Deck of Many Things

[Osprey]

Concerning ability scores:
In 3.0 PHB, it's even more limited than just +1 per Wish, +5 max. Inherent bonus. It states that in order to get more than a +1 inherent bonus requires consecutive wishes, one aright after the other. So in order to obtain a +5 Inherent bonus to an ability score requires 5 consecutive Wish spells cast one after the other! Let me know when a character can cast 5 wish spells in a row - a 20th level sorcerer is about it before epic levels, and that's practically epic anyways. A 17th level wizard could scribe 5 wish spells on a scroll, too, I guess...hope it's worth the 25,000+ XP!!!! :blink:

[irdeggman]

Originally posted by Osprey@Feb 4 2004, 09:53 PM
Concerning ability scores:
In 3.0 PHB, it's even more limited than just +1 per Wish, +5 max. Inherent bonus. It states that in order to get more than a +1 inherent bonus requires consecutive wishes, one aright after the other. So in order to obtain a +5 Inherent bonus to an ability score requires 5 consecutive Wish spells cast one after the other! Let me know when a character can cast 5 wish spells in a row - a 20th level sorcerer is about it before epic levels, and that's practically epic anyways. A 17th level wizard could scribe 5 wish spells on a scroll, too, I guess...hope it's worth the 25,000+ XP!!!! :blink:

Same words in 3.5. I missed the way it is written to allow the 'stacking' of inherent bonuses to reach the max of +5, otherwise a +1 inherent bonus and another +1 inherent bonus (e.g., 2 separate wishes) results in a net of +1 inherent bonus.

So the wish method in 3/3.5 is very restrictive for raising ability scores.

[Ariadne]

Originally posted by irdeggman+Feb 5 2004, 11:58 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (irdeggman @ Feb 5 2004, 11:58 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Osprey@Feb 4 2004, 09:53 PM
Concerning ability scores:
In 3.0 PHB, it&#39;s even more limited than just +1 per Wish, +5 max. Inherent bonus. It states that in order to get more than a +1 inherent bonus requires consecutive wishes, one aright after the other. So in order to obtain a +5 Inherent bonus to an ability score requires 5 consecutive Wish spells cast one after the other&#33; Let me know when a character can cast 5 wish spells in a row - a 20th level sorcerer is about it before epic levels, and that&#39;s practically epic anyways. A 17th level wizard could scribe 5 wish spells on a scroll, too, I guess...hope it&#39;s worth the 25,000+ XP&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33; :blink:

Same words in 3.5. I missed the way it is written to allow the &#39;stacking&#39; of inherent bonuses to reach the max of +5, otherwise a +1 inherent bonus and another +1 inherent bonus (e.g., 2 separate wishes) results in a net of +1 inherent bonus.

So the wish method in 3/3.5 is very restrictive for raising ability scores. [/b][/quote]
Maybe they only forgot to declare these bonusses stacking...

This problem isn&#39;t very often disscussed, because it is realy difficult to cast wish at all