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Warlock confirmed in PH1...

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breschau

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Warlocks are in. Source here.

The tiefling's inclusion in the core rules compelled us to imagine what the D&D world would be like with tieflings around in greater numbers. It also gave us added incentive to include the warlock class in the Player's Handbook, since tieflings and warlocks are an excellent match story-wise and flavor-wise. (Just so we're clear, tieflings can belong to any class in 4th Edition, not just warlocks. I'm playing a tiefling cleric in a current 4E playtest. His name is Zade Shadowhorn, and he worships Erathis, the goddess of civilization.)
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Yay warlocks!

I think sorcerers will be in too.

I'm thinking we'll see at least 3 of each power source:

Arcane: Wizards, Sorcerers, Warlocks
Divine: Clerics, Paladins, ?rangers?, ?druids?
Martial: Fighters, Warlords, Rogues, ?rangers?

The last position is a wildcard, I guess.
 

breschau said:
Warlocks are in. Source here.
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Well, it says "added incentive," not "definitely." So I see some room for reasonable doubt, but the chances look good. Bring it on, I say...the more, the merrier.

I wonder why the OP made a point to mention the particular deity that his warlock worships? Could it be that warlocks are divine-powered, rather than arcane?
 

CleverNickName said:
Well, it says "added incentive," not "definitely." So I see some room for reasonable doubt, but the chances look good. Bring it on, I say...the more, the merrier.

I wonder why the OP made a point to mention the particular deity that his warlock worships? Could it be that warlocks are divine-powered, rather than arcane?
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Probably because he's playing a cleric.
 


Honestly, we could just drop the sorceror entirely.

It existed previously to provide an alternate casting system for arcane magic. The original casting system for arcane magic seems to be gone, so the need for an alternative to it seems to be gone as well.

We can't even declare that he got ganged up on and killed by the Wizard and the Warlock, who then took his stuff, because he doesn't have any stuff to take without classic vancian spellcasting.
 

The wizard and the warlock killed the sorcerer and stared at his corpse.
Then they just went away, the sorcerer had nothing to be taken.
 

F4NBOY said:
The wizard and the warlock killed the sorcerer and stared at his corpse.
Then they just went away, the sorcerer had nothing to be taken.
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He had a familiar.

They killed that too, I think.
 

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