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    [This assumes a cooperative DM]
    If you can planar binding an efreeti
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    7+5+1=13 vs 12 needed for the scroll
    Dimensional lock spell scroll for 16 (need a 4 or better)
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    DC 10+6+9=25 vs +9 save (needs a 16 or better to save)

    Assuming a small bit of luck in a few places you can get an efreeti to grant you 3 wishes. You actually only need 1. So offer him 50000 gp from 2 of his own wishes and you get a candle of invocation from 1.

    Gate in a solar and have him grant you a wish (this will be under more favorable circumstances as you don't need to negotiate).

    Wish for a use activated item of wish. Now here are the important parts:
    -Sp abilities do not have an XP component ever unless otherwise mentioned.
    -Wish says "Create a magic item" but never mentions needing to meet prerequisites (though XP could be a problem in many cases)
    Therefore you can create that use activated item of wish with an unlimited caster level (despite not meeting the prerequisites) and an unlimited supply of XP.
    Following from this is the second part "add to the powers of an existing magic item". This part is so wonderfully broad and far reaching. You may then proceed to "add" every spell in existence or any ability you can think of. You need only add to it's powers. Epic spells would normally be beyond the reach of an item such as this. However, you can say that the item is treated as an artifact for that purpose. Follow up with adding an unlimited bonus to spellcraft if you need it and an epic spell that says you gain all the powers of an item you merge with permanently and irrevocably. Add the power to your magic item to grant an ability to a target of your choice. Merge with the item. You have now achieved pun-pun power at will without needing to go outside the SRD.

    EDIT: It may even be possible to just "add" the power to add an ability to a target of your choice to the item and skip the last part altogether. This eliminates the need for epic spells and artifacts as you can add an ability to yourself that allows you to add abilities and start from there. You could opt to not use the prescience ability but this raises the level requirement or amount of luck required considerably. So it is actually entirely possible to do this with materials out of only the core 3 books but it requires a higher level.

    EDIT2: Actually you could go even further back in this chain and create a single use, use-activated item that instantaneously/permanently grants an ability to it's user. It says "create a magic item" not create an existing magic item. The caster level is unimportant and the only limiting factor would be XP cost (which isn't a limiting factor). The ability you add is to add abilities at will to a target creature (yourself included).
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    This sounds similar to a version of the Wish and the Word.
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    .............. and?

    You've combined, what looks like, three well known exploits, and a wish that screams, "Hey DM, screw me over as hard as you can."

    I don't see the point.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kelb_Panthera View Post
    .............. and?

    You've combined, what looks like, three well known exploits, and a wish that screams, "Hey DM, screw me over as hard as you can."

    I don't see the point.
    Except, rules as written, he can't twist the wish.

    A wish can produce any one of the following effects.

    Duplicate any wizard or sorcerer spell of 8th level or lower, provided the spell is not of a school prohibited to you.
    Duplicate any other spell of 6th level or lower, provided the spell is not of a school prohibited to you.
    Duplicate any wizard or sorcerer spell of 7th level or lower even if it’s of a prohibited school.
    Duplicate any other spell of 5th level or lower even if it’s of a prohibited school.
    Undo the harmful effects of many other spells, such as geas/quest or insanity.
    Create a nonmagical item of up to 25,000 gp in value.
    Create a magic item, or add to the powers of an existing magic item.
    You may try to use a wish to produce greater effects than these, but doing so is dangerous. (The wish may pervert your intent into a literal but undesirable fulfillment or only a partial fulfillment.)
    It is not a greater effect as it is listed.
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    Quote Originally Posted by gooddragon1 View Post
    Except, rules as written, he can't twist the wish.





    It is not a greater effect as it is listed.
    I was referring to the final wish to be fused with the item.

    Edit: possible twist: as the magic takes hold you feel your mind becoming one with the power of the item, but at the back of your mind you feel something fade away. Mechanically, your body disappears from reality, along with your spellcasting ability and all of your gear except the item you fused with. You are now an intelligent magic item.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kelb_Panthera View Post
    I was referring to the final wish to be fused with the item.

