Hey all, just looking for a brainstorming session. My gaming group, together for six or seven years now, hasn't ever encountered (that I remember or am aware of, at least) any genies. I think it could be fun to rectify that in the campaign I'm running for a couple of the guys (when the whole group's not available).
If it matters, the PCs are a human inquisitor 10 and a drow Rogue 3/Fighter 3/Shadow Dancer 1/ Assassin 1.
My current thought was PCs need to get some macguffin in an underwater lair (also haven't done much in water, and there's a whole new set of monsters and fun to be had there as well) but the marid who knows how to find the macguffin is incapacitated -- his djinni lover has left him for a shaitan* and he needs help getting her back.
Any ideas to flesh that out -- or even go in a completely different direction -- would be much appreciated.
* An efreet's just too much of a trope, even for this admittedly fairly archetypical genie story.
Well, if you are DREAMING of djinni, you definitely need to throw in a Sandman archetype bard. Shaitan are elemental earth, right? So sand and earth actually kind of go together.