player that once made a wish spell that took about half an hour to read out. It was really really perfect... but for the last moment addition he had made: "and if possible I'd like to keep my body". Of course, he could not keep his body.

What could possibly go wrong?

I wish for just my body to be young again but to keep all of my physical and magical prowess

You wish for your body to be young again but you don't specify any other thing that could lead to your demise or things you could lose:

  • How long do you want to stay young? Here, have this second of prime 20-year-old body... and back to your old self!
  • How old do you want to be? 1 day after conception is your body. But that body is not able to sustain life outside of a womb even in the slightest. A child's body can't effectively use your skill and ability. You're dead or a burden to the party as you are a child.
  • You clearly don't want to be free of illness. Sure you can be young again, and you get the free bonus of plague. You'll be dead soon.
  • And you don't wish to be uninjured. Of course, you'll be young, but you're also suffering from a stake through the heart. You're dead.
  • You forget to mention any memories you want to retain but your ability to fight, do magic and move as before. Here, have a new body but you can't have any of your memories, so you're amnesiac.
  • There's also nothing about wanting to keep your personality and alignment intact! Enjoy being the mirror-universe double that murders his teammates at the earliest moment he's able to!
  • And you don't want to be sane either? So you'll be a psychopath from now on.
  • You don't mention where you want to be. So your wish also brings you to a place far away. Like Hell or underwater. You'll be dead.
  • You don't wish to keep any of your equipment or possessions. You're naked and poor.
  • You don't mention that you want to be remembered, so nobody knows who you are, not even your party members.
  • You also forget to wish to not anger any deity or such. You're alive and well, but Death, Fate or some vengeful deity hates you now (made your demise their hobby?) and comes over to claim your family, friends, your dog, and your neighboursneighbors in the most gruesome way, letting you watch and then smashing your hourglass in such a way that you just stop to exist.

tl;dr:

Writing a perfect wish takes a lawyer several weeks to curb out every possibility the GM could pervert and use to destroy you. And those perfect wishes? Just don't work.

Your wish is far from ironclad.

Actually, the rules imply the more you try to make your wish ironclad, the more GM is encouraged to seek paths to pervert your wish. Let me pull an example told to me by a GM: he had a player that once made a wish spell that took about half an hour to read out. It was really really perfect... but for the last moment addition he had made: "and if possible I'd like to keep my body". Of course, he could not keep his body.

What could possibly go wrong?

I wish for just my body to be young again but to keep all of my physical and magical prowess

You wish for your body to be young again but you don't specify any other thing that could lead to your demise or things you could lose:

  • How long do you want to stay young? Here, have this second of prime 20-year-old body... and back to your old self!
  • How old do you want to be? 1 day after conception is your body. But that body is not able to sustain life outside of a womb even in the slightest. A child's body can't effectively use your skill and ability. You're dead or a burden to the party as you are a child.
  • You clearly don't want to be free of illness. Sure you can be young again, and you get the free bonus of plague. You'll be dead soon.
  • And you don't wish to be uninjured. Of course, you'll be young, but you're also suffering from a stake through the heart. You're dead.
  • You forget to mention any memories you want to retain but your ability to fight, do magic and move as before. Here, have a new body but you can't have any of your memories, so you're amnesiac.
  • There's also nothing about wanting to keep your personality and alignment intact! Enjoy being the mirror-universe double that murders his teammates at the earliest moment he's able to!
  • And you don't want to be sane either? So you'll be a psychopath from now on.
  • You don't mention where you want to be. So your wish also brings you to a place far away. Like Hell or underwater. You'll be dead.
  • You don't wish to keep any of your equipment or possessions. You're naked and poor.
  • You don't mention that you want to be remembered, so nobody knows who you are, not even your party members.
  • You also forget to wish to not anger any deity or such. You're alive and well, but Death, Fate or some vengeful deity hates you now (made your demise their hobby?) and comes over to claim your family, friends, your dog, and your neighbours in the most gruesome way, letting you watch and then smashing your hourglass in such a way that you just stop to exist.

tl;dr:

Writing a perfect wish takes a lawyer several weeks to curb out every possibility the GM could pervert and use to destroy you. And those perfect wishes? Just don't work.

