Wish in Dungeons & Dragons 

Casting wish is like doing coding on a reality-level scale without the ability to check for bugs first.

In my 40 years of playing this game, I've had all of one Wish. At that time, I wielded a sword that contained the souls of it's last two owners. "I Wish that the souls contained within Harbinger would be released so that they may pass to their proper afterlives in peace." The DM at that time gave me a huge chunk of bonus XP. He did not expect the Wish to be used selflessly.

5:55 ~ So, to a god, a wizard with wish is pretty much a kid with a gun.

So, a lawyer would be the best person to cast Wish.

IMO every Wizard should just hire a team of Devil and Modron lawyers double checking each other to write their wish for them in Truespeech.

It's a trope that Wish is literal about the wording, but I personally like to think of it as granting the path of least resistance. Reality doesn't like being changed, so it will make the smallest change possible that would match what was requested.

Had a character at the end of my game wish for absolute balance in the universe... the scene was like this, Player: I wish for absolute balance in the universe Other players: "NOOOOOOOO!!!" Their screams were cut off as a screen green screen door opened in front of them. (note, there were in an old temple with the only furnishing being an alter that held the gem which granted the wish) A tall skinny child wearing strange garbs and glasses stepped out of the screen door. The man was half turned behind him saying something is a foreign tongue that some how the players understood though it sounded far away. Me/DM: *stands Walks to my screen door* Begin a conversation with some invisible people. "Howdy guys! I'm The Dungeon master." Players: "Uuum okay, What does that mean?" DM: You know all those gods you worship? All the magic you have used, the world you live in and all of the planes and other gods and pretty much everything?" Players: "...yes..." DM: "I'm just gonna let that sink in for a few seconds..." Parties, dumb Barbarian who wished for balance: So...you some know it all? I hate Know it all's" DM: Oh i know. I also do it all, and make it all and all that, everything except what you actually do. That's all you, i just decided what happens after. What you guys do is controlled by someone else. Anyway, Turns out of of those someones decided to ask for absolute balance in the universe. So now I have to decide what happens. The problem is, absolute balance can mean a lot of different things. So i'm here to help clarify what you mean. because i COULD make everything...well boring, or i could just end everything, or i could start from scratch and start everything all over again.. So he's what we are going to do, I'm going to let each of you tell me one very specific change to your universe which you think would make everything more balanced. when you are done i'll make all of them happen, but you will have no memory of this meeting. Fair?" Players: "Fair" Barbarian: "No more Kingdoms!" Wizard: "Everyone can read!" Palidan: "Everyone follows the law!" Thief: "I grew up poor, Everyone has a home" Party: "Aww that's adorable!" Cleric: That I'm DM" DM: looks at the bard Bard looks at me Bard: "That none of that other stuff ever happened."

9:38 Not gonna lie, when I heard the request phrased that way, the first thing that came to mind was a bit more horrific. Let's go with a nice painting instead.

I once had a player write an entire legalistic essay detailing the ramifications of their Wish spell to bring back a dead party member who died under horrible circumstances and was beyond True Resurrection (also complicated plot stuff involved). I had intended as the DM to have some strange or difficult circumstances occur with the Wish spell, similar to what is detailed in this video. This player planned for weeks after the death of the party Ranger (at Level 19, right near the end of our campaign), writing this long essay accounting for every possible loophole that could be exploited by a fiendish or otherworldly entity possibly granting a Wish. The TLDR of the essay (over 3000+ words) meant that the other player character could be brought back to life with no negative effects the player would dislike. The character’s body, soul, memories, and entire person would be brought back to life and now be able to live a prolonged life with no strange circumstances or undesired outcomes. I appreciated the effort taken by the player to write this essay (and it fit the character of their very introspective, quiet, shy, and cautious wizard) and I could not think of any silly loopholes to not give the player what they fully intended. And anything I could have tried would have been breaking the rules or lore of my own world I had built over the campaign. Nor would I be so mean-spirited as to deny someone this Wish after going through so much effort, even if I could have found some tiny loophole to give them something unexpected. They weren’t able to cast Wish ever again afterwards, but that was okay for them. The Wizard resurrected the Ranger despite it seeming impossible and it was a good end to the campaign.

*player casts wish Gaunter O'dimm theme starts playing...

I tend to go on the side of not screwing over the characters intent of the wish for poor wording or phrases, for the same reason that puzzles that require player only knowledge are bad, its immersion breaking and feels unfair. I see wish as like a capstone to (usually) a character arc, and to have it all messed up because the player didnt say this or that properly makes everyone feel bad. That's not to say, as mentioned in the video, that consequences or new adventures cant sprout from it.

