The wish spell. Genies. Deals with devils. Even lower-ranked abilities like suggestion-type spells, depending on how they’re used. It’s a classic trope of RPGs that someone will use some sort of magic or magic-like ability to force someone else to do or believe something, or cause something to happen, but for that thing to not necessarily go in the way the person who did it intended.
What’s your favourite story in a game you’ve been in where something like this happened?
I once made a jinn appear who couldn’t read and was deaf - it constantly started talking when players tried to say something “Oh! I know yoU wAnt to tAlk TO me, but I cAn’t HeAr You. A WISH went wrOng and nOw I have nO EARS.”. It was fun to be its voice. You could draw him images and he would do his best. The person who wanted to get lucky drew a four-leaf clover with some magic highlight lines. They received a glowing-in-the-dark four-leaf clover. Not too bad :P
Oh that’s clever. Did you have any idea what the wish that led to the jinn being like that was, or was it an un-fleshed-out background detail?
it was a very weird one shot campaign in the style of magicthenoah (if that rings a bell); so very hastly written and not very serious.
In my mind it had to do something with someone getting angry and wishing for something unclear regarding him never listening and it ended badly; but this is of course super vague ^^