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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 6364440" data-attributes="member: 19857">One way to approach the charlatan warlock would be to have him be a character that was generally a con artist who convinced himself that the pact he was making was the ultimate con - conning a devil out of his power and keeping his soul.&nbsp; A John Constantine sort of character.I could also see a slippery silver-tongued &quot;Don Juan&quot; type who got caught with the wrong nymph by some Fey Court noble, who then forced him into a choice - make a pact or be executed.Or a &quot;stage magician&quot; who wanted to be a real magician but wasn't born to the power - or was too lazy to actually study for it if magic isn't something you need to be born into - and so took the pact approach to &quot;real power&quot;.&nbsp; The Charlatan can be another type of Criminal - the con artist instead of the thug or second-story man - so anything that would work for a Criminal could work for a Charlatan too.&nbsp; The Charlatan bennies also work nicely for a &quot;spy&quot; or &quot;assassin&quot; type, so you could go that route instead.I actually think that the &quot;John Constantine&quot; archetype of the &quot;conman so good he's conning the Devil himself&quot; is the inspiration for the charlatan/warlock pairing, but I could be wrong.&nbsp; That said I probably wouldn't play it that way because it would be hard to pull off unless you were a decent actor and had good die rolls.&nbsp; (Though I now have an idea for a Halfling Warlock with the Charlatan background and I may have to find a game to try it out in.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jer, post: 6364440, member: 19857"] One way to approach the charlatan warlock would be to have him be a character that was generally a con artist who convinced himself that the pact he was making was the ultimate con - conning a devil out of his power and keeping his soul. A John Constantine sort of character. I could also see a slippery silver-tongued "Don Juan" type who got caught with the wrong nymph by some Fey Court noble, who then forced him into a choice - make a pact or be executed. Or a "stage magician" who wanted to be a real magician but wasn't born to the power - or was too lazy to actually study for it if magic isn't something you need to be born into - and so took the pact approach to "real power". The Charlatan can be another type of Criminal - the con artist instead of the thug or second-story man - so anything that would work for a Criminal could work for a Charlatan too. The Charlatan bennies also work nicely for a "spy" or "assassin" type, so you could go that route instead. I actually think that the "John Constantine" archetype of the "conman so good he's conning the Devil himself" is the inspiration for the charlatan/warlock pairing, but I could be wrong. That said I probably wouldn't play it that way because it would be hard to pull off unless you were a decent actor and had good die rolls. (Though I now have an idea for a Halfling Warlock with the Charlatan background and I may have to find a game to try it out in.) [/QUOTE]

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