Our barbarian for his third wish wished for the Djinn’s most powerful item. He got an indestructible ballbearing :)

The best example of "a wizard getting that power without knowing how to use it properly" is most likely found in Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn. Good starting point if you're a DM and have a wizard get to that point.

Wording is often important. My Dragonborn said to a bunch of undead Dwarven smiths "Make me armour". After measuring his dimensions the Dwarves proceeded to forged plates of red hot steel onto his body. Upside; with my HP, second wind, and ways to gain temp HP a couple of times I just survived it (I let them do it) and got the XGtE Dragon Hide feat (without the stat improvement)! Downside; a Goblin warchief and lieutenant just arrived to mess up our days and I was basically out of features and abilities ^^'

welp, I had wish once, the game master in a way tricked me into having it. Long story short, I tried to use it to level up my friend, he summoned, what can be called a GOD and tell us, “if you kill it, you’ll level up once”, as you may expect, we all died. Moral of the story only wish when you have a good dm, not a moody one

You say "the guy behind the curtain" in reference to the DM. I pictured the Wizard of Oz. Was he DMing?

The Wish spell in DnD functions much like...basically all magic in Mage: The Ascension. Incredibly open-ended, but with the caveat that you're always at risk of royally pissing off Reality itself. There are ways to avoid that; like with DnD's Wish, if you stay within the realm of effects that Reality accepts as standard (or at least _appear_ to), you don't get punished. Mage: The Ascension, being set in the modern World of Darkness, means the titular mages have to skirt around what is believable to the average observer (Coincidental). If they do unbelievable things (go Vulgar), they risk the hammer of Paradox (literally the paradox between accepted reality and what your mage just did) hitting them on the head, in unpredictable ways. Which doesn't mean mages in MtAs don't go Vulgar. They just have to be careful and sparing about it. Gotta make sure that if you break Consensual Reality, it's because you really needed (or wanted) to. And that you be prepared to take Paradox on the chin. You won't be caught every time (each Vulgar casting or botched effect adds a Paradox point that gets expended at the GM's will), but you WILL be caught. Eventually. So if I ever run a DnD game where the players get up to casting Wish, I'll use that as license to channel some Mage: The Ascension directly into the DnD game. I've got a long list of Paradox backlash ideas, just waiting.

They wished my bbeg dead...made him undead added resistance to necrotic damage and gave him undead fortitude

Could just listen to JC talk about D&D forrrrrr, basically forever

I’ve personally never understood the “take the wish and give the player the absolute worst outcome you can think of!” mindset that a lot of DM’s seem to have. This is one of those things where you need to lay down the hammer and just say no if they try to wish for something ludicrous, or simply tell them to not wish for something like that when they gain access to it. Or maybe even just go along with their crazy, if poorly worded, wish and make something fun out of it, instead of basically ruining any chance of that player continuing with their character.

Just say “I wish for my friend to be brought back the way I INTEND them to come back.” No fancy wording necessary. If the DM does anything fishy you just have to say, “that’s not what I INTENDED” and they’ll have to fix it.

"Wish is the ultimate expression of wizardly power" Bards with Magical secrets: HOL' UP A MINUTE

everyone who plays D&D has heard the story about the guy who got a lawyer to write their character's Wish for eternal life, to eliminate loopholes and force the DM to honor it. this is the only true way to win the game, imo

My 'Wish' experience: In a homebrew campaign set in the Forgotten Realms, my 6th-level players used a bean from the Bag of Beans to awaken a subterranean tarrasque (that I stupidly included as foreshadowing), then had to try to stop it from destroying the nearby city that they were sworn to protect. In encountering the tarrasque, they activated a trinket one of the players had been holding since the beginning of the game: the snuffbox of Karsus Netheril, whom had enclosed a 'Wish' spell scroll within, to be opened only if the tarrasque was ever re-awakened. Their wish: To resurrect Karsus Netheril in the flesh to assist them in locking the tarrasque away. My BBEG was a beholder lich, pulling strings behind the scenes, before they made that decision - but they gave me a bigger, badder, more-evil super-villain to supplant him!

A better option to use instead of 33% chance to not cast wish again is to give the caster 4 levels of exhaustion that only goes away by passing a constitution DC check of 20.

