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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sword of Spirit" data-source="post: 6330606" data-attributes="member: 6677017">Yeah, I really disliked that. From some of the livestreams, it seems like the new warlock has an ability to suck out a soul and grant himself temporary hit points. That bothers me too.  For one, if it really is consuming the soul, then anyone who dies to this shouldn't be able to be brought back by raise dead. That's a pretty powerful ability for a 1st-2nd level character to be packing.My take on things like this (regardless of the format--I apply it to soultrap in Elder Scrolls games too) is that it isn't the soul itself that is being consumed, it is a certain type of "spiritual energy." The soul may or may not be attached to that energy when you first grab it, but once you use the energy, the soul is definitely free to move onto the afterlife (thought it probably didn't have a pleasant experience, if it is capable of memory).Sure, that may not be design intent. But it lets me keep enjoying the game. And in D&D, I can just about guarantee that if the raise dead issue gets brought to the designers they will somehow explain it in such a way as to say that the warlock isn't actually destroying the soul, because a low-level warlock ability isn't supposed to invalidate raise dead.See, I think this is a really good way of looking at it and it doesn't even need demons or the Abyss--just intentionally using energy the wrong way. I think it's a great way of harmonizing negative energy not being necessarily evil, with animating the dead through negative energy being an evil and corrupting act.</blockquote>

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