Okay, I’ve decided it, there’s going to be an npc in my campaign, he’s gonna be a drunk, washed up, middle aged, but extremely powerful wizard, in his inventory will be a beer bottle with an efreeti in it.
Well, the ashanti tribe in Africa allowed slaves to own property and even request a change of master when abused, as long as they worked hard. Do you think something like this could work?
>Have a genie trapped in a glass bottle >Hold onto it until you reach a dungeon with the following properties: a boss that you don’t want to fight yourself and a separate treasure room. >Step 1: attempt to stealth around boss and position the party so they may escape into the treasure room >Step 2: THROW GENIE GRENADE >Step 3: close the party inside the treasure room as the two fight >Step 4: loot the room and wait for it to quiet down outside >Step 5: either loot the boss now that the genie most likely went back to their plain after the fight, or finish off the weakened boss who killed the genie.
Genie: hey who are you Boss: I SEEK VENGEANCE UPON THE ASEXUAL EIGHT Genie: oh you don't like those dudes either! sweet let's kill em once they get out of your gold chamber
Genie is freed from imprisonment. Genie immediately casts planeshift to go home and begin his plans of torturing and enslaving the people who captured him. Genie may or may not also buff the fuck out of that other monster so it has a good chance of ripping their asses open.
I never realized most of D&D's monsters are straight out of the DSM V Also when I was a player I did once run into a trapped Jinn. It offerered me whatever I desire in exchange for freedom. I did what it asked and my wish was neither it nor I could ever be a prisoner against our will again. The Jinn laughed and left. I thought little of it, just glad it didn't kill me. 4 adventures later I died...only I didn't because that same Jinn decided being confined to whatver afterlife I was facing was imprisoning me. When i implied I was now in his debt he said of course not, we are now bound in our freedom. So I think that character may be immortal now by accident.
@@LordHayabusa85 first client opens the bottle in front of you, genie comes out, turns around; "YOU!!!!" Genie smashes fist in your direktion, you dodge, genie bereaks all your genie bottles - more genies are free - repeat
@@LordHayabusa85 in that case, if i would be the genie, i'd say to my new master "if your first wish is to torture that persons soul for all eternity, i grand your other two wishes exactly how you want them without the normal trickery"
Funny enough, lichdom is no longer off limits to player characters. In Curse of Strahd, one of the vestiges in the Amber Temple will just give you the knowledge of how to become a lich, the only prerequisite being the ability to cast 9th level spells.
I was prepping for Curse of Strahd just recently and I could be wrong but I recall it saying the character needed to be evil aligned and have 9th level wizard spells and if they did turn into a litch the DM got control over that character still cool though
@@Xeroxthebeautiful yeah i've read about that every now and then. when an evil aligned player basically becomes an incredibly strong entity, the DM is advised to take that player's character sheet and turn that character into a villainous NPC. i don't think i've ever seen that happen tho.
Rear-kissing tip for genie encounters: claim that the only reason you HADN'T heard of them is because your puny mortal ears were far from worthy of even hearing their name, much less their deeds. And always address them as overlord, but only when spoken to. Do all this, and your swallowed pride *might* just enable you to live, but leaving is probably a pipe dream.
except Aladdin wasnt the one who imprisoned him so the vengeance would be incorrect but also ungrateful, as aladdin is not his slaver or captor but his rescuer or savior from said imprisonment
Hardly. He goaded the genie into a freebie escape from the cave, then the genie saved his unconscious body, counting a mimed nod as his "second wish" - one for one. Sure, he hesitated in freeing the genie as he promised, but A) he later fulfilled said promise without prompting, and B) Aladdin at least considered the option, as the genie stated that nobody else had ever done so. Genie himself was willing to forego his freedom to reinstate Aladdin's princedom, but was instead freed as originally promised. How is that "abuse"?
Thanks a lot for these videos. I've had low self esteem for a long time but after watching these videos and following your advice, I gotta say, my slaves are making me feel much better.
My eldritch knight's father was a retired veteran teaching at an academy. Efreeti babe waltzes in all casual like they're all beneath her (cuz they were, to be fair) looking to improve her status through the old Efreeti tradition of noble wishes. Find's dad and decides he's probably a good lay. Easy one night stand. Ask's dear old dad what he'd wish for. Otherwise a content a simple warrior, he wishes for a challenge. She laughs, says "As you wish" and vanishes. Months later, baby fire genasi shows up in dad's living quarters. Raising me was his challenge. Considering my fancy for magic over swordplay, setting many things on fire over the course of my young life, and eventually butting heads with him to the point that I left as a teen to make a name for myself as a freelance without his blessing, I'd say he got what he wished for. Mum only showed up like twice in my life, both times to judge my worth and teach me a sprinkle of magic to keep things troublesome for dad. Shame I didn't get more sessions in with that character.