My favourite wish was one told to me by a friend who ran a campaign about a bunch of holy characters raiding the nine hells ti save a friend who fell to darkness And he gets a wish and wishes "I wish the nine hells were no more" They were returned to the mortal world but along with every demon/ entity in the 9 hells The wish took it literally and simply removed the location And just moved every demon to the mortal realms Including the big bads like orcus and asmodeus It was pretty much an instant game over XD

I always have it that if a wish is cast not by the caster but on behalf of the caster ( Genie Style or monkey's paw) or by a source that is not directly the caster that the wish may not go as expected but if it is directly cast from them I usually are on their side of interpretation of what they want to happen

There are also very specific wishes, which cannot be easily manipulated by DMs to have unexpected effects. Things like: "I wish I was two feet taller, in proportion to my current body shape." "I wish that the Grand Fountain in Capitol Square would transform the input water in it's plumbing system, into quality red wine, also transforming drained wine into water as it re-enters the plumbing system. It will produce this effect as long as the fountain exists in working condition and is located in Capitol City." "I wish for BBEG to be cursed with the property of smelly feet, for all of eternity." These are silly examples, but the point stands, some wishes can be constructed in a way which leaves little room for shenanigans.

OOOH THEY TALKED ABOUT LADY OF PAIN FOR A SPLIT SECOND, INSTA LIKE

I come from the very early editions and both enjoy and am a tiny bit derisive of the changes that have occurred leading up to modern dnd. But, I never liked the idea of playing wishes out with the, at best, mischievous, or more likely, backfiring effects. I always felt that the wizard had been through an incredible journey to reach the levels needed to cast wish and it seems insulting somehow to make one of their greatest spells play out more like a curse. Rather, I enjoy the notion that the wizard might have some idea of the cause and effect relationship of reality, and might realize that the spell must reflect this reality, and take this knowledge into account. If one takes from here, there may be an unpredictable cost, but it need not be unpredictable. Balance, I think, would be something fairly obvious to someone who has become so completely tied up with the arcane forces that make up the magical universe. Anyway, I always tried to be more neutral, not adversarial, except at the surface level in the context of an enemy npc, for example.

the love this two camera set up and the kind of back and forth that happens, really enjoyable

Nested Wish: When you need to keep the Gods of Order busy. The Chaos of that rippling and (sometimes) allowing other wishes to be cast/fulfilled at random will keep them chasing back just what the hell is going on. Also Casting Wish to make it so you can Cast Wish as a Spell-like ability once a Day? Broken....

I usaly rule the outcome based on the source of wish. If the caster is a player or something that is on the players side, then the outcome is ruled in the favour of the player While malevolent sources will make it rule against the players and neutral sources rules as litteraly as posible

Why did I know that Crawford won't mention sorcerers at all?

Once gave a homebrew character a curse where they had infinite wish spells, but not the free copy spell part. Rolled 10 on percentile dice first time!

Wish is like a monkeys paw. You have to be careful with the hubris of your wishes

I'm lowkey stealing that 1st Edition demiplane item idea

How I like to do the idea of bringing somebody back with wish (unless worded differently) is to rewrite history to be what would have happened if they had never died in the first place, often with drastic results on the world

Wish is described as the Mightiest of Spells, but can't produce other 9th level (less mighty?) spells seemed odd... so I pushed back wish to be a pseudo-class feature/spell for 19th level instead of a 9th level spell so Wish becomes a true Anyspell (minus wish itself) from cantrip through 9th. mischief is still a feature; just made it a more logical progression. If wish is the Mightiest of spells, IMO having a 2 level delay to "get used to" casting 9th level preps the caster for some true campaign-ending decisions. love these spotlights!

11:06 Trust me, my group keeps selective traditions alive.

The way those two were going on about Wizards and the Wish spell tells me a great deal. At the level a Wizard will be to have access means that he/she is no idiot and far from ignorant concerning a Wish's capabilities and risks.

My favorite video you guys and gals have done. So much fun. Thank you, Todd and Jeremy.

I’m so glad he specified that the gods aren’t generally granting the wish but the wizard actually manipulates reality. So many players and DMs think that wish relies on a higher being rather than the wizard expressing the potential of its class. I’ve been working on a concept with wish being the gateway to higher tiers of magic by using powerful rituals to sustain the powerful effects of the spell and in turn being able to effectively cast lvl 10+ spells. However the goddess of magic maintains the only knowledge of the rituals and the players have to gain her blessing to use them.

when it comes to bringing characters back (wish or otherwise), they may have seen your world's versions of either heaven or hell. if heaven, they may be furious that you've torn them from their family and eternal bliss and maybe even deny them the ability to return. If hell, those characters will be scarred beyond comprehension from the tortures they have endured.

