oh yeahMy warlock: "I made a wish upon a star.
… And that dark, dark star answered in a long forgotten, forbidden tongue, and a pact was made."
Yeah, we had a warlock meet his patron. It was not a good time.
I’m confused
D&D 5e (a kind of Pen and paper RPG) has a magic class that the source of their power is basically an I-O-U (I owe you) with a powerful entity, usually their patron.
It is not straight away clear what their patron wants, but it tends to be ominous, they might receive a “gift” now and then, or they may even be punished.
In any case, I find it funny that all the other classes put the work to learn magic, while warlocks just went to ask the worst guy in the neighborhood.
Warlocks get their power from making a pact with a powerful being.
i have a character i dreamed up (along with a lot of people i’m sure) but have not found the right group to play with. they’re a warlock who is basically indiana jones and that idol they grab in scene 1 act 1 movie 1? whoopsie poopsie should not have touched that. and their patron wants to put all the idols to other patrons IN A MUSEUM! THEY BELONG IN A MUSEUM! idk i haven’t gotten that far.
Wizards are the only ones who actually had to work for their magical abilities. Everyone else just inherited it or were gifted it by a higher power. Wizards are otherwise normal people who realized that they can figure it out on their own. And yet they’re somehow always considered the haughty, elitist ones.
It’s probably because whenever spellcasters are being compared, a Wizard comes in and says something like “we’re the only ones who had to work for our magic”, as if finding a powerful entity and convincing it to make a not horribly skewed bargain, learning to commune with the land itself, or following the orders given by a deity isn’t “work”.
And don’t Bards also have to study their magic?
Bards are just Wizards with arts degrees
I hate how much sense this makes.
Wooing and banging everything that moves is hard work
My vengeance Paladin: spite and malice
