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Originally Posted by TippetsTX
TBH, the 'unlimited power over reality' aspect of demon-granted wishes bothers me too. I prefer having the demons do some actual leg-work to make the wish happen... for example, in order to grant a wish for riches might require the demon to go out and kill some rich guy and steal his stuff which would make the wisher responsible for the death and could lead to them being hunted by the rich guy's family. That seems more like how a demon would operate to me.
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Yes, that makes sense. Plus, if demons have so much power at their disposal, why don't they already rule our realm as well? The answer, to me at least, is that they need human(oid) agency to bring them over into this realm and to grant them the power to act. So a demon carrying out a task for a mortal is probably going to use the situation to their own advantage as well. Any gain conveyed to the player would almost certainly be offset by a greater loss to one or more other people.