In a one shot I played an air genasi who was raised in her father's palace, but she ran away to make a name for herself on the material plane. She wanted to be a dancer, but the world we were playing in, everyone was racist against non-humans, elves, or dwarves, so she ended up joining a group of other misfits to make their own guild. She ended up essentially being Daphne from Scooby Doo.
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I had an idea for a setting in a DND campaign involving genies. A kingdom ruled by an evil genie, it’s a slave nation and his enforcers/agents are Warlocks to him.
Huh, didn't know Genies were made from the souls of those who die on the elemental planes! Suddenly, visiting them doesn't sound like such a bad idea. :)
Slow down there sport, nobody said you remember when you were not a genie, it is more like you die but your soul can’t get to whatever plain your soul was supposed to go to when you died so it just says fuck it and reincarnates on whatever elemental plain you were on. You could also end up any number of other entities native to that plain. Point is you won’t be you once you reincarnate as a genie.
I once became a honourary dao because I befriended one dao I convinced them all that I was just protecting all the gems I took..... I ended up with 120 gem worth 7, 500 gp each
Were you able to spend the gems/gold since they trusted you were going to protect them or was the original Dao going to check up on you later to make sure you were still guarding the gems?
Okami the first dao was a child and I just sold the gems as soon as I got out my reasoning being that I sold them to collectors who would closely guard the gems
I have an idea for a pact of the Genie Warlock. Basically, they’re an Earth Genasi who hates their Dao dad for ditching their mum and stealing most of her wealth in the process, but one day they encounter a Dao who greets the Genasi as their uncle. This uncle of theirs also despises the Genasi’s dad because he has more wealth than him and constantly steals the spotlight. So they both agree to trade wealth for fame in a respectful way so that the Genasi has the power to be a hero and get recognition for them and their mother, and a third of the money they get from heroism goes to the Dao uncle so he is richer.
bryan diaz varela Sorry, lent it to someone I know. He told me he’d give it back by 2024, but he’s been saying a lot of things lately that I’m starting to question. I stop by his place but he’s stationed guards everywhere.
PrEtTy EaRlY Also, better genie: just become a good-aligned Cleric, get to 13th level, get Planar Ally, then summon an Angel to smack around your foes and heal up your party members for you when the killing's done.* *note: it might cost you like 2,000 gold plus tax.
This is why I hope wizards of the coast comes out with a 5e version of Al-Qadim. I actually made a Homebrew Sha'ir Warlock subclass and it was super fun.
Lichdom actually can be achieved by players... kinda. At least it has a spell that players can cast equated to it. Thank you xanathars for giving us a 6TH LEVEL spell to create a CR 1/8 monster.
These are the perfect warlock patrons not only are their abilities great its so easy to make because they all want something they can also be very nuanced and complex and in my opinion it's the most versatile and powerful patron and its just so cool
So a genie like the film but magically weak as hell like basically lvl 5 magic. But pretends they can cast wish but their ego wont allow the player to know this. If you can see where I'm going with this.
I'm currently playing a pact of the genie warlock, where the pact made transferred the genies mind into the body of the mortal he was bestowing power upon, as a way to free himself from his vessel. Of course, this massively decreased his amount of power, and fractured his mind into very broad and very random banks of knowledge, but for the time being, he is free. In this time of freedom, he met a party and has been learning what life is like for a mortal. Social etiquette, morality, ect. He is also learning what it's like to be the weakest of a group, meaning the others party members enjoy making fun of how clumsy and incapable he is. Its lead to some very interesting character moments, namely when he went out of his way to free slaves from their former masters, feeling guilty that those same slaves were taken and imprisoned on a ship named after his own legend.
Genies are pretty much unstoppable, so maybe you can have a campaign where you can free some slaves and instead of fighting a genie, which would be like fighting a god, you try to imprison it.
Kind of a bummer how underdeveloped the elemental planes and genies are. I like genies in mythology a lot, but they're so one dimensional in the Forgotten Realms. I hope that we get a module dedicated to the elemental planes or at least one or two of them.
Honestly once you know everything about the Elemental Planes you start to feel that they are too complicated.. and all this for a plane that the players TYPICALLY won't go to and if they do they certainly won't stay. Now if you want a boring plane the Positive and Negative Energy planes are that, albeit on purpose (they are meant to be a plane of nothing but positive and negative energy... and while there are SOME locations in it... it is mostly empty)
I'm pretty sure a show like critical role and other homebrewed games could flesh them out. The plane of fire could be a volcanic area besides the city of brass, but powerful magic causes fire to course over the surface, the plane of air is composed of vast sky and cloud islands. The largest cloud island has the City of Silver where the sultan and his subjects live alongside their servants who are surprisingly well paid and accompany their masters on teips to the prime material plane. Yet wearing enchanted armor and such could make traversing the elemental planes easier. Yet seeing these planes fleshed out could allow new playable races too.