My brother was playing a wild magic sorcerer, and unknown to anyone in the party, he had rolled a wish on his wild magic, so his party had one in reserves, but they just had to say the right thing. One guy eventually said "I wish I had an aoe," so the dm told him to roll to see which one. If I recall, he said it helped them out a lot.

I've been tinkering around with an NPC concept of a Wish Contract Lawyer. Someone who doesn't have class levels, but whenever a king or empress have a Wish scroll or a Genie that they need to cash in, that Lawyer is the one who is hired to write the most detailed, airtight Wish possible. Their fees are extreme, and they have a lot of sway over the nature of the wish, probably careful to make sure the wish doesn't do anything they would deem catastrophic

"Wizards are almost like gods" Yeah we've noticed WotC feel that way.

Me: “I wish for complete understanding and mastery of the wish spell, including its origin and creation.” DM: “You now know absolutely everything about why you cannot cast this again.” ME: -_-

i never noticed that wish could cast spells from other classes that is awesome

I've only got two issues with Wish as it currently stands: 1) You provide a list of safe options: granting ten creatures immunity to a single spell for eight hours, forcing a single reroll, etc., but then also subject those "safe" options to the new stress rule of having a 33% chance of losing the ability to cast Wish. For most of the "safe" options, they seem pretty trivial to run the risk of permanently losing Wish, and even conjuring $25k of gold should be trivial when you consider that you're a level 17 to level 20 wizard. I should be able to play in the same arena as fiends and celestials, conjuring gold to reward lesser beings while I focus on rewards of far greater value. Besides, it's basically making the creation spell's effect permanent. If anything, being able to conjure gold on demand should make me and my tower a target for thieves/dragons that I'd have to deal with or risk losing my research. 2) If I have my simulacrum cast wish, even though it is just a construct that can't be healed and must be "repaired", sharing no physical or mental connection with the caster, if that simulacrum casts wish, somehow the strain on the construct transfers to me as biological strain. Doesn't make sense. I'd have made it so that either the Simulacrum can't cast spells above the spell level which was used to create it, or, since it's basically just a snowball wielding cosmic power, if the Simulacrum casts wish, give the spell a 66%+ chance to fail with the Simulacrum exploding with force damage and dealing a number of D10's equal to the number of the caster's hit dice. Of course, I acknowledge that these can all be waived or modified and you would really just have an adult conversation with your DM if you plan to use wish. The RAW just leaves a lot of room for lazy or stubborn DMs.

So my characters wife has the lucky blade and during childbirth is dying. She wishes to stay by my side forever. Now I'm an adventurer who's wife is by my side as a spirit that only I can see. I'm looking for a vessel to put her in. Wish can really have insane effects.

I'm trying to make a Genie build for a player of mine the way I'm going to build it is: When a player runs her lamp that player will get 3 wishes that will allow the player to wish for any spell except the wish spell,any spell that forces someone's freewill and any spell that bring back the dead but the twist is the Genie gets to choose how the wish is granted if they are not careful with their words.

So that is why bards and clerics dont get wish? Bard replicate the words of creation in accordance with their wishes, but they lack magical mastery. Neato. Still can be Gotten via magical secrets. Also can you wish for something weird and then request a drawback?

The wish is based on traditional folk tales where they come in two types. The beneficial ones given to righteous individuals who use them wisely and the nefarious ones abused by greedy and foolish individuals who end up running to their doom. In D&D it's a form of entrapment. It lures you with the promise of power and then is meant to give you the shaft in every possible way if you omit so much as a comma.

Casts wish: get got, the universe gets got.

my DM rewarded us with a wish, and the other members of the party all wished for super cool stuff, like a warship that can magically fly, and me the paladin wished that a demon that was in another character (who was a child in our group at the time) would be transferred and resealed inside my paladin, i surprised everyone at the table, DM ask why i wished for that, and i say because thats what my paladin would do, and now my paladin struggles to be faithful and stay on the path of righteousness due to the demon's influence.

This guy is always smiling so intensely

I miss the aging aspect of casting wish.

If you wish to continually replicate wish, you get a stack overflow

A familiar quote to go with that reminiscence of DM's being more mischievous in early editions - "When the DM smiles, it's already too late..."

The Wish spell is why D&D needs lawyers! Temple of Elemental Evil was a nasty adventure!

