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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 8186820" data-attributes="member: 2629">In my world:Clerics and Paladins are granted power by Gods and other Divine beings.  That magic flows to them through the Weave and is a reward for their faith.  It is an act of faith and respect.  Their magic is delivered to them.Rangers and Druids draw their power from Life and Death, the fundamental powers of the universe.  Their magic flows to them from the core of the Positive and Negative energy planes, although it also travels to them through the weave.  Nobody grants it - they learn to draw it from the universe.  The magic flows into them like waves on the shore.Wizards and Artificers draw their magic from the Weave as well, but they're tapping into the magic that flows through the Weave and forcing it to do their bidding through precision and control.  A wizard cuts, ties, wrangles, manipulates and forces the Weave.  They are artists,Sorcerers also draw magic from the Weave as a wizard does, but it is not an exercise in precision and control - it is brute force.  They draw the magic into themselves and shape it through force of persona.  They are primal forces in humanoid form.Bards seem like sorcerers at first, but their magic is not about force.  It is a seduction, lure and play.  They offer their spirit into the Weave and pull it back in a rhythmic dance, drawing in magic with each beat of their performance.   Warlocks are granted power by the Powers of the Universe, whether they be Gods, Demons, Devils, Outsiders or other things.  However, this is not the act of faith of a cleric.  It is a business relationship.  These beings are granted power in an exchange.  There is a contract.  There are terms.  The warlock might be on good terms with their business partner, or they may be trapped in the bad end of a deal.  They may have given their soul for power, been transformed into a tool in exchange for vengeance, or not know what purpose the Power had in granting them power.  Their contract may be a vague verbal agreement - or a 10,000 page written agreement. A god might have some that serve it as clerics, who give and take from the God in a synergistic relationship - and at the same time make a warlock pact with mortals who can't find the faith to be trusting of the God.I also have Psions.  They do not draw power to themselves through the Weave as those other classes do.  The power is internally generated.  They train themselves to be furnaces of fundamental psionic power.  This isolation from the weave leaves their psionic power distinct and separate, able to ignore dispelling, counterspelling, detection and other magics that work because of the way that other spellcasters interact with the weave.  Monks and their ki also work in this fashion.I also have a few classes that are Supernatural in nature.  They do not cast spells, but like a Lycanthrope or Spirit, these classes create magical forces that do not rely upon the Weave for magical effects - they tie themselves to primal forces capable of reshaping the rules of the universe.  The Barbarian and Blood Hunter are two examples of Supernatural classes - although I have a half dozen more (mostly legacy from prior editions).</blockquote>

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