From: dershem@cox.net   
      
   "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)"  typed in   
   news:ln6onq$umu$1@dont-email.me:   
      
   > On 6/10/14 1:12 AM, J.Pascal wrote:   
   >> On Monday, June 9, 2014 10:17:36 PM UTC-6, Bill Swears wrote:   
   >>> On 6/3/2014 5:47 PM, Carl Dershem wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> For a current WIP:   
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   >>>> You are given one wish (with the usual caveats - no wishing for   
   >>>> more   
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   >>>> wishes, no breaking the wall between life and death, no interfering   
   >>>> with   
   >>>   
   >>>> someone else's Free Will).  What do you wish for?   
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   >>>> cd   
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   >>> A three book contract.  Oh, Jacey already took that one...   
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   >>> Bill   
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   >>   
   >> Oh no!  She did, didn't she.  :)   
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   >   
   >      So you can't wish for the same things? I would presume that   
   >      multiple   
   > people choosing the same wish would also be an interesting data point.   
      
   I have no objectgion to duplication.  It is indeed, as you said, a good   
   data point.  And unless asked specifically, the Djinn would probably not   
   mention what others had said or done.  Which is kind of a part of the   
   thing I'm playing with.   
      
   >      In my case, I've had to think a ***LOT*** about wishes -- both   
   >      mine and   
   > other peoples' -- in many different scenarios, so the very first thing   
   > I'd do in such a scenario myself is to do my best to ascertain the   
   > details OF that scenario before I actually made any wishes. If I   
   > couldn't do that, I would probably reluctantly either make no wish at   
   > all, or -- if I had to make them -- try for the simplest and   
   > least-demanding wish of all, because in no way, shape, or form am I   
   > taking a chance on making major wishes with a possible Jackass Genie   
   > involved.   
      
      
   Having been a DM for many years, I've played wishes in many ways.  All   
   I'm gonna say about that in this discussion.  :)   
      
   cd   
      
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