Your wish is far from ironclad.

Actually, the rules imply the more you try to make your wish ironclad, the more the GM is encouraged to seek paths to pervert your wish. Let me pull an example told to me by a GM: he had a player that once made a wish spell that took about half an hour to read out. It was really really perfect... but for the last moment addition he had made: "and if possible I'd like to keep my body". Of course, he could not keep his body.

What could possibly go wrong?

I wish for just my body to be young again but to keep all of my physical and magical prowess

You wish for your body to be young again but you don't specify any other thing that could lead to your demise or things you could lose:

  • How long do you want to stay young? Here, have this second of prime 20-year-old body... and back to your old self!
  • How old do you want to be? 1 day after conception is your body. But that body is not able to sustain life outside of a womb even in the slightest. A child's body can't effectively use your skill and ability. You're dead or a burden to the party as you are a child.
  • You clearly don't want to be free of illness. Sure you can be young again, and you get the free bonus of plague. You'll be dead soon.
  • And you don't wish to be uninjured. Of course, you'll be young, but you're also suffering from a stake through the heart. You're dead.
  • You forget to mention any memories you want to retain but your ability to fight, do magic and move as before. Here, have a new body but you can't have any of your memories, so you're amnesiac.
  • There's also nothing about wanting to keep your personality and alignment intact! Enjoy being the mirror-universe double that murders his teammates at the earliest moment he's able to!
  • And you don't want to be sane either? So you'll be a psychopath from now on.
  • You don't mention where you want to be. So your wish also brings you to a place far away. Like Hell or underwater. You'll be dead.
  • You don't wish to keep any of your equipment or possessions. You're naked and poor.
  • You don't mention that you want to be remembered, so nobody knows who you are, not even your party members.
  • You also forget to wish to not anger any deity or such. You're alive and well, but Death, Fate or some vengeful deity hates you now (made your demise their hobby?) and comes over to claim your family, friends, your dog, and your neighbors in the most gruesome way, letting you watch and then smashing your hourglass in such a way that you just stop to exist.

tl;dr:

Writing a perfect wish takes a lawyer several weeks to curb out every possibility the GM could pervert and use to destroy you. And those perfect wishes? Just don't work.

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AnnaAG
AnnaAG
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Your wish is far from ironclad.

Actually, the rules imply the more you try to make your wish ironclad, the more GM is encouraged to seek paths to pervert your wish. Let me pull an example told to me by a GM: he had a player that once made a wish spell that took about half an hour to read out. It was really really perfect... but for the last moment addition he had made: "and if possible I'd like to keep my body". Of course, he could not keep his body.

What could possibly go wrong?

I wish for just my body to be young again but to keep all of my physical and magical prowess

You wish for your body to be young again but you don't specify any other thing that could lead to your demise or things you could lose:

  • How long do you want to stay young? Here, have this second of prime 20-year-old body... and back to your old self!
  • How old do you want to be? 1 day after conception is your body. But that body is not able to sustain life outside of a womb even in the slightest. A children'schild's body can't effectvelyeffectively use your skill and ability. You're dead or a burden to the party as you are a child.
  • You clearly don't want to be free of illness. Sure you can be young again, and you get the free bonus of plague. You'll be dead soon.
  • And you don't wish to be uninjured. Of course, you'll be young, but you're also suffering from a stake through the heart. You're dead.
  • You forget to mention any memories you want to retain but your ability to fight, do magic and move as before. Here, have a new body but you can't have any of your memories, so you're amnesiac.
  • There's also nothing about wanting to keep your personality and alignment intact! Enjoy being the mirror-universe double that murders his teammates at the earliest moment he's able to!
  • And you don't want to be sane either? So you'll be a psychopath from now on.
  • You don't mention where you want to be. So your wish also brings you to a place far away. Like Hell or underwater. You'll be dead.
  • You don't wish to keep any of your equipment or possessions. You're naked and poor.
  • You don't mention that you want to be remembered, so nobody knows who you are, not even your party members.
  • You also forget to wish to not anger any deity or such. You're alive and well, but Death, Fate or some vengeful deity hates you now (made your demise their hobby?) and comes over to claim your family, friends, your dog, and your neighborsneighbours in the most gruesome way, letting you watch and then smashing your hourglass in such a way that you just stop to exist.

