So I'm having a bit of a difficulty with this. We have a player in our game who is playing a Taftani, and because he's playing a Taftani, he's wanting his own personal Djinn (which may be important for the concept, given the setting is no where near the the Middle East), but wanting it in the typical 'held in a bottle' style retainer. I'm admittedly a little confused as to how this usually works, as the book both seems to imply you may only make three uses of a Djinn, and that Taftani make much more than just 3 uses with a Djinn. He wrote it up as a Familiar, but his writeup of it suggests its a slave, not a partner (which is not, from what I understand, how a djinn familiar would work).
How would you represent this mechanically? I am considering allies, but that seems strange, and retainer seems like it should be a lot weaker. Backup seems wrong, and I did consider Wonder as a 3 uses kind of thing. How would you include Djinn in your chronicle, and how would they be different from other normal spirits?
One of the things that I noticed in the Lost Paths is that it suggests that Djinn are rare as one of the means to limit things like "Wishes"... but also states you can't have Taftani without Djinn. Would you consider that true - if you didn't make a big focus on Djinn, that a person could not actually play a Taftani?
I'm pretty much thinking of just using them the same way one would any other High Umbra Spirit, but not sure if that would be the most apt means.
How would you represent this mechanically? I am considering allies, but that seems strange, and retainer seems like it should be a lot weaker. Backup seems wrong, and I did consider Wonder as a 3 uses kind of thing. How would you include Djinn in your chronicle, and how would they be different from other normal spirits?
One of the things that I noticed in the Lost Paths is that it suggests that Djinn are rare as one of the means to limit things like "Wishes"... but also states you can't have Taftani without Djinn. Would you consider that true - if you didn't make a big focus on Djinn, that a person could not actually play a Taftani?
I'm pretty much thinking of just using them the same way one would any other High Umbra Spirit, but not sure if that would be the most apt means.
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