D&D 5E (2024) What’s the difference between sorcerers, warlocks, and wizards?

[Tinker Gnome]

The flaw of multiple charisma casters, all being full casters as well.

It really feels like WoTC went crazy with CHA casters once they made the Sorcerer back in 3e. I would rather have the Warlock be an INT caster. Or even change the Sorcerer to a CON caster.

Also, back in 3.5 I felt that the Dread Necromancer should have been an INT caster but they got slotted into CHA.

 

[Hriston]

I think I found an Appendix N example of a sorcerer or maybe a psionicist, Lalette Asterhax, a hereditary "witch", one of the protagonists in The Blue Star by Fletcher Pratt. I haven't read the novel myself, but Wikipedia has the synopsis of the setting and magic's place in it:

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The novel is set in a parallel world in which the existence of psychic powers has permitted the development of witchcraft into a science; in contrast, the physical sciences have languished, resulting in a modern culture reminiscent of our eighteenth century. Witchcraft is hereditary but the ability to use it can be held by only one member of a family line at a time, being passed from mother to daughter at the daughter's loss of virginity.​