tl;dr:

Writing a perfect wish takes a lawyer several weeks to curb out every possibility the GM could pervert and use to destroy you. And those perfect wishes? Just don't work.

Your wish is far from ironclad.

Actually, the rules imply the more you try to make your wish ironclad, the GM is encouraged to seek paths to pervert your wish. Let me pull an example told to me by a GM: he had a player that once made a wish spell that took about half an hour to read out. It was really really perfect... but for the last moment addition he had made: "and if possible I'd like to keep my body". Of course, he could not keep his body.

What could possibly go wrong?

I wish for just my body to be young again but to keep all of my physical and magical prowess

You wish for your body to be young again but you don't specify any other thing that could lead to your demise or things you could lose:

  • How long do you want to stay young? Here, have this second of prime 20-year-old body... and back to your old self!
  • How old do you want to be? 1 day after conception is your body. But that body is not able to sustain life outside of a womb even in the slightest. A children's body can't effectvely use your skill and ability. You're dead or a burden to the party as you are a child.
  • You clearly don't want to be free of illness. Sure you can be young again, and you get the free bonus of plague. You'll be dead soon.
  • And you don't wish to be uninjured. Of course, you'll be young, but you're also suffering from a stake through the heart. You're dead.
  • You forget to mention any memories you want to retain but your ability to fight, do magic and move as before. Here, have a new body but you can't have any of your memories, so you're amnesiac.
  • There's also nothing about wanting to keep your personality and alignment intact! Enjoy being the mirror-universe double that murders his teammates at the earliest moment he's able to!
  • And you don't want to be sane either? So you'll be a psychopath from now on.
  • You don't mention where you want to be. So your wish also brings you to a place far away. Like Hell or underwater. You'll be dead.
  • You don't wish to keep any of your equipment or possessions. You're naked and poor.
  • You don't mention that you want to be remembered, so nobody knows who you are, not even your party members.
  • You also forget to wish to not anger any deity or such. You're alive and well, but Death, Fate or some vengeful deity hates you now (made your demise their hobby?) and comes over to claim your family, friends, your dog, and your neighbors in the most gruesome way, letting you watch and then smashing your hourglass in such a way that you just stop to exist.

tl;dr:

Writing a perfect wish takes a lawyer several weeks to curb out every possibility the GM could pervert and use to destroy you. And those perfect wishes? Just don't work.

Your wish is far from ironclad.

Actually, the rules imply the more you try to make your wish ironclad, the more GM is encouraged to seek paths to pervert your wish. Let me pull an example told to me by a GM: he had a player that once made a wish spell that took about half an hour to read out. It was really really perfect... but for the last moment addition he had made: "and if possible I'd like to keep my body". Of course, he could not keep his body.

What could possibly go wrong?

I wish for just my body to be young again but to keep all of my physical and magical prowess

You wish for your body to be young again but you don't specify any other thing that could lead to your demise or things you could lose:

