Ring of Three Wishes

- Category: Ring
- Rarity: Legendary
While wearing this ring, you can expend 1 of its 3 charges to cast Wish from it. The ring becomes nonmagical when you use the last charge.
Tactical Applications
Reality Alteration: Contains three wish spells for ultimate magical power and reality manipulation. Exceptional for impossible objectives, campaign-changing events, and solving unsolvable problems through divine intervention.
Class Synergies:
- Any Class: Universal utility for wish magic regardless of class or spellcasting ability
- Problem Solvers: Perfect for characters facing impossible challenges requiring reality alteration
- Campaign Leaders: Essential for characters needing ultimate magical solutions and divine intervention
- Epic Adventurers: Excellent for characters engaged in world-changing quests and legendary objectives
Build Considerations: Single-use artifact providing three uses of the most powerful magic. Most valuable for campaign-defining moments and impossible challenge resolution.
Acquisition Methods
Crafting Requirements: Cannot be crafted - these are unique artifacts created by divine or cosmic forces. Estimated equivalent value 200,000+ gp.
Common Sources:
- Divine gifts from gods and cosmic entities
- Treasure hoards of legendary genies and wish-granting creatures
- Rewards for completing epic quests and world-saving missions
- Found in the collections of reality-shaping artifacts and divine relics
- Sometimes discovered in cosmic sanctuaries or obtained through divine intervention
Alternative Acquisition: Extremely rare, typically found only through epic adventures or divine favor.
Value & Trade
Estimated Value: Priceless - beyond normal economic systems, equivalent to 300,000+ gp.
Trade Considerations: Cannot be purchased, only acquired through epic adventures or divine intervention.
Character Integration
Roleplay Elements: Suggests involvement in cosmic events, divine missions, or legendary quests requiring ultimate magical power.
Character Concepts:
- Epic hero with divine favor and cosmic responsibility
- Reality shaper using wish magic for world-changing objectives and impossible solutions
- Character chosen by cosmic forces for ultimate magical missions and divine intervention
- Legendary adventurer combining wish magic with traditional heroic techniques
Adventure Hooks
The Impossible Quest: Epic adventures requiring wish magic where reality alteration provides the only solution.
The World Crisis: Scenarios where wish magic determines global survival and cosmic balance.
The Divine Mission: Encounters where wish power advances divine objectives and cosmic justice.
The Reality Challenge: Situations where wish magic enables fundamental change and ultimate problem resolution.
Variants & Customization
Ring of Infinite Wishes (Cosmic Artifact): Legendary variant with unlimited wishes and ultimate reality control.
Ring of Careful Wishes (Artifact): Enhanced with protection against wish corruption and improved intention interpretation.
Divine Wish Ring (Artifact): Blessed by specific deities with enhanced divine favor and cosmic alignment.
Specialized Variants:
- Hero's Wish Ring: Enhanced for noble purposes with improved beneficial outcomes and reduced corruption
- Cosmic Balance Ring: Optimized for universal harmony with enhanced reality stability and cosmic alignment
- Divine Justice Ring: Specialized for righteous causes with enhanced divine protection and moral guidance
Lore & History
Origins: Created by cosmic forces as tools for maintaining universal balance and enabling necessary reality alterations.
Historical Significance: These rings enabled legendary achievements and the resolution of cosmic crises throughout history.
Cultural Impact: Represent the ultimate expression of magical power and the connection between mortal will and cosmic force.
Magical Craft: Demonstrates divine-level understanding of reality manipulation and the most complex wish magic processes.
Balancing Notes
Introduction Timing: Appropriate for levels 17-20 when epic challenges require ultimate magical solutions and campaign resolution.
Campaign Impact: Provides ultimate magical power balanced by extreme rarity and single-use limitation.
Epic Focus: Most valuable in campaigns featuring world-threatening challenges and cosmic-scale adventures.
Encounter Design
Recommended Challenges:
- Epic scenarios where wish magic provides the only solution to impossible challenges and cosmic threats
- Reality-altering encounters where wish power enables fundamental change and universal balance
- Divine missions where wish magic advances cosmic objectives and divine will
- Legendary challenges where wish power determines ultimate success and world-changing outcomes
Wish Adjustments: Campaigns may fundamentally change when wish magic becomes available to resolve major plot elements.
Related Items
Divine Items: Other artifacts that provide reality-altering power and cosmic capabilities.
Epic Equipment:
- Items that enhance divine magic and cosmic manipulation
- Equipment for reality alteration and universal balance
- Tools for wish magic and divine intervention
Complementary Equipment: Items that enhance divine abilities or provide additional cosmic benefits.
Roleplay Opportunities
Divine Mastery: Characters develop connection to cosmic forces and ultimate magical responsibility.
Epic Leadership: Wish magic capabilities create opportunities for leading world-changing missions and cosmic balance operations.
Reality Excellence: Wish power enables exploration of themes related to ultimate responsibility and the proper use of divine intervention.