3:55 "Reality might not like it.... And reality *might* get fuzzy" *Camera starts defocusing* Me: Oh no... it has already started!

Personally if I was DMing, I would be more lenient with the wish like how Aladdin's Genie would do the wish.

So this thing just reminded me that in my tomb of annihilation game only two members of my party died, yet still I considered myself to be the "sole survivor" in spite of the fact so many also lived through the whole thing bc my character was put into a life threatening scenario basically once per session and lived through each one while the others mostly avoided it

Wish has been used multiple times in campaigns I have been a player in to bring people back from the dead and like they said, it doesn't always go as planned. On one occasion we resurrected our partys monk, the wizard worded it as "Return her to us in body and mind" and when she came back she could no longer use ki (the spirit which he did not ask to be returned). The other was an unearthed arcana campaign and we tried to wish back the partys mystic (after he failed his disappear for 1d3 days instead of dying trick) and did something similar, the wizard asked that "My dear friend be returned as we once knew him in hopes that he remembers us" (or something along those lines) and he was revived as a child due to the partys backstory stating they had known each other since childhood. This caused a lot of problems due to the fact that even though he had all his memories up until his death, he was now a child and no longer possesses the control over his body a mystic needs to use their abilities.

Personally, I always imagined Wish to work like it utilises the "path of least resistance" kind of logic. Example: A wizard wishes for limitless money. Of course, the laws of what would normally happen would involve a certain amount dropping from the skies, and the chance of never being able to use Wish again, due to casting beyond an 8th level spell. If she (in this case) were to cast this in an urban centre near to a bank, I would make things very interesting. Instead, several lockboxes in the bank would be Knocked, and their wealth (potentially greater than what would normally be wished) would stream in a line towards her. Due to using magic equivalent or below to 8th level, she does not recieve any personal drawbacks, but every guard in the city will be after her for grand theft.

I started my current longform campaign with a wish spell. The players get access to it by assembling arcane artifacts that have been mysteriously falling from the sky, which when brought together, can grant a wish. Little did they know that after using their wish to save someone from a horrible curse, they became indebted to a quarut. They are then commanded to repay their cosmic debt by retrieving these artifacts before more adventurers start making wishes of their own

I really want to get into D&D, I’ve played a bit before and it’s really fun but my wired work schedule and life makes it damn near impossible for me to get a few hours a week just to chill out and play.

"I wish to compell a deity to..."

i love these vids. never played dnd but would love to try it one day

I'm generally pretty lax with the wish spell but I work with a self-created rule that regardless of anything is always active. The Multiple punishment. If I suspect you are intentionally attempting to wish for more/infinite wishes (directly, additional sources of wishing, time shenanigans, ETC), I immediately cancel and use up the wish. Wish is supposed to be a big thing and I refuse to have it turned into a munchkin moment. If I suspect you are doing it unintentionally, I’ll give you a warning that multiple wishes are dangerously unstable and may break apart.

One of my party members pulled the Wish card out of the Deck of Many Things and we spent 30-40 mins wording that wish so that the whole party got some benefit out of it. By the time we told our DM we were ready and he saw it, he couldn't think of anyway to make us pay. We would have made a group of lawyers proud!

I have always ensured the cost of the wish was equivalent to the reults and made sure my players were aware of this restriction. Except when mimicing a spell, i would try to see if any spell could effectivly cover the wishes wording

Odd thing is...if you are a Conjuration Wizard, your subclass features makes it so that any Conjuration spell with "concentration" cannot be interrupted. And since "Wish" is a conjuration spell...any spell replicated with "concentration" is essentially unbreakable until the wizard falls.

Wish is like asking a teenager to do a chore. It may get done but you may not like the results.

Hey, speaking of Wish, I have a great idea for how to create a Sha'ir! In 5e, I think it would be a great bard subclass. Start with the lore college, and replace it with access to a gen that uses your bardic inspiration die to attempt to get you a spell. Hit the spell level, disadvantage on a cleric spell. At 14th level you can add your charisma bonus when you attempt to get a spell of 8th level or lower. Balance?

When you can bend the laws of reality you have to be careful not to bend them too far, or they're likely to snap back.