    Edit: possible twist: as the magic takes hold you feel your mind becoming one with the power of the item, but at the back of your mind you feel something fade away. Mechanically, your body disappears from reality, along with your spellcasting ability and all of your gear except the item you fused with. You are now an intelligent magic item.
    You don't need to even do that as I mentioned in the final part. You just create an item that "gives you an ability of your choice". The ability is "At will you may grant target creature an ability as a standard action." Aka the start of pun-pun.

    So, the DM will have to step outside RAW to stop this process at that point (the ideal part would just be to have the efreeti say no but that would be unusual given the payoff ratings they usually expect).
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    I'm convinced that folks who freely advocate binding efreeti for this or that purpose have yet to actually read their MM1 entry.
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    Successfully binding an Efreet played to his full power requires more than just the listed stuff. It would be easier just to buy a candle of invocation from your WBL, which is sufficient for that at 5th level.

    @Your Wish
    Doesn't work, since the XP cost for adding that ability is not defined. While the Solar doesn't have to pay it, it is a cost and must be a discrete number:

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    When a wish creates or improves a
    magic item, you must pay twice the normal
    XP cost for crafting or improving the item,
    plus an additional 5,000 XP.
    You can force the solar to create an item of basically unlimited power for you, that adds all kinds of existing abilities, but you can't force him to create an item with abilities that don't have a defined XP-cost, and there's no RAW that forces the DM to allow the creation of items that aren't pre-designed in sourcebooks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aharon View Post
    Successfully binding an Efreet played to his full power requires more than just the listed stuff. It would be easier just to buy a candle of invocation from your WBL, which is sufficient for that at 5th level.

    @Your Wish
    Doesn't work, since the XP cost for adding that ability is not defined. While the Solar doesn't have to pay it, it is a cost and must be a discrete number:

    You can force the solar to create an item of basically unlimited power for you, that adds all kinds of existing abilities, but you can't force him to create an item with abilities that don't have a defined XP-cost, and there's no RAW that forces the DM to allow the creation of items that aren't pre-designed in sourcebooks.
    Through 1 method or another it will work. Either through granting epic spellcasting power by which ad hoc adjustments allow anything and thus my combo works (thus an existing effect) or more broadly by the fact that the words "Create a magic item" do not specify an existing magic item and there is such a thing as the custom magic item creation rules which therefore mean that items and effects not listed may be created. Furthermore, the only requirement a DM could request is an unlimited amount of XP to create the item you request but you may safely ignore all other prerequisites by the wording. You have an unlimited amount of XP to work with as it doesn't require any for the Sp ability. This means that because the only limiting factor is not a limiting factor there are no limiting factors on what you can create by RAW.

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    A spell-like ability has no verbal, somatic, or material component, nor does it require a focus or have an XP cost.
    The ability always lacks an XP cost altogether.

    No XP cost, no limit magic item creation rules, and the only limiting factor that the DM can request is XP mean no limits on what you can do RAW.
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    Custom Item Creation relies on DM Fiat. Epic Spells likewise rely on DM Fiat. The point of most TO exercises is to get builds that reach some specific goal with as little DM Fiat as possible.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aharon View Post
    Custom Item Creation relies on DM Fiat. Epic Spells likewise rely on DM Fiat. The point of most TO exercises is to get builds that reach some specific goal with as little DM Fiat as possible.
    DM fiat for magic items comes in the fact that creating an item could require resources and requirements you don't have. Wish allows the broad creation of magic items without specifying it to be an existing one. Since it doesn't specify that it has to be an existing magic item it requires you to use the custom magic item creation rules. The RAW constraint on the DM however is that he can only require an infinitely high XP cost which you don't have to worry about. If the DM is acting RAW he cannot deny your wish because he cannot exercise control over it through an XP cost. Again, the fiat can only be in the XP cost and thus is not a problem at all.
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    Aren't scrolls cast as the creator?
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    Since it doesn't specify that it has to be an existing magic item it requires you to use the custom magic item creation rules.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flickerdart View Post
    Guidelines.
    Ok, guidelines.

    There are several requirements that the guidelines present and possibly an infinite number they don't. You ignore all of them through wish except XP. Which you ignore through the fact that wish was used as an Sp ability.

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    Aren't scrolls cast as the creator?
    Unsure what you mean here. If you're referring to binding and the save allowed as well as the other stuff there are two ways to handle that beneficially: 1 is that the creator of the scroll had an ability score such that the modifier was hillariously high (without increasing the cost by the way) and the other is that your ability modifier is the one that counts.

