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I wish myself into a fish. I wish corruption into impossibility. I wish entropy into nonexistence. I wish the ability upon penguins to wear tuxedos, whether or not tuxedos have been invented in this campaign setting. |
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Friends, There are some intresting ideas here. I had a very cleaver DM once, that would twist your wishes into different meanings. But then at times, when we were getting our clocks cleaned by a litch, He use the flavor of the wish, and harmed the litch enough to leave.
Like wishing someone back to life, and then they are, BUT as a young boy or girl.
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OR Impossible Corruption is created and the world goes crazy OR All impossibility is corrupted and everything becomes possible Quote:
OR Entropy, which is the degree of disorder or uncertainty in a system, enters non-existance, creating a degree of uncertain non-existance which results in disorderly expulsion of what was non-existant into existance since non-existance becomes uncertain. Quote:
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For the record, all the 'rename' twists are pretty lame.
Also, I feel strongly that wishes that are reasonable or replicate a spell should succeed unless really badly worded. I also feel that the penalty for bad wording should in most cases correspond to the the amount of power wished for. |
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While this thread is definitely interesting, it is unfrtunately, not really appropriate here. It is no longer (if it really ever was) about experiences in a game from a roleplaying sense.
Therefore, it has been Moved to General Discussion. Please continue. Sincerely, Mirtos & the DnD Online Games Staff
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Or, due to you mispelling "I" with "i", a man named "i" (not you) is granted the wishes. Corruption. And my wish: I wish for a +5 keen-edged, cleaving, flame-bursting, vorpaling longsword. I know this one's easy; bonus points go to the one with the most creative corruption! :biggrin: I'll corrupt it first: The sword appears out of nowhere, slicing off your head into multiple pieces in a flash of firey death!
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2nd corruption: You get said sword, but it's made for a creature of size huge, and you're a halfling. 3rd corruption: GM smiles evily as he suddenly appears in your world and gives you the sword. It looks to be exactly what you wanted in every way, but you're so scared that your wish has been corrupted and that if you wield the sword something bad will happen, that you never use it. 4th corruption: The Sword is intelligent and has an ego of 70, so basically the GM roleplays your character for you the rest of the game. Ok, I've got one. This is taken straight from the Disney movie Aladin, where at the very end, Aladin wishes the genie to be free. So you're the genie, and you really want to be free, and you would be really grateful to anyone who frees you. "I wish you to be free!" I say. Last edited by anamiac; Apr 2nd, 2006 at 11:49 PM. |
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Ok...so I've read about 90% of this thread (skipped over some corruptions and some wishes but never both of either) and it would appear that corruption has certain properties....namely, the caster has to die. Which seems kind of silly, really. Afterall, there are far worse things than death
I wasn't going to participate in this thread as it seems to have progressed to a point of childishness, and in my opinion it's not on the part of DannyLewis (that's not to say it's on anyone in particular. It will momentarily appear that I'm pointing a finger, but I promise I'm not...blame on this one in my mind lies in several places). Quote:
Simply saying an ogre pops out from behind a tree and kills you is not unique and would likely anger PCs because there are other factors involved at that point. Ogres, when they pop out from behind trees, do not simply kill you - you initiate combat...though it may turn out that one does indeed die, it would not directly be because of the wish in most cases. JJeff pointed out somewhere that it's about how the DM percieves it, but I think that there are certain rules of logic that even a DM can't ignore, lest his players all leave him. It seems to me that a good DM in truly corrupting a wish will use logic, and will be willing to answer to the logic of his or her players (though a thorough job, which is what the corruption ought to be in the first place, will ellude questions). So, here's my contribution...possible properties a corruption should have to be classified as a corruption: 1 - it appears that the caster must be physically, mentally, or spiritually harmed/defeated (I add: The player should also be recognizant of his ultimate defeat through the wish. The link between the wish and defeat must be directly tied together, otherwise, what would be the point of corrupting a wish in the first place? It seems that it was once to show the negative effects of greed...). 