Genies in D&D are Boring (and how to make them better)
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- Genies in D&D are not like other DnD monsters, they have a lot of potential, but do they make the best of it?
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Tell me your wish, mortal 🧞
Nothing weird tho thank u
Egg.
2 egg
i wish for the shubeik 100% certified free
I wish pizza was healthy
Quero que devolvam nosso ouro
Ok, the idea of Monkey's Pawing a wish to make the world *better* is genius and I can't believe I've never seen it before now.
I’m pretty sure Gargoyles did that already
Yeah, Gargoyles is a gold mine for a DM
@@juanpauloarcillas7600 what's gargoyles
@@stormy_does_stuff is a cartoon; look it up
@@juanpauloarcillas7600 is this confirmed? Id like to watch the episode
you don't understand how much i wanna play DnD with Pointy Hat or people like them. such a charismatic guy.
I luv the fact that he exists, and the Pointy Hat needs to be a character or sentient, magical artifact that exists in the D&D Multiverse. Voiced by Antonio D’Amico. ❤
You underestimate my understanding
Same
it says the video came out 2 hours ago but it also says ur comment came out 3 hours ago huh i think theres something wrong
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a true neutral character with both a shubeik and a lubeik playing tug of war with their morality
I'm imagining Saitama just getting tempted to wish all kinds of things and he's just like 'nah, I'm good'
Shubeik: come on i can give you a wish that could make the world better
Lubeik: let me explore your thougs to make your more iner desires come true
PC: Nah i like my farm, You can take a shovel and help me or get the fuck out of here
The human wants to wish for a puppy but the two genies are just throwing down in the corner lmfaoooooo
I feel the djinn keeping interns thing could've just easily been "Sometimesthey dip to the eternal plane and invite mortals back exchanging power or riches for worship"
Yeah, like its closer to actual internship rather than 'internship'.
@@crimsoneclipse0618 "In exchange for your service for many human lifetimes, you'll get SO much experience that'll let you serve even better djinn. Maybe they'll feed you too. Ain't that nice?"
@@danielcastillo591 I feel like something like "in exchange for years of service, you will earn a wish of corresponding power" is an easy way to get around internship issues and could also have interesting narrative component. Maybe you interact with servants who are people that left the material plane potentially hundreds of years ago a pc may have a connection with, souls who can't be resurrected or asked questions because they're currently consensually on an elemental plane. You could even do a sort of Planescapey or Spelljammery game with a group of PCs who are all servants of a djinn who have to go out on missions while they are working to earn a wish.
@@Crushanator1 would also give the mortals a reason to stick around "man if I just put in another 5 years I can upgrade my wish"
I do not understand why everyone loses their crap over FICTIONAL slavery in a FICTIONAL world.
That is weird to me.
The names for Shubeik and Lubeik are brilliant!
In old Arabic forms of media, though I'm not certain if it originated in the original Arabian Nights (Alf Layla wa Layla), when a genie appeared out of their lamp, they would say the following to their newfound master: "Shubeik, Lubeik, 'Abdak bein 'Edeik".
The first part of that phrase is where Pointy and Sara got the name for their genies, while the latter translates to "*An intern* under your command."
I could be mistaken but I think it literally translates to “Under your hand”
@@thatsnailisfast2523 that is the literal translation yes.
Its not a good name , im arab Muslim, it literally means “service” and “what do you desire” which is common in all genies to say, but it does not make these new one’s special, plus to an arab listener its just silly to have a race named after a casual word you know, its just cool to hear in English I guess
Shubeik Deeznutz and Lubeik Madiq, got it
@@walidkerdi6910clarifying question:
Are you saying,
“Shubeik” = “service”
“Lubeik” = “what do you desire” ?
I like the idea of a Genie being freed, but then have to comply with mortality and working to make a living
If I remember correctly, Djinn lore has it that they and us, humans, are actually in a cycle, and are meant to reverse every couple-thousands of eras, and that being human is actually the more desirable state.
