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Thanks for the helpful reply, Scott.

Maybe not 'all fiendish all the time', but I'm not sure there's a lot of hope that it won't be 'all dark all the time'. I suppose, as others have speculated, the feral could be referencing fey, but if that's true, it's not certain those powers would come from anything other than the more...

I was thinking about the cleric when I typed that, because they also get their powers from various otherworldly beings.

Really? Look at the ranger. It gets abilities like 'endurance', 'animal companion', 'combat style', 'camouflage'. The druid gets 'nature stride', 'trackless step', 'wild shape', etc. Those names aren't exactly all that flavorful. Even the spells sections provide much more flexibility in...

That won't really change anything. The SRD just strips the class down to its mechanics, but when the mechanics are stuff like 'dark discorporation', 'dark foresight', 'utterdark blast', 'tenacious plague', 'curse of despair', etc., that doesn't really get rid of any of the flavor of the class...

I'm neutral. It seems good for what it is. If it turns out with most of the dark flavor of the 3E warlock, I think I'd like it a lot more if it was in the DMG, and not taking up space in the PHB. They could put the warlock there, a necromancer, a blackguard, and other classes that are usually...

You misunderstood. I don't want to spend my time adding (or subtracting and then adding) flavor to the mechanics. I want to spend my time adding flavor to the character. I want the warlock to be like the wizard, sorcerer, or cleric. I want to imagine a character, pick the spells/powers that...

For you. I don't want to do it. I don't want to have to spend the time converting a class to be more flexible. That's time I could be using to do any number of other more creatively fulfilling things. If you find that fun, great. But I don't. I'd rather be presented with a flexible class and...

Tone it down a little, if you don't mind. I don't appreciate the snarky response. You can do those things to a warlock to change its flavor. The problem is, in 3E, you had to. That's my point. Almost every other class has inherent flexibility to it. Not the warlock. If you wanted to play...

Thing is, the warlock class is exactly for me. I loved the idea behind the mechanics when the class first came out. An arcane magic user who has access to a few select abilities but can use them all the time? It was everything I thought the sorcerer should have been. It was just so unfortunate...

Agreed. I also think it gets uncomfortably close into the realm of wuxia, which is definitely not what I think of when I'm playing D&D, especially at 1st level. Edit: I guess it could be a good name for a monk power.

I'd imagine that people against save-or-dies, though, don't want any mechanism that can instantly kill a PC with the probability that save-or-dies do in 3E. They don't care if the mechanism is the aforementioned save-or-dies, or if it's powerful blasting spells, or crazy...

I never made that assumption. I made the concession that I wouldn't mind if BBEGs who were at a higher level than the party and had focused their abilities at maxmizing their damage at the expense of other abilities (like defense, spell versatility, etc.), I wouldn't mind if those particular...

What's the damage of a maximized lightning bolt in 4E?

You're arguing extremes. There's a whole area of grey between the black and white of "An unknown wizard! Let's run away because he might be able to outright kill one of us the moment he sees us" and "An unknown wizard! Let's all recklessly charge him because there's no possible way he could hope...

See, I don't mind that. If the BBEG is a higher level than my PC and has focused his abilities on dealing out lethal amounts of damage at the expense of getting other abilities, I'm fine with that. He's the BBEG, he should be easily able to have that sense of lethality about him. I should expect...