Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sdcsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!mr-frog From: mr-frog@sdcsvax.UUCP (Dave Pare) Newsgroups: net.games.frp Subject: using wishes to permanent spells Message-ID: <915@sdcsvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 21-Jun-84 14:34:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sdcsvax.915 Posted: Thu Jun 21 14:34:00 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 23-Jun-84 04:17:23 EDT Organization: EECS Dept. U.C. San Diego Lines: 22 <> I'm really interested in that parenthetical remark in a recent article by Ken Dalka. He was talking about the wish "I wish that the next spell I throw on myself would be permanent." Then he followed with " Yes, I'm aware that any DM worth his salt could distort what I just said; you don't have to point that out too." What I want to know is -- did Ken mean that a good DM SHOULD distort such an attempt by a player to use a wish as if it were a permanent, or that a DM could find some way to twist the wording around. Ken, what would you do if you were the DM? Personally, I think that's a perfectly reasonable wish -- after all, folks, wish IS a higher level spell than permanent. I don't see any problem with having a wish at MINIMUM be able to duplicate any other 1-9th level spell. Unless the wording was really flaky, I can't see an reason to shaft a player on a wish that asks for something so reasonable. Dave Pare [ucbvax | dcdwest]!sdcsvax!mr-frog