@@vicenteisaaclopezvaldez2450 oh, that would make sense, so instead, how about a genie that tries and trick people into wishing them to be free AKA mortal again and that is a entire event
Wadjinni slavery
@@LoneWolf20213 Imagine the plot to this idea: A Genie, bound by super natural forces to be immortal, wishing to end the suffering that is immortality and trying to convince his "master" to free him. But by doing so, the master becomes the new genie and the genie is now a mortal who can wander on the plane of the living and have an end. Sounds like a real deep conecpt to work with D:
I don't see a difference. They are working in a world of people with far less experience than them either way
Not only do you make some really fun and creative game content for us nerds to use FOR FREE, but your jokes and editing are fucking hilarious! Some of my friends who dont play DnD still enjoy watching your videos because they are JUST THAT GOOD. Thank you for everything you do!
I won't lie when I heard that there are Genies from the elemental planes it literally just reminded me of the Genasi. And that is when I learned that Genasi are basically the offspring of genies and mortals. Guess you learn something new everyday :)
Ya for me it's kinda of a meme In 5e. There is not monster races .only half and half
I know he works really hard to make his own versions of the creatures but honestly I just really like his explanations of the existing lore
I love the “chubeik lubeik” reference, 10/10 took me back to when my mother used to read me stories as a child.
Yesss that was such a cool reference
Oh so thats what thier names mean.
@@עומרשרייבר-ל4ר אכן אכן
Shubaaaik lubaaaik the genie between you hands. Or in Arabic, “Shubaaik Lubaaaik Aljinnie bien edaik.”
lubeik & shebeik: i love that they're basically superpowered versions of the devil and angel on your shoulder, turning that binary into an epic War of Good & Evil
I feel like Brennan Lee Mulligan cracked the formula for how to ask a genie for wishes:
1. Ask to become the greatest sorcerer/whatever spellcaster du jour you want to be in the world.
2. Ask for another genie's lamp.
3. Free the first genie.
And then just repeat steps 2 and 3 as needed, bonus points if you tell the genie up front your last wish will free them because that will likely make them interpret your wishes more kindly.
Know some say "oh you can't ask for more lamps" in that case, the first wish should be "I want to change the rules so I could ask for more lamps"
@nitsanraviddaos4797 You could also add "do you have a genie friend that I could free for you?" With the other wish being a compensation for your trouble.
This breaks two rules that pointy mentioned
This gives me an idea where two brothers (or siblings in general) under go the transformations, one becoming a Shubeik and the other becoming a Lubeik. But due to their bond as siblings they have taken to granting wishes to the person the other one has selected as a target, (I.e the Lubeik might start granting wishes to the target of the Shubeik to maintain their greedy attitude) they constantly argue and butt heads but neither can bring themselves to put an end to the other.
I’m playing a Pact of the Genie Warlock and, just last session, I used Suggestion to fool my character’s genetics into thinking he was part fey. Well, my patron is a Dao, called the Ethereal Queen of Sapphires. My DM decided that, as a neutral evil character, she’d make my transformation permanent instead of going away after 8 hours, and cannot be dispelled with magic.
I just think this video is funny coming out right now cuz I got hardcore Monkey’s Pawed by a genie.
you… fooled your genetics with Suggestion. your table sounds like a chaotic one, and i mean that as a compliment.
That's simply not how that works.
I think you got monkey pawed because you used suggestion in a way that is technically outside the scope, or even lore of the spell, and the Genie just took advantage of that and twisted as a granted wish.
Ok, I know this sounds weird, and I’m aware that this isn’t how Suggestion works in rules as written. My game is pretty well detached from RAW because our group has agreed that sometimes, rules restrict fun.
The context behind this is that we were trying to find a way inside a great Fey kingdom, but the Fey people have truesight (not to mention that, as a level 3 warlock, I only had 2 spell slots). So I asked if I could cast Suggestion on myself and, instead of making illusory features, cast the spell on my DNA instead to make a physical transformation. My DM ruled this was fine in our game, so I did it.