  • How long do you want to stay young? Here, have this second of prime 20-year-old body... and back to your old self!
  • How old do you want to be? 1 day after conception is your body. But that body is not able to sustain life outside of a womb even in the slightest. A child's body can't effectively use your skill and ability. You're dead or a burden to the party as you are a child.
  • You clearly don't want to be free of illness. Sure you can be young again, and you get the free bonus of plague. You'll be dead soon.
  • And you don't wish to be uninjured. Of course, you'll be young, but you're also suffering from a stake through the heart. You're dead.
  • You forget to mention any memories you want to retain but your ability to fight, do magic and move as before. Here, have a new body but you can't have any of your memories, so you're amnesiac.
  • There's also nothing about wanting to keep your personality and alignment intact! Enjoy being the mirror-universe double that murders his teammates at the earliest moment he's able to!
  • And you don't want to be sane either? So you'll be a psychopath from now on.
  • You don't mention where you want to be. So your wish also brings you to a place far away. Like Hell or underwater. You'll be dead.
  • You don't wish to keep any of your equipment or possessions. You're naked and poor.
  • You don't mention that you want to be remembered, so nobody knows who you are, not even your party members.
  • You also forget to wish to not anger any deity or such. You're alive and well, but Death, Fate or some vengeful deity hates you now (made your demise their hobby?) and comes over to claim your family, friends, your dog, and your neighbours in the most gruesome way, letting you watch and then smashing your hourglass in such a way that you just stop to exist.

tl;dr:

Writing a perfect wish takes a lawyer several weeks to curb out every possibility the GM could pervert and use to destroy you. And those perfect wishes? Just don't work.

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Trish
Trish
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Your wish is far from ironclad.

Actually, the rules imply the more you try to make your wish ironclad, the GM is encouraged to seek paths to pervert your wish. Let me pull an example told to me by a GM: he had a player that once made a wish spell that took about half an hour to read out. It was really really perfect... but for the last moment addition he had made: "and if possible I'd like to keep my body". Of course, he could not keep his body.

What could possibly go wrong?

I wish for just my body to be young again but to keep all of my physical and magical prowess

You wish for your body to be young again but you don't specify any other thing that could lead to your demise or things you could lose:

  • How long do you want to stay young? Here, have this second of prime 20-year-old body... and back to your old self!
  • How old do you want to be? 1 day after conception is your body. But that body is not able to sustain life outside of a womb even in the slightest. A children's body can't effectvely use your skill and ability. You're dead or a burden to the party as you are a child.
  • You clearly don't want to be free of illness. Sure you can be young again, and you get the free bonus of plague. You'll be dead soon.
  • And you don't wish to be uninjured. Of course, you'll be young, but you're also suffering from a stake through the heart. You're dead.
  • You forget to mention any memories you want to retain but your ability to fight, do magic and move as before. Here, have a new body but you can't have any of your memories, so you're amnesiac.
  • There's also nothing about wanting to keep your personality and alignment intact! Enjoy being the mirror-universe double that murders his teammates at the earliest moment he's able to!
  • And you don't want to be sane either? So you'll be a psychopath from now on.
  • You don't mention where you want to be. So your wish also brings you to a place far away. Like Hell or underwater. You'll be dead.
  • You don't wish to keep any of your equipment or possessions. You're naked and poor.
  • You don't mention that you want to be remembered, so nobody knows who you are, not even your party members.
  • You also forget to wish to not anger any deity or such. You're alive and well, but Death himself hates, Fate or some vengeful deity hates you now (made your demise their hobby?) and comes over to claim your family, friends, your dog, and your neighbors in the most gruesome way, letting you watch and then smashing your hourglass in such a way that you just stop to exist.

tl;dr:

Writing a perfect wish takes a lawyer several weeks to curb out every possibility the GM could pervert and use to destroy you. And those perfect wishes? Just don't work.

Your wish is far from ironclad.

Actually, the rules imply the more you try to make your wish ironclad, the GM is encouraged to seek paths to pervert your wish. Let me pull an example told to me by a GM: he had a player that once made a wish spell that took about half an hour to read out. It was really really perfect... but for the last moment addition he had made: "and if possible I'd like to keep my body". Of course, he could not keep his body.

What could possibly go wrong?

