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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6270674" data-attributes="member: 2067"><p>It's a bit of a big sloppy bucket of things, but I suppose any warlock hoping to swallow the 3e and all 4e versions of it as wells as reaching back around to the 3e inspiration of some of the 4e versions can't help but be a big sloppy bucket of things. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> </p><p></p><p>If I can play a witch who is invisible all the time and/or constantly surrounded by a swarm of biting, stinging insects, or somehow otherwise customize my character based on "always-up" magic effects, I'll get what I'm looking for out of the 5e Warlock. What I liked about the 3e warlocks at-will magic was that it re-examined some campaign assumptions. If I can always be invisible, for instance, interaction with NPC's becomes a much more....interesting sceene. Mearls's mention of "specific" spells makes me arch my eyebrows a bit in the suspicion that maybe what he actually means is "only the boring spells," but that's probably just some paranoia.</p><p></p><p>For them to truly inherit the Binder torch, they need to be able to be entirely and remarkably different based on what entity they're currently bound to...which might be possible, but certainly is not where the 4e bindlock came in at, so I'm a little suspicious. But I'm also not necessarily looking for the 3e binder play experience in the 5e warlock, so if they don't get that spot-on, it just means that there's room to grow. </p><p></p><p>So it might just work! And if it doesn't, that's just a place to dig into in the future.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 6270674, member: 2067"] It's a bit of a big sloppy bucket of things, but I suppose any warlock hoping to swallow the 3e and all 4e versions of it as wells as reaching back around to the 3e inspiration of some of the 4e versions can't help but be a big sloppy bucket of things. ;) If I can play a witch who is invisible all the time and/or constantly surrounded by a swarm of biting, stinging insects, or somehow otherwise customize my character based on "always-up" magic effects, I'll get what I'm looking for out of the 5e Warlock. What I liked about the 3e warlocks at-will magic was that it re-examined some campaign assumptions. If I can always be invisible, for instance, interaction with NPC's becomes a much more....interesting sceene. Mearls's mention of "specific" spells makes me arch my eyebrows a bit in the suspicion that maybe what he actually means is "only the boring spells," but that's probably just some paranoia. For them to truly inherit the Binder torch, they need to be able to be entirely and remarkably different based on what entity they're currently bound to...which might be possible, but certainly is not where the 4e bindlock came in at, so I'm a little suspicious. But I'm also not necessarily looking for the 3e binder play experience in the 5e warlock, so if they don't get that spot-on, it just means that there's room to grow. So it might just work! And if it doesn't, that's just a place to dig into in the future. [/QUOTE]
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