We have a homebrew rule that, if you do anything to do with a Genie’s magic, you have to roll a “Monkey’s Paw” percentile. I didn’t clear the percentile, rolled an 18 on the d100 table, and suddenly I’m permanently half fey. I mean, it really improved my versatility, since I was now a Yuan-Ti with Fey Ancestry and advantage on Dexterity Saving Throws.
Doesn't seem like much of a monkey's paw, especially if you received a mechanical advantage that is usually associated with having fey ancestry.
I mean, it's your guy's table, so this is more directed at other's reading this as a warning of what not to do, if they want a balanced game. . . but this is entirely unbalanced, entirely ignoring RaW or RaI, and entirely altering the function of the suggestion spell. . . a level 2 spell slot, that the OP's table effectively turned into a level 9.
Your videos have helped me start DMing for my buddies and understand the game so much more. Keep going what your doing, everyone is loving it!
Imagine a Lubeik trying to corrupt a celestial
Aasimar ehose shoulder angel is their assigned angel and shoulder devil is a lubeik.
@@dwelfking8050 Now you make me wonder if Aasimar could be born of these genies or if it would still be that other race that's born of genies specifically that I forget the name of.
@@Merilirem Genasi are elementally born Planetouched, eith genies being the most common ancestor.
@@Merilirem aasimars (and tieflings) are essentially genasies tho
genasies are planetouched people touched by the power of one of the elemental planes
aasimars are planetouched people touched by the power of the upper planes
tieflings are planetouched people touched by the power of the lower planes
so if a genasi could be born from a djinn, then an aasimar or a tiefling could just as well be born from one of these guys respectively
Zerial?
As a history teacher, teaching myths on genies was one of my favorite lessons and after Mrrhex's videos on the elemental planes I've been loving the ideas of using them as plot drivers.
Nice
This 100% needs a part 2! There is the Lawful/Chaos spectrum to hit, since you did Good/Evil. The Feywild did deserve an inclusion. The elemental sub-realms or hybrid realms could be fun too.
What about the Genasi for those Genies?
Ice genie...
Sounds cool.
@@notesmaker204 Dungeon Dad's video on the Qorashi (ice genies) was cool. It makes me want someone to design genies for the other paraelemental planes.
i like the idea that you can use one of each of the new genies with one person acting like a bigger version of the angel and devil on the shoulder bit, fighting like a bitter rivalry to win over this poor sap of a soul
I love the idea of playing a character haunted by a lubeik, but ultimately ending up twisting them into being good instead of the opposite happening
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Some people enjoy reading the transcipt 😁
@@Firegen1 Winner. Comment thread over.
Good video as always! I really love how you cover topics, it's always thorough, funny and just all around good to hear!
Also as a French guy, I felt a disturbance in the force with how good that accent was and how much that particular meme culture was embodied. Et non, je ne suis pas fâcher
yeah where did he pick up that accent?
16:09 I love the thought that the way Efriti grant wishes being evil is that your wish is submitted for “processing” and gets tied up in reviews for months to years 😂
Watching this video having accurate Jin lore is really refreshing. I was so impressed by your pronunciations too lol. Thank you Sara for all the help.
Every episode is a treasure and gift :) Always amazing to see your wonderful showmanship!
Oh I love these!
I don't think I'd ever keep to 5e's alignment rules for the elemental genies (it's the sort of thing that'd probably be absent in new monsters, alongside hopefully the... internship thing) but I have never considered the idea of genies with energy bound to other planes. I might homebrew some ideas for astral/fey/ethereal genies in my free time, this video was very inspiring!
Imagine a DnD session, Christmas Carol with Scrooge encountering three Shubeik.
It really is serendipitous that this video comes out right as I'm idly working on my own modifications to Monster Manual creatures. One of the big aspects of that project was looking at the 5e genies and some of the older lore for true giants and thinking to myself, "Hang on, true giants can fit into this whole 'Elemental lord' thing even better than genies do!" and just kinda going from there. xD
I'm admittedly curious on how the upcoming book is going to revamp giant lore, given the changes that were made to dragon lore in Fizban's, but I definitely think there's potential in adapting the giants to fit the niche these new genies would leave behind.
