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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 9469140" data-attributes="member: 6796468">Wizards have spellbooks at level 1, and a wizard being the nerd caster has always been their narrative.Paladins are another great example of why this design decision being forced into every class build is a bad one. See my previous post.Man, it's almost like the book has a specific line in the text which makes a declaration that defines how the pact works and you don't need a separately over-dramatic line telling you "Never tell your players what their patron is"...This might shock and amaze you, but not -everyone- plays D&D. I know! It's insane. And people who don't play D&D but pick up this book as their first introduction to it, might just read what the book says and go "Oh. That's how this works. I guess I'll just go with that." and move on from there. (This is especially likely with D&D24 being the fastest selling D&D thus far)BIZARRE, right? That people might read the words in the book and follow the mandates provided?Cool for you! Cool for me, too. And my players. And a bunch of other people who have been playing for a while and finagle the story to fit their concepts.But if you've never met a DM, before, who isn't comfortable fluffing things out in different directions, I dunno what to tell you, friend. I've had players at my tables play "Werewolves" by just giving them Barbarians and telling them "Your Rage is a Werewolf Shift". And I once played a "Telekinetic with a Knife" that was actually a Barbarian with a greataxe described as a frilly dainty girl. Her d12 HD was telekinetic shields, her 20 Strength was Telekinesis lifting rocks, etc.But I've also had DMs outright tell me "No, that's not happening" to far less extreme narrative fluffing of characters. This design structure? Is going to make Warlocks narratively weaker. Paladins, too. And Clerics. Sorcerers.</blockquote>

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