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Q&A Do you incur the Wish penalties for using Wish for one of the alternative uses outlined in the PHB?

I’d think it does what it says on the tin. The examples above are not duplicating a spell, ergo it incurs the penalties noted.

posted 2y ago by DonielF‭

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Q&A Do you incur the Wish penalties for using Wish for one of the alternative uses outlined in the PHB?

Yes. As stated in the spell description (and as you include in your answer): The stress of casting this spell to produce any effect other than duplicating another spell weakens you. Emphasis...

posted 2y ago by Fie‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Fie‭

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Q&A Did Mentzer and Gygax play together?

Did Gary Gygax and Frank Mentzer play together in one more sessions of D&D (or some other roleplaying game)? They worked at TSR and co-authored D&D products. One would expect one of them t...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by tommi‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Strider‭

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Q&A Does a Wizard automatically know how to craft scrolls from known spells?

In the DMG (p. 128) it is stated that to craft a magical item during downtime, a character must have a formula that describes the construction of the item. However, it does not give any more ...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 2y ago by Cereal Nommer‭

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Q&A What's the average skill gain from successes in Call of Cthulhu?

As you use skills in Call of Cthulhu 7e, any successes get marked on your character sheet, and can be used to make skill advancement checks when requested by the Keeper. Any extreme successes are a...

2 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by pureferret ‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by tommi‭

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Q&A Do you incur the Wish penalties for using Wish for one of the alternative uses outlined in the PHB?

Wish is the most powerful spell in D&D, being able to alter the very foundations of reality with one spell. The description for use of the Wish spell in the Player's Handbook is this: The b...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Mithical‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Fie‭

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Q&A "You found a cursed ring!" How do I let the player roleplay it without spilling the beans to everyone prematurely?

The most relevant question is, why would you not let everyone know. The best way to answer is to consider what are the creative priorities for this group playing this campaign here and now, and wha...

posted 2y ago by tommi‭

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Q&A How can I make the Wild Magic Sorcerer subclass more fun in a non-combat-heavy campaign?

In my current 5e campaign that I'm a player in, I'm playing as a Wild Magic Sorcerer. The main attraction of the Wild Magic subclass is the Wild Magic Table, which is a list of 50 random magical ef...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Mithical‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Does a Wizard automatically know how to craft scrolls from known spells?

In 5e, every wizard can copy any wizard-class spell into a new spellbook at a minimal cost in time, but preparing a spell is a much more involved activity, described in Xanathar's Guide to Everythi...

posted 2y ago by dsr‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Cereal Nommer‭

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Q&A How to find out the purpose of play of a con game?

If the GM won't tell you, either the GM does not know or the GM does not want to tell you. Inexperienced GMs might not know. Experienced GMs should know. Check into their background. All the rest...

posted 2y ago by dsr‭

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Q&A Is it possible to add the non-occupational +20% to Language(own) and achieve 100% at character creation?

Contrary to my understanding at first, it looks like this should actually be possible. On a closer investigation of the Quick Start Rules, one of the examples brought has a player adjusting the Do...

posted 9mo ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A What's the average skill gain from successes in Call of Cthulhu?

The peak is about 55 It looks like, based on this Anydice calculation that peak skill increase is about 55. I haven't done an analytical calculation of the probabilities, but my guess is that the...

posted 6mo ago by pureferret ‭  ·  edited 6mo ago by pureferret ‭

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Meta A tag had lost magically according to Post History

In the above picture according to history it says that Mark Giraffe had added definition tag. Then, Mithical had added support tag (But, somehow two definition tag had arisen in left diff). Later...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 2y ago by deleted user

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Q&A What's the average skill gain from successes in Call of Cthulhu?

Ignoring the extreme success case for now, and supposing the skill gives a probability p of success, then the probabilities of succeeding on the skill roll and then failing the learning roll (that ...

posted 6mo ago by tommi‭  ·  edited 6mo ago by tommi‭

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Q&A Does a monk use DEX or STR when attacking in a brawl?

Brancalonia, built on top of D&D 5E, adds rules for non-lethal brawls. The rules say that you can't use class abilities like extra attacks, but passive class abilities like Unarmored Defense d...

0 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How can I organize my DM notes in such a way that I have access to necessary information but not too much?

I recommend Joplin Joplin is a note-taking program that allows you to sort notes into notebooks (which you can nest), individual notes, and to-do lists, letting you can organize your notes like th...

posted 3mo ago by TowerOfTurtles‭

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Q&A How can I organize my DM notes in such a way that I have access to necessary information but not too much?

This depends heavily on how you are running the game. For a sandbox I just had each location in its own folder on my computer, with a map or the original adventure I used for that location there, ...

posted 2mo ago by tommi‭

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Q&A Were V:tM rules intentionally badly designed?

Not sure how to answer this beyond saying I ran a V:tM campaign for six years after it came out, and the rules worked out fine for me. I wasn't super strict, perhaps, but the basic dice mechanic w...

posted 1y ago by Strider‭

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Q&A Is it possible to use Contingency + Vampiric Touch to save yourself from unconsciousness?

Contingency requires that the spell being triggered has you as the target. Vampiric touch does not seem to have your self as a valid target, but if it did, then you would take 3d6 necrotic damage a...

posted 10mo ago by dsr‭

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Q&A How to determine the target(s) of Catapult?

None of the creatures are targeted by Catapult. From the same sections you quoted: A spell's description tells you whether the spell targets creatures, objects, or a point of origin for an area...

posted 2y ago by Dana‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Dana‭

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Q&A When did "sandbox" come to prominence as a piece of jargon?

It may date back as far as the iPhone (2007) ref : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12055990/what-is-sandbox-in-ios-can-i-transfer-data-between-one-app-to-another-app It was in the context of ...

posted 2y ago by James McLellan‭

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Q&A Merlin picking a spy in hammer of first mission

This question is about the role playing game The Resistance and in particular one of the versions of the game which is the most popular version Avalon. Suppose we are in the first mission , last r...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by MissMulan‭

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Meta Is chess related Question on-topic in RPG?

What does table-top RPG actually mean? When I heard of Table-top RPG, it sounds like some game on top of table. Tabletop games are games that are normally played on a table or other flat surface...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 2y ago by deleted user