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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Traditional Games > Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition: Looks like we're the grognards, now.
 
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Brother Entropy
Dec 27, 2009

bathroom sounds posted:

Lore-wise, how exactly do warlocks work? Why would a demon or devil or Lovecraftian ancient Thing condescend to make a pact with a trifling mortal? And what exactly is a warlock's end game supposed to be?

I get the whole Faustian angle but Faust falls apart when removed from its Judeo-Christian basis in a magic-less Real World and then blown up to the macro scale of a fantasy class. In a world of ubiquitous magic, and one in which demons are real and their motivations well-known, why would anyone but a batshit insane Chaotic Evil idiot pledge their soul to a demon for fleeting magical power in life? And in a world where a multitude of demons command armies and fight each other as often as they fight the forces of Good, why would a demon lord care about the soul or servitude of a comparatively weak mortal?

If someone wants to serve a patron and tap their power, then why not be a cleric of a bona fide god?

Alot of this assumes your character will know everything you know. Sure, the smartest scholars throughout the lands will know what devils are and how they work and how you should never ever bargain with them but would some random dude out in the boonies or the slums have as much knowledge available to them?

Magic may be ubiquitous but on an individual scale it requires either alot of time and effort to study it for ages(along with the kind of life where you can afford to do so) or get lucky and be a mutant; Warlocking is the quick dirty method to gaining your first taste of power over the normal man and it should be trivial to think up the kind of character who'd go down that road.

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