Seven inadvisable genies for your Dungeons & Dragons campaign:
A genie who will grant a given wish only if they can be presented with a sound argument that it would be ethical to do so. They categorically reject arguments founded in utilitarianism, but are willing to entertain most other ethical frameworks, provided theyâre internally consistent.
A genie who exclusively speaks a long-dead language, the surviving corpus of which is very small. They donât deliberately try to warp the wisherâs intent, but theyâre a bit unimaginative, and make no allowances whatsoever for the limits of a given speakerâs fluency or vocabulary
A genie who can grant an unlimited number of wishes, but will only grant any particular wish once. Theyâve been around for a very long time, and all of the obvious wishes have long since been used up; lateral thinking may be required to get any useful results.
A genie who has a strange preoccupation with horses, and attempts to incorporate them into the granting of any wish in some fashion if it can even remotely be justified. Trying to explicitly specify that a wish should not involve horses leads to arguments and sulking.
A genie who possesses boundless endurance, total invulnerability and comprehensive mastery of every mortal skill, but no magical powers as such. Any wishes they grant must be carried out the long way around. They do not feel the need to advise prospective wishers of this.
A genie whoâs aware of their kindâs reputation for maliciously twisting wishes, and is determined to overcome this stereotype by granting what the wisher meant, not what they said. Their insight into mortal psychology is unfortunately not quite as profound as they think it is.
A genie who can only grant wishes if the outcome would be funny. Exactly whose sense of humour this is measured against is not entirely clear, though the criteria seem to include a strong predilection for sight gags and slapstick and a notably limited appreciation of irony.
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dailybridgerton
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