This is why a wish to live forever is a bad idea because it can get all twisted. You’re still technically alive in suspended animation, but that’s not really gonna do you any good.
A wish for permanent youth would probably be better to avoid those situations where you find yourself wishing you were dead (i.e. buried alive underground – a situation grave enough to give an immortal nightmares).
Coincidentally, I saw a trailer for a new sci-fi movie about people paying for eternal youth, In Time. It has Justin Timberlake in it for some reason, which I find kinda strange.
And that’s why I read the manual of the things I buy – except for pillows…
Now I just wonder if Toad messed up horribly, or he deliberately wanted to do this, so his wizard can’t use/force him to do whatever evil he might want – especially to refuse to help a God who begs him.
Buried alive – a “grave” situation indeed
But even eternal youth can be twisted by an enterprising granter of wishes – like, you’ll still die sometime even though you still look young, and your corpse will always look young.
If wishes were horses, they’d all have wooden teeth…
But you’d still have your youthful strength and energy up until you die, so it’s still a win.
A better way for a wish-granter to screw you over is to trap you at 3 years old or something that’s a bit TOO youthful to be of any benefit (no cars, no money, no logic, no bladder control if you’re trapped at 6 months old or something, and you wouldn’t even be able to lift your sword of staff much less use it or your armor.)
Question: How did the wizard get out of the boot? It’s in suspended animation, ergo immovable – surely? OK, the lace is undone, but that wouldn’t make the leather at all pliable.
Still, a nearly all-powerful, evil wizard wandering around with only one boot is a rib-tickling idea!
Toad can actually be moved, though with difficulty. His wizard apparently failed the strength check to remove his boot from Toad’s clutches.
Now That is embarassing…
Ah, strength… the dump stat of choice of most arcane casters…
That makes me wonder about some TV and film representations of magic users… Some of those staffs look like serious amounts of wood to carry around!
I’m pretty sure a strength of 10 means that you’re about as strong as the next reasonably fit guy. So even if you have a strength of 8, you’re still not particularly frail.
Would Couch Potatoes would have a strength of 4?