I think the reason we can't use Wish to cast 9th level spells is so that we can't Wish to cast Wish in a way removed from ourselves. Like, if you could use it to cast itself, you could avoid the possibility of ever losing the ability to cast it, because the spell would be casting the spell for you. No need to roll the percentile if you aren't technically the one casting the Wish. Putting the level cap on the replication ability fixes that.

my villains used this spell to make everyone forget the party existed

My DM gave me one wish in the form of the "luck blade" when I joined his game. The whole campaign i didn't touch that wish then during our last encounter with the bbeg we messed up the fight not knowing what to do. Long story short bbeg absorbs like 13 vestiges of the old gods and is just pulsing this intense all consuming black energy hitting us for like 43 damage a turn, I used my wish to get all the vestiges sealed away almost killing myself in the process. My favorite dnd moment ever

best tool for a DM faced by a party with a wish spell or ring = a good thesaurus

the way i handle wish (that i think is fun) is that i have whichever player is casting it write down their wish (so that i have their exact words), i decide how i want to interpret it, and then i have the player read their wish out loud and it happens

Oh, so I can choose how the spell grants wishes. I always wondered about that, because it is of course extremely important if the wish is granted by some entity, or if it instead gives the wizard omnipotency to grant the wish themselves.

Read or watch the Monkey's Paw. It's a pretty good guide for how not to wish.

One of the gods from my universe is Fluctuous, a being that can alter probability, and the only thing he interacts with that concerns mortals is the highest level beings that ask for favors in exchange for nifty things that he thinks are neat (like paddle balls and gum)

This is why I basically write a document containing every single bad outcome being outcasted for my wish, to the point where my DM got a god to seal my highest spell slot. 😔 And then there was an entire questline about investigating, finding, and killing that God.

I think that the universe wants to create the literal effect that you are asking about, but doing it the way that would result in the smallest amount of magic used, like with this: 9:36 - 9:45 the universe knows that it would be "cheaper" in terms of magical energy to make a portrait appear, rather than making the person come back to life.

I’d wish that the weave is and always has been completely immune to any action made on it when the intent is conniving, violent, or malicious.

A demi-plane to a previous edition! I've only played 5th so I never would have thought of this. Easy way to check out another edition without completely switching. Just exit the demi-plane. Genius!

Here is my experience with Wish: I wished for a way to control a tarasque and got a saddle with reigns that I had to physically apply to it. So with a strength of 4 (due to the spell) and either excessive courage or stupidity (take your pick) I flew off towards the tarasque, and... I botched my roll to apply the reigns which allowed it to eat me. Since then I have ardently refused to use it outside of just replicating another spell. Also my humorous way of casting it is to say "Gee, I Wish I knew _." and then cast the Wish.

The pair of you seem like someone to ask, if I was to go to the positive energy plane and fill an entire bag of holding with those crystals that form there, then go to Avernes and steal a Devil's Ride, could I set up a ritual casting of Wish, dump the bag of holding into the circle, and say "here, magically animate that so it doesn't run on souls" and have it work as intended? expeditious retreat, animate object, permanency, three mid-level spell effects.

Everything he started saying about the interactions between players and dm's still persists to this day tho xD

My friends and I finished Revenge of the Giants for 4e 5 years ago and my character Yoq (York) became a honorary storm cloak and in my mind's eye I had York use a wish to create for himself a daughter ( Sol pronounced "Soul", not a flesh golom...as such, just a perfect little female copy of him to raise) and I am so looking forward to playing the half orc Sol (lemondrop) Silvertusk and her discovery that she has a older sister named Hart ( made by someone as a gift for York, she is physically quite like a T-800 which may have a ax to grind with her "replacement?")

God i would love to wish for an unowned, unattuned luck blade to appear in my bag next time i intend to safely reach for it.

Wising for a demiplane to come into existance.

i am running HotDQ and gave a player a ring of wishing (i know i know I KNOW) and he wished that Tiamat would not be freed from Avernus and with out a second thought i went "BAM! GRANTED! but nothing in the game seemed to change for my players, there was still a dragon cult stealing money, planing on raising Bahamuts sister (is Null male or female?) and being a pain to the PCs so 2 of my players using meta knowledge started complaining that everything should have changed, can't wait to see their faces when they basically made things go from bad to worse by making the cult not summon Tiamat but instead Null in her place.

I would wish for two luck blades full of wish counters

I have my players have to be damn careful when they use wish. There are rules, and they have to word it VERY specifically. I don’t make it so the outcome is always balanced against them, but I also don’t have it balanced towards them.

I would use a sort of "wish coupon" blessing to be able to cast it as you want and if you do it without the blessing the GM can and should use the wording of the wish to hinder the caster. To cast wish is to play god and without permission it will make someone with more power then the caster mad.

Wizards wizards wizards wizards wizards... hey I'm a sorcerer, I can learn wish too thanks.