Feats Inspired by "A Wizard Could Do Worse"

[Benly]

What about the xp? Dumping that much is kind of annoying if all you get is some other sucky effect. (Unless you use sacrifice to get one at level three. *Whistles*)

In my experience how much the DM screws with you depends on how much you're trying to screw with the DM. If you're using Planar Binding chains for a million free wishes, yeah, you're going to walk into the business end of a screwjob. If you're actually casting Wish, or if it's a Wish the DM gave you (via ring or reward or whatnot) you're much less likely to get screwed.

Caveat: Evil beings granting Wishes will frequently try to screw you unless you're wishing for something that serves their purpose, and sometimes even then just because it's hilarious. If a demon or efreet is offering you wishes, your screwjob sense should be tingling - but it's entirely in-character, so it doesn't bug me.

[HalfDragonCube]

In my experience how much the DM screws with you depends on how much you're trying to screw with the DM. If you're using Planar Binding chains for a million free wishes, yeah, you're going to walk into the business end of a screwjob. If you're actually casting Wish, or if it's a Wish the DM gave you (via ring or reward or whatnot) you're much less likely to get screwed.

Caveat: Evil beings granting Wishes will frequently try to screw you unless you're wishing for something that serves their purpose, and sometimes even then just because it's hilarious. If a demon or efreet is offering you wishes, your screwjob sense should be tingling - but it's entirely in-character, so it doesn't bug me.

How much do you think it would cost to hire a lawyer to phrase wishes to be unscrewjobable for players on these boards?

'You're going to walk into the business end of a screwjob' sounds a tad iffy, by the way.

[Seerow]

What about the xp? Dumping that much is kind of annoying if all you get is some other sucky effect. (Unless you use sacrifice to get one at level three. *Whistles*)

Most of my experience with it comes from things like NPC interactions (yay genies), and items. At this point I think everyone's too used to wishes getting screwed up to actually risk their own experience on it.

But like I said, I don't expect that to be the norm for most tables

[Benly]

How much do you think it would cost to hire a lawyer to phrase wishes to be unscrewjobable for players on these boards?

Impossible. The more you try to lawyer it up, the more certain it is that you will eat a screwjob.

[HalfDragonCube]

Impossible. The more you try to lawyer it up, the more certain it is that you will eat a screwjob.

Now you're just trying to make it sound dirty.

[Jjeinn-tae]

Just out of interest, how many DMs roughly are there that screw with things like Wish wordings? Mine is pretty nice about them. I even once mis-phrased one that would give me 2,500gp instead of 25,000gp, but he let me have a Wisdom check 'cause my character would not have been that stupid.

Of course, the money all got stolen later...

I mess with them occasionally, really it just depends on what they're wishing for. Generally I go with the variety of twist that has a fun effect that will probably come into play at some point, but doesn't really change much about the game. But wishing for money? You have unlimited wealth pretty much at that point anyways if you're really wanting it; go ahead I guess.



And peace offering:

Multiwield [Fighter]
Prerequisites: Two-Weapon Fighting, BAB 6+
Benefit: Provided you can convince your DM that you can indeed hold the weapons in such a way, you can hold as many weapons in either hand as you want. You count as wielding Two-Weapons for the purpose of feats, but may make an single attack with one additional weapon beyond the second per 3 BAB. If you have Two-Weapon Rend, you may rend for each pair of weapons you strike with, thus with 3 weapons successfully hitting, you have three pairs (first weapon and second, first and third, second and third).
Special: No, being able to fit 5 pencils in your hand and swing them around does not mean you can swing 5 swords around. You'll have to do better than that.

[Morph Bark]

And peace offering:

Multiwield [Fighter]
Prerequisites: Two-Weapon Fighting, BAB 6+
Benefit: Provided you can convince your DM that you can indeed hold the weapons in such a way, you can hold as many weapons in either hand as you want. You count as wielding Two-Weapons for the purpose of feats, but may make an single attack with one additional weapon beyond the second per 3 BAB. If you have Two-Weapon Rend, you may rend for each pair of weapons you strike with, thus with 3 weapons successfully hitting, you have three pairs (first weapon and second, first and third, second and third).
Special: No, being able to fit 5 pencils in your hand and swing them around does not mean you can swing 5 swords around. You'll have to do better than that.

You just had to make it so that they had to fit in the hands, didn't ya?

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[Seerow]

You just had to make it so that they had to fit in the hands, didn't ya?

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Hey, with his feat you can wield two separate swordchucks (or double bladed swords if you want to be -boring-)

[Jjeinn-tae]

Hmm, maybe that would be a good next feat in the chain/patch to this one... I had thought of it, but the feat was inspired by essentially a fistfull of knives like has actually been used to good effect... Of course, in a more elegant fashion than "fistfull" suggests.

[Morph Bark]

Hey, with his feat you can wield two separate swordchucks (or double bladed swords if you want to be -boring-)

Double-bladed swordchucks is where it is at, but you need to be a Lumi for that.

[137beth]

How much do you think it would cost to hire a lawyer to phrase wishes to be unscrewjobable for players on these boards?

'You're going to walk into the business end of a screwjob' sounds a tad iffy, by the way.

The lawyer would just phrase it so that it helps him/her and not you.

[dradio1]

Swords unto like chainsaws
Prerequisites:Int 15, Allied fighter with int of 2 or less, ability to write,Allied fighter with 4 single handed melee weapons

Effect: You slip the said fighter a note which reads: Make your swords like unto chainsaws the fighter then wields 2 swords in each hand, and destroys every creature in the next 2 encounters, or until any creature with an intelligence greater than 6 reads the note

[Doorhandle]

hmmm... give a little more credit to fighter's intelligence. Make it 4-6 or less; he's still a sapient being capable of speech, after all.

[Chess435]

"I've had enough of you!" [Monstrous]

Prerequisites: Outsider, 12 HD

Benefit: If you are ever called to serve a caster via a summoning spell or gate, you do not have to follow the caster's orders. Also, you are thereafter immune to all magic cast by the summoner and gain a +20 bonus on attack and damage rolls against them.

[LibrarianHuntar]

Cheat Codes
Prerequisites: Intelligence 20
Benefit:You get the ancient artifact Ludus Caetus (that's Latin)
Special:You can do anything. Anything. However, you must state what you wish to do in binary.