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** ''Miracle'', the divine flavor of ''Wish'', is even more broken: The spell-replicating function of ''Miracle'' carries no XP burn and can duplicate the effects of ANY 7th level spell or lower and ANY 8th level Domain spell or lower. Only the massively broken reality-warping function of the spell incurs a possible XP burn. Also, ''Miracle'' is not a spell cast so much as a supplication made of a deity, removing the possibility of the spellcaster receiving any magical backlash—of course, if the deity in question (which is to say, the DM) doesn't feel like granting the request, ''Miracle'' may simply fail.
*** Easiest way to deal with this is "Err, ok, that's the eighth time this week you've used Miracle. Your deity tells you to shut the fuck up and stop bothering him, and ignores your petty request"
** The Glibness bard spell had a lot of room for potential abuse in an intrigue-based scenario due to the poor wordings of Bluff and Sense Motive for a time: essentially, a successful Bluff check to tell a lie, no matter how absurd it was, guaranteed it was believed as complete truth. Coupled with Glibness that gives a massive +30 bonus to Bluff checks to tell lies and immunity to lie-detecting magic and the team's bard investing skill points in Bluff, it was possible to make anyone believe anything and destroy a perfectly crafted intrigue campaign. [[Obvious Rule Patch|This was fortunately addressed with a slight rewording:]] instead of making a lie appear to be true, Bluff makes your interlocutor not notice the character is lying, but an absurd statement may not be believed and the character's sanity may be heavily questioned instead.
* The ''[[Hero System]]'' rulebook puts stop-sign icons next to powers that have the potential to be Story Breakers, such as Danger Sense, Intangibility, Time Travel, or Summoning. The [[Game Master]] is urged to consider tightly limiting or outright disallowing them.
* Warp is extremely powerful in ''[[GURPS]]'', so much so that it is explicitly banned for players in the ''[[Dungeon Punk|Dungeon Fantasy]]'' books. The authors did eventually cave and add it in with the requirement that the player take a small Unusual Background named "Ha-''ha''! I Can Teleport!" and isn't able to improve it.
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