From: jackson@mailhost.aa.cad.slb.com (Jeff Jackson)
Subject: Re: More Wishes!
Organization: Applicon; Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA)
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:47:49 GMT

In article <1992Dec10.173444.387@spock.UUCP> bane@spock.uucp (Cameron Huang) writes:
>Hello all.
>
>Anyway, we were around third or fourth level, and on Ravenloft. Anyway, one
>character had a Luck Blade, and we were getting screwed by a vampire and a
>pack of about 15 wolfweres (no joke!).  Well, far from winning, we decided
>to expend all three wishes from the Luck Blade. We wished that each person
>in the party (about 4 of us) would have a powerful weapon that is most suited
>to the personality of that person, and that that person would be able to use 
>the weapon that he/she got. We also sacrificed all of the magical items
>that we had at the time (not many). Well, of course, our DM totally screwed us
>on the wish, and the party was killed. Here's what happened: He gave us the 
>weapons, but they wouldn't come out of the sheaths, and our hands wouldn't 
>come off of the weapons. While we were fumbling around with our useless 
>weapons, the wolfweres and the vampire had a mass slaughter.
>
>Here's my question: After reading that account, do you think that the DM
>should have completely screwed us like that? All answers are appreciated, but
>PLEASE post them and don't E-mail.
>
>Bane
>-- 
>"If love is blind, I guess I'll buy myself a cane."
>                                   --W. Axl Rose
>
>"There can be only one!"
>		--Kurgan
>
>bane@choate.edu



   IMO, the DM was totally unfair.  If a party is going to blow three
   full wishes and toss in all its magic items, the (very) least a DM
   can do is give the party a fighting chance.

   As the DM, I'd be thrilled out of my mind.  "You mean you're going to
   use *all three* wishes in one encounter?  Great!  The vampire and
   his companions all die from the shock.  You win.  Wishes gone."

   But, you did set yourselves up for what happened. By wishing for
   "powerful weapons" for each of you, you were leaving the wish wide open,
   and asking for something both powerful and permanent in return.  Now if
   you had asked for something like:
      1) to be teleported back home;
      2) to teleport the nasties far away;
      3) the party to be restored to full hit points;

   the DM oughta just do it (again, IMO).

   As for the wishes being "unfulfilled," as someone else put it, so what?
   In the campaigns I play/DM in, if you ask for something impossible or
   too powerful, you still use up the wish.  And you get what you deserve
   if there's a backlash or side effect.


>wondering about this one. Now I know everyonn is going to flame me for playing
>a munchkin campaign, but really, it's not OUR fault that our DM awards 75000 XP
>to each of us for killing a beholder. 

   Yes it is.  Live by the ridiculous, die by the ridiculous.


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