Chaosmancer
Legend
I can see where the two stories or themes can overlap, but they do not necessarily overlap.
And I think the core element of the difference in the story is worth preserving.
One makes a deal, willingly or unwillingly, knowingly or unwittingly, and that deal, that moment of weakness if you will, shapes the rest of their life.
The other is perhaps born with power, a blessing or a curse, or altered by something greater than themselves, something like gravity or radiation, a force that has no intent or will.
A warlock can be blamed (or at least someone can be blamed) because a choice was made and a deal was struck. A Sorcerer cannot be blamed, there was no moment where they decided to be born the way they were, or where they decided to accept magic into their lives. It just happened.
That distinction is important, I wish mechanically the sorcerer stood better on its own legs, but I've never thought that the Warlock and the Sorcerer serve the same narrative function, even if you can overlap by the Sorcerers power coming from a deal made long ago which altered the bloodline, or something similar.
And I think the core element of the difference in the story is worth preserving.
One makes a deal, willingly or unwillingly, knowingly or unwittingly, and that deal, that moment of weakness if you will, shapes the rest of their life.
The other is perhaps born with power, a blessing or a curse, or altered by something greater than themselves, something like gravity or radiation, a force that has no intent or will.
A warlock can be blamed (or at least someone can be blamed) because a choice was made and a deal was struck. A Sorcerer cannot be blamed, there was no moment where they decided to be born the way they were, or where they decided to accept magic into their lives. It just happened.
That distinction is important, I wish mechanically the sorcerer stood better on its own legs, but I've never thought that the Warlock and the Sorcerer serve the same narrative function, even if you can overlap by the Sorcerers power coming from a deal made long ago which altered the bloodline, or something similar.