Update: The AI art of Bigby's is repulsive to me. I truly believe it is an insult to life itself, to quote the great master of biting wit known as Hayao Miyazaki (if I'm not mistaken).
I always get so much joy and amazement at each idea and concept you share. Luebeik and Shubeik are most certainly an archetype of wish-granter I can get behind!
Hasn't anyone noticed how good his editing is, like damn he must take a while to make it soooo good
you honestly had me briefly thinking this might not be as fun when you were doing the twist, and i should have known better, watching your videos. I love how cool this is.
Please cover the Siabrae! It's a druid Lich! Very cool, and needs a 5e interpretation!
Sound like a "Which Lich" (an another of his series) episode to me
Lubeik remembers me of the demons in the manga "Dungeon Meshi". They feast in the desires of mortals and let It become stronger until they ruin thenselves
My own take on the Feywild and Shadowfell are that they are elemental planes. The elemental planes of change and stagnation. Archfey are just a fancy name for genies from those planes. It would also make elves closer to Genasi than to humans or gnomes or whatever.
that reminds me of older cosmologies where the positive and negative energy planes were inner planes. the borders between the energy planes and the elemental planes were the quasi-elemental planes, and i've seen newer versions where the feywild and shadowfell are either the innermost parts of the energy planes or border planes between the energy planes and the material plane
I want more of the Daniel lore. Man's caught my eye with that lovely wave
I hope you release the Shubeik eventually as well! Assuming they aren't more or less identical, but inverse in function when it comes to stats and such.
Same. I really wanna see a statblock for that.
French DM, here, nice ref, caught me off guard and still laughing. Also grew up in an Arabic speaking country with a childhood fear of Jean's... wait no...The Shubeik & Lubeik reference went straight through my heart! Nicely done Mr. Hat! Très beau travail !
With how many times “ i n t e r n s “ have shown up in DND I’m starting to believe the og creators were into it.
It occured literally in all of human history. And there are more slaves today than ever in history.
I think that the monsters here are my favorite thing you've produced. I love the way you've cooked in motivations in a way that makes them easy to imagine as stories, and even as characters. Its super easy to envision a story about a good king who ruined his kingdom through a wish from a Lubeik who presented themselves as something else.
I felt the same about the elemental planes until I came across the demi-elemental planes (which then became a minor obsession).
I'm playing with an air genasi, genie warlock with an efreeti as patron. He calls himself an "ashwalker", based on the concept of sub-elemental planes existing where the primordial planes touch each other. In the campaign cosmology, the ash / mud / magma / ice demi-planes are keeping the main elements from invading the material plane. Good stuff changing how genies work, it's always a blast to use them!
Imagine a both good genie and bad genie are in servicr to a single person. The two genies trying to one up each other making the persons life a living hell
You speaking french was one of the greatest gift ever ! Kiss from france , I love your work ! ^^
Really love this idea, though I'd probably have a Shubake or two stick with already good people that they could see as having more out reach to turn more people to the side of good. Not to the degree of their normal functions, but kind of like that one friend who you dont see often but is always super helpful.
This was really good, Thanks. It has been probably mentioned already but there are at least two more genies to mention. The Qorrash, which are born of ice and the Jamni, which are born out of the four elements and liveon the prime material plan. Keep up the good work.
I’d love it if you did the Hand and Eye of Vecna with a twist sometime!
Comment to help with the algorithm, but while I'm here I just wanna say you now have me reevaluating my entire homebrew cosmology because these are so cool. I love the shubeik so much especially the twist on the monkey paw trope- GAH!
This is a fascinating video and it’s very cool you got Sara Alfageeh to help put in input!
I hope to implement shebeik and lubeik in my game sometime in the future!
