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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 6603136" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Assuming, of course, that the Warlock spends all of her time in meditative rest, except a minute or two every hour to come out and cast a spell! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :P"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />While this gives me wonderfully flavorful ideas of Warlocks as travelling-circus-performer &quot;fortune-tellers,&quot; I feel like this somewhat neglects the spirit of the game as Adventure! stuff. And how many cities are going to take kindly to vagabonds running around their cities with travelling wagons.Invocations can be pretty bomb, sure. They can also be somewhat disappointing, and there's very little in the way of advice or assistance. Most of the &quot;cast X spell once a day by expending a slot&quot; ones are garbage, for example, while a select few of the at-will spell ones are incredibly useful. It's the &quot;Fighter Feats&quot; problem translated into caster form.It might be. I'm not entirely convinced that it's that much more. Particularly when it's so easy to get that early on, when you're a fragile china doll, and then add other tricks on top later, when combat is not so incredibly dangerous.On that note, though? The Warlock, if it had sufficient advice for how to leverage its strengths, is more-or-less the baseline I'd like to see for a &quot;complex Fighter.&quot; I'd prefer the maneuvers to be more common, of course, but having actual maneuver advancement (rather than merely the occasional die size/DC increases) would be really nice, and having both options that interface with the exploration/interaction pillars as well as ones that make you More Awesome At Combat would be even better.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 6603136, member: 6790260"] Assuming, of course, that the Warlock spends all of her time in meditative rest, except a minute or two every hour to come out and cast a spell! :P While this gives me wonderfully flavorful ideas of Warlocks as travelling-circus-performer "fortune-tellers," I feel like this somewhat neglects the spirit of the game as Adventure! stuff. And how many cities are going to take kindly to vagabonds running around their cities with travelling wagons. Invocations can be pretty bomb, sure. They can also be somewhat disappointing, and there's very little in the way of advice or assistance. Most of the "cast X spell once a day by expending a slot" ones are garbage, for example, while a select few of the at-will spell ones are incredibly useful. It's the "Fighter Feats" problem translated into caster form. It might be. I'm not entirely convinced that it's that much more. Particularly when it's so easy to get that early on, when you're a fragile china doll, and then add other tricks on top later, when combat is not so incredibly dangerous. On that note, though? The Warlock, if it had sufficient advice for how to leverage its strengths, is more-or-less the baseline I'd like to see for a "complex Fighter." I'd prefer the maneuvers to be more common, of course, but having [B]actual[/B] maneuver advancement (rather than merely the occasional die size/DC increases) would be really nice, and having both options that interface with the exploration/interaction pillars as well as ones that make you More Awesome At Combat would be even better. [/QUOTE]

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