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2021-07-28, 05:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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But Genies reproduces by the process of someone wishing for infinite wishes, causing them to turn into genies, who have infinite wishes that they cannot use on themselves..
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2021-07-29, 12:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-07-29, 04:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-07-29, 05:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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Neither do I. Or well, it is debatable.
Jafar's wishes were:
- "I wish to rule on high, a sultan!"
- "I wish to be the most powerful sorcerer, in the world!"
- "I wish to be an all-powerful genie!"
The last one results in the apparition of cuffs around Jafar's wrists, and of a lamp that sucks him in.
Now, yes, it could be said that Jafar wished for more wishes. Personally, I thought that was already the case with his second wish. But anyway, he explicitly wanted to become a genie.
The surprise was the enslavement. And in Jafar's defense, or Aladdin's charge, why would either of them think that genies begin their existence as slaves?
In the sequel, it is revealed that Genie lost some of his power after being freed. So I suppose it could retroactively be said that an "all-powerful genie" had to be bound to a lamp.
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2021-07-29, 06:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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Do it. The movie holds up and is in some ways more modern than newer Disney movies. Plus you'll get a few references now that you might have missed.
We have no frame of reference of what it means to be "the most powerful sorcerer in the world". But I think wish-granting is explicitly exclusive to Genies in this world. Wish as in: reality-altering stuff.
The surprise was the enslavement. And in Jafar's defense, or Aladdin's charge, why would either of them think that genies begin their existence as slaves?
In the sequel, it is revealed that Genie lost some of his power after being freed. So I suppose it could retroactively be said that an "all-powerful genie" had to be bound to a lamp.
Much of it is doused in real-world religion (genies are proto-religious creatures, which are retroactively used in religious texts) so if you are interested, research on your own, it is pretty interesting.
But Genies reproduces by the process of someone wishing for infinite wishes, causing them to turn into genies, who have infinite wishes that they cannot use on themselves..
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2021-07-29, 07:26 AM (ISO 8601)
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We know it lets you trap people inside hourglasses, or turn yourself into a giant snake.
And for what it is worth, a deleted song would have confirmed that all "Prince Ali" got was a larger and louder version of Cinderella's carriage and attendants.
Jafar: What were the horses?
Genie: They were roaches.
Jafar: And the camels?
Genie: They were gnats.
Jafar: And the elephant?
Genie: His monkey, and the rest of them were rats.
Jafar: They were rodents?
Genie: Yes, diseased ones.
Jafar: Oh, how very very sad.
If only Genie had pulled the same thing on "Sultan Jafar". Instead of taking over an actual country, let's send you to some remote anthill and fancy it up.
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2021-08-07, 12:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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Aladdin references right then why he would think that, by paraphrasing something Genie had said to him: It's all part-and-parcel of the whole genie package - phenomenal cosmic power, itty bitty living space.
Genie had told Aladdin that being a genie meant being bound to a lamp, unless someone wished for your freedom.
To Jafar, of course, that came as a complete surprise.Last edited by SpyOne; 2021-08-07 at 12:46 AM.
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Evil gods keep their followers evil by punishing good deeds and commanding evil be done to prove their loyalty.
the first half of the meaning of life is that there isn't one.
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I’m not actually sure if this is just a “head”canon or implied somewhere in the text, but the ring of Sigil is a door with a key somewhere.
I imagine Elminster's standard day begins like "Wake up, exit my completely impenetrable, spell-proofed bedroom to go to the bathroom, kill the inevitable 3 balors waiting there, brush my teeth, have a wizard fight with the archlich hiding in the shower, use the toilet..."
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D&D gods usually aren't Discworld gods who go around breaking the windows of atheists. Being directly smote by a deity should require some tremendous act against said deity, such as despoiling their main temple or destroying a relic of theirs... Simply doing something the deity disapproves of in general shouldn't cut it, otherwise Lathander would be able to immediately kill every necromancer in Faerun.
(Showing disapproval with a follower in non-lethal ways is probably more tolerated - sending omens and the like)
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Yup - when Drizzt saves an elf's life, Lolth doesn't smite him, she has a demon minion warn the house leader that the house is "out of the favour of Lolth" - and lets the house members do all the investigating.
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1. the gods are not omniscient in Faerune.
2. the gods also reward behavior they like, see clerics and other divine classes, with power.
3. most of the punishment is dealt with by minions and clerics.the first half of the meaning of life is that there isn't one.
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the first half of the meaning of life is that there isn't one.
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Some Abyss personal lore. Killing a Demon Lord within the Abyss will cause the absorbed world they are within to return to being a material plane. And then they will reform in another area of the Abyss along with any demons that had been killed in the area.
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how many campaigns are about defeating a demonic invasion?
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My sig is something witty.
78% of DM's started their first campaign in a tavern. If you're one of the 22% that didn't, copy and paste this into your signature.
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2021-08-24, 02:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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<morbo>Outer Planes do not work that way!</morbo>
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But that's very different from bunches of Material Plane worlds getting yoinked into the Abyss, especially if that's supposed to be a natural consequence of having a critical mass of demons rather than it resulting from a fancy one-off ritual of some sort. Regions shifting between planes due to local philosophical shifts has always been only an Outer Plane thing (layers moving between planes, Outlands gate towns getting absorbed into their connected planes, etc.), and it kinda has to work that way because otherwise it severely undermines the Material Plane's position as a cosmic Switzerland and one would start seeing things like the Blood War spilling out into every Prime world as both sides try to absorb worlds for themselves.
That bit of 5e lore is simply very poorly considered and, appropriately for this thread, should be shot with a headcannon.Last edited by PairO'Dice Lost; 2021-08-24 at 03:02 PM.