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Old 11-17-2018, 08:49 PM   #11
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In my campaign, I'm fairly certain that wishes will be...
1) Non-transferrable,
2) Non-'bankable',
3) Costly (in a karmic sense)
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Old 11-18-2018, 08:29 AM   #12
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Assuming the perfect protections of my narrow city I get the following.

IQ 17 wizards got an average of 10.2423 wishes before being dusted

IQ 18 wizards got an average of 23.6652 wishes before being dusted

IQ 19 wizards got an average of 47.2012 wishes before being dusted

IQ 20 wizards got an average of 72.5495 wishes before being dusted

IQ 21 wizards got an average of 85.2069 wishes before being dusted

IQ 22 wizards got an average of 97.864 wishes before being dusted

IQ 23 wizards got an average of 98.0806 wishes before being dusted

IQ 24 wizards got an average of 96.2742 wishes before being dusted

So the wish maker is a Goblin with ST 6, DX 9, IQ 22 i.e. 37 attribute points or three years experience (at 600 XP/year) and they last about two years and are then dusted. If they had just done enchantments for 30 years they would have made $400 per week for 50 weeks a year times three decades or $600,000. Fair market price for a wish remains around $10k.

Halfling or Elf is 38 attribute points and so takes two additional years (total five) to develop.

Human or Orc is 39 attribute points: ST 8, DX 9, IQ 22 and takes eight years to develop.

And so on.
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Old 11-18-2018, 09:39 AM   #13
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What if you had to cast Summon Demon from a scroll which named that specific demon?
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Old 11-18-2018, 10:22 AM   #14
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What if you had to cast Summon Demon from a scroll which named that specific demon?
I believe that the demon would do everything in their power to make sure that scroll was destroyed with prejudice.
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Old 11-18-2018, 10:45 AM   #15
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I believe that the demon would do everything in their power to make sure that scroll was destroyed with prejudice.
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Mission Accomplished. By the time the demon shows up that scroll is gone.
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Old 11-18-2018, 10:57 AM   #16
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Mission Accomplished. By the time the demon shows up that scroll is gone.
Are TFT scrolls consumed during casting like D&D scrolls?
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Old 11-18-2018, 11:42 AM   #17
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Are TFT scrolls consumed during casting like D&D scrolls?
Yes. Well, I don't know about D&D scrolls, but TFT scrolls burn up when used.
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Old 11-19-2018, 09:28 AM   #18
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What if summon demon required rather than generated mass?

Summon Lesser Demon is then a thrown spell and the subject is a freshly killed human corpse.

Summon Demon is thrown on a freshly killed giant corpse.
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Old 11-19-2018, 10:54 AM   #19
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What if summon demon required rather than generated mass?

Summon Lesser Demon is then a thrown spell and the subject is a freshly killed human corpse.

Summon Demon is thrown on a freshly killed giant corpse.
Makes it more interesting!

Another even more entangled option would be to require a living body for the Demon to possess.
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Another even more entangled option would be to require a living body for the Demon to possess.
Works out to the same thing as you could never trust that person again.

Also: Each wish adds one to a figure's weirdness magnet attribute. (Starts at zero and GM rolls two to six dice against this daily, depending on location.)

Only way to reduce this total is with a wish (made by somebody else of course).
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