    I'm leaning towards just using a candle of invocation with a few levels higher of Wealth By Level at this point.
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    I must have missed the section of the guidelines that state how to create items with new effects. Would you mind citing that section?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aharon View Post
    I must have missed the section of the guidelines that state how to create items with new effects. Would you mind citing that section?
    Adding New Abilities

    A creator can add new magical abilities to a magic item with no restrictions. The cost to do this is the same as if the item was not magical. Thus, a +1 longsword can be made into a +2 vorpal longsword, with the cost to create it being equal to that of a +2 vorpal sword minus the cost of a +1 sword.

    If the item is one that occupies a specific place on a character’s body the cost of adding any additional ability to that item increases by 50%. For example, if a character adds the power to confer invisibility to her ring of protection +2, the cost of adding this ability is the same as for creating a ring of invisibility multiplied by 1.5.
    To create magic items, spellcasters use special feats. They invest time, money, and their own personal energy (in the form of experience points) in an item’s creation.
    But really, they're guidelines which means the DM is going to have to ad hoc it and the only factor he would normally have control over in this scenario is XP cost as wish ignores everything else. Not only that, but it's also the fact that wish doesn't say your item has to be an existing one.

    So we can either interpret new abilities to mean ones that haven't been mentioned or we can go with the fact that wish does not specify that the item has to be an existing one and carry that over to the magic item creation guidelines.

    Wish grants the flexibility and it carries over.
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    I think the green text needs to be read in the context of the paragraph. It goes on and specifies what is meant by adding new magical abilities - defined magical abilities the magic item didn't have before, in the example making a +1 vorpal sword into a +2 vorpal sword. This doesn't refer to adding completely new effects at all.

    The only way to ad hoc your wish would be to create a custom item with a newly created spell that does what you want to achieve, and the DM can disallow new spells he finds to powerful (DMG p. 35 et seq., ELH p. 88 et seq.). And this is assuming a very lenient DM, a less lenient DM would probably rule that to achieve your wish, it would have to create a new spell as part of its effect, which is not within the power of the Wish spell, so it falls under the greater effects clause.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aharon View Post
    I think the green text needs to be read in the context of the paragraph. It goes on and specifies what is meant by adding new magical abilities - defined magical abilities the magic item didn't have before, in the example making a +1 vorpal sword into a +2 vorpal sword. This doesn't refer to adding completely new effects at all.

    The only way to ad hoc your wish would be to create a custom item with a newly created spell that does what you want to achieve, and the DM can disallow new spells he finds to powerful (DMG p. 35 et seq., ELH p. 88 et seq.). And this is assuming a very lenient DM, a less lenient DM would probably rule that to achieve your wish, it would have to create a new spell as part of its effect, which is not within the power of the Wish spell, so it falls under the greater effects clause.
    You are ignoring all spell requirements as part of the ignoring of prerequisites to create a magic item except XP.

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    What spell in this list...:

    Strong varied; CL 13th; Craft Wondrous Item, detect undead, fireball, flame blade, light, prismatic spray, protection from energy, wall of fire; Price 125,000 gp; Weight 3 lb.

    Does exactly that?

    None of them.

    By extension, no, the effect does not need to be existing. You can create entirely new ones without a new spell.

    In fact:

    Silversheen

    This substance can be applied to a weapon as a standard action. It will give the weapon the properties of alchemical silver for 1 hour, replacing the properties of any other special material it might have. One vial will coat a single melee weapon or 20 units of ammunition.

    Faint transmutation; CL 5th; Craft Wondrous Item; Price 250 gp.
    Note the lack of a spell requirement.
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    So...if your DM says that any homebrew you create is automatically legal, you can legally homebrew an infinite-power magic item? Seems like a tautological loop.

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    So...if your DM says that any homebrew you create is automatically legal, you can legally homebrew an infinite-power magic item? Seems like a tautological loop.
    Yes. Because he gave you permission (that's what wish is doing - giving you permission).

    I will link this up for you though:

    Wish - Create a magic item.
    XP costs - None because Sp.
    Limiting factors - Only XP and ignore ALL other requirements.
    Result - No limits (of any kind whatsoever other than fiat outside of RAW) item creation.