2 - logic would dictate that the corruption must somehow interfere with the purpose of the wish. For example, I do think that JJeff was successful in corrupting DannyLewis' wish of "I wish i had another wish that is the same as the wish i am casting" because the purpose of the wish was simply for something to be happening. Thus, for nothing to happen in the way described would serve to both grant, and prohibit the wish, a true corruption. 3 - a true wish or corruption will not step outside the bounds of logic. For example, a wish for omnipotence is quite easily thwarted by saying the wish was a dud because no being can make a square a triangle (not as in can't move parts of it to create a triangle...simply that the concept of a square cannot be made the same thing as the concept of a triangle. Please please please for the love of whatever higher being may exist do not start debating this in this thread...), nor could such a being logically create a rock so large even he/she/it cannot lift (again...refrain from debating here...they're just examples). 4 - the frustration level of all involved would dictate that the corruption not go outside its bounds (ie, your wish is granted and you get the ring of nine lives, but ten ogres ambush you and each one kills you...the wish can't easily justify why it's dictating that the ogres all kill you. It might, though it's a stretch to say justifiably, bring about the ogres, but the wisher is not incapable of protecting him or herself. That battle is not lost simply because of the wish - it wouldn't make sense). That's all I can think of as far as that goes. On another note, at the beginning of a game my DM once asked me if there were any other supplies my character wanted and I said that indeed there was: Being a prim, proper sort, she wanted a canopy. A can of peas promptly fell from the sky. Dell, I believe they were. I guess I ought to submit a wish, aye? I wish to, upon the completion of the saying the last word of this wish, including its addenda, become the personification of Aristotle's philosophy regarding the means of virtues as I understand it; that is, that I know and can and do implement the appropriate action at the appropriate time with the appropriate weight attached (that is, I know to what degree an emotion should be used and am able to and do use that emotion to that degree) toward the appropriate persons, places, things and ideas, or the singular person, place, thing or idea when appropriate, at all times; that no harm in any way, shape or form, befall my physical, emotional, and/or spiritual self, nor befall any person(s) place(s) thing(s) or ideas(s) to which an objective god or godess of justice would not find fitting. Oh, and I wish for a cheesburger created on the material plane to appear on the material plane on the plate to my left, fit for eating, and with the ability to disolve should any piece of it be caught in my throat. Oh, and that the Hamburgler is nowhere nearby On the I wish, I corrupt thing...I don't think either part of this would work because neither have a purpose - they are simply attributes of something and not directly related to one another. *shrug* Sorry so long....I keep skipping the "How to Shut Up Faster in Online Forums" class.
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Hmm, your first wish is granted, but since you have become the epitome of "perfection", you no longer have a place on this material plane - you are beyond human. An angel, an inevitable and a devil come to ask you this question:
"Overcome the limits of this world by harnessing the power of the nether realms, which is the only place you may further your goals. Or, you may choose to continue living here by dropping five of the said attributes. That is the only way to not jeopardize our meaning. What say you?" (OR) Level 100 and game over! Do you REALLY want that??? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sitting at Nowhere Cafe, the place where they make heavenly cheeseburgers, you are offered a cheeseburger for free. Unfortunately, a man, in your first momentary lapse of alertness, steals your burger; The Hamburglar!!! Again, sadly, the free deal was one time only. Well, you can still buy one, right?
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I wish to have an incorruptible wish, which I use to make you incapable of corrupting wishes.
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Double negation time baby! Since we are not able of corruption, there is no such thing as CORRUPTION! Therefore, your wish has been declared obsolete, for corruption is non-existant. There can be no "in" form for something that isn't there...
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Hmmm...putting my toe in this icy waters...
I shall wish for a wish that can be used upon a wish to make a wish. Ugh, I'm confusing myself...but yeup. That's my first wish. My second would be, I wish for my wish to be corrupted so I can laugh about this corrupted wish until I can think of another wish. I should stop...
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