I wish for just my body to be young again but to keep all of my physical and magical prowess

You wish for your body to be young again but you don't specify any other thing that could lead to your demise or things you could lose:

  • How long do you want to stay young? Here, have this second of prime 20-year-old body... and back to your old self!
  • How old do you want to be? 1 day after conception is your body. But that body is not able to sustain life outside of a womb even in the slightest. A children's body can't effectvely use your skill and ability. You're dead or a burden to the party as you are a child.
  • You clearly don't want to be free of illness. Sure you can be young again, and you get the free bonus of plague. You'll be dead soon.
  • And you don't wish to be uninjured. Of course, you'll be young, but you're also suffering from a stake through the heart. You're dead.
  • You forget to mention any memories you want to retain but your ability to fight, do magic and move as before. Here, have a new body but you can't have any of your memories, so you're amnesiac.
  • There's also nothing about wanting to keep your personality and alignment intact! Enjoy being the mirror-universe double that murders his teammates at the earliest moment he's able to!
  • And you don't want to be sane either? So you'll be a psychopath from now on.
  • You don't mention where you want to be. So your wish also brings you to a place far away. Like Hell or underwater. You'll be dead.
  • You don't wish to keep any of your equipment or possessions. You're naked and poor.
  • You don't mention that you want to be remembered, so nobody knows who you are, not even your party members.
  • You also forget to wish to not anger any deity or such. You're alive and well, but Death himself hates you now and comes over to claim your family, friends, your dog, and your neighbors in the most gruesome way, letting you watch and then smashing your hourglass in such a way that you just stop to exist.

tl;dr:

Writing a perfect wish takes a lawyer several weeks to curb out every possibility the GM could pervert and use to destroy you. And those perfect wishes? Just don't work.

Your wish is far from ironclad.

Actually, the rules imply the more you try to make your wish ironclad, the GM is encouraged to seek paths to pervert your wish. Let me pull an example told to me by a GM: he had a player that once made a wish spell that took about half an hour to read out. It was really really perfect... but for the last moment addition he had made: "and if possible I'd like to keep my body". Of course, he could not keep his body.

What could possibly go wrong?

I wish for just my body to be young again but to keep all of my physical and magical prowess

You wish for your body to be young again but you don't specify any other thing that could lead to your demise or things you could lose:

  • How long do you want to stay young? Here, have this second of prime 20-year-old body... and back to your old self!
  • How old do you want to be? 1 day after conception is your body. But that body is not able to sustain life outside of a womb even in the slightest. A children's body can't effectvely use your skill and ability. You're dead or a burden to the party as you are a child.
  • You clearly don't want to be free of illness. Sure you can be young again, and you get the free bonus of plague. You'll be dead soon.
  • And you don't wish to be uninjured. Of course, you'll be young, but you're also suffering from a stake through the heart. You're dead.
  • You forget to mention any memories you want to retain but your ability to fight, do magic and move as before. Here, have a new body but you can't have any of your memories, so you're amnesiac.
  • There's also nothing about wanting to keep your personality and alignment intact! Enjoy being the mirror-universe double that murders his teammates at the earliest moment he's able to!
  • And you don't want to be sane either? So you'll be a psychopath from now on.
  • You don't mention where you want to be. So your wish also brings you to a place far away. Like Hell or underwater. You'll be dead.
  • You don't wish to keep any of your equipment or possessions. You're naked and poor.
  • You don't mention that you want to be remembered, so nobody knows who you are, not even your party members.
  • You also forget to wish to not anger any deity or such. You're alive and well, but Death, Fate or some vengeful deity hates you now (made your demise their hobby?) and comes over to claim your family, friends, your dog, and your neighbors in the most gruesome way, letting you watch and then smashing your hourglass in such a way that you just stop to exist.

tl;dr:

Writing a perfect wish takes a lawyer several weeks to curb out every possibility the GM could pervert and use to destroy you. And those perfect wishes? Just don't work.

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Trish
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added 122 characters in body
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Trish
Trish
  • 53.3k
  • 5
  • 117
  • 283
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Trish
Trish
  • 53.3k
  • 5
  • 117
  • 283