    EDIT: Your reference of tautology seems like RAI to me. This is a discussion of RAW (RAW is automatically correct until fiat comes in from RAI).
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    Tautology is not a rules term, RAW or RAI, it is a dictionary term. You are using fiat to justify fiat, saying something is RAW because you say it is RAW. That is not RAW.

    Strictly, your 'exploit' cannot be RAW under any definition because it relies on using imported homebrew that the theoretical 'anything goes' DM in this example makes legal the instant it's created, but homebrew by definition is not RAW. Using 'RAW' or 'fiat' in a discussion requires that you understand what the terms mean, rather than using them as a panacea to deflect counter-arguments.

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    Tautology is not a rules term, RAW or RAI, it is a dictionary term. You are using fiat to justify fiat, saying something is RAW because you say it is RAW. That is not RAW.

    Strictly, your 'exploit' cannot be RAW under any definition because it relies on using imported homebrew that the theoretical 'anything goes' DM in this example makes legal the instant it's created, but homebrew by definition is not RAW. Using 'RAW' or 'fiat' in a discussion requires that you understand what the terms mean, rather than using them as a panacea to deflect counter-arguments.
    No, I'm using the same thing Pun-Pun does: Broad interpretation of a rule that does not have many limits. Simply, because wish allows access to item creation without prerequisites and GP costs and because item creation is normally limited by those things I can say that it can create whatever I want. I've effectively eliminated all the barriers on item creation that would prevent creation of an item that can do anything through the application of a few rules (Wish item creation, non-xp cost, and custom magic item existence).

    Fiat would be if I said that something works without providing a rules example. RAW means that I have provided a rules example.

    You might as well say that pun pun creating an ability with the "you gain an ability" wording is imported homebrew. In fact, through my explanation of wish, you could indeed use imported homebrew and remain within the rules as that is what this wish will effectively allow you to do.
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    Then can you supply a rules example for your central hypothesis, that Wish allows you to ignore all prerequisites of item creation? By the actual RAW, Wish does not need to say 'you must meet all prerequisites', because 'Create A Magic Item' would refer you to the actual rules on Creating Magic Items, which discuss meeting prerequisites in detail.



    You might as well say that pun pun creating an ability with the "you gain an ability" wording is imported homebrew.
    Which is why the actual, completely RAW-legal Pun-Pun does not do that. He merely has arbitrarily high stats and every existing (Ex) and (Su) ability, all legally given to him by the RAW of Manipulate Form. Making up abilities is flagged as questionable if you actually read the original explanation for Pun-Pun, and not required for him to reach infinite power.
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    Then can you supply a rules example for your central hypothesis, that Wish allows you to ignore all prerequisites of item creation? By the actual RAW, Wish does not need to say 'you must meet all prerequisites', because 'Create A Magic Item' would refer you to the actual rules on Creating Magic Items, which discuss meeting prerequisites in detail.
    XP Cost...

    ...When a wish creates or improves a magic item, you must pay twice the normal XP cost for crafting or improving the item, plus an additional 5,000 XP.
    No other requirements.

    The other possibility is that wish cannot create items on it's own and relies on the caster's feats. The PHB example shows that a person could wish for a staff of the magi but as that is beyond the scope of the wish without XP expenditure it is altered. So creating an item without prerequisites is a given possibility.
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    No other requirements.
    Under the XP Costs section of the spell...as part of an 'if-then' exception to the flat cost of 5,000 XP. 'If it doesn't specifically say otherwise, I can do it' is not RAW - RAW is 'if if doesn't say you can do it, you can't, but if it does, go wild'.

    Quoth the PHB:
    For example, wishing for a
    staff of the magi might get you instantly
    transported to the presence of the staff’s
    current owner.
    Indeed...creating items without prerequisites is not a possibility by your own example, but moving you to an existing item of that description (or moving that item to you) is.
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    Under the XP Costs section of the spell...as part of an 'if-then' exception to the flat cost of 5,000 XP. 'If it doesn't specifically say otherwise, I can do it' is not RAW - RAW is 'if if doesn't say you can do it, you can't'.
    No, actually, what you refer to is called practical optimization. A common mistake when looking at theoretical optimization.

    The rule says I can create a magic item and then fails to limit me in a meaningful way.

