“If I had just one WISH, I’d WISH that all gold and weapons I could WISH for would
vanishvanWISH from shops nearby and appear before my feet to fulfill my dreams and WISHES. WISH that would work.”WISHWISHWISH
My players are about to hit level 17 sometime soon, send help
The solution is to make your players afraid of a well-practiced DM that knows how to fuck with powerhungry wishes.
“I wish for an invincible unassailable fortress”
it appears… and then falls directly on top of the player“I wish for true immortality where nothing can kill me ever ever ever”
granted… in a pocket plane with no way in and no way out“I wish the final boss was already dead”"
player is time-skipped to a far future where the boss is dead and so is everything in the campaign they know or care aboutTo ensure the
factor and keep the wishes reasonable, be sure to insist that the wish magic must be spoken out loud, without pause, and more or less be a single sentence like in almost every example given of wishes in antiquity fiction.I love this LMAO. I’d take notes if only my campaigns ever got that far (they never do).
Modern solutions for modern problems
Everytime I had a problem, I’d cast Meteor Swarm and boom right away I’d have a different problem.
There are very few problems you can’t solve with a large enough explosion.
If violence wasn’t your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.
—The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries, maxim 7
But also:
Pillage, then burn.
—ibid., maxim 1
Helps you sort out which items are magical and which items weren’t.
Removed by mod
Not fireball?
The shitty part is that last I checked fireball had no explosive properties apart from “rule of cool” from DMs that want it to have explosive properties. It was a dinky little glowy point-and-click dot that goes fwoosh, does fire damage, then vanishes.
I think that’s ridiculous, but a rules lawyer could shoot down the fun unless that changed when I wasn’t looking.
Huh?
Could you explain this because it’s very confusing. Or are we not talking 5E?
It’s a fireball… that has a big AoE. So if it’s a roughly hand sized sphere but it deals damage in a big sphere… logically it has to explode, right?
Beyond that it’s got the word “explosion” in the spell description, at least on dnd beyond.
A bright streak flashes from your pointing finger to a point you choose within range and then blossoms with a low roar into an explosion of flame.
but it deals damage in a big sphere… logically it has to explode, right
It doesn’t do any special damage or bypass hardness of objects, so that doesn’t sound like an explosion except in “flavor” text. At least it ignites objects, which it didn’t do in previous editions.
