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Episode 124! In this episode I talk about magic in Zakhara the Al-Qadim setting and specifically about the Sha'ir or Genie Warlocks!
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Unearthed Arcana! Noble Genie Pact!
There's a genie patron in Xanathar's Lost Notes to Everything Else. There's slight variants for each element and it grants a gen vizier.
In Kobold Press Midgard Players Handbook there are a subclass for Warlock that uses Genies as Patrons.
Was going to say this but you beat me to it.
WotC has an Unearthed Arcana article that adds Genie as a patron for Warlocks now
I wonder how different the Kobold Warlock Genie Pact is compared to the WoTC Warlock Genie Pact, I think the WoTC Genie pact will be released with Tasha's cauldron
I like the idea behind the Sha’ir, there could be some fun in the idea that you have access to any elemental spell you can think of but the trade off is time to cast.
Infinite cosmic power!
Itty bitty spell slot number
You ain't never had a pact like me!
😂🤩
I played a Sha'ir for precisely one combat back in '92. Sent my Jinn off for (oddly enough) Burning Hands then tossed some darts at a sorceress who immediately disemboweled my dude, absolutely obliterating him in a single attack. The Complete Sha'Ir book is still an inspiration for me containing some buck-wild Wizard kits though so not a total loss.
I love the idea of this! Since it does mention binding Genie's info your service, but doesn't give much detail on it. You have definitely inspired me to come up with some rules for this!
excellent :D
There is one of these sub-classes in the "Xanathar's Guide to Everything Else" over on DM's Guild.
Sha'ir is my favorite Al Quadim Class. In 3ed I convinced my DM to let me run one based on my Al' Quadim 2ed Book and a web Enhancement I found. The campaign didn't last long enough for my air Gen to get me into trouble, almost making it to Level 3 which on the version we used was basically bardic lore for genie and [for me] air elemental stuff
I have been playing a Tiefling that I wanted to put my own twist on, so I made him part Rakshasa, and said that he hails from Zakhara, but fled due to the persecution of his family for having had a fiendish family member. Kind of flavoring him as looking like the large form of Panther Lily from Fairy Tail. (sort of a larger, more panther-like Tabaxi)
I do hope we get some 5e Zakhara content!
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Arabian knights like Arabian days more hoter than hot in a lot of great ways... Couldn't help it
Jorphdan, i really love your videos, they are entertaining and enlightening. You are perhaps one of my 5 most liked dnd channels on youtube, and i almost watch them all.
That being said i will request what i usually do; More Ravenloft or Zakharra videos! =)
I used to play D&D while camping all the time. My first game was on the road. The trick is not wasting your money on figures or tokens.
There is a book from DM guild called Xanathar's Lost Notes yo Everything Else where you can find a genie warlock. Abilities similar or close to those you've mentioned in the video
Genie Pact is canon now. I'm playing as a Sha'ir next game.
The class Sha'ir is one of my favorite dnd class... The name of Sha'ir comes from the persian word for poet.... With other word when they spell casting the speach is pure poetry.. Very fun to use in dnd campagn
A VERY cool idea, for a different kind of spellcaster! I would like tp try one!
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This was such a great series!!
I love genies archdevils and wizards because of that wish spell.. like the guy who goes out gets that high paying job he gives his friends thier wishes
Honestly, having to wait at least two turns AND having a good chance that the spell fails really doesnt sound like fun to me. Especially if youre just asking for a 1st Lv burning hands.
The 2E sha'ir wasn't played like a regular 2E mage. It was about planning, long-duration spells, unlimited spellcasting, support, and diplomacy.
If you had time to plan, you were a god. If you got surprised, you were in trouble. If you reached higher levels, you had a genie to address immediate concerns.
A helluva lot of fun to play.
Thank you for this video
Would be awesome if the next source book released for 5E would feature a Sha'ir as playable
this is really cool
Back here after the Noble Genie UA!
Oh man I'm excited to see if the Sha'ir are making a return to 5e!
I always wanted to play this class and had wonderful ideas, but was worried about how it would play and being a burden to the dm and other players
You express great knowledge of the mythos and the visuals you found work wonderfully. I have a beef with the character class, though. Why rewrite spellcasting just for these Sha'ir? Annoying! This used to happen in AD&D with Dragon Magazine articles that got more complicated in tweaking rules. The result was later editions of the game. I think it's fine with 5e. No need for this percentage magic stuff... frustrating!
You can't really capture the idea of stealing magic without a new mechanic to address that. I think that in order to capture it in 5E however we'd need to work in a different kind of way to the 2E iteration. Supposing we used Warlocks, we would tailor your sha'ir using Invocations to develop their skills, taking an invocation to gain access to the Cleric spell list up to level 3 for example. I think that the time necessary to cast magic in this way is already punishing enough to leave out the percentile roll, because we do need to balance agains the fact that we are creating a character who might be able to cast effectively all spells.
Sometimes people want a new class to feel like a new class and not just a “re-skin.” To do that you need new, unique and, for 5e, simple mechanics. What you are concerned about was back in 2e. Check out the 2e D&D rules and be prepared to have your head twisted in a knot from reading just one chapter.
I guess the spell searching could be done during short rest's.
The captions are translating sha'ir to "shittier"! 😂🤣
YAY!
woo!
First comic and I thinking about converting the sha'ir to the 5e as a warlock
I think there's some homebrew out there, might search the DMsGuild!
Or make your own, cause that's badass :)
@@Jorphdan It's part of the Xanathar's Lost Notes to Everything Else, by DMsGuild Adepts! I actually just bought that a couple days ago.
@@Atsu333 Nice I'll have to check it out :D
www.dmsguild.com/product/271421/The-Shair-Warlock-and-Wizard-options
Nice vid
I want one
Still want an elemental pack and magic pack.
4th edition has an example of sha'ir.
I want this...for the RP
This. Sounds. Amazing
I want a genie warlock!
Liking and commenting because of the bikini genie!
:o I want a genie-lock!
AD&D 2nd Ed seems complicated
When compared to TSR materials, WoTC materials are dumbed down considerably. The most WoTC will do with the old TSR material is mention it for lore purposes but they won't make new sourcebooks talking about it, with few exceptions. AD&D 2nd Ed is my preferred system while 5th sits middle of the road for me due to how it feels video-gamey.
Complaining about THAC0 and descending AC was silly, I guess people didn’t like subtraction.
AD&D has the dumbest ability score mods however. So needlessly complicated, not to mention percentile strength.
The biggest lose is the massive amounts of flavor in the old editions, even 2nd was guilty of stripping out the Illusionist with his own spell list and rules in favor of a bloated wizard spell list and bland specialists. The monk, assassin and half orc were treated even worse while the bard lost all the uniqueness of being the first prestige class ever.
Genie, jafar... Disney bought you? If it's true just tell us we will save you.
I'd be a lot happier with the class if they were either called something else or if they hadn't completely ignored the real-world sha'ir they cribbed the class name from. Real sha'ir were a mix of prophet, inspirational poet, and political advisor, believed to be able to speak to spirits of the desert for guidance. A faithful adaptation of them to D&D would be a bard that uses poetry more than music, has high skills in diplomacy and persuasion, and (if you believe the myths) dabbles in divination magic on the side. They'd be hugely out of place in Al-Qadim though, since they're very much pre-Islamic not faux-Islamic. What sha'ir aren't is a fireball-slinging D&D wizard variant with a funky familiar - but hey, still not the worst bit of ill-researched Arabian culture in Al-Qadim by any means. Bit of a wasted opportunity to give us a neat minor variant on the usual European bard type, though..
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