The rule could be anything, as funny or as serious as you want. The universe will progress in a similar way that it has up until this point, unless your changed rule prevented it from doing so.

Some examples might be:

  • The invention of currency is not allowed.
  • Iron is slightly less stable.
  • The Ancient Greeks are able to cultivate Silphium, which does not go extinct now.
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    • Platinum is now as plentiful as nickel. I’ll let astrophysicists figure out the side effects
    • 2cm of solid wood completely blocks any sort of radiation.
    • Complete eradication of STDs
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      Complete eradication of STDs

      It’s little ones like this that have such insidious implications.
      Even without a evil genie rule… No stds.

      Which means that sex has no touching

      Or

      Everything is super fucked up - bacteria/viruses/fungi can no longer transfer from creature to creature through touch… I don’t have the knowledgebase to even imagine what the results of this would be but I think somewhat catastrophic…

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      Also wood would be dense as fuck. Damn.