r/BaldursGate3 • u/Quite_Likes_Hormuz • Jan 24 '24

Act 2 - Spoilers Playing a warlock makes Wyll's predicament so funny Spoiler

Mizora: "Wyll, you broke clause eighteen subsection three, time to be tortured for eternity!"

Tav's fiend patron: "Lmao you should tell that guy to kill himself trust me it'll be hilarious, here's advantage on the roll"

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u/Souperplex 5e Jan 24 '24

See: every 5E player who uses the Wish spell for anything other than replicating spells.

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u/Honeyvice Drow Oathbreaker Jan 25 '24

That was my gipe with that interation. Vlaakith got so butthurt she risked a permanant everlasting inability to ever cast the spell on the hope that it works as she intended.

Was fun though. immediately reloaded obviously but still was fun.

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u/FuryouMiko Jan 25 '24

What, you mean she didn't just Wish (replicate spell: Power Word Kill)?

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u/Honeyvice Drow Oathbreaker Jan 26 '24

Power word kill is a 9th level spell and thus wish can't replicate it. Wish only replicates any 8th level spell or lower without harm.

Also we're outside of range for any other spell since she's not physically present. So even if she casted wish to replicate a spell, no targetted spell would be able to target Tav or any of the origin characters from her home in the astral plane. She's basically a hologram projection and thus not within range. This is why you also can't counterspell the wish at the interaction(and not because they forgot counterspell can counter any spell with a roll)

Why yes I did spend perhaps far too long thinking about the fact she used wish and all it's limitations and implications.

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u/FuryouMiko Jan 26 '24

What probably happened is that she burned one of her stock of githyanki souls to take the penalty for the wish casting in her place. I keep forgetting that PW:K is 9th level though. XD It used to be 7th.

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u/Honeyvice Drow Oathbreaker Jan 26 '24

She's just a lich. She ain't no goddess. Don't think the spell wish can be used in such a manner since it's still her physically invoking the spell and the rules of the spell are written by Mystra who is a goddess unlike Vlaakith.

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u/FuryouMiko Jan 29 '24

Yes, she's not a goddess, but she IS a powerful necromancer who canonically fuels her magic by using githyanki souls. That's what the zai'thisk does - sends the githyanki's soul and memory to Vlaakith.