Design & Development: The Warlock

[Imaro]

Oh please, here we go again – religion ruins enough things in the world, do we have to bring it onto a game.

Please get over yourself and your religion...

IMHO, that was so not cool.

Especially when it's a valid point and D&D seems to be basing a big chunk of their mythology on a Chrsitian/Judeo belief systems.

Anyway I feel a poster has a right to voice their concerns over this. I certainly can't see letting my 9 year old son play a warlock at this point. Just to many issues with a class like that I'm not ready to promote or explain to him.

 

[D.Shaffer]

Before everyone gets too caught up in the more 'diabolic' flavor with one of the paths...remember that there are two other talent trees they mentioned. Those arent necessarily going to be tied to dark forces.

Considering most of it is likely going to just be flavor text, nothing says you cant just change the names, either.

 

[Charwoman Gene]

Yeah, I edited my response above, as it could derail this.

My point was I'm probably going to be okay with all this in the end, especially with the shadow and feral options.

 

[Baby Samurai]

Wow.

SERIOUSLY not helping here, man.

Yeah, thanks dad…

 

[Daniel D. Fox]

I am not fond of classes that are specifically aligned at 1st level. The Warlock should have become a Prestige class, along with the Paladin.

 

[Baby Samurai]

I am not fond of classes that are specifically aligned at 1st level.

Who stated the warlock will be?

 

[Exen Trik]

Hmm I was really hoping - and still am - that warlocks would at least have the option of a non-dark path to follow. Maybe not so far as forming pacts with celestials, but at least some more or less neutral entities.

At first I was hoping to create pacts with anything in the elemental tempest as well as the abyss, and getting a different set of abilities depending on which you choose. Mostly because I think an elemental savant type arcane striker would be awesome.

But then, if the class is concerned about souls, that kinda rules out demons and elementals right? It's the demons and others of the astral realms that are more concerned with souls, not devils, if I remember correctly. So, maybe one the three paths is actually celestial, and charges the warlock to collect the souls of the damned for purification, salvation, or whatever?

 

[Simia Saturnalia]

Yeah, thanks dad…

Well apparently somebody needs to come around to teach you how to act amongst adults. Why not go sit down, have a cup of coffee, get some corn flakes nobody pissed in, and try forum posting again?

I can hear mod footsteps from here, man.

 

[Charwoman Gene]

Who stated the warlock will be?

It's a good bet the "Shadow" and "Feral" won't be alignment/concept limiting.

 

[Lurks-no-More]

Oh, absolutely unhappy about the apparent lack of the druid. BIIIIIG contributor in my "would you be happier with a 3.5/IH/4e/AE d20 hack?" thoughts, in fact. I like druids.

Actually, I'm wondering if the (possibly fey-powered) feral warlocks are a stand-in for druids...