Again, awesome video. My father used to tell me stories of the ifrit (he loves medieval arabic literature), it's nice to see you mention how complex they can be. (Also, french guy here, kudos for the accent)
I wholeheartedly admire every video I watch from this channel. This, however, has got to be my absolute favorite of all, and I'll definitely be using this concept in my game. I've been at a DM-block for a bit, but this has inspired me to open a new adventure for my players. 🙌🏻🙌🏻
I'm at MTAC and I just purchased and read your book "Dragon Stew" and I gotta say, it's amazing. I absolutely loved it. I just wanted to respond before I watched your video so you could see my comment before it got buried. DRAGON STEW.
@pointy hat
I'd love for this to be revisited and have the other djinn you were talking about
The editing in this one is a notch above your usual top tier work, excellent stuff 🤘🏻
Loved this! Such a cool concept. Now I really want to add these to my game. Would love to get the Shubeik stats too.
Watching this gave me so many ideas right off the bat, what a cool concept!!! Thank you for sharing these, the joke towards the end about wishing they could be played with always makes me giggle
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NAAAH Antonio, how are you able to create such an amazing concept at the end? This could only be possible if you were granted a wish.
it would be so cool if you made a video about giants! love your videos
That Macron imitation was fantastic, you deserve a comment! I mean, you deserve more. Obviously! Keep up what you're doing, don't change a thing. I love the humour, the energy, all of it. And it gives me ideas for my DM-ing. Thanks for the videos!
When will you be continuing the Lich series? I am excited to see what you do with Druids and Clerics! But all in all, your videos are great and I love your artwork.
Finished the video, and I love this concept. It would also work very well to mix with Eberron, since its Planar make-up drops the classic four elemental planes, so the usual "one Genie per Elemental Plane" concept doesn't really work there anyways. Sure, you get Efreeti in Fernia, the Sea of Fire, but they had to shove all the other Genie races in Lamannia, the Twilight Forest, because there's no other Elemental Planes (although I think Djinn used to be in Syrania, the Azure Sky, which was as close to the Plane of Air as you could get. I could definitely see a reworking of Genies in Eberron's cosmology, creating Genies tied the other, stranger planes. Like Lawful Neutral Brass Genies in Daanvi the Perfect Order, or constantly shapeshifting, trickster Genies from Kythri, the Churning Chaos.
Babe wake up! A new Pointy Hat vid just dropped!
Watching this after watching one of your earlier videos (the Tiefling one) and I gotta say you've improved a lot! Keep going Pointy Hat! Always look forward to your videos ❤
Cool video, it's such an awesome idea and you're really good at improving these things, it's impressive. (Oh no not Daniel!)
I am always amazed by the quality of those videos ! Thank you for everything
Could you do a video on Giants someday? I feel like they have so much potential to be an awesome and memorable monster but end up just feeling kinda boring in play. They're pretty much just a big sack of hit points
Pointy's war against alignments is always a pleasant sight! ^^
I have a question about your new genies. Isn't joining the planes of G and E, how celestials and fiends are made? Like literally how they are made.
I believe that there's more influence by other entities. So a fiend or celestial has to create another fiend or celestial. But for Genies, it's the nature around them that creates them
Edit:Also, Gods create angels and Etc. And depending on the realm, these angels can transform into stronger celestials based on requirements
Can’t wait to use the Shake and Bake in my games! Great video!
Freaking love your videos btw!!!!
A video on the feywilds and their Celtic faerie origins like this one would be so cool. I’m running a feywild adventure and am doing some research into their Celtic origins for inspiration. I generally have a hard time finding material for any dnd related feywild stuff though
Question about the Big Bads Kickstarter: I just want the two PDFs. What's the right backer level for me? Their Pledge Levels are a bit complicated.
I showed my DM your video and we've come up with an amazing Warlock Subclass for my PC featuring both the Shubeik and Lubeik. The introduction of my patrons was incredible and I'm so excited to explore this subclass. Thank you so much for the inspiration!