    I am not saying I am just doing 10 jumping jacks to cast a wish spell because the rules don't say I can't.

    I am saying that I am using a poorly defined rule that allows theoretically anything and building from there.

    So, you miss an important point with your statement: I have grounding in existing rules to do this rather than making them up on the spot.

    Quoth the PHB:
    Indeed...creating items without prerequisites is not a possibility by your own example, but moving you to an existing item of that description (or moving that item to you) is.
    Nope, it mentions it under the ability to pervert a wish which means that he wished for something beyond his XP cost to create as I have shown that due to lack of specifics yet still grounded rules it is possible to create without prerequisites.
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    No, actually, what you refer to is called practical optimization. A common mistake when looking at theoretical optimization.

    The rule says I can create a magic item and then fails to limit me in a meaningful way.

    I am not saying I am just doing 10 jumping jacks to cast a wish spell because the rules don't say I can't.

    I am saying that I am using a poorly defined rule that allows theoretically anything and building from there.
    You are using a poorly defined rule and adding additional text that is not present in the actual RAW to justify your further actions. If you cannot present that text in the RAW, you cannot claim its presence by omission and then say it is RAW.


    EDIT: You're also using erroneous definitions of practical/theoretical optimization. Practical optimization is defined as optimizing something that you would actually be able to play in a game, the 'gentleman's optimization'. Theoretical optimization is optimizing in a vacuum - no DM, no players, no campaign, just 'how much of X can I get'. In neither case does it allow you to make up things from whole cloth, even as Pun-Pun.
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    You are using a poorly defined rule and adding additional text that is not present in the actual RAW to justify your further actions. If you cannot present that text in the RAW, you cannot claim its presence by omission and then say it is RAW.
    I'm not adding additional text, I'm acting within the boundaries of the rule. Namely the non-existent ones.

    It's RAW in that the rule is there and it does allow me to do that.

    If it worked the way you say then pun-pun would have to add abilities that exist rather than making them up. Which has been proven to not be the case.

    EDIT: You're also using erroneous definitions of practical/theoretical optimization. Practical optimization is defined as optimizing something that you would actually be able to play in a game, the 'gentleman's optimization'. Theoretical optimization is optimizing in a vacuum - no DM, no players, no campaign, just 'how much of X can I get'. In neither case does it allow you to make up things from whole cloth, even as Pun-Pun.
    ... That's ... almost exactly what I said?

    A cooperative DM? It's roughly the same as optimizing in a vacuum. Of course a DM with a brain is going to smite you with the DMG. That's not the point. The point is that the rules allow it. It doesn't have to make sense as long as it works by an existing rule.
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    I'm not adding additional text, I'm acting within the boundaries of the rule. Namely the non-existent ones.

    It's RAW in that the rule is there and it does allow me to do that.
    Repeat - show that the rule 'Wish ignores item creation prerequisites' is in there. The XP Costs section gives an exception to the XP Costs of creating an item - specifically, that it costs the normal amount plus 5,000. Non-XP-related prerequisites would not belong in a section titled 'XP Costs', so claiming their absence is justification for not needing them is false.

    If it worked the way you say then pun-pun would have to add abilities that exist rather than making them up. Which has been proven to not be the case.
    Except that is how Pun-Pun works, the official version. The alternate version that outright makes up abilities is blatantly noted as going beyond the RAW.
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    Repeat - show that the rule 'Wish ignores item creation prerequisites' is in there. The XP Costs section gives an exception to the XP Costs of creating an item - specifically, that it costs the normal amount plus 5,000. Non-XP-related prerequisites would not belong in a section titled 'XP Costs', so claiming their absence is justification for not needing them is false.

    Except that is how Pun-Pun works, the official version. The alternate version that outright makes up abilities is blatantly noted as going beyond the RAW.
    So you don't believe he can have any ability in the game. That's interesting.

    I did. It says "create a magic item". It does not say create a magic item for which you meet the prerequisites.

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    However, if it doesn't mention prerequisites at all we fall into a third category which is loosely defined. The DM will then need grounding in the rules to say that you can't do something that the rules are allowing because you have a rule saying that you can without a piece of text limiting it. You have provided the proof that it can be done and now it is up to the DM to provide the proof that it is limited somehow (which does not exist by the way).

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