D&D 5E Alignment Questions Regarding the Warlock

[Jynx_lucky_j]

Here's a couple that I came up with for a similar thread of the WotC forums. These ideas I just came up with off the top of my head, I'm sure any of us could come up with more.

1. The patron shared secrets of power with the warlock with the agreement that the warlock would serve him in some way. However, once learned these secrets cannot be taken back. So the warlock had second thoughts and decided to run off with said secrets without fulfilling his end of the bargain.


Now the patron is seeking its former apprentice. Perhaps as the patron zeroes in on the warlock strange things begin to happen around him. Food spoils, walls bleed, storms gather, animals become feral, whatever. This is a sign to the warlock that his patron is nearing and it is time for to for him to move on.





2. Perhaps the power of the warlock was a one time exchange for services rendered. "So All I have to do is take this gem, stick it back back in the eye of the statue, and then you give me phenomenal cosmic power? Sounds like a good deal to me!" Little does he know this will release his "patron from its thousand year imprisonment. Once free the patron gives what was promised an insignificant portion of it power then leaves the fool behind and begins wreaking havok on the realms of man.

Now realizing what horrors he has unleashed, our new warlock vows to use his new powers to to stand against his patron and try to undue the damage he has done

 

[Falling Icicle]

I don't see why a good warlock couldn't make a pact with an evil being. Fiends love to tempt good people with offers of power, wealth, etc., in the hopes of corrupting them over time. Plus, fiends are often very devious. A warlock might not even be aware at first that his patron is a fiend. I wouldn't put it past some of the more cunning arch devils to pretend to be some other non-malevolent being in order to trick people into striking a bargain. And then, there's always the possibility that a character did knowingly make a deal with a fiend, but then came to regret it later and chose to use those powers to fight evil.

 

[variant]

I will probably not allow good characters make a pact with an evil being. Though I will also be offering a good pact option besides the Arch Fey as well.

 

[Ravenheart87]

And let's not forget about Faust. He wasn't an evil guy, yet he made a deal with a devil out of boredom and depression.