@@zacharygadzinski3147 para elemnatla plane lf lava should be lava one elemantal plane of fire has sea of fire also there is traits for pkanes at least on older editions
Make' em different! I'm making an open-world seafaring campaign and I have a royal Marid that invites himself to the highest tier social functions around the plane - not because he's invested in human politics but because he's a hedonistic entertainer and nobody can safely tell him no. He's moderately benevolent, if a bit erratic and impulsive, so the party generally has a good time when they see him. He doesn't fly into a murderous rage all the time because being nice to people makes him feel good, and it feeds into how people praise him for his generosity. Boom. The genie social feedback loop.
Having an Efreeti Bottle is especially nerve wracking when one out of the four people in the part uses fire exclusively (because themed characters are fun)
MonkeyJedi99 one of three things: direct children of genie with mortal, has ancestor who is genie and happens to inherit the elemental side of the genie, or someone who gets blasted with energy from one of the Elemental Planes, survives, and is infused with element
Aaaaaaand.. With the Genie patron warlock the tables have turned.. now they put you in a bottle... for four hours per long rest. But it has throw pillows so it is cool.
Interesting tidbit: In 4th edition Efreet couldn't grant wishes... But could be compelled to. However, they are so rich and powerful (networked) that when compelled to grant a wish they simply use their assets to do so. Wish for a Palace? Well he could give up just one... Want someone to fall in love with you? Love potions are easy... Want to be King? Hey, I know a guy, a few mysterious boating accidents and your golden!
I made a fire genasi character, and their dad (the efreet) was basically Endeavour from my hero academia. That d&d game didn’t end up working out, though, so I barely ended up using that character. Oh well.
Of all the Djinn to throw in the story, I'm impressed they didn't do Ghul. They're basically perfect Chaotic Evil villains, basically becoming the Grim Reaper with extra Wish magic.
I once made a efreeti that used a double scimitar and once the players defeated him I had him come back with black tattoos because I realized that I had made darth maul and I wasn't going to let that go to waste.
Ok why do i imagine a traveling merchant that can locate genie bottles and he just sets them free now if you screw with them your fighting a genie army
Here's how you beat a bottled genie. Spend you first 2 wishes and then make your next wish to have the genie trapped in the bottle for the rest of eternity. Now you have an angry talking bottle
I’ve been thinking about what I learned from this video for a while now; and after rewatching the Aladdin remake movie for the 3rd time in a row, I can’t help but theorize that the ENTIRE Cave of Wonders may actually be a really big Dao disguised as a cave. Am I right or am I crazy?
Maze me! This clueless berk's rattling his bone-box like he's a canny cutter with the dark of the Wheel, yet he's calling The Cage "Sijil" like a leatherhead prime. Addle-cove grail-monger!
Funny you mention Efreeti making good campaign villains because my last party colluded with the King Djinn to perform a coup d’état on the Sultan of the City of Brass. It involves accidental genocide of the entire Kua Toa species and their goddess and was all in all a pretty hilarious and hard fought affair. After it they put the race of the Djinn in power essentially giving them 2 planes to rule, took the Phoenix the Sultan had, and made ourselves bitching landowning nobles with a pimped out mansion in the noble area of the City of Brass. It’s a very VERY long story though lol 😂
Coup d'état. Wikipedia: 'The phrase coup d'état comes from French, literally meaning a "stroke of state" or "blow against the state".' Just thought you might want to know for future reference.
@@trexdrew And yet you still edited your post to fix it. This might seem like a small thing to you, but Truth is important to me, so I'd rather be corrected when I'm wrong about something. A little bit of misinformation can go a long way if it isn't corrected quickly. That, and I feel like an idiot when I find out I've been doing something wrong this whole time and nobody said anything.
Greywander no I did it because I know how the internet is and that more people will focus on the unnecessary trivial detail of me not having the French accents on the damn word that I obviously don’t know the language of than the actual content of the comment. After today I will absolutely not remember how to spell that with the accents and shit. Maybe that’s how you are and what you want but not every single person is that way.
@@trexdrew Yeah, I know how tricky it can be to keep track of the accent marks in French. "Coup d'etat" would also be fine, in my opinion. I only included it because it was technically the most correct version, but I don't expect anyone to go through the necessary effort to type a character that doesn't appear on their keyboard, unless it's absolutely necessary. On the topic of the OP, though, it sounds like you might have an interesting story there. Do you have it posted anywhere, or have you thought about posting it? I always love to read or listen to interesting RPG stories.
Now I just wanna trap a fuck ton of Dao in a jar, and ask a Djinni to open a portal to the Far Relm just so I can huck the jar in and see what happens.
Just thought about an adventure that has the party being hired by a marid. The marid collects tales of adventures cause he knows that he was an adventurer in his pat life and wishes to know who he was, so he sends the party on a quest to find out who he was
I had a genasi character that was created by a wish spell. Her mum was infertile and in love with a djinn and wanted to be a family. Didn't work out sadly. She suffered the typical fate of an adventurers parent.