Yes I am a mythology nerd and knew about Jinn. 😅 I love it when fantasy writers respectfully use non-Eurocentric mythologies. It’s great for representation and it brings something new to fantasy. 🥰
Especially when they are faithful to the source material
God, I love this so much! Can't wait for you to come up with your own Handbook.
btw. Loved the macron meme you sprinkled into the video.
Shubaik lubaik mean Abra kadabra
Incredibly creative! I loved the Lubeik, it sounds like a great way to mess with players as a side quest
Dao is one semi-common romanization of 道 or Tao. Lot of stuff in there about castes and servitude to higher castes so it kind of fits. If not directly related, it might be where they got the word from. It's also the English variation of 刀; the Chinese "broad sword."
Love what you made, and you also gave me an idea
The warlock has a subclass based around gaining the patronage of a genie
I think it would be epic to play a warlock with the Shabeik or Labeik as their patron
If only I wasn't the forever DM in my group
Mr antonio demico, u smart
Your creativity never ceases to amaze and inspire. Thanks.
I hope you know that a lot of your videos helped inspire my next DnD campaign! Thank you! Very excited!
Pointy Hat, your content is awesome. I am currently building a setting for a future campaign and your ideas are so inspiring. Keep up the phenomenal work!
Educational and inspiring! This has inspired me to look into lore and myth surrounding Djinn, and seeing how that could interact with my homebrew setting.
Plus the idea of your homebrew would actually fit very well into my setting. Hopefully I'll be able to share ideas with you sometime, because you seem lovely!
You always inspire me with great ideas and research topics. Love the video, Love you, bye! Mwuah!
I love the idea of a feywilds djinn and I've played with a guy who also gave the protoelemental planes their own djinn (I played a storm genasi who was raised by a storm giant)
your videos are awesome pointy hat, they make me love D&D more and more🙏
These are great. Pathfinder just switched from alignment to holy/unholy and I love that type of view so much
I'm starting to get really good at figuring out when the Pointy Hat is foreshadowing. It's like I can read it in his eye.
Ce petit passage en français ❤ Sans rancune ! Un grand merci pour cette vidéo, au top comme toujours !
Je l'avais pas vu venir, le tacle sur les français! 😂 Hats off to you, Antonio! Je ne suis pas fâché. ❤
I love that the names for Shubeik and Lubeik come from the Arabic for your wish is my command. Though initially I thought it was a Ricky Bobby reference, shake and bake baby.
One of the things that I think is kinda interesting is that it specifically states that it's the genie nobility that has an ability to grant a wish... like any normal genie wouldn't have "UNLIMITED COSMIC POWAH!!!" In their "itty-bitty living space".
But it is still pretty cool that they made that distinction. I always try to run genies with a monkey's paw/malicious compliance mindset, it makes them a bit more interesting and emphasizes the more chaotic and elemental parts of their D&D depiction.
I am so excited for every video you post. I love your videos. Honestly might be my favorite content on RUclips
I love this as I've done something similar with a player of mine a few years ago. They were a celestial warlock but the PC was evil - and the Celestial was always doing what they could to redeem the PC and facilitate their change of heart
That's a very neat concept tbh, you could make a full campaing centered around the genies influencing people and stuff
When ever I see a pointy hat post in my feed I always wonder what new and exciting things he is creating this week ❤
Thank you so much, I have actually been thinking and playing around with the ideas with genies but this, this is great, better than what I was thinking
The idea of souls constantly fusing with a plane’s energy but rarely becoming a genie is really cool and gives potential lore for the origins of elementals.
Elementals are souls fused with a plane’s energy but have not retained a personality or sentience, instead their residual soul forms a channel which gives life to the energies of the plane with which they fused.
Or something along those lines I’m not an author.
My guy your videos are so good, you work insanely hard on them and I just want to say thank you and wow and AAA because you're getting me back into D&D and back into DMing and it's awesome, don't burn yourself out though as there have been so many vids recently to such high quality, and thanks for all the creative inspiring info and ideas and useable content :D