They shouldn't shy away from the pacts being Demonic. IMO it should be an evil-only class that makes a demonic pact. For good, you have paladins and clerics. Neutrality has druids and such.
Put him standing in a pentagram as well. A little Satanic scare is good for business.
I liked the idea of the Warlock, and appreciated them adding it in 3.5Ed...but I didn't like its execution. However, its among my faves if not outright #1 of the 4Ed classes, largely because of how they fleshed it out- IOW, more than one kind of Pact with which to make he's bargain.
I was intrigued by the Warlock in 4E, but I didn't like the combination of restrictions and zaniness.
• Your At-Will power is chosen by your Pact? That's -- restrictive.
• Fey Pact lets you Teleport at 1st level? That's -- zany.
I was intrigued by the Warlock in 4E, but I didn't like the combination of restrictions and zaniness.
• Your At-Will power is chosen by your Pact? That's -- restrictive.
• Fey Pact lets you Teleport at 1st level? That's -- zany.
• "Flames of Phlegetos?" What does that have to do with general pacts? Is it only available to those who have formed a pact with Phlegetos?
They shouldn't shy away from the pacts being Demonic. IMO it should be an evil-only class that makes a demonic pact. For good, you have paladins and clerics. Neutrality has druids and such.
Honestly, unless the power source or casting mechanism is fluffed as being derived from a source of cosmological "good", I'd rather see evil options for all the classes. An evil cleric or evil druid should be terrifying.They shouldn't shy away from the pacts being Demonic. IMO it should be an evil-only class that makes a demonic pact. For good, you have paladins and clerics. Neutrality has druids and such.
Put him standing in a pentagram as well. A little Satanic scare is good for business.
How would you feel about the sorts of warlocks Kamikaze_Midget describes here?
None of those great examples required ever making a pact with any specific being.
Hmm, let's see.
Sounds like a fey pact warlock (actually reminds me of the flavor from the playtest warlock: "No, I'll tell you what the rules are, Baalzebul!").Sounds like classic Wizard (conjurer/summoner) stuff. Unless you mean he gets these powers from the devils (in which case, how is that not a pact?). Someone who learned how to use arcane magic by reading books? Sounds like a Wizard. I don't know if I'd even call that a class. Sounds like some dude who found a cool magic item. If the item infused the character with innate magical powers, I'd say that's a type of sorcerer. If the character learned to cast spells by studying the item, that sounds like a type of wizard. Or if it's more of a back-and-forth between the dude and the item, that sounds like a pact the warlock is making with the item.