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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8383916" data-attributes="member: 7006">The other one that I think is great for storytelling and roleplaying is the Warlock-- it has flavor and story built in it up the wazoo.But then every time someone says &quot;So my Sorlock uses--&quot; my heart dies a little.&nbsp; Because they appear to be wiping away the entire flavor of the Warlock class and multiclassing it purely to bind its mechanical expression to the Sorcerer for more power in combat.&nbsp; And for that I just can't help but shake my head.Now sure... there might be one or two of those players who actually have built out their backstory to explain why this character who has ingrained sorcerous magic felt the need to then bargain for more and different magic from some extraplanar creature... but the way any of these CHA-based multiclasses get talked about sure doesn't seem like story was at the forefront of their minds.&nbsp; The way these Sorlocks and Pallocks and Bardadins and Sorcedins and Bardlockadins are talked about, it almost always seems to be about the &quot;synergy&quot; of multiple CHA classes all working together for combat optimizism... and not for any sense of story.&nbsp; If story was actually important, we'd hear just as much talk about wizard/warlock multiclass characters as we do sorcerer/warlock ones (since they both make little sense)... but that has never been the case.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 8383916, member: 7006"] The other one that I think is great for storytelling and roleplaying is the Warlock-- it has flavor and story built in it up the wazoo. But then every time someone says "So my Sorlock uses--" my heart dies a little. Because they appear to be wiping away the entire flavor of the Warlock class and multiclassing it purely to bind its mechanical expression to the Sorcerer for more power in combat. And for that I just can't help but shake my head. Now sure... there might be one or two of those players who actually have built out their backstory to explain why this character who has ingrained sorcerous magic felt the need to then bargain for more and different magic from some extraplanar creature... but the way any of these CHA-based multiclasses get talked about sure doesn't seem like story was at the forefront of their minds. The way these Sorlocks and Pallocks and Bardadins and Sorcedins and Bardlockadins are talked about, it almost always seems to be about the "synergy" of multiple CHA classes all working together for combat optimizism... and not for any sense of story. If story was actually important, we'd hear just as much talk about wizard/warlock multiclass characters as we do sorcerer/warlock ones (since they both make little sense)... but that has never been the case. [/QUOTE]

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