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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9742078" data-attributes="member: 7006">If a person can come up with a distinction between a Psion and a Sorcerer (or a Psion and a Wizard)... and they do, because of all the complaints we get any time the possibility is floated that we don't actually need a Psion class because we can just have it be a subclass of the Sorcerer and Wizards and the pro-Psion players all say that doesn't work... then we can come up with the same distinctions between Sorcerers, Wizards, and Warlocks as well.I mean it's all narrative.  And we know this.  We see each of those four classes and can easily say with a couple sentences exactly how and why they are different types of people.  Now, can you add a characterization to any of them that morphs them towards one of the others?  Of course.  Someone wants to say that they learned their wizardry from a school whose teacher was a demon, then suddenly that Wizard might feel like a Warlock.  Or someone says that the innate magic a character has inside of them is all from their mental acuity and strength, and their Sorcerer is now like a Psion.  Or a Sorcerer or a Warlock gain their powers from some outer planar Celestial creature and they are now like a Cleric instead.  Any of these are possible, especially because the designers occasionally make subclasses that are essentially 'multiclass' subclasses that give you a tase of one while you are leveling in another.  So there are middle ground combinations available as well.But for the most part, it's pretty easy to determine when one comes up with a narrative character idea of what is the stronger class to use to best exemplify it.  You make a deal with the devil, you play Warlock.  You make things burst into flame with no idea how it happened or why you can do it, like the girl in Firestarter?  You play a Sorcerer.  You actually study magic and go to school to learn to be a magician?  You play a Wizard.  Heck, just ask yourself if your character is magical because of their high Intelligence, and that right there will split character class decisions right in half, LOL.  And if by some chance you come up with some idea that threads the needle between any of these?  Then you take a few more moments and possibly consider if the mechanics of any of them might point you in the right direction as well and